I sent some bug notes to Strife in early January after a break during the holidays, but never heard back I guess he got super busy with real life stuff and the project dropped off his radar?

I have all the content in its current (unfinished and very buggy) state, but won't be posting any of it without permission.

I did identify a LOT of issues that were way beyond me to fix, not just simple tweaks, so maybe he's been working on them behind the scenes or something. But yeah, fixing this up wound up being a lot more involved than it sounded from the start.

That looks more like it's designed to be a mod for ut2004...

why is that?

Extent and detailing of the graphics looks a bit too much for ut99 or u1.