Unreal Tournament 3 Q&A

And that's what those hardcore guys want; they want instagib capture the flag and so we're going to give that to them in staves.

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Any 'hardcore' guy knows that if you're 'hardcore' at vanilla ut2k4 and you join a gay low-grav insta-gib server you get banned instantly because you don't miss.

What the fuck WRONG!
Insta-gib is not hardcore kthnx, it is noobtastic.

I'm blaming Gears for all this shit. If Gears was a flop they would just do a good PC version instead of what they are doing now. An exec came in and pounded his fist on their desks saying "SHIP WITH XBOX360!!! DID YOU SEE THOSE GEARS OF WAR NUMBERS?"

so now they gotta water it down for xbox360. And he already touched that subject because of the DVD capacity limits.

Was interested until they announced all the console news and the fact that PC gamers have to wait even longer because they're now making the game for the X360 too. Pretty lame.

Thanks goodness that there will be butt-load of great shooters this year. I won't be missing this one too much. :)

...I don't know if there's a controller analogy for that. So we make sure that movement speed is down , we may increase the collision cylinder slightly but nothing too fundamental

That has me worried. I understand they may have to fudge with the auto aim or hit box detection for the console versions, but if they're planning on making 360 players and Windows players able to play each other via the Live anywhere initiative (I haven't heard about this either way, but with it being available on all platforms, the topic of cross-play is going to come up sooner or later) but if the PC version gets consolized there's going to be colossal backlash.

Also, if 360 and PC players can play together, I suspect that PS3 owners will be left playing with themselves. I don't foresee MS allowing PS3 users into the Live network.

I don't buy that 'the hardcore' are only 5% of the market. Companies like nVidia wouldn't exist without the hardcore, or if they did, they'd be doing integrated graphics solutions and motherboards. Yes, games like the Sims and Turkey Hunter or whatever are huge sellers because they're out there grabbing previously untapped dollars, and the DS and Cooking Mama/Nintendogs does well because of the softcore audience, but people who buy those games are not Unreal Tournament's audience. UT is a hard-hardcore game, the target audience for it is narrower than WoW or even CounterStrike. They need to make the hardcore audience happy with the game, and that means not nerfing the PC version. I have no doubt that they'll be courting the CPL with this title, and that won't happen if it doesn't have a wide PC adoption rate. Granted, they may try and make the console versions perfect and try and have 360 tournaments, but I would think that doing so would have an effect on the PC core audience.

Mind you all this is assuming they're going for some kind of console/PC cross play. If they're not, then they can tweak them individually for each platform and all my points become a non-issue.