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GreatEmerald wrote on 04/14/11 at 21:29:35:


This confirms my point: you have to download a couple of community-made stuff in order to get the game playable. And then you have a game which is a spin-off of UT2004 with no outstanding point to justify buying it. You get a game that is not bad, but Unreal was always better than just "not bad".

As for VCTF-Suspense, even if it's played constantly, it is sub-par on both gameplay and visual level, when Face had its visuals, Rankin and Torlan their gameplay and Deck had both.

UT3 looks like a mix of bliding colours out of the box. I like things when I shoot
As for vehicles, see above.
About Suspense : it does not fail, it's average.

Anyway, you don't agree with me, I am thus forced to conclud that you are less intelligent since you are wrong. Indeed, I wouldn't believe what I believe if I thought it was wrong, which means what I think is true, so you are wrong as you don't agree with me. Ahah, silly you. 

Hellkeeper wrote on 04/17/11 at 21:09:52:


You do realise that there is an option "Enable Bloom and Depth of Field" under Advanced Options, don't you?

GreatEmerald wrote on 04/20/11 at 22:56:15:


The general design of the game is a problem in itself. It's not only the post-proc effects It's not limited to UT3, but the "Everything shines" effect simply kills visibility.

GreatEmerald wrote on 04/21/11 at 21:09:37:


Right now, I can't, but a simpel google search for UT3 will return mountains of results : everything seems to be made of shiny medical plastic. Somebody found the specular channel and decided do put it into OVERDRIVE mode.

EDIT : I tried to reinstall the game, it keeps crashing on startup, I moved on.

GreatEmerald wrote on 04/22/11 at 17:19:07:


Oh, I never blamed the engine, it is flawless : high end graphics, all possible features, easy to use, well documented, easily available etc...
I'm blaming the game they did with it, that is the decision they made regarding the gameplay and art design.
Then again, this is mostly an issue of different tastes.

Well of course not, it's the UnrealEngine 3, when UT2004 uses the 2.5 one.

I don't think UT2004 is considered perfect by Epic, but I think it was so great in its content, community, support and was such a platform for mods/content creation that UT3 was more or less dommed not to live up to the expectations.

However it's true Epic didn't push UT3 as hard as it pushed UT2004 (IIRC, the bonus pack including face had no levelshot for its maps etc., which gives the impression that it was rushed).

Better engines are nice but how it still is is unreal a bot game.
The online matches are unbearable because of the 50%+ hacks users.
They autoaim instakill superdodge that its anything else but gameplay.
Those freaks cant ever really be stopped or even banned.
I think future gametypes must deal with this or the online mode
is absolute waste of time not to mention that annoying ... .

Kalec979 wrote on 04/23/11 at 00:52:00:

I haven't seen anyone like that any time while playing the games. Sure, people online are really skilled (probably due to the fact that all new players are discouraged by all the pros beating them every single time), but I don't think they cheat. Though I guess many of them like all that UTComp stuff that makes players look like torchlights and turn their graphics detail to the minimum, turn off music to hear footsteps etc. Which isn't exactly fair to normal users who enjoy the atmosphere of the game as opposed to shooting a torchlight repeatedly.