This guide will show you, how to use multiple masterservers to get a UT2004 serverlist.
Since EpicGames sent their masterservers offline, the community had to jump in. The Errorist Network and 333networks are serving the UT community masterservers for way more then a decade.
UT2004 supports at least 2 masterservers, because EpicGames made the game so you can use multiple masterservers.
333networks has 4 masterservers online. They all share the same UT2004 serverlist, they are redundant. If one would go down, you would get the serverlist from the second online masterserver. The same is for gameservers.
How it is to be done:
Windows players and servers:
You need to edit [b]UT2004.ini[/b] which can be found somewhere here:
C:\UT2004\System\UT2004.ini
C:\Program Files\UT2004\System\UT2004.ini
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\UT2004\System\UT2004.ini
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\UT2004\System\UT2004.ini
You can also right click UT2004 on your desktop, in the context menu choose „open filepath“.
In UT2004.ini find this entry
[IpDrv.MasterServerLink]
LANPort=11777
LANServerPort=10777
MasterServerList=(Address=“ut2004master1.epicgames.com“,Port=28902)
MasterServerList=(Address=“ut2004master2.epicgames.com“,Port=28902)
You see, there are 2 entries for masterservers from EpicGames, they had been redundant by sharing the same serverlist as 333networks is doing as well.
Change the above entries to this:
[IpDrv.MasterServerLink]
LANPort=11777
LANServerPort=10777
MasterServerList=(Address=“ut2004master.333networks.com“,Port=28902)
MasterServerList=(Address=“ut2004master.errorist.eu“,Port=28902)
From now on, your gameserver and your gameclient will use the redundant 333networks masterservers.
Note: There were sayings, it is not possible to add different masterservers to the configuration file. This is not even the half of the truth. ALL 333networks masterservers share the same list, which means, you get the same results on all 333networks masterservers.
Additionally, There is a nice servermutator that allows uplinking to more than 2 masterservers. Download it from here. It is preconfigured to use all 4 333networks and openspy masterservers.