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Tarmik0s
Tamara · Tam · Tarm
Cardiff · Wales
Works in emergency services, loves rugby and very strong tea. Calm, direct and armed with dry diagnostic humour.
Est. 2004 · back online since August 2026
Xanton's Instant Rumble
Fast low-grav ZoomInstagib. No waiting, no warm-up — enter the address, connect, fire.
In the server browser, right-click, choose “Open IP” and enter:
A server with character, not a clone
Instant Rumble runs around the clock — even at night four historic bots keep the match warm. One shot, one kill. Low gravity, high jumps, long arcs. Walk in and you're already playing.
We were a highly ranked clan, competitive players — but we always played for fun. Formed in April 2005, and, as the name suggested, we liked to play it to the extreme.
- ZoomInstagibExtra
- UTComp
- MultiDodging
- Zound
- LowGrav
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ZoomInstagib · Low-Grav
The signature mode since 2004: zoom rifle, one-shot-one-kill, low gravity and MultiDodging — endlessly kicking off walls, dodge after dodge. Fast, vertical, unforgiving.
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481 maps · ~40 own
A huge pool of 481 map files, including about 40 hand-built DM-XIR community maps. After every match the server picks again.
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Mutators aplenty
ZoomInstagibExtra, UTComp, MultiDodging, Zound, LowGrav. That is why we run as a Non-Standard server on purpose — exactly as intended.
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Bots that talk back
The named Rumble bots answer real questions in public chat — German or English. They chat, tease and trade one-liners.
The Zound soundboard
Type a keyword into chat and the server plays the matching sound for everyone. 183 triggers from the original 2008 soundpack — untouched.
Open the soundboard →The bots behind the names
A server that runs around the clock needs more than anonymous targets after dark. The bots keep the arena warm so every round can start at once. Giving them distinct characters turns placeholders into a familiar regular crew.
All five are fictional characters, openly recognisable as bots. Their small biographies guide voice and humour — and their original UT2004 skins show who you are facing in the arena.
GuR4Ti5
Gregor · Greg · Gur
near Stirling · Scotland
A civil engineer and surveyor, fond of hiking and homebrewing. Grounded, structurally precise and Scottish-dry.
Zin4ri
Steven · Steve · Zin
origin left open · Italian grandmother
A good cook who occasionally takes pasta far too seriously. Precise in his judgement and never one for a big show.
R1cRy
Richard · Rick · Ric
Tottenham · London
A father of three with a garden and a shed that is never quite finished. Warm, gently weary dad humour.
PeTe86
Peter · Pete
Sheffield · England
A rail-depot maintenance mechanic with an old rescue greyhound, real ale and snooker. Brief and northern-English dry.
Since the olden times
Same match since 2003
First home to the SBD clan, then to XIR: when SBD split, some of its members formed Xtreme Instant Rumble in 2005. We remained friends.
2003
From UT2003 comes his own server: "Xanton’s Instant Rumble" — ZoomInstagib, low gravity, 125 % gamespeed. Not everyone liked it. Those who stayed are friends to this day.
2026
Back online. Both servers run again — new hardware, a maintained Linux base, the same ports. And bots that now talk back.
Left for dead, too stubborn to die
UT is back. Was it ever gone?
In late 2022 Epic pulled Unreal and Unreal Tournament from every store and shut down the official master servers. Two decades of gaming history — offline almost overnight.
In 2025 the OldUnreal project took over maintaining the code — with Epic's blessing — and shipped the first official update in years. Today you get UT2004 for free: an installer pulls the original game data and patches it automatically, the fixes live in the open on GitHub, and it runs again on current Windows, Linux and the Apple-Silicon Mac.
Est. 2004 · free to install again since 2025
Join now
In the server browser, right-click, choose “Open IP” and enter:
Instant Rumble