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Unreal Tournament 3 "Titan Pack" Expansion Coming In March
An anonymous reader writes with news that Unreal Tournament 3 will be getting a free expansion called Titan Pack on March 5th. It will contain a variety of new maps, and two new game modes: Greed and Betrayal. There will also be new weapons, deployables, and achievements. IGN's preview of the expansion mentions a few more improvements, such as an improved voting system and client-side demo recording for the PC version. Quoting: "... the most obvious addition to the series is the new Titan. As you play through the game, killing enemies, completing goals and generally avoiding damage, you'll build up your Titan meter. Once it fills up, you can instantly mutate into a 15' tall Titan. The Titan has massive health, a decent shield belt and can fire homing rockets. Oh, and he can also pound the ground to knock back any enemies that get too close. In short, the Titan is a real game changer."
I'll have to go buy the game now.
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Now when are we going to get the Linux install like the other Unreal Tournaments that we've been waiting for for so long?
Don't worry about it, UT3 is not a very good game. The lack of Linux/Apple support was just another in a long line of disappointments regarding the game.
Yeah, but I payed over 50 bucks because we were told there would be a Linux client.
There's a port actually done but we can't have it for some reason.
So I have an expensive box with a year of dust on it sitting on my shelf. Maybe it's not a great game, but I'd like to be the judge of that myself. I really enjoyed UT 99 and UT 2004 on Linux.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
> As you play through the game, killing enemies, completing goals and generally avoiding damage, you'll build up your Titan meter. Once it fills up, you can instantly mutate into a 15' tall Titan
Isn't this the kind of thing that makes stronger players stronger, and weaker players weaker?
I always liked mods which made weaker players stronger. Like the 'fat head' mod, or whatever it was called, that would increase the size of your head the more kills that you got, making it easier for the weaker players to get headshots. Evened out the game when playing with people with mixed abilities.
Interestingly, I just fired up UT3 for the first time in a little while, and was startled by the lack of servers in my area. For instance, I think I only found one Vehicle CTF server, and it was full. And then I noticed that the servers that were missing were the Midway servers that have been online since I bought UT3. I live in Chicago, which also happens to be the home of Midway headquarters, so that may be why I'm used to seeing them, but I wonder if they've shuttered their servers or if it was just a temporary outage?
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Agreed. I'll buy it when we get our Linux client.
Meanwhile, I have other things to do.
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Agreed, it was disappointing. However, I discovered after playing UT3 online that the issue wasn't really the game itself, but the choice of weapons/maps that shipped with it. The defaults SUCK compared to what some people have put together on their own, particularly the guys at hedsteem.com. Some of their maps are great fun, and with the weapons mods (e.g., flamethrower) they put EPIC's efforts to shame. The game has much greater potential. I now consider it a "good game" when it is sufficiently modded. I've got a couple hundred megabytes of downloaded maps.
Unfortunately the game got the mediocre reaction the vanilla release deserved, so it isn't likely that online participation will increase much (you need good players too), but maybe this update will help, and people will rediscover it.
Doesn't help with the lack of linux/apple support, though.
It's not just marketing. They have always released Linux versions of the UT series and it has been great. This is why I bought the game soon after it was released. I had no reason to think there would not be a Linux client.
The last Linux release was back in the Quake days though, I guess without competition they don't mind stuffing the Linux version in the closet.
What pisses me off most is how if you even mention the Linux client on the Epic forums your post will be deleted and you will get banned. The whole history is erased and no one on the outside is the wiser. There is a huge community and uproar that has been oppressed.
I don't use Windows other than in a VM. I want my money back. Maybe we should all put our games together on a big truckload and ship them back to Epic with a demand for our money back.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
I couldn't find a decent TF2 server with a free slot a couple of weeks ago, so I fired up UT3. I haven't played UT3 much, so I figured I'd give it some time to grow on me.
There were literally only about 30 people playing each game type. Warfare had a few more (around 200), but that was it. There were at most 20 servers per gametype, and VCTF only had 3.
UT had nearly 3000 servers a few months ago when I checked it. (Compare that to 7000 in the months before the release of UT2003.)
UT2004 had about 1000 servers. (In its heyday it had 3500 or so.)
UT3 has only around 150 servers. I think it's safe to call it "stillborn". R.I.P. Unreal Tournament.
At least TF2 is alive and kicking...
I bought UT3 and was disappointed with the changes they made it. The new onslaught replacement is rather confusing, and allows one good person to totally unbalance the teams with the stupid ball thing to take over a node on Warpath.
They dropped assault mode which is what I played exclusively with UT2k4. It was supposed to be possible with Warpath mode, but I've not seen any assault style maps yet--although I've yet to play in awhile. Or much at all really.
And they remove m-m-m-m-monster kill. That's an unreal staple man. They also removed the cussing, presumably to make it xboxable.
While they might not emerge from Chap 11, they didn't declare Chap 7 (liquidation) so they see hope for a continuation of the company post-debt restructure.
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for me. It's the game that made me decide that Epic no longer made good games and had all but abandoned the PC.
I loved UT, 03 and 04. But UT3 was really bad.
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Yeah its kinda sad to see that franchise die. I always liked the Unreal series because I thought that unlike the recent Quake/Doom's that they actually cared about the game not just selling the engine.