Gameplay:  
 
suicides count against team score in TDM  
fixed attenuation flak chunk damage over distance  
reduced minigun spin up time slightly  
made shock beam effect thicker  
always keep dynamic light for shock projectile, even in low detail mode  
translocation destination adjustment bug fix  
"kdraw collision" disabled in MP  
player dies before ball gets through hoop should still get credit for throw  
fixed redeemer point blank shots  
double tap time invariant to gamespeed  
get rid of 03_2 use (duplicate of "three" sound)  
fixed problems with overtime not ending on first score in some situations  
fixed transloc camera sometimes taking two taps  
fixed 4 rocket bug  
fixed instagib really is instaGIB  
fixed 10 seconds before can speak again  
fixed killz in CTF-December, CTF-Face3, CTF-Citadel, and BR-IceFields  
clamped max view bob  
fixed tokara forest switching to CTF  
fix for balllauncher switchaway bug  
fixed problem with teammates grabbing the flag right when you score  
fixed No Adrenaline mutator not allowing other mutators to work  
fixed getting correct bots on configured bot games with no bots on one team  
fixed falling damage bug  
straightened lightning bolt (purely visual change to make it easier to see where you're shooting)  
fixed shieldgun impact charging effect fps slowdown  
Fix bug where ragdolls didn't turn skeletal when they fall into lava volume.  
If there is no momentum on death, add a small random one. Reduces ragdolls just falling to their knees.  
added mouse acceleration for improved fine aiming control. Can be turned on by adding the following line to the [Engine.PlayerInput] section in user.ini: MouseAccelThreshold=+100.0  
added "now viewing" message when spectating  
Fixed: At end of match it says "You've lost the match" while spectating  
assault grenade faster minimum muzzle velocity  
fixed water footstep sounds sometimes not playing when touching fluidsurfaceinfo  
no behindview cheat in net games  
Simplified using custom ragdolls. 'Ragdoll=xxxx' in the .upl file now overrides the species ragdoll asset for the character. This approach is compatible with the cheat protection.  
Fix screwed-up vehicle camera.  
increased skeletal mesh pool vertex buffer lifetime from 500 to 1000 frames  
rocket smoke trail whiter  
rocket launcher max ammo now 30  
improved instagib beams  
no shooting through people in classic instagib (just like it was in UT), you can still shoot through them in zoom instagib  
fixed replicating blood spurts when hit  
improved sound positioning/attenuation  
fixed suicide spamming lagging servers  
fixed AI slowdown when can't reach player's location  
HUD/Menus:  
 
typed messages stay up on HUD longer  
don't limit chat when game is paused  
fixed joystick support in menus  
added joystick hat support  
made sure "showlog" leaves fullscreen first  
new HUD options in menus:  
Number of console messages shown  
Console message font size  
Ability to turn on and off various pieces of the HUD  
Ability to scale the HUD  
Cut and Paste in Console and server browser/edit boxes.  
Change IForce to TouchSense Mouse Settings  
Added Min/Max players to Map Selection  
Added Author Name to Map Selection for Non-Epic maps  
Add Description field for Mod Authors and hooked it to the scrolly  
Added Announcer volume control to menus  
'Speech' binder menu in Settings.  
Mouse wheel support on speech menu. On by default, but the ut2003.ini option bSpeechMenuUseMouseWheel turns it off.  
Letter key support in Speech Menu. The ut2003.ini option bSpeechMenuUseLetters turns this on, and you can specify what keys it uses in the .ini file as well.  
Fix [ALL] being at the bottom of the speech menu player list.  
added joystick hat support  
made sure "showlog" leaves fullscreen first  
fix for particle "priming"  
enabled "preferences" and made it leave fullscreen  
added support for Asian language keyboard input via IME  
fix for particle "priming"  
enabled "preferences" and made it leave fullscreen  
added support for Asian language keyboard input via IME  
added "TOGGLEREFRAST"  
'Add IP' and 'Add Buddy' dialog's focus the edit box by default.  
can change crosshair color  
AI:  
 
bots supporting player will grab nearby pickups  
fixed bots rotating to acquire targets too fast  
added ReactionTime parameter for bots  
fixed bots stuck in corners wanting to go to paths above  
bots go after adrenaline more  
Editor:  
 
fixed editor crash when rebuild paths with new pickupbase  
UnrealEd works on Win98  
Networking:  
 
added option to cap framerate in netplay (on by default). This improves client smoothness by keeping client physics updates more in sync with server. Its controlled in your UT2003.ini file in the [Engine.LevelInfo] section by bCapFramerate.  
improved ping measurement shown in scoreboard  
F6 bound to "stat net" again  
improved client movement on jumppads  
Buddy list wildcards  
Master server cheat protection MD5 support  
Removed server connect() 10054 warning  
servers no longer don't reconnect to master server on authentication failure  
Show server ip in server browser  
Remove ICMP logspam by default  
IRC client under 'Chat' tab in Server Browser.  
Added 'Server Browser' button in-game so you can view servers/chat without leaving game.  
Remove spurious qhull-related warnings at the console eg. when running a server.  
Removed a lot of server log spam  
added AdminSay function which works from log window  
overtime ends if no one left on server  
stats compatible with minplayers > 0 (stats start when number of bots drops to 0)  
fixed bug allowing bots to be added by admins in stats enabled games  
dedicated servers don't need to load skins/meshes/voices  
server CPU improvements (don't find actor channel reference twice)  
fixed server memory leak  
Compatibility:  
 
fixed CD check problems on some machines  
D3D  
 
fix for SiS 315 and other TnL cards only exposing one vertex stream  
better debug output for certain fatal failures  
better handling of running out of memory in default pool  
possible fix for UD3DRenderDevice::Unlock crash  
fix for "CreateVertexBuffer failed (D3DERR_INVALIDCALL)" crash  
made code respect D3DTEXOPCAPS_MODULATEALPHA_ADDCOLOR caps bit  
fixed case that led to an invalid stage setup in certain scenarios  
more Voodoo 3/5 & G400 workarounds (never sending more than 2 texcoords)  
better error message for UnSetRes  
changed error message for crash inside D3D8::DrawIndexedPrimitive  
now tries system memory pool if allocation in default pool fails even after evicting all managed resources  
made FAuxRenderTarget destructor flush rendering resources  
added AvoidHitches" option to the D3D renderer which might be useful for people with 64 MByte cards that play on high detail settings. It significantly reduces the occurrence of substantial hitches, but slightly reduces average framerate.  
OpenGL  
 
replaced 8x8 dummy texture with 1x1 texture  
increased VARSize from 20 to 32  
added code to correctly fill in GMachineVideo  
implemented DesiredRefreshRate  
implemented ReduceMouseLag  
friendly error message when trying to run the Editor  
implemented missing case where neither NV_texture_env_combine4 nor ATI_texture_env_combine3 are exposed  
changed VAR code to try smaller VAR ranges before giving up