Make People Like UT3

[Hideinlight]

First of all, i have good things to say about UT3, and i have been saying them all along, there are things i definately like about the game, that's why i say things like "It had so much potential", it's just that there is sadly also way too many bad things to say, and people only focus on the negative things i say, so they can brand me a "hater" and try to dismiss my arguments that way

Secondly, i can play UT3, like i said, what i have is some strange memory crash, if i remove 2 sticks of RAM from my system it will actually run, and i have played it, and quite a few maps and mods, but, having to perform "hardware surgery" every time i want to launch a game is not enjoyable (more so because i also have to remove my vid-card and a fan just to get to the RAM), and i don't find the game good enough to warrent that kind of hassle just to launch the bloody thing, and all my other games run better when i have all my RAM installed, so im not willing to permanently remove them either. And honestly, such a problem should not even exist allmost two years after the release of an "AAA" PC title, it's just sad..

That's not a problem with UT3, that's with your PC...
Although I don't think anyone has the energy or will left to find the real problem. Too many technical problems, guess that what makes consoles so attractive, if there's a problem, finding the solution to it is much easier since everyone has the same machine.

Can you recreate the crash or is it random?
The end of the log file when UT3 crashes?

Your operating system? 32bit or 64bit?
Is you operating system updated(Vista SP1 or SP2?)

How much ram you have exactly?

What graphics card you using?
What driver version you using?

 

[Grobut]

I'm done trying to fix it, i have tried everything i can do, and even had an UE3 engine licensee trying to help me with inside knowledge, and none of it has born fruit, i'm spent, no more!

And no, i have zero reason to belive it is my system, which has been running flawlessly for more than 3 years now, and i have allways kept up to date (yes also the BIOS and chipset) and clean (also of old drivers and even my reg-database), and it runs nice and cold, and i have checked it from top to bottom, even going so far as to physically removeing and swapping hardware.


The game, however, has a very sorted history of intermittant crashes on various systems, of not wanting to work with various hardware and drivers, and has allways been dogged by instabillity issues for countless people, unlike my system, it has a bad track record, it seems obvious that it just doesen't have broad enough hardware support, and Epic has done bugger all about it.

 

[Benfica]

Rocket Arena has to be made for UT3... I'm kind of glad Maestro won't be working on it. It's got to be a labor of love otherwise it's going to suck donkey doo-doo. If you're shying away from the mod because you're worried what others' will think of it, than you're probably not the guy for the job.

I'll get in contact with Mongo and see if he's interested. 30 people make up the community? lol I had no idea...

I can think of at least 30 people off the top of my head that would be in a rocket arena server today if it existed. Make it good and people will play it. I agree the craptastic crapulation that was ut2kx was part of the reason for failure of rocketeer, but it was also the fact that rocketeer was kinda screwy

Do it yourself?

 

[UBerserker]

I'm probably the only one who doesn't understand why Rocket Arena is this great. Someone should explain it to me.

 

[iCQ]

All sources seem to indicate that your statement is wrong. Video game sales do NOT seem to be hurting at all due to economic slow-down (or perceived slow-downs).

This isn't the original article I read on the topic, but it's just one random one out of many I pulled off of google for now: http://www.digtriad.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=103694&catid=176

And this kind of relates to other threads around here too. Gaming sales, and PC gaming, are/is just fine. It simply depends on what you're selling. There are more top-quality PC games out now than I have time or money to play. It's actually a great time for PC gaming.

Well further along the line we see all sorts of lay-offs in game development companies. I was more aiming at the fact that less and less people can buy decent game pc for suchlike advanced 3D games.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-games14-2009aug14,0,4680486.story

 

[Jetfire]

*points at all the people in games dev just on this forum that have been made redundant recently*

 

[kafros]

I'm probably the only one who doesn't understand why Rocket Arena is this great. Someone should explain it to me.

I found it great playing LAN after working hours with my work buddies. We played UT99 rocket launcher arena as a warm up to get the blood pumping. The massive amount of spam combined with the screams of people from across the floor, made for some very LOL times

(Then went on insta, followed by Serious Sam Yodeller map, and ended back to rocket launcher arena)

 

[goldrunout]

Guys be serious... The game as it is now after 2.1, mods, titan is good! Still a bit bugged but good. The problem is just one: Lack of players. So I agree with the author of the first post, the community (users) should do something to make the game famous. We should advertise the game and suggest it to friends!

 

[Xavi]

Guys be serious... The game as it is now after 2.1, mods, titan is good! Still a bit bugged but good. The problem is just one: Lack of players. So I agree with the author of the first post, the community (users) should do something to make the game famous. We should advertise the game and suggest it to friends!

Thats right. Add to that the fact that this game have a real good graphics and its pretty well optimized.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

The game is good now, but you can't revive a game after such a bad launch. UT3 has proved that.

 

[Phoenix_Wing]

Release JailBreak, get some awesome servers for it, and I will run back in there

 

[Fuzz]

I don't think we should rush anything.

 

[FragTastic]

wheres hypnotoad when you need him? lol

 

[Princess_Die]

wheres hypnotoad when you need him? lol

 

[Mr.SockMonkey]

I recently got UT3 and I really enjoy it.
The only reason people don't play it is because UT3 isn't a "trendy game".
People have moved on past games like UT because they obviously favor
more "realistic" games like the CoD series.
However sad that may be, Epic just has to go with the flow and see if they can make games like that.

The UT series has pretty much run its course and we'll just have to wait untill gamers get bored with realistic FPS's and start playing good games like UT.

 

[Beelzebud (Satanas)]

I recently got UT3 and I really enjoy it.
The only reason people don't play it is because UT3 isn't a "trendy game".
People have moved on past games like UT because they obviously favor
more "realistic" games like the CoD series.
However sad that may be, Epic just has to go with the flow and see if they can make games like that.

The UT series has pretty much run its course and we'll just have to wait untill gamers get bored with realistic FPS's and start playing good games like UT.

I don't buy that. Team Fortress 2 is in no way realistic, and it is insanely popular on the PC.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

TF2 is not sci-fi or fantasy. It's "based in" reality.

 

[Ignotium]

TF2 is not sci-fi or fantasy. It's "based in" reality.

so is sci-fi fantasy

 

[Sir_Brizz]

Then let's t look at the guns.

All of the guns in TF2 are based on and nearly identical to weapons that exist today.