UT2003 Preview

ne1 know the reqirements for ut2k+3 ????

Hmmmm....

Now that someone mentions it, balancing out all the weapons so that they are are equal to each other in actual fact defeats the original purpose. If all the weapons are of equal strength, players might as well run around with only one weapon, ever, since they would all do the same amount of damage anyway. Therefore one universal gun would be all that is needed; if the weapons wer un-balanced, there is a reason to have multiple weapons in the game - they each have a different power level and use as a result!

Also, for teamplay... there is no more reason to camp a certain area, or a certain weapon, like in Q1 DM3 with the RL... if one weapon has a greater value than all others, it will always make for more intense gameplay since everyone would be embroiled in a battle to claim and keep that weapon, which makes for fierce competition.

That's what I like to see in my games...unfortunately, it would seem that overbalancing the weps will lead to a boring and monotonous pea shooting experience, leaving you to question yourself..."why am I even wasting my time with this?"

omg enough previeWS and scrEEns /me dies :(

Computer Gaming World also has a pretty sweet spread on UT2k3. The weapons, options, and some of the maps. very well done if you are a big UT FANBOY

I do have high hopes for this game. But from listening to them I have worries that they may be going to far in emulating Quake3, a game whose play was so abysmally dull that UT managed to outlast it even though it was on an older engine. Don't screw up here Epic and make the mistake of listening to the "hardcore" crowd, just stick to what got you here (variety of weapons, tactics>"skillz", and lots of varieties of gameplay)

when i read that they balanced the guns... that makes me worry. Q3 balanced the guns and it made for some uninteresting gameplay... unlike q1 and q2 where muiltiplay was an afterthought and unbalanced. Both of which were/are considered better games by most people who played them and q3.

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Link is dead. Seems that gamespy has taken the preview down.

Your thoughts on these quotes...... I have opinions but id rather not say them I want to hear from you guys!

1)The popular Enforcer handgun is gone and in its place is an assault rifle that doubles as a grenade launcher. The sniper rifle has been put back on the rack, with a lightning gun taking its spot.

2)In addition, the 'luck' factor we've seen in the past is no more. For example, we've tightened the blast radius of the flak cannon when you shoot, so players really have to aim at their opponent to get the kill.

3)Players increase their adrenaline by killing lots of opponents and picking up adrenaline pills spread throughout the level.

4)When you jump and then hit jump again at the height of the jump, you'll get a little bit of an extra lift,"

5) while you're jumping and you see that rocket is coming toward you, you can hit jump again and move forward away from the rocket and run off without getting killed.

6)should be released at the end of this month

Going the last mile to avoid shoving a game out the door! Yay, maybe other developers will catch... oh wait, they already have.

ok here are my opinions

1)if we have a minigun whats the point of having another machine gun, (sounds like they have changed their primary gun the ways of q3a). Lightning gun concept with rail gun is ok I guess. I like to no where exactly where the person is shooting when they miss the snipe quake style. Lastly is they basically mixed matched the weapons from the old ut into other weapons. I.e. lightning was the secondary fire in the green plasma gun and the grenade was part of the rocket. I wonder if that will truly change the gameplay regarding mixing the weapon modes we will see

2) Said this before and I will say it again, now the developers even agree. Lets hope they have the aim like quake3.

3)Very cool, it will work well with deathmatch, but I dont think it will be good for rocket arena.

4)This might be the reason Ive been seeing unreal jumps look like super bunny jumps found in q3a. Lets see if they can pull that off (im hoping)

5) If it takes too much skill, it might not work too well , but then again I think they might be catoring to the more competive this time not just noobness as noted before in number 2. So it might work well

6) Well I hope so, im waiting to see what they actually did to the actual physics over the past 3 years. (im NOT talking about the ragdoll physics cuz that is just a feature that may be omited by the player after hours of play, more of the impact physics)

final note, as stated in the interview the movement features and the better aim need to kill someone, this may turn out to be a great game. This might piss some ut players, but then again its all marketing and it can turn out to be the S.O.S. Im hoping it will change

At first I thought calling it 2003 was sort of lame considering when they were going to release it ... but it turns out that I guess it was just truth in marketing!

I don't want previews, or screen shots, or videos. I WANT THE DEMO AND YOU WILL GIVE IT TO ME NNNNNOOOOOOOWWWWW!

Yipieee another preview

"UT demo in June. Game out by end of July." Were they referring to 2003 ?

release the demo or die!

where is the demo, if its a change from the original I might enjoy it. If its not arghghg I will hate ut even more