Changelog

Everyone now starts with ScubaGear, Jump Boots, Searchlight (practically unlimited charge) and the Translocator, handed out automatically on joining and again after every respawn.

The extra Skaarj no longer appear on Vortex Rikers. The two Skaarj there are scripted to flee from the still unarmed player, but their duplicates attacked anyway and made the opening level unplayable.

Added a lightweight Mumble voice server alongside the game server – optional, not required to play. Discord support was removed after persistent, unresolved account issues on Discord's own end.

A full pass on page load speed – deferred loading for the hero video and soundtrack, properly sized gallery thumbnails, and a handful of smaller fixes. Desktop performance score went from the low 60s to 96.

Two more server mutators went live: Skaarj Double Trouble duplicates every Skaarj when a level loads, and Nostalgia Pack raises starting and respawn health to 200 and lets health pickups heal past the usual cap.

Added OldUnreal's official Windows and Linux installers directly to the Downloads page – grab the whole game, not just the mutators.

A new comic-style gallery, generated from original in-game screenshots – the same maps and moments, reinterpreted through a different, illustrated lens.

Fixed a long-standing wrong track assignment for The Sunspire. Turns out its actual in-game theme isn't a separate file at all – it's a second section woven into Spire Village's own music track, only reachable through an in-game trigger.

Added a short note on how the site's creator actually got into Unreal, twenty-eight years ago – all-nighters, skipped lectures, and one memorable 5am coop session with a group from Australia.

A simple, human-readable overview of every page on the site, linked in the footer.

Off the free dynamic DNS domain and onto a proper registered domain, mainly so the site actually shows up in search results. Full migration: DNS, SSL, clean URL structure for subpages.

The custom Raketenwerfer and Schrotflinte now replace the standard Eightball/Stinger/RazorJack and FlakCannon/ASMD/GESBioRifle wherever they'd normally spawn – no more hunting for them via admin commands.

Mutators, gametype files and skins hosted directly – no more sending people to third-party sites for what's actually running on the server.

All 30 original 1998 tracks, in actual campaign order, cross-checked against real server logs. The player now auto-selects whatever track matches the server's current map.

Switched from an endless vertical grid to a horizontal scroll strip with snap and arrow navigation – much less scrolling on mobile.

Traded the neon cyan/green gradient for a carved gold-and-silver metal look, closer to the game's own menu chrome. New responsive nav with a proper hamburger menu.

Real-time server status, current map, and actual connected player names – pulled straight from the game server, refreshed every 30 seconds.

Moved the Pi Zero 2 off Wi-Fi onto a wired connection and got JCoopZ + AkimboMM running reliably. The unglamorous work that everything else is built on.