Best Times

Transforms the infamous Assault game mode of Unreal Tournament 2004 into a highly competitive speed running mode.

Features

Leaderboards

Top Players - All Time

Top Map Records

Top Player Records

Ghost playback

All time record runs are recorded for all players, and can be re-played at any time by any player that chooses to, any top record's ghost playback will also be running 24/7. Additionally, players also choose to race against any ghost, either through the GUI or by typing '!ghost 1' where 1 is the placement of the record.

Leveling

Players can earn experience by completing objectives, setting new records, or by eliminating monsters. Achieving levels will earn the player in-game currency depicted with '$', this currency can then be used to buy items from the in-game store, such as cosmetics or utilities.

Store

Inventory

Achievements

Scoreboard

Voting Menu

Regular Trials

• Regular Trials is the given name for the classic trial maps that arose from community made maps for the Assault game type, such as the first two maps AS-SkillTrials and AS-TempleOfTrials.
• Players must complete all the objectives to end the game, team work may be required, but is usually the best option to achieve the fastest time.
• The map name must have more than one objective and must be prefixed either with AS- or RTR-

Solo Trials

• Solo Trials is the given name for quick and short maps that are by design optimized for speed running, but designed for a single player.
• Players must complete one objective to complete the map, however this does not end the game, allowing anyone to repeatedly try to achieve the fastest time.
• The map name must be prefixed with either AS-Solo- or STR- and must have only one objective; otherwise the map fallbacks to regular trials.

Supreme

A solo map is allowed to have more than one objective, when this is the case, the Supreme is activated, and each objective will be treated as a separate level.

• Players can pick any level at any time for as long as the player has unlocked that level, a level can be unlocked by completing the previous level first.
• Each level has its own top fastest time and set of 'ghosts', additionally a series of 'solo' maps can be converted to supreme and remain backwards compatible, meaning BestTimes will keep the records and ghosts cross-leveled.

Group Trials

Powered by TrialGroup

• Group Trials is the given name for maps that are designed with team work in mind, much like regular trials, but instead with player-defined groups that can run through the map independently.
• Players must complete all the tasks in order to complete the final (and only) objective; the maps usually have specialized gameplay elements that are optimized for team-work.
• The map name must be prefixed with either AS-Group- or GTR-, or have a GroupManager actor in the map.
• Upon achieving a best time, all members of the group are rewarded the same completion time; each group run-through is recorded and can be played back as ghosts.

Bunny Trials

• Bunny Trials is the given name for Capture the Flag maps designed for UT99's BunnyTrack and is automatically activated if the current game mode is a derivative of CTFGame
• Players must capture a copy of the flag and return it to their base to complete a run. This mode can be played by two teams, competing for victory.

Invasion Extension

• The mutator can used as an extension for the Invasion game type, and is automatically activated if the current game mode is a derivative of Invasion
• The store, inventory, leveling, and achievements system will remain functioning.
• Players can complete achievements, eliminate monsters to gain experience and earn 'currency' to buy items from the store.

Pre-Requisites

The following packages are necessary to run MutBestTimes:

• TrialGroup.u (https://github.com/EliotVU/UT2004-TrialGroup)

Usage

1. Install by copying the ClientBTimesV#.u, ServerBTimes.u and ServerBTimes.ucl files to your /UT2004Root/System/ directory.
2. Launch UT2004 -> Instant Action, and look for MutBestTimes in the mutators page.
3. For server admins, you enable the mutator by appending ?Mutator=ServerBTimes.MutBestTimes to the commandline.

Build

1. Clone the repository to your /UT2004Root/, make sure that the directory name is MutBestTimes e.g. it shoud look like /UT2004Root/MutBestTimes/ClientBTimes/
2. Run /MutBestTimes/Scripts/Install-dev.bat at least once.
3. Run /MutBestTimes/ClientBTimes/make.bat and /MutBestTimes/ServerBTimes/make.bat in that order, and repeat whenever you make any changes.
4. Launch /MutBestTimes/Scripts/Play.bat to launch a quick-test.

Credits

• Marco a.k.a .:..: for developing the original bTimesMute circa 2005; single-top-time per RTR map, a message showdown leaderboard of players with the most accumulated points (5 points for top record), and the ghost prototype.
• elmuerte for the LibHTTP4.u package.