UT2004 Dodgeball Deluxe Pack
Many may not have experienced the wonders that is Dodgeball for Unreal Tournament 2004, but we will defend this game mode as being incredibly competitive, and requiring a lot of team work (depending on the map) like Freon and Team Arenamaster does.
The Dodgeball game mode was originally written by Rens2Sea, who still has his domain up but goes nowhere. By design the game mode was built to be simple yet effective. Coming with only a couple maps, a lot of servers offered this game mode back in the day (2004-2006).
As time went on the alure of Dodgeball fell the way side. However, we are bringing it back.
In our PWC Decade Deluxe Pack we had maps packed with our PWC Dodgeball mode which was a cheap clone with a few changes… as time went on we realized that was just stupid, and instead went to go work on the original and make it as good as it can get.
So what is this pack?
This pack is a bundle of the original game source, along with some mutators to improve the game experience, bundled with a select list of maps… many that have been reworked by the original author SgtMuffin with better textures, better lighting, and designed more around competition in the fact that we adjusted player starts to be equal distances from the dodgeballs.
This pack has 25 dodgeball maps. The stock ones, some classics as is, and a pile of reworked PWC maps done in Spring 2026.
Mutators Included (Important to know!)
It is very important to know that by design the UT2004 Dodgeball game mode does NOT work with any mutators. There is, however, a mutator that fixes that… yeah we know a mutator to fix it so more mutators can run, kind of silly eh? Any who… it is important that you run that mutator FIRST in the chain or you could have some problems. This means if you set up tons of mutators and you notice it isn’t loading. Stop your server, go to UT2004.ini and check the xvoting configs to see that the DoBFix mutator is applied first in the chain.
If you do run into any other issues of course, hop into our discord server and we can help you out to the best of our abilities.
BIG-DoBFix200: This mutator is what you have to run first. It fixes the game mode so that adrenaline works and that you can load other mutators without crashing the server.
BIG-DoBAddons160: This mutator adds on the options for more quality of life features, including kill info (tells you ball speed and more about the catch) and adds on fun kills like Headshot (like 3spn awards).
AO-DoBFix: This mutator is included but not needed as the newer DoBFix200 is included and you should be using that when running it in a server environment.
Summary for running in Server Environment
Note: We have not tested this on the new 3374 patches. At the time of this production we were at release 17, and that was not tested.
- Copy all the required files to your game server.
- Add the required files to your server packages (ut2004.ini) ServerPackages=Dodgeball
ServerPackages=ServerLogo4a
ServerPackages=MrWoodcock
ServerPackages=MutTimedMessages
ServerPackages=BIG-DoBFix200
ServerPackages=BIG-DoBAddons160 - Edit the [xVoting.xVotingHandler] section and add this line on the bottom (or if you want this dedicated dodgeball remove all the other game config options)
GameConfig=(GameClass=”Dodgeball.Dodgeball”,Prefix=”DB”,Acronym=”DB”,GameName=”Dodgeball”,Mutators=”BIG-DoBFix200.BIGDoBFixMut,BIG-DoBAddons160.BIG_DoBAddonsMut”,Options=) - If you want your server to show up in another game mode, look at our mutator PWC GameType Override (in our downloads area).
- Go into Web Admin after booting up after this and make sure you set up your map lists for voting. You’ll want to go into dodgeball settings in web admin too, to ensure you are using 5 balls instead of 1. Most custom maps will render all balls even if it’s set to ‘1’, but the stock maps follow the rule exactly.
- Make sure to upload all the files to your redirect server so people joining can download the files fast. If you need one, check out our public one and our free hybrid redirect hosting.
Download the Pack
The pack will have all the files required in ZIP format. Extract the files to your game server or your local game install. Remember to follow the important steps above if you want to run the mode with any mutators (failure to follow means the server just keeps crashing)