Wait, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has multiplayer?
I’ve found it really encouraging that developers are willing to make their multiplayer games playable after the shutdown of GameSpy. There was quite a list of games that were going to be going offline but after somebig names started the ball rolling, we’ve now got updates forUnreal Tournament 3andS.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Epic Games hasposted a user-created fixthat allows multiplayer to continue unabated forUT3, which is still a popular title on Steam. It is in the form of an .exe file, so you’ll have to fiddle about in your drives but y’all should be able to handle that no sweat (Steam auto updates have caused me to go soft in my old age).
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. hasreceived a patchto help keep its online mode active as well. My response, like many others, was “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has online?” What’s weirder is that the original developer GSC Gameworld is now defunt. Still, it’s heartening to see developers take some care over their older games as it would be easy to just let the multiplayer experience remain lost.
