I have Universal Combat "vanilla" version, not the Collector Edition or A world apart and I remember that I played it online years ago...but now, I just reinstalled it and I can't see the online option in the main menu.
The first strange thing is - during install process the game didn't ask for my serial code...anyway the install completed "succesfully".
another strange thing is that if I run the uc.exe file the game doesn't start at all, I had to find a nocd version of the exe in order to let it run but i still can't see the online or multiplayer option in the menu.
The game also ask for language.lan file that is missing , the workaround I found is to rename the english.lng file to language.lng file , then it runs.
But all those problems I think are very strange
Before you ask, yes my copy of UC Is original.