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Unreal Tournament multiplayer with mutators[1] was awesome fun, like the one that made the player avatar grow bigger when the player scored a kill, and vice ver

Unreal Tournament multiplayer with mutators[1] was awesome fun, like the one that made the player avatar grow bigger when the player scored a kill, and vice versa. It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. Being able to easily tweak the gameplay mixed it up and added extra challenge or fun. [1]: https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Mutator https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Mutator

duskwuff 2y ago
> It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. The terminology didn't catch on, but the idea is out there. Compare "game modes" in Overwatch, for example: https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introducing-the-overwatch-workshop/ https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introduci...
- mylons 2y ago
  overwatch is essentially the anti-UT. there’s no simplicity, just complexity and toxicity.
  - pests 2y ago
    Just hide quickchat and don't join voice, its a fine game. The workshop is really cool though, tons of cool modes. Only downside is you can't do any map modifications or anything like that.
  - duskwuff 2y ago
    Not saying it's a good game (or otherwise), just saying the idea's out there.
- gombosg 2y ago
  Let's just call mutators as 'mixins' :)
- Doxin 2y ago
  Skulls in halo are probably a good example too
moepstar 2y ago
One game i recall using that mechanic (edit: changing size of body parts) is "Morphies Law" on Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/morphies-law-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/morphies-law-swit...
raffraffraff 2y ago
Was there a bighead mutator? I seem to recall players with huge heads.
- Gabrys1 2y ago
  Yes there was
- nanna 2y ago
  https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/BigHead https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/BigHead
hyperman1 2y ago
In a LAN party, we hacked a mutator together from code scraps of other mutators. It replaced all weapons with the green one, modified to replace the bullet stream of little plasma balls with a stream of redeemer rockets. Turns out, if a redeemer rocket flys over, sound frequency goes slightly lower. If a few 100s of these fly over, sound frequency goes rock bottom, making the announcer say stuff like: Monsterkiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuooorrgglllll. And then the whole level explodes because hundreds of redeemers tend to set each other off in a chain reaction Fun times.
klysm 2y ago
Rocket league has mutators

duskwuff 2y ago

> It's a shame later multiplayer games didn't pick up on the mutator concept. The terminology didn't catch on, but the idea is out there. Compare "game modes" in Overwatch, for example: https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introducing-the-overwatch-workshop/ https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/22938941/introduci...

mylons 2y ago
overwatch is essentially the anti-UT. there’s no simplicity, just complexity and toxicity.
- pests 2y ago
  Just hide quickchat and don't join voice, its a fine game. The workshop is really cool though, tons of cool modes. Only downside is you can't do any map modifications or anything like that.
- duskwuff 2y ago
  Not saying it's a good game (or otherwise), just saying the idea's out there.
gombosg 2y ago
Let's just call mutators as 'mixins' :)
Doxin 2y ago
Skulls in halo are probably a good example too

moepstar 2y ago

One game i recall using that mechanic (edit: changing size of body parts) is "Morphies Law" on Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/morphies-law-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/morphies-law-swit...

raffraffraff 2y ago

Was there a bighead mutator? I seem to recall players with huge heads.

Gabrys1 2y ago
Yes there was
nanna 2y ago
https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/BigHead https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/BigHead

hyperman1 2y ago

In a LAN party, we hacked a mutator together from code scraps of other mutators. It replaced all weapons with the green one, modified to replace the bullet stream of little plasma balls with a stream of redeemer rockets. Turns out, if a redeemer rocket flys over, sound frequency goes slightly lower. If a few 100s of these fly over, sound frequency goes rock bottom, making the announcer say stuff like: Monsterkiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuooorrgglllll. And then the whole level explodes because hundreds of redeemers tend to set each other off in a chain reaction Fun times.

klysm 2y ago

Rocket league has mutators