New Unreal Tournament 3 Patch Arrives

I would really love to see Epic do a UT3.5 or UT2009 or whatever like they did with 2004 coming from the dissappointing 2003. My suggestion would be get all of the UT3 issues patched up and fixed...get it rock solid and stable and tweaked really well...then do a UT3.5 or whatever with a shitload of new content (if you don't put a good bit of new content in, people will bitch that you're milking fans...and even with a ton of content they'll still likely bitch until the final product gets released and they enjoy it).

Also if they went this route they'd really really need to release a demo for it showcasing its best features. UT2k4 wouldn't have been as successful if it hadn't been for its demo with Torlan. The UT3 demo really had the opposite effect, as it showcased all of UT3's problems without really showing the things it did well (I enjoyed the new Onslaught/Warfare mode...but the game had a lot of rough edges and just never took off). A ton of maps, several new modes (I'd say assault, bombing run, and perhaps some sort of space combat mod or something else...something that would really be crazy and give people something new to the UT series to play with), and just a lot of content in general and maybe a few new weapons...then give the people who bought UT3 a discount of some sort like UT2k4 did...I think doing all of that would work.

I just don't see anyway to save UT3 at this point...even if all of its issues were fixed people wouldn't give it a chance at this point because they either wouldn't notice or simply because it wouldn't be "cool" to like this game even if it got much needed fixes.

Fix for the OpenAL crashes under Vista not included.

Yeah, I won't be reinstalling this anytime soon. This has been an outstanding bug in this game since release and should be a priority - though it obviously is not.

This sucks. I was so hyped about this game, but after hearing everyone just trounce it, I kinda shied away from it. WTF is truly wrong with it?

My original post was gonna say 'Is this the patch that adds the fun?', but since I hadn't played it, I figured that'd be an ignorant comment to say.

Is this update going to auto-update for those of us who got the game through the UT Steam pack?

..Shows you what the PC has become.

Epic used to be on of the PCs lead developers and now they've jumped on the "release buggy game, deal with issues later" bandwagon. Seriously, these all seem like issues that should have been fixed during testing.

The awful UI and browser was such a turnoff in the beta that I never bothered to purchase it.

At $20 I should cause the game was fun but if there is virtually no online community then what's the point again?

Fun game. I had every intention of setting up a server, even got the files uploaded, but ran into some technical problems (it was segfaulting). Maybe I'll look into it again.

in before "is this the patch that makes it fun?"

At least Epic has the respect to patch an incredibly buggy game with missing features with a community on life support. I play this game from time to time and there is usually 1-2 full servers for every game mode, and 0 for Capture the Flag. The game deserves better than this...though on the other hand, Epic deserves having their work played by absolutely no one. Now the least they can do is give us the maps from the Xbox 360 version.