UT2003 Facing Worlds Screenshots

What's up with no curved surfaces? I thought for sure they would have those in there by now..

Did everyone forget that the original UT had Egyptian stuff in it - before Serious Sam came out?

Cliff

>>this looks exactly like quake 3

Damn, I wish I had found the secret high-tech egyptian levels in Quake 3! How did you unlock them?

>>...and the same weapons and the same gameplay and...

Yes and no. It's a sequel. Something old, something new.

>>How come they made the same map over again ?

There are several returning/updated maps in UT2003. Curse, Phobos, Face, etc... What's wrong with that? I would have killed for Q3 to have shipped with an official update on the Edge...

Cliff

They look great, but it looks like they've taken the idea of orbiting a planet on a perfectly symmetric meteor away and replaced it with an egyptian theme. I liked the idea of floating around in space.

There is something that bothers me though from these screen shots atleast...its way too bright. Many get on the anti-quake/doom bandwagon and say things like, its too dark and brown! Well...I think that adds more atmosphere to a killfest, then say a bright temple with no place to nade spam from in the dark.

God I miss Quake 2. Whatever happened to GOOD maps?

How come they made the same map over again ? Is this going to be the same game ? :-\

The bezier curves that Q3 uses are far easier to implement for a mapper than UT's curves though. Not to mention they look like real curves and the poly count is entirely reasonable on them, with options for higher or less scaled polys as a configurable cvar.

In short, bezier curves look good enough and better than anything else currently out, why not use them?

vs. meteors I mean



jeebus, I better go back to bed

heh, or trees..

trees? I dont remember trees, I'd bet the gameplay/weaps on this map have been changed to make it more playable... or all asteroids have meteors growing on them.

Great.. now we get to see the same fucking map all day every day on CTF servers just like the original UT.

Man, the original looked much much better...

well, the exterior at least...

The interior on this looks swiggity.

I'm not a big fan of the original map or its layout/style but this does look really really cool in terms of eye candy.

The only thing I would fault is a couple of textures which will hopefully be tidied up. It's really nit-picking but I'm kinda anal about this kind of thing.

e.g.

1) The bottom of the platform at the top-left of the indoor picture, there's all those tiles with the painted circle etc. and most of them get cut in half... If you really made that room you'd put the painted tiles somewhere else. (Could be fixed by shifting the texture towards the near wall a little bit.)

2) Again on the indoor shot, the textures at the top of the place where the statue sites at the back of the room do not match up at all with the textures of the back wall which the statue-hole is carved out of. It really spoils it for me when this happens because the illusion of textures being 3D, rather than completely flat, is ruined when you have totally different things touching along the vertex of a polygon.

I can't fault anything else though!

Look fantastic don't they?

Those shots look badass!

Hey check this out, right below those screenshots is andother update from Mark Rein... this sort of struck me.

"Digital Extreme and Epic have decided to each take responsibility for one of the two games we've been working on together. Having one team work on each game in one location should help them both get done sooner and be more differentiated. Epic will finish UT2003 while Digital Extremes will concentrate solely on Unreal Championship for Xbox. DE will be specifically working on the unique features and content going into Unreal Championship while we put the finishing touches on UT2003. "

So DE has turned over UT2 to Epic... that's a little wierd. Actually if I was DE I'd be a little perturbed that a game so close to being finished was taken out of my hands... Why switch teams at the last minute? That seems like it would delay it. My guess is that they've spent so much time polishing UT2 that UC is looking a little dated, having sat on the shelf for what, 8 months or so, waiting for the Xbox to launch their broadband network. Now that the time is finally rolling around, they have to go back and re-import UT2 back to UC. (I mean all the fixes and tweaks they've done)

This game is looking better and better, I may hold me over till Unreal 2 or the RTCW Addon get here in the Fall/Winter.

It looks very good. Hopefully they kept what made the map a success and built on it from there. The graphics are sweet. And all the extra nooks and crannies will certainly add to the gameplay.

i hope this is one of the maps we will see in the demo then.

Bleh. Not that stoked.