Assault back in UT3 with expansion pack!

Defeat · Dec 18, 2008

Fuzz said:
When UT3 came

wat

Razorjack · Dec 18, 2008

Okay, here goes, first post, long time reader on BU though :lol:

The gamespy post confirms nothing, but I bet they know something we don't.

Fuzz said:
I don't think I have ever seen a non stand alone expansion pack that have radically changed the UI, can you name one?

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Enfluence · Dec 18, 2008

They need to change UT3 Completely in order to achieve something like ut99...and not another ut2004 with servers only in canada and pings of 300+.

DeathBooger · Dec 19, 2008

LG1X said:
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.

I doubt they go the route of making new players buy UT3 and also the expansion separately. Most likely they'll package the original game with the expansion update into a new retail box and label it UT3: Brizz Cheese Edition or something.

They did this with the Editor's Choice Edition of UT2004. It was the original UT2004 with the ECE bonus pack in one box and people who already owned UT2004 could just download the ECE bonus pack.

The only difference this time is that they need to include a lot more than a few vehicles and silly skateboarding maps if they want anyone to actually play it.

Also, don't be shocked if the expansion pack focuses on lol vehakels because people still playing UT3 only play Warfare and VCTF for some reason these days even though DM and CTF is where UT3 shines.

rAt.8^].bAg · Dec 19, 2008

DeathBooger said:
...because people still playing UT3 only play Warfare and VCTF for some reason these days even though DM and CTF is where UT3 shines.

+1, yeah no one's playing decent maps like Vertebrae.

Sir_Brizz · Dec 19, 2008

Vertebrae rulezzzzz!

rAt.8^].bAg · Dec 19, 2008

^ It's a way coolz map. :tup:

TheIronKnuckle · Dec 19, 2008

it iz indeed, even though i haven't played it for 6 months. :lol:

Mabz · Dec 25, 2008

If Assault was brought back, would it increase the number of on-line gamers in UT3? The UI in UT3 is terrible, but granted gamespy servers and everything else is working, we only spend about 5% of the time on the UI... so I wonder if an overhaul would attract people to play on-line... 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

JohnDoe641 · Dec 25, 2008

lol, Vertebrae.

JohnDoe641 · Dec 25, 2008

Rankz said:
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

Rankz said:
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

? D:

Mabz · Dec 25, 2008

lol, sorry for the confusion. my ping is too high for UT3, not for COD... just got off playing COD online but i did give UT3 a shot and it was to slow.

Bazzwano · Dec 25, 2008

if its doesnt require the origanal to play.. expect to pay full price for the origanal also..
most game expantions require the origanal to play.. the expantions are often cheaper.. but if it inclused the origanal.. then you will be paying for that as well.

darkonxy · Jan 8, 2009

There is not going to be any @#$%ing expansion forget get this and move on to better games liek gears of @#% 2 and left #$% dead and #$%^ of duty world at war

Sir_Brizz · Jan 8, 2009

thinsoldier · Jan 8, 2009

Fuzz said:
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.

This reminds me, Crysis runs like a dream on my system but UT3 is nowhere close. GoW runs better than Crysis, but probably only because GoW has more enclosed environments.

thinsoldier · Jan 8, 2009

LG1X said:
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 it's already too late. I don't know if you've noticed but UT3 and GoW look like 1st cousins.

I still think if they just took the characters designs from UT2k4, adjusted their size & proportions, greatly increased the polycount, took it easy with the normal mapping, and retained _some_ of the color the game would have looked better and looked like a real sequel.
( I also like some environment & character designs in Tribes:Vengeance and in Unreal 2)
( Ok, I partially take that back after looking at some screenshots but there's something about the look of UT3 that offends/disgusts me that I don't get from looking at old screenshots of those 2 other games)
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12090
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12066
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12070
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12069
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12035
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12092
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12093
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12085
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/tribes_vengeance/screenshots.html?id=12082

thinsoldier · Jan 8, 2009

iron12 said:
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.

Is it possible to replace UT3s taunts with a combination of taunts from UT2k4 and UT99?

thinsoldier · Jan 8, 2009

Rankz said:
If Assault was brought back, would it increase the number of on-line gamers in UT3?

wasn't the plan for the warefare features to allow the community to build assault-like maps if they wanted to?

Sir_Brizz · Jan 9, 2009

Holy crap, monster post? :/

thinsoldier said:
wasn't the plan for the warefare features to allow the community to build assault-like maps if they wanted to?

You already can. That's something you could use Kismet for.

Assault back in UT3 with expansion pack!

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