Unreal Tournament 3 (Titan Pack March 5!)

[arjue]

I wish they remade lava giant, that map was awesome.

[jyoung]

Best part of Lava Giant:

grab a shield belt, armor pads, a sniper rifle, and anti-grav boots. Jump up on top of the Volcano. Snipe away while people wonder where the hell you're shooting them from.

Fuck, now I want to go reinstall '99 and see if there are still any good servers up.

[ElCapichan]

Best part of Lava Giant:

grab a shield belt, armor pads, a sniper rifle, and anti-grav boots. Jump up on top of the Volcano. Snipe away while people wonder where the hell you're shooting them from.

Fuck, now I want to go reinstall '99 and see if there are still any good servers up.

Let me know if there are any, but only if they are sniper arena servers.

[arjue]

99 doesn't run properly on my machine, it skips ahead and shit. apparently they patched regular unreal to fix this, but not UT.

[Frogacuda]

Unreal Anthology has versions of the old games that work well on newer systems/OSes

[AaronChance]

Necris weapons would have been cool, but unlike vehicles, if you have too many weapons it can be a mess in terms of interface, and I think they didn't want to have to cut any old favorites.

Are there really any favorities at this point though? I've played all these weapons to death, and don't want to use any of them anymore. I find it hard to think that fans of the series don't feel the same. Hoverboards are a nice addition, but not enough to sell me on the game. I'm sure mods will cure a lot of ills, but I'll just play something else.

[Frogacuda]

Yeah, I think there would be a lot of backlash if they messed with the existing weapons too much. It's a well balanced selection and they're still very different from the weapons in other FPS. A lot of them have been tweaked in interesting ways that might not be immediately apparent, too.

[Changeling]

VCTF wasn't in 2004, unless you're talking about a mod or something that I'm not aware of. And Warfare isn't supposed to be "brand new" it's supposed to be an evolution of Onslaught, and it's very good. Just because it's not shockingly original does not make it "lame."


How can you not appreciate how the campy art was the worst thing about the Unreal franchise? I appreciate it looks conspicuously similar to Gears of War, but it does look better in every way. Unreal's art and characters were hysterically bad.


Some are balanced for different modes, but there's some cool shit in there. Like Heat Ray is obviously horribly unbalanced for Duels or FFA Deathmatch, but it's fucking badass for team play. Meanwhile Gateway is pretty eh for TDM and Duels, but it's a lot of fun in FFA Deathmatch. Rising Sun kicks ass for Duels, but you can't really play it with a lot of players. There are a lot of really cool maps, though. You wrote it off too quickly.


It's got a half dozen CTF maps with some pretty good variety. Vertebrae is fucking badass and my new favorite CTF map in the series. Considering TF2 only has 6 maps total, there's still plenty of fun to be had here.

VCTF was added with one of the patches for UT 2004. It started off as a mod.

I'm maybe a lil bit nostalgic when it comes to UT's "art", but at least it was its own beast, and not some shoddy rip-off of a console game. The music in the old games was ALOT better too.

Warfare is easily the best part of the game and the only part that I wasn't completely disappointed by, but still, it was very underwhelming...

[Changeling]

UT 99 came out in 1999, though. I'm sure you've noticed every multiplayer FPS on the market has fewer maps these days. It's a lot more expensive and time consuming to make a map in 2007 than it was 8 years earlier.

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That is fucking retarded, Frog. Map makers will save this fucking game and give me a reason to re-install it. I'm pretty sure none of these map and mod makers are on Epics payroll. If anything, it gets easier and easier to make maps as the years go on.. Also, UT3's maps are COMPLETELY uninspired.

Yes I'm sure you'll bring up TF2 and its 6 maps AGAIN, but there are other games, like COD 4 , that come out with lots of maps.

Epic got lazy and they know that the community will make the maps for them. Also, I'm sure they won't mind making a lil extra coin on the console side of things and release maps as bonus packs on Live.

[Changeling]

Unreal Anthology has versions of the old games that work well on newer systems/OSes

Sweet ! Time to buy it again ! Also, you guys are right about Lava Giant. I want that remade for UT3 !