Can ut2004 log on to a ut2003 server?

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I have got ut2003 and ut2004. One copy each. I wondered if I can put
ut2003 on one machine and logon to a LAN match with ut2004 on another?

anyone tried, they have the same engine, don't they/

tony d


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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:34:34 GMT, "tony d"
<webmail.deeney@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>I have got ut2003 and ut2004. One copy each. I wondered if I can put
>ut2003 on one machine and logon to a LAN match with ut2004 on another?

No.

>anyone tried, they have the same engine, don't they/

Very similar, not the same.
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ok...thanks.
just an idea.
"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:34:34 GMT, "tony d"
> <webmail.deeney@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>I have got ut2003 and ut2004. One copy each. I wondered if I can put
>>ut2003 on one machine and logon to a LAN match with ut2004 on another?
>
> No.
>
>>anyone tried, they have the same engine, don't they/
>
> Very similar, not the same.
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> Andrew, contact via interpleb.blogspot.com
> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
> please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
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"tony d" <webmail.deeney@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> I have got ut2003 and ut2004. One copy each. I wondered if I can put
> ut2003 on one machine and logon to a LAN match with ut2004 on another?
>
> anyone tried, they have the same engine, don't they/

Not quite.

Originally Epic planned to make the game backwardly compatible but they
needed to redesign the netcode for the vehicles in UK2K4.

 

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Brian coughed up:
> "tony d" <webmail.deeney@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:_r9nd.120$6q3.115@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
>> I have got ut2003 and ut2004. One copy each. I wondered if I can
>> put ut2003 on one machine and logon to a LAN match with ut2004 on
>> another?
>>
>> anyone tried, they have the same engine, don't they/
>
> Not quite.
>
> Originally Epic planned to make the game backwardly compatible but
> they needed to redesign the netcode for the vehicles in UK2K4.


Whoa. Britain 2004? 😉

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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:05:14 GMT, Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

> Whoa. Britain 2004? 😉

We should be so lucky. :/

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