Epic Announces, Details Latest Unreal Mod Contest

Its a shame UT3 is a disgrace to the series. Sure the graphics look pretty, but it doesn't feel like an Unreal Tournament game at all. Hopefully Epic will come through with a UT3.5, similar to what they did with UT2k3, when it was unpopular. I tried logging in to see if I could play the new facing worlds map and found only one server populated. Sad indeed.

I wish there was a UT99 mod, the best online fps with better graphics would be cool.

This place is like SlashDot except replace Microsoft with Epic and Sony. For all the shit we give that website, it's the exact same fucking thing here. I detest it. They said some silly things and released some poor ports, but to have such thin skin as to take it personally and carry out an internet crusade like people are (hi, the archville!) takes a special brand of absurdity. This mod contest is something they've done for every UT game and it is a good thing.

And this isn't just about Epic. Sony, and every other company that gets regularly dogged here and elsewhere have all put out good stuff and still do. The absolutely most frustrating thing about this wonder we call the internet is that it allows people to make completely inane and uninformed comments without so much as a speck of accountability. We all make fun of religious fundamentalists for clinging to questionable beliefs and ignoring reason, but gamers do the same damn thing. Sweeping Generalization!

There is no doubt in my mind that this is as much a knee-jerk reaction as the barrage of gutter posts that prompted it, but I can't help but be frustrated when people can't post beyond the capacity of stereotypical internet fucktard.

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First post and I am sorry to say it's negative. I went back to look at previous articles about UT3 to get a feel for how players are receiving it. Overall it seems most people are disappointed with UT3 and I am one of them. The more I play UT3 the more I think "fail, fail, fail".

UT2004 was my first entry into the series and I am with CrossFire56. UT2004 is better in every way.

My main gripe is pacing. UT3 is slower and it's worse off for it. The game does not feel right. The fast pace and jumpiness of UT2004 was better. Yes. That's right. The jumpiness was better. The intensity of a UT3 CTF match doesn't even come close to the CTF matches of UT2004. Sigh. CTF-Thorns. Those were some fun rounds.

The orb doesn't add anything to the game. I am sure it sounded like a good idea at the time but Onslaught was better without it.

Assault has been removed. How are the mod makers going to implement Hellbender race when the game doesn't support assault?

Every dollar, every hour they spent on the single player campaign was wasted. Trying to build a single player campaign around bot matches is retarded. I don't know what the lead designer for single player was thinking. UT is about multiplayer. They should have poured all their energy into that. I don't care if 50+% of UT2004 players never went on line. Single player should never enter into the picture of a UT game.

Art direction. The screenshots looked cool but seeing it in motion I now say that the cartoony look of UT2004 was better. UT3 looks too much like Gears of War. I like all the vehicles and the overall design of the maps but the characters are all bulky, blocky, heavy boots, shoulder pads, etc. There should have been more variety. UT2004 shipped with a much wider selection of avatars. Quite a few of those avatars looked silly but at least it was variety. In UT3, everyone is a Gear. UT3 looks like it only employed 1 concept artist.

Little details have been lost too. The shock cannon is pretty much my favorite video game weapon of all time. Not only do the shock cores travel at a much slower rate but their explosive blasts are no longer transparent. Catching someone in a blast (especially when they were jumping) and watching them sail high up into the air, screaming the whole way, was immensely satisfying.

UT3 has been in the works for 3.5-4 years. With such a long gestation, I don't know what else to say other than I expected more; better somehow. The game didn't even ship with Face-Classic and the newly released version of Face should have remained in space.

The community is dead from what I can see. According to gamespy, more people are playing UT2004 and Crysis than UT3. I am seriously thinking about selling my copy and moving on. The player base would have to double or triple in size to regain a shimmer of what it was during UT2004 days. What are the odds of that happening? Zero I'd say.

So, what says the shack? Am I just another whiner who is full of shit?

Make Something Unreal... PLEASE!

I have to admit I was playing the demo last night, but it's still not worth $35. I do hope that some things along the same creative lines as Red Orchestra and Damnation get some attention from this, but Epic's bungling of the UT3 packaging, launch, and presentation makes it seem like the potential audience is choked.

You guys are a bunch of babies
1. They never shit on the PC, they only were honest about the problems that are coming up in the PC market with the console market becoming so big now
2. UT3 is just like Ut2k4 except better looking so how does that make it shit if UT2k4 was so awesome?
3. stfu about it already

Yeah, a bunch of high quality mods will all come out at once and no-one will play them because there are too many and the market is saturated. Just like UT2004!

Fuck YES. Thank you, Epic.

so after they shit on the PC market they have a mod contest? what a bunch of idiots

"This is a chance to get in the big leagues." - Yeah, in the same category as Epic who crapped on their PC fans. No thanks, Mr. Rein. Shouldn't you be working on GoW 2 for the Xbox 720 rather than worrying about the lowly PC market?