Unreal Tournament 3 Demo

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BuddyLee

BuddyLee

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D/L'ed, ran smooth as butter on my rig with everything maxed 1680x1050res. 60 frames steady...
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LG 21.6" LCD 16x10; 1680x1050 native res.

Dude's right, for a UT nub like me it seems like a mindless shooter at first glance. It seemed like the level I played on was kind of drab, but the huge War of The Worlds robo-thingy was cool.

I played Quake Wars too, and it was more colorful, but the gameplay was pretty mindless.

I never really liked spacey games that did not have a Star Trek/STAR WARS theme so I don't know if I would ever be compelled to buy either of these games.

The engines seem nice though, and it makes me extra impatient to hear news of RO2. :D hint hint.
 
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murderous_eagle

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I've really enjoyed the demo, the game is optimized superbly. I can play it at 1440x900, all details on max, and receive a constant 60 fps on 2.4 quad proccessor, 2 gig of ram and a 8500gt.

The weapons are more of the same, I hope the full game features some new ones, it's kinda boring playing with the same exact weapons since ut2k3. Also, the weapons kill effects just dont pack the same punch as before. For instance, I cannot for the life of my blow off a leg, or an arm like I could in previous UT's. And while probably a little more "realistic" (if such a word can be used to describe UT,) the ragdolls just seem to drop if killed by anything not explosive. Some of the unique death sequences are cool too; A plasma stream will turn a body into a skeleton, miniguns make bodies dance, minigun alternate fire sticks bodies to walls, bio gun dissolves bodies, and the alt fire on the shock rifle makes a black hole to throw bodies around.

I was dissapointed with only one player model and the sniper rifle headshot animation. Gears of War spoiled me on this one. In UT3, the head simply dissapears and this huge chunk of meat, about 1.5 times bigger than the actual head comes popping off. Compared to GoW where the head literally exploded.

needless to say, I'll definitely pick this one up. By the way, which map is the Darkwalker on? The darkwalker is the war of the worlds type vehicle right?

Oh yeah, why doesnt the scorpions alt fire chop heads off anymore, and does anyone else want the ripper to return?
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It's still beta. There will be more player models in the full version, plus the graphical tweaks to make everything more brutal (such as, yes the scorpion slicing people).

The darkwalker is on the city DM map. It spawns every few minutes when an aircraft comes to drop it off. Remember to alt-fire when people get into your blind zone.


I am a bit worried about the lack of the assault game mode though...
 
Zips

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My own screenshots - http://picasaweb.google.com/digitalzips/UT3 (Use the magnifying glass to view the images at full res. It's in the upper right hand corner when you're viewing an image. Full size image takes a second to fully display without jaggies.)

The game runs at mostly the max fps of 62 on my system with the graphics and sliders at max, at my monitor's max res of 1280x1024. Lowest I ever saw it dip was to 47, but typically 62 or upper 50's. My system being a Core 2 Quad Q6600, 8800GTS 320MB, and 2GB of RAM though.

Unreal Engine 3 really needs a built in AA setting and some higher res textures in places.

Examples:

UT3Demo2007-10-1304-20-59-70.jpg

UT3Demo2007-10-1304-34-10-85.jpg

UT3Demo2007-10-1304-48-11-85.jpg

UT3Demo2007-10-1304-42-41-25.jpg
 
Nimsky

Nimsky

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Just tried it....
  1. It looks and runs like a tit. I expect no different from the Unreal engine. Whereas most game developers just make their game look pretty and not give a **** about the user, Epic actually takes the time to make it both look AND run good. So it should still be playable on medium-end computers. All hail Epic, the best programmers in the gaming world.
  2. The "feel" of the game is pretty nice. It feels just as good as UT '99, unlike UT2k4 which just didn't do it to me.
  3. The announcer voice is better than ever.:D
  4. The server browser looks pretty solid, although not as good as UT2k4's / RO's. Definitely needs fixing to make it equally good as their previous server browsers.
  5. +1 for the ripper. I want it too.
Oh and while I was playing I saw this....



WHAT IS THAT AND HOW CAN I USE IT:eek:

Anyway, I like what I've played so far, first round I played I immediately got a killing spree. The "feel" of the game is good, which is what makes UT so good in the first place imo.
 
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murderous_eagle

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Dark Walker. it's a standard vehicle. And I think you're right on the server browser. It feels like it's made for a console and not the PC version.
 
Capt.Marion

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hows the sniper rifle? They ****in nerfed it in 2004, I love the one in UT99 however unrealistic (maybe that's the point?) it may be...

DLing, 5%

YES! it'll give me something to do until I go shoot my SKS tomorrow! Yay for killing time!
 
Murphy

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The sniper is more like in UT2004. Means the head doesn't have a hitbox of half a meter radius that goes down to over the half of the player's chest... :D
 
Kenza

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Just a point for those complaining on the textures, like in the UT2004 demo the texture size has been lowered to keep the download size low.

Now, if only i could find out what makes it crash all the time for me :(
 
fiftyone

fiftyone

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Hey, UnrealTournement and all that jazz is just a simple show case for the UnrealEditor.

I've got em all, tho I haven't loaded up the UT3 demo yet, but I bet the bots are good !
They always have been.

Mindless blasting, UT does it better than most and,as a rule, it looks pretty :).

I load a little Unreal to warm up my mouse button fingers, then I like to get my teeth into something a little more gritty, like RO :eek:...


A vintage year, UT3, ETQW, TF2 and who knows what lies ahead !


Thanks for the Tanks...
 
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