Hello there. A small indie unreal engine 3 dev here. (hopefully im posting this in the right place ) . I come from a small discord UE3 community where people still like to make commercial games using UDK/ Unreal Engine 3 (being that for achieving better performance or other reasons) . But either way, there are still many developers/ hobbyist that like to use the UE3 tools.
Communities like the Gears of War, UT3, Killing Floor 2 , Rising Storm Vietnam 2 , A Hat in Time , Painkiller Hell and Damnation , Primal Carnage Extinction to name a few that are still active.
The problem is that when it comes to coding and development, there used to be only one place where developers could find the answers they needed and that was the archived , set to read only , old UDK forums . A month ago they were shut down without notice, and Epic did a big number on many of us . They clearly don't benefit from such action and specially since the thousands of threads related to coding and development there are probably 98% user created .
This is what the forums looked like if interested (using the wayback machine ) but they only shows 2-3 pages at best. The rest is blocked by Epic:
After talk on our discord server (we can provide a link if requested as I don't want this to look as advertising ) we made this thread in the Epic Games forums.
Link below :
forums.unrealengine.com
We loud really appreciate your support, if you can take a minute of your time to stop by , place a comment of support and leave a vote on the top left corner of the page .
What we want is for Epic to release for download a copy of the data of the archived UDK/UE3 forums (before they destroy it or something unprofessional) so that we can try and convert all those thousands of topics in to a offline desktop app for developers to find solutions to their problems . And also for history preservation of everything related with games development and the Unreal Engine 3 .
If you find this initiative important/ of interest, please stop by, leave a comment and a vote . Hopefully Epic will do the right thing .
Thank you for your time .
Communities like the Gears of War, UT3, Killing Floor 2 , Rising Storm Vietnam 2 , A Hat in Time , Painkiller Hell and Damnation , Primal Carnage Extinction to name a few that are still active.
The problem is that when it comes to coding and development, there used to be only one place where developers could find the answers they needed and that was the archived , set to read only , old UDK forums . A month ago they were shut down without notice, and Epic did a big number on many of us . They clearly don't benefit from such action and specially since the thousands of threads related to coding and development there are probably 98% user created .
This is what the forums looked like if interested (using the wayback machine ) but they only shows 2-3 pages at best. The rest is blocked by Epic:
After talk on our discord server (we can provide a link if requested as I don't want this to look as advertising ) we made this thread in the Epic Games forums.
Link below :
Request: Epic, please provide for download the old archived UDK FORUMS
Since this is a Feedback and Requests section, I am requesting and from behalf of the UE3 development/modding community , for Epic Games to kindly provide us with a download (maybe rar archive) of the archived UDK forums data . Since the legacy UDK forums were taken down a short while ago...
forums.unrealengine.com
We loud really appreciate your support, if you can take a minute of your time to stop by , place a comment of support and leave a vote on the top left corner of the page .
What we want is for Epic to release for download a copy of the data of the archived UDK/UE3 forums (before they destroy it or something unprofessional) so that we can try and convert all those thousands of topics in to a offline desktop app for developers to find solutions to their problems . And also for history preservation of everything related with games development and the Unreal Engine 3 .
If you find this initiative important/ of interest, please stop by, leave a comment and a vote . Hopefully Epic will do the right thing .
Thank you for your time .