Oldunreal Forums - GameSpy closing down

Main

Forums

Downloads

Unreal-Netiquette

Donate for Oldunreal:

Donate

borderline

Links to our wiki:

Wiki

Walkthrough

Links

Tutorials

Unreal Reference

Usermaps

borderline

Contact us:

Submit News

(UTC)

Change Template:

Oldunreal Forums › Unreal › Unreal General Forum › GameSpy closing down

(Moderators: Smirftsch, TCP_Wolf, DieHard SCWS)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Page Index Toggle

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 5

Very Hot Topic (More than 25 Replies)

GameSpy closing down (Read 14175 times)

GEx New Member Offline Deep cover GEcko! Posts: 23 Location: Kaunas, Lithuania Joined: Jul 31^st, 2013 Gender:	GameSpy closing down Apr 5^th, 2014 at 4:39am	Print Post
	http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/3/5579254/gamespy-technology-shutdown-date-multipl... This affects many great games. Nearly the whole Unreal and UT series games master servers will be shut down. I hope an alternative is being planned.


	IP Logged

Smirftsch Forum Administrator Offline Posts: 7456 Location: at home Joined: Apr 30^th, 1998 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #1 - Apr 5^th, 2014 at 6:58am	Print Post
	nope, not planned, already existing- at least for Unreal, not for other unreal engine based games though. Code ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=master.oldunreal.com MasterServerPort=27900 ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=master.hlkclan.net MasterServerPort=27900 ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=master2.oldunreal.com MasterServerPort=27900 ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=master.hypercoop.tk MasterServerPort=27900 ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=master.newbiesplayground.net MasterServerPort=27900 ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=master.qtracker.com MasterServerPort=27900
	« Last Edit: Apr 20^th, 2014 at 11:49pm by Hyper »
	Sometimes you have to lose a fight to win the war.
	WWW ICQ IP Logged

HDD21 Junior Member Offline Oldunreal member Posts: 84 Joined: Aug 27^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #2 - Apr 5^th, 2014 at 9:36am	Print Post
	I will have my MS back up today as got my connection back, can't believe it! turns out I was able to keep my static IP in the move, my plusnet connection will not be used much as I have a 150mbps line with virgin on my second line but they refuse to give me a static IP unless I am a buisiness customer but the sync speed is good enough for MS usage. will keep you posted on it Jacob


	Skype/VoIP IP Logged

Dr.Flay™ Senior Member Offline ChaosUT-333networks Posts: 316 Location: Kernow, UK Joined: Dec 9^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #3 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 2:21am	Print Post
	I have been including a list of extra masters in my new install guides for a long time. We just need to calm everybody down. Unreal has been better equipped than UT with extra masters for longer. A version of Nelsonas little server-browser mod, is an option for UT, but as Unreal still has updates, it is not an issue. I guess we could look at making a community patch 437. It would also give us a good way of getting the new renderers into peoples installations

	Your Unreal http://yourunreal.wordpress.com The UT99/UnReal Directory: http://forumdirectory.freeforums.org Chaos http://chaoticdreams.org
	WWWGTalkSkype/VoIP MySpace Facebook Twitter YouTube ICQ YIM AIM IP Logged

Sly. Senior Member Offline Oldunreal member Posts: 435 Location: Germany Joined: Feb 14^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #4 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 3:47am	Print Post
	At the Epic Games forums, Flak made a statement about working on a fix for UT3 at least. I wonder what is going to happen with UT2004 and UT99 though.


	IP Logged

Smirftsch Forum Administrator Offline Posts: 7456 Location: at home Joined: Apr 30^th, 1998 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #5 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 6:07am	Print Post
	Sly. wrote on Apr 6^th, 2014 at 3:47am: At the Epic Games forums, Flak made a statement about working on a fix for UT3 at least. I wonder what is going to happen with UT2004 and UT99 though. Easy: nothing! Unless the community does it.

	Sometimes you have to lose a fight to win the war.
	WWW ICQ IP Logged

HDD21 Junior Member Offline Oldunreal member Posts: 84 Joined: Aug 27^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #6 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 10:40am	Print Post
	Master2.oldunreal.com is back up and running, may need a few tweaks which I have contacted smirf about but up and running, while I do not always get time to play I will never forget the games of my younger years, am 19 now but spent hours on these games!


	Skype/VoIP IP Logged

Shambler Senior Member Offline Posts: 311 Location: Ireland Joined: Jun 27^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #7 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 12:17pm	Print Post
	Are Epic's Unreal1/UT1 master servers not working? If not, let me know and I can try to find out what the story is there.


	IP Logged

HDD21 Junior Member Offline Oldunreal member Posts: 84 Joined: Aug 27^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #8 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 12:40pm	Print Post
	their UT99 masterserver works the last time i checked a few month's back, but for unreal, it does not :/


	Skype/VoIP IP Logged

[]KAOS[]Casey Oldunreal MasterPoster Offline nedm Posts: 3069 Joined: Aug 7^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #9 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 3:59pm	Print Post
	According to my ini files, the unreal client was never set up by default to use any master other than master0.gamespy.com but the servers are set to use MasterServerAddress=www.epicgames.com, which is different than unreal.epicgames.com that UT uses. My clients may have custom default.ini, so I might be wrong. I checked all of them to be on the safe side.


	IP Logged

Shambler Senior Member Offline Posts: 311 Location: Ireland Joined: Jun 27^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #10 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 5:07pm	Print Post
	Thanks - is that Epic address for the actual server browser, or for something else? Would be good to know what was in the .ini for the browser, by default - just to be sure.


	IP Logged

Smirftsch Forum Administrator Offline Posts: 7456 Location: at home Joined: Apr 30^th, 1998 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #11 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 6:05pm	Print Post
	Shambler wrote on Apr 6^th, 2014 at 12:17pm: Are Epic's Unreal1/UT1 master servers not working? If not, let me know and I can try to find out what the story is there. oh hey sham long time no see I really missed that by reading it the first time ServerActors=IpServer.UdpServerUplink MasterServerAddress=www.epicgames.com MasterServerPort=27900 was in 224, 225 and 226, although it only was there and not in the counterparts: ListFactories[0]=UBrowser.UBrowserGSpyFact,MasterServerAddress=master0.gamespy.com,MasterServerT CPPort=28900,Region=0,GameName=unreal although I think any masterserver from Epic's side would be highly appreciated, for Unreal as well as UT. PS: if you really can reach someone there, ask them about the Unreal update (224,225,226) page http://www.unreal.com/upgrade which was redirected from epic's page here for a few years and shut down without any notice

	Sometimes you have to lose a fight to win the war.
	WWW ICQ IP Logged

Shambler Senior Member Offline Posts: 311 Location: Ireland Joined: Jun 27^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #12 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 6:40pm	Print Post
	Hey Smirf Ya long time indeed, heh; hope you're keeping well! I'll ask about that upgrade page, ya; so this means, Epic have never had the Unreal server browser pointed at an address they control?


	IP Logged

Hyper Board Moderator Betatester Online It's Unreal. Posts: 2862 Joined: Oct 11^th, 2002	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #13 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 9:45pm	Print Post
	Bad news, but not entirely unexpected. The good news is that a few years ago the Unreal community saw this coming and we are prepared. We have a number of working alternative master servers and Unreal 227 is preconfigured to use them!

	"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.hypercoop.tk unreal://hypercoop.tk
	WWW IP Logged

HDD21 Junior Member Offline Oldunreal member Posts: 84 Joined: Aug 27^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: GameSpy closing down Reply #14 - Apr 6^th, 2014 at 11:09pm	Print Post
	I noticed www.epicgames.com as a default one, unreal.epicgames.com has always worked for UT99, never got unreal to work with it myself, maybe contacting epic might be an idea as well, luckily we have the community masterservers, also why couldn't epic update the webpage that appears in pre-227 versions to tell clients to update im sure me and smirf had this discussion a long time ago


	Skype/VoIP IP Logged

Page Index Toggle

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 5

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Bookmarks:

del.icio.us

Digg

Google

Google+

reddit

StumbleUpon

Yahoo

« Board Index ‹ Board Top

Top

Oldunreal Forums » Powered by YaBB 2.6.11!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2017. All Rights Reserved.

Valid XHTML

Valid CSS

Powered by Perl

Source Forge