I don't think I have ever seen a non stand alone expansion pack that have radically changed the UI, can you name one?
By the way they said "UT3 will be required to use the expansion" makes it sound like it will cost money for sure. If this expansion doesn't have a spectate tab, new GUI/UI, announcer voices, fixes, and new Non Warefare / VCTF game types, no way will I buy it. Something tells me the expansion will be deader than the vanilla UT3.
Not only do new customers have to buy UT3 but they have to buy the expansion now to. Some of the current players of UT3 will probably purchase the expansion while the new customers just pickup UT3 which will further thin out the amount of players online; I wonder if people with the expansion installed will be able to join the UT3 vanilla servers.
If the UT3 expansion was a stand alone like UT2004, more players could buy it without the need to buy UT3. I think this method of releasing an add-on that requires UT3 to be installed isn't the right way to bring in new customers.
But yeah, if the same exact GUI/UI remain when the expansion is installed. I will not buy it for sure.
...because people still playing UT3 only play Warfare and VCTF for some reason these days even though DM and CTF is where UT3 shines.
honestly, the reason why I play more COD than Unreal (and I'm a huge Unreal fan since Unreal itself) is because of the ease of getting into a server, cancelling a connection if the server is not working and generally spending less time on the UI and more time playing
? D:I would play on-line but my ping is too high... above 200. I've been playing Bots ever since Unreal Tournament came out ... heck, I can tell you what dll is running at any moment in time
When UT3 came, system requirements were pretty steep. They still are for most people. It failed because it's not possible to play with lesser settings.
If there is one single little spew of anything related to that disgusting franchise kids love called GoW in the UT3 expansion, I will not purchase it. Keep GoW and its filth away from the UT franchise at all costs.
I think the guys in UT3 sound to much like each other. They should have people with different voices do the taunts. Either that or different characters are using the same taunts because I could swear different guys are saying the same things.
If Assault was brought back, would it increase the number of on-line gamers in UT3?
You already can. That's something you could use Kismet for.wasn't the plan for the warefare features to allow the community to build assault-like maps if they wanted to?