so what do we think of it

[old.frankie]

exactly what it says on the tin. I got UT on thursday via a nice shop that happened to be selling it for a week before the proper release date, and i got it out the box and installed it. Now i know that i like it but what do u all think of it. I must say its prety damn good, brill gameplay, although there seems to be a lack of decent UK servers, i.e BW servers. The graphics are cool, runs fine, gameplays good, its all good. network is brillient, better than q2, maybe better than Q3. neway what ya all think.
also have u lot got any problems with it, heres the list of bugs ive found.
1. dodgy server lister.
2. dodgy installer
3. borked redeemer, when i try and use this baby on the net, it just screws up, i mean it works fine with bots, not on the net, but on it it just blows up as soon as u fire it by the secrondry fire, all i want to do is cruise it into the other peeps base, but it just blows up in my face, it works ok on the primery fire, but secondry it just blows up as soon as it leaves the gun, i aint aiming it at a wall, or to the ground, just in an open space. any ideas, same probs ??


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[MrChumble]

The server list needs serious work but other than that I can't really fault it.
Some of the weapons seem to lack somehow - I'd prefer a bit more of a BOOM when I fire them - but thats just a minor quibble.
Assault rocks imho - I was never into DM (prefer TF/AQ2/CS/Tribes) and I think Assault moves the team mod forward a bit. Can't wait for some 3rd party maps to be released for it.
Shame I won't be playing it on BW - whoever decided on 6 DM servers and no Assault should be taken out and spanked at dawn.

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[Jace]

Hello? reality check for a moment.

What exactly would have been the point in having BW Assault servers proir to the full release when Assault wasn't featured in the Demo?

I am sure that we will see some BW Assault servers when they upgrade from the demo some time soon so be patient

 

[old.Fusion]

The game lags excessively, the netcode stinks, the weapons are ott and take no skill to use, too much spamming, not enough precision.

Assault turns into a race and the levels lag a lot on the net. Most the CTF maps are dull. The DM levels are bland, and domination is just plain rubbish.

Really disapointed with UT and an absolute waste of £27

 

[old.Iron Pants]

I'm sorry Fusion thinks that way because the range of weapons, and secondary fire modes takes the emphasis away from that old problem that "only the rocket launcher will do". The level design knocks spots off anything id have shown us yet and if the release date for Q3 has been brought forward so quickly then you have to wonder what they will be able to include in the full release and what we will end up having to wait for. Or worse using our precious on line time to download all the patches and add-ons.

 

[old.zach]

I’m not sure why but when I’ve played UT its been very laggy and I play with isdn, quake3 and tribes both play fine on my system.

I have to say I was disappointed with the DM levels as the majority of them make quake3’s DM17 look good.

I was more disappointed with the teamplay modes cause UT’s CTF is not in the same league as Tribes or TF’s CTF, and domination just not worth playing.

The assault mode is good and I’m sure will be fun to play at clan level but on public servers the majority of games I played in lasted under a min usually with one person on 125 points and the next highest scorer on 2.

- Zach

 

[old.frankie]

well, have u seen the maps that q3's gonna have, caus if u have'nt then u might just change your mind about what q3's gonna be like. I really want q3 to be good, i want to buy it and think ive spent my money well, but the way it looks it looks bad. The level is what makes a game good. If you dont have decent levels then ull hate the game. q3's ;evels look utter crap. u have a choice of 2 colours that the levels based on. Brown or metel grey. theres no other colours from what i can see. it looks dull, boring, and could be a flop, but i really really hope im wrong. as soon as the dodgey shop round the corner gets q3, ( NEXT WEEK ) then ill get it, no doubt, but the lack of gameplay options and modes might make many ppl feel ill. That is the truth, go look at the screenshots, at stomped i think. has shots of EVERY level.

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[old.Scum]

I haven't had played anything other than UT assault yet, but there seems to be a definite problem with lag.

I pinged about 120 to most UT348 demo servers, but on the UT400 servers I played in the UK, once the action got going I was pinging 300+, 20% or more packet loss ALL THE TIME, except in the quiet moment at the end of a game, when my ping would drop to around 150.

There was another problem I encountered - while playing AS-Overlord, most of the players became afflicted with mega-ping syndrome (4000+ ping). A couple of the players were unaffected. I think two different servers showed the same problem.

It seems to me that in general, the more players on a server, the more lag. Perhaps server administrators are running many servers on the same machine? There has been talk of the large memory footprint required by UT servers... or maybe UT servers are just very CPU intensive.

 

[old.sjp]

start off with the fact that i prefer Q3....

went out and got UT on the day of its release and heres what i think so far

1) its still laggy but a lot better than before (isdn user btw)

2) the weapons feel wrong ... cant put my finger on why ... all feel slow and un-responsive, sort of aggree with fusion in that u end up press fire 2 much

3) only played the dm levels yet, and by and large they have been pretty bad (but i think that q3dm17 is brill, so what do i no

), but the star-ship one (with the stars) made me dizzy, which is nice

4) it looks nice and runs nice and quick (with d-lighting on)

5) instant-gib rocks :}

6) do u folks ever speak when playing on a server ?, cause so-far i might as well of been playing bots, for all the feed back i havegot ....

mad ramblings over .....

 

[old.frankie]

yeah m8, exactly the same ere, no-one ever speaks its like this
- hello ppl, hows it going
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nothing

-hello, ne1 ere ?
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Oy ffs u stupid ****ing bots, talk or ill shove that AI of yours up your ****ing ass.
then u get a responce.

maybe we should arrange a game, just all the BW crew, auto shitty taunts off, and good old school fragging ??

u lot arrange it ill be there ( weekend )

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[old.Real Retard]

Was wandering around the web bored (cuz I still have no PC and have to use the wonder that is WebTV instead

) when I ended up on the GameSpy site. Had a quick look at the stats and noticed that there were approximately the same number of servers for Q3 and UT (688 and 633 respectively) yet UT had 2400 players and Q3 had 1100. Whether this has something to do with European players all playing UT (this was at 9.30pm GMT which is 4:30pm Eastern in US) I don't know, or maybe Q3 server admins dont know how to send stats or what. Was a surprise tho

DS.Real Retard