UT2K3 is shit

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prime1

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I like it, its fast, there are nice little tocuhes to the motion in the game that means theres a lot of room for l33t jumoing madness ala quake2 (for example adding a jump at the end of a dodge extends the dodge jump even further, the double jumping is there as well.

I had an early beta (may this year) of the game and the maps certainly get better, especially the ctf maps.

I also like the weapons, i dont see why they are boring, i mean ffs quakes weapons are looking pretty tried and tested aren't they? UT has all the ewapons quake has, each has a secondary fire and it has more weapons on top of that as well.

I didnt like the original UT, i thought quake3 was alright, but nothing special (i was on a modem when it came out so i coudlnt play it online due to its.. "odd" net code). I much preferred the q2 style of game play (slower but more tactical, but still fast paced enough) and UT2 seems to match that.

The gameplay as far as i can tell is fast paced, lots of action with plenty of room for tactical teamplay. It will come with 12 "mutators" - quake3 came with...2 was it?

its just a demo give it a chance. oh and the singleplayer isnt too bad either, its kinda like a cross between speedball (team character training, transfers, leagues etc) and quake.

Anyone worked out how to actually activate the adrenaline, as ive actually managed it in the beta a few times but i cant actually work out the controls to do it :/
 
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Insane

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The only good thing about UT2k3 is the graphics.

the gameplay stinks worse than a maggot-infested, bloated cow :(

"too much of a good thing" comes to mind :eek:
 
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Will

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Back Back Forwards Forwards. (I think).

<Mortal Combat>Get over here</Mortal Combat>
 
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James-

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UT2K3 is shit. BF1942 is fun, but I cannot kill anything with the weapons, not after playing DOD anyway. Doubt I'll bother with either when they're released.

Q3CTFS si teh daddy! (and dod)
 
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FatBusinessman

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Originally posted by prime1
Anyone worked out how to actually activate the adrenaline, as ive actually managed it in the beta a few times but i cant actually work out the controls to do it :/
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There are various powerups you can get from adrenaline.

This page tells you how.
 
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stu

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Originally posted by throdgrain
I downloaded UT2003 . I played online once. I played with bots once. As it said in a voice remeniscent of my kids Pokemon Stadium game "you have won the match" , my computer turned off. And would not restart until five minutes later.
The next day it did it on RtCW. And on the 3dmark test. Over and over again. Finally, it refused to start at all. I sit here at work typing this on an Athlon 500mhz with onboard graphics (!).
I cannot play any games for days, not until the bloke from evesham comes round. Am I pissed off ? Yes. Is UT2003 a pile of shite? Yes.
It may well have been a coincidence, but I dont care. At the moment I hate Ut2003, I hate Athlons and I hate GF4400's, just for good measure :/
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Take your card out and re-seat it. Up your IO voltage by 0.1v. Reinstall your drivers. Any/all of the above will probably solve your problem.

Although you do use an AMD, so on second thoughts it could be anything...
 
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stu

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Originally posted by prime1
I much preferred the q2 style of game play (slower but more tactical, but still fast paced enough) and UT2 seems to match that
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Maybe that's the issue. For most of us, Q2 was way too fucking slow (the only thing that made it tolerable for me was the quicker weapon swaps and generally faster-paced games of RA2). Q2 was also generally considerably less "tactical" than QW (although that might have been down to the clans playing it).
 
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caLLous

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utbench.jpg


Didn't see that exe in there before. :)
 
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throdgrain

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I tried 3 different sorts of drivers stu. Then I tried a re-format with th aid of the chap on the phone from evesham. It crashed at install.Then they said take the card out and reseat it. So I did that. Now the pc won't start at all, just keeps restarting over and over. Now i sit awaiting an "engineer" tomorrow.
 
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stu

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Interesting... I swapped the graphics card in my 2nd PC the other day (an old 733 CuMine, Abit BE6-II, GF DDR). All I did was take the card out, put the new card in (another GF DDR, actually identical model and make to the old one, definitely working coz I'd had it in my main PC up until then), and boot up. All manner of shit went wrong with it, culminating in it refusing to complete booting (it would do all the BIOS checks, then just soft-reset and start them again).

Turned out that me swapping teh cards had for some reason reset a random number of BIOS switches, and one of them was causing the problem. Set the machine back to "Failsafe", ensured that it booted (although sloooowllllllyyyyyy), then started flicking BIOS switches on one by one until I found the offender - was something totally innocuous iirc.
 
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caLLous

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When one of my hard drives crashed, it would just hang at the Windows boot screen and refuse to do anything.
 
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throdgrain

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Thats actually a pretty bloody useful post m8 thank you :)
You never know I may try that when i get home tonight, if I can drag myself near the pc. At the moment its rather like going near a relative who's just died, if you see what I mean :)
I tried starting it in safe mode too, but it got to where it loads windows then says oops you got a password but you've not entered it, goodbye, and restarts. Of course, no-where does it ask me for the password, which is kind of frustrating....
 
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throdgrain

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Oh, theres also a thing for "use last known good settings" on XP, which i also tried to no avail ...
 
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Will

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My new box stopped POSTing a few days ago. I took it apart, reseated everything, tried again, no joy.

I wish I had tried wiping the BIOS settings first, it would have saved me a few hours of head-scratching. Just that one ickle jumper flick and everything was OK. I think I was a little over-hopeful with the memory timings.;)
 
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Trem

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How long you got left on your warranty Throddy? You not fancy chucking it at them and demanding an Intel set-up?
 
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legendario

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These "engineers" are overpaid usless twats :)

Kill him when he comes round throddy, steal his wallet and buy another PC with the money. A lot less hastle :D
 
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throdgrain

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Originally posted by Tremor.
How long you got left on your warranty Throddy? You not fancy chucking it at them and demanding an Intel set-up?
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Another 2 and a half years m8 hehe. The service at Evesham is reasonable anyway, at least someone arrives etc. However i did ring up their "customer care" ppl yesterday and tell them that if it went wrong again they was going to swap it for another :)
 
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granny

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Hmm OK, played it a bit, looks lovely, why does it sound so shite? Surely big guns should make big thumping thwacking splatting noises not girly little "pht" sounds? And yeah the gameplay is the same-old UT gameplay - no balls, feels like it's a practice run every time. Dunno what it is exactly, but I don't like it.
 
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Moving Target

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Originally posted by stu
tbh Summo I couldn't give a rat's cock about all the flashy effects, I just want another game that will play well...

(btw my post was ironic, all signs are pointing to D3/Q4 being a total bag of shit for netplay)
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The people would look like they were walking, but they would actually glide through the map at about 50mph.
 
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caLLous

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Originally posted by granny
Hmm OK, played it a bit, looks lovely, why does it sound so shite? Surely big guns should make big thumping thwacking splatting noises not girly little "pht" sounds? And yeah the gameplay is the same-old UT gameplay - no balls, feels like it's a practice run every time. Dunno what it is exactly, but I don't like it.
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Originally posted by Itcheh
You need a bigger sub-woofer.
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Originally posted by caLLous
With my sub turned up most of the weapons sound fucking awesome as well (as minor a point as this is). :)
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:)
 
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wickit

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/me farts in the geraral direction of ut2003
they raped all the speed from it
i want fast and fun not slow and not fun
back to DoD and cs then

shame i was lokking forward to it
 
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prime1

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You want fast and fun, so are going back to CS and DOD? surely they are not particuly fast (although they are fun)
 
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Kippa.

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I dunno, that outdoor level is good fun with low gravity and instagib :D
 
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Sar

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Ooh, odd that that should be the last post to this thread kippa, because I've been doing exactly that for a few hours tonight and enjoyed it immensely.

Reason to buy the game proper then.

Low grav + instagib + dodge jumping + Antalus + alcohol = teh win!

;)
 
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