Part 1

Welcome to the Part 1 guide for Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition. This section covers the introduction, GOTY edition differences, installation, mods, multiplayer, and how to use this guide.

Hello, and welcome to my guide for Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition.

This is by now a very old game, but it will always be a classic, and I recently decided to revisit my guide and give it one final big polish. There are two reasons for this: firstly, until February 2023, I had no idea that a GOTY version existed, and when I found out I realised this document, originally written for UT 99, would contain a lot of mistakes and would be missing a lot of content; and secondly, the 25th anniversary of Unreal Tournament will be next year (2024), and so there might be some re-release by Epic (although they are no longer supporting the game's servers), or some new or old players returning to the game and looking for help.

I have therefore updated and improved nearly every area of the guide. I have gone into much more detail about weapon utility and map strategy (including the additional GOTY maps, previously missing), and I have made lots of corrections to wrong or outdated material. I have also done the usual thing of cleaning up typos and formatting, so everything should be much more presentable than it used to be.

Finally, in the latest version, I have included a new section on how to reinstall this very old game and get it working perfectly on modern systems (see section 1.3).

The guide begins by going into detail about the various powerups and weapons available in the game, plus as many other gameplay features as I could think of; it next covers ways on how to customise UT to suit your own preferences and style; and finally it breaks down every map in the single player tournament ladder, offering gameplay tips and advice on each. The guide is mostly aimed at those players who enjoy working their way through the single player mode, but there is also plenty of information in here which may be useful even to online veterans. I played on Masterful, as I assume most people will pick this, but I recommend capping the GOTY difficulty at Adept.

Anyway, whether or not you learn anything from this guide, I hope you enjoy it.

For further help with the game, whether with gameplay or technical questions, I suggest you visit this site:

1.2 GOTY EDITION

The Game Of The Year Edition of Unreal Tournament is not very different to the original with patches 436 / 469C, but there are some changes you should be aware of.

The most obvious is that there are some new maps in the championship ladder, specifically in DM and CTF (there's also one old map missing, DM-Barricade). These maps were around on public servers for a long time, before and after being absorbed into the GOTY edition, so they will likely be familiar to many players.

Bot AI has also been (mostly) improved: th