Epic Aware of Shoddy UI in UT3, Changes Coming After Release

As long as i have to log into Gamespy to play an offline campaign, I won't be buying this. Still happily playing UT2004, which imho borders on perfection.

Ya know, i played the demo, didn't really even notice the UI...except for one thing. Scrolling through the menu's with the mouse is shotty, because even though your cursor is on an option, the option below it is the one selected :-\

Hopefully it resembles the better UT menu systems.

Still preordered the Collector's Edition. Nothing that Epic does to this game will change the fact that the engine is one of the easiest and best on the market, edging out Source in the utility and user-friendliness.

I can't wait to play this on my 360 controller! Here's to hoping for autoaim just like Halo 2 Vista!!

I absolutely can't stand the menu system in the demo, it's painful, especially compared to that of UT04. WTF was Epic thinking? It's a PC franchise, of course people are going to complain. It feels like you should be using a gamepad and it's pretty finicky with the mouse. Thank god they are acknowledging it, gotta love Epic.

You'd think after all the hate that console-to-PC ports get, they would have addressed this right off the bat. Apparently all the cash they made off Gears has switched their focus.

I like the fact that UT 3 doesn't save my settings, when playing offline. It's so much more fun to play the SP campaign, since I have to spend 10 minutes every time I start UT 3 for my key config.

Must be my fault, because I don't play without inverted mouse and also not with WASD, right?

It's going to take a lot to convince me to get this game even if they are going to fix the menu system. The demo blew ass and did nothing to make me want the game. It just felt like UT2004 with new graphics and few new gimmicks.

Until they remove the gamespy taint and fix the UI, they aint getting my cash.

Windows Live!!! and Gamespy are both giant piles of ass, so its really telling to see where epics loyalties lie when it comes to user experience.

gg Epic. I bought Unreal, UT, Unreal2, UT2003, UT2004

I'm unreal tournaments biggest fan but after seeing the demo and them selling out the PC with that shit UI designed for a console i'm not gonna get it.

and Gamespy...WTF? Epic has already shown its hand.

Saying you won't buy a game because you don't like the way the browser looks is rediculous.

I dislike the UI but people really are making mountains out of molehills with this.

Still not buying it.

I've got it pre-ordered for the collector's edition...and I don't see myself cancelling that and waiting for the UI simply because I want to get around to messing with the editor and modding the game code (I'm trying to see if this is something I'd like to mod for or not...as I've been trying to get back into modding for a while now other than bits and pieces here and there...and this looks potentially fun for that)...and since I can't get broadband...it looks like the bots with this will at least be decent (the only time I get to play online is when I take my laptop down to the shooting range where they have a wireless access point and free usage...would love to get broadband out here at home...but 24k dialup is the only thing we can get out here and that just doesn't cut it for gaming anymore...I was willing to pay 300+ bucks a month for ISDN...but the phone company isn't interested in selling it to anyone who might have an interest in it (though they're happy to send me a fucking flier for FIOS...I can't get DSL and no one in the ENTIRE STATE can get FIOS but they spend money sending me fucking junk mail advising me that I'd really enjoy switching to FIOS instead of spending money on actually upgrading SLC-96's so I could manage to get fucking DSL...sorry got off on a tangent there).

I'm really hoping they fix the issues, as I want to see this game take off because I see a lot of potential and I did enjoy parts of the demo...I don't want to see it get fixed only to be ignored because it took them too long. ETQW (which didn't have nearly as many issues) got its little stuff fixed pretty quickly and it seems to be doing well, so I'm hopeful that Epic can really hammer out the issues and get things on track as quick as possible.

My problem with UT3 is that the game is a flaming turd. It feels nothing like previous entries in the series and more like a generic run-of-the-mil FPS. It doesn't even have similar physics or dodging. The level design is mediocre too.

It'll take more than fixing up the UI to make me buy UT3. Much more.

This would piss me off if I had any plans to actually purchase the game, but the demo killed all excitement I once had. :(

For the following patch, they'll probably make Joe Buck the new UT3 announcer.

Hey, it could happen. IGN/GameSpy is owned by News Corporation (i.e.: Fox), and they bought their own wedge of UT3 with the server browser / login contract

Yea, that's cool and all, but I'll just wait until those changes are actually done before buying.

i dunno about you guys, but i thought that beta demo deal was bland at best. Some of the level designs were cool, but nothing really stood out as far as game play goes.

Great, after release. Awesome.

Oh well. I guess if I'm going to believe anyone on something like this, it would be Epic.

I'm extremely happy that Epic is making a change here. While menus won't affect my choice of purchasing a game, it's nice to have an easy to navigate menu system.

If we're lucky, maybe Epic will release a UWindows style menu system, like UT99/Unreal.

After release? No way in hell.