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Preview of Unreal Tournament 2
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Looks like we can finally have a glance at the Unreal Tournament 2 screenshots and a nice preview. Wow, games these days are just too real (but you wont hear me complain!). Enjoy!"
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Yeah, that's how the game got its name -- after playtesting it on a 486, in 320x240 in 16 color mode to get *some* framerate, the toss-up was for "dopey" or "unreal".
The sniper rifle has been replaced by an "instant hit lightning gun" which does the same thing. Oh man that sucks I always liked the sniper rifle, I thought it was a nice touch compared to all the sci-fi weapons. Besides which "I sniped that bitch between the eyes" has a nicer ring to it than "I insta-lightninged the sucker".
;-)
The article says that it makes the snip^H^H^H^H intant-hit-lightning-gunner more visible, I suppose this is some justification because we all know sniping is lame
He who defends everything, defends nothing. -- Fredrick The Great
Another game on the 'to buy' list for next year...
Minimum Requirements
Windows XXP
5 Geoforce Cards
4 1.4Ghz processors
3 French Hens
2 Turtle soundcards
and <pinky_in_cheek>1 Billion MB of Ram</pinky_in_mouth>
This
This is the only thing that worries me, personally, because frankly I suck. Maybe it's age, maybe it's the lack of patience to go check out the ultra-elite message boards where I can get the key bindings to use all these weird-ass dodges and double-secret jumps. Maybe it's the tendonitis which slows down my trigger finger.
I can be competitive, but it's taken a year to get there, and when people are dominating I'm just not good enough.
I hope there is still a place for me, the aging crappy FPS gamer. I'm the one who messes up your team by not playing well enough. I'm the one who accidentally fires at you when you're on the ledge, knocking you off and killing you. I'm the one who runs while firing the rocket launcher, forgetting that I'm about to run past a pole where my rocket will just blow me up, blow me up damn good. I don't want to be the lame one, it just happens.
You elite players need people like me in order to climb the ladder. Every army needs its cannon fodder. But if there are too many dodge keys to remember, no chance of being even the slightest bit effective doing anything, I'll just have to pass and you elites are only going to be left killing yourselves.
I'd really like to see a High-School map + relevant skins.... I just the idea of sniping physics teachers from the 3rd story drama class. This might cause some angst in Jon Katz and his fat mouth but it would be a real joy for me :)
Contain my voice. Place my user into your foe list.
If you think that Unreal Tournament 2 is "too real", you really need to get your ass outside and look at the world more often.
I say that we start the Coalition of Sucky UT2 Players.
This way we could have strength in numbers...
Hmm, actually that might be a bad thing. Could you imagine a line of use coming down towards the enemy firing rockets in front of us? We would probably kill more of ourselves than then enemy would. The enemy would see people flying all over the place and (s)he would not be doing anything.
It would would be so much worse on a level with a pit in it. Could you imagine us trying to use the teleporter? We would try to look really good by using it, but we would probably end up teleporting ourselves into the pit.
Of course it could be that we would only end up proliferating our suckiness, but at least we would have a support group (and why not, there is a support group for everything these days.)
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"