Hardcore option to come back?

[bdy-]

I was at the BeyondUnreal irc event, although I didn't get the chance to ask...

Is the option for hardcore/classic mode coming back? I know that UT1 is a lot closer to UT2004 if you play vanilla, yet the very popular mode to play was hardcore. This increased the weapon damages to about 15% more (I think).

Is this option coming back?

I searched the forums and did not see anyone asking about this.

Personally, I'll play either style. I loved both UT1 and UT2004 (never played 2k3) yet I feel the easier it is to frag, the better.

Point being, would it be possible to bring the option back?

Edit:

To make more of a point... imagine how different UT2004 would have played if it had that option and it was enabled on the majority of servers. There would definitely be a lot less complaints about not being able to kill a stacked (ie. player with 100+ armor and over 100 health) player.

[stephen_wq]

Turbo Igib on Wootabulas remake please.

I liked the air control that turbo gives you by default, and the extra speed makes it better.

[Boksha]

Hardcore increased game speed by 10% and all damage by 50%.
Seeing as it was pretty much the only way the game was played, you may as well make everything 10% faster and all the weapons strong enough to begin with. No need for hardcore mode to return. All it did was create an unpractical discrepancy between the actual game as it's played and the game's code.

[Madmanxan]

UT2004 had the mutator Unreal Tournament style weapons, made the rocket launcher 1 hit kill....changed most of the weapons.

[Tilter]

UT2004 had the mutator Unreal Tournament style weapons, made the rocket launcher 1 hit kill....changed most of the weapons.

Yeah.... bdy definitely knows about the ut classic mutator, but if you read what he typed, you would see that he is looking for a different feature not the the UT99 style mutator.

Also, I think it would be a pretty great idea to have the feature.

[Antigru]

Definitively not, this feature was only trouble for UT99. I mean, Hardcore was the actual Classic, because that's how the single ladder campaign was, and Classic was kinda like a mutator, but i have met people that wouldn't play with me because they said "Classic is how UT99 was intended, because it's "classic", and such, i will play with you only on Classic" and stuff like that.

Imho it's better off not to bring this option up as important as a gamemode (like it was in UT99, with a separate option and all), but at the most, keep it at a mutator level in the mutator list.