New UT3 Patch and Bonus Pack Released

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New UT3 Patch and Bonus Pack Released

Post by genman »

Epic has released a new patch and bonus pack for UT3.

Read about it and D/L it from here. http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12558

If you want to try it out I have a server running at this IP:68.9.75.118:6777

Also Steam and Epic have hooked up for:

UT3 BLACK FREE WEEKEND!

All you need is a free Steam account to play the full version of UT3 Black this weekend.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/13210/
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Post by R.Flagg »

Free updates to games are always nice. Though in this case it might be too little too late.

And it certainly seems that myself, and the folks behind the design decisions of this game are polar opposites. Pretty much everything they decide to do, I would have done very differently (or simply not done them at all).

Soo..., there are a few folks making attempts at Chaos coding *see below*, and if someday one of those pans out, I'll have a reason to play with UT3. But you can count me out of vanilla UT3, that much is for sure.

** Don't hold your breath about this, there is nothing guaranteed on the horizon, and no announcements planned. Just a few folks trying their hand at coding things for Chaos, and it's still unclear whether or not any of it will ever pan out to a public release for CUT3.
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Post by R.Flagg »

Ya know, I was bored some yesterday and this morning, so I started looking around at UT3 mutators. I really haven't been keeping up with what's been released. Because I got to thinking.... well, what if there are a bunch of mutators I could add up, that make the game playable for me again?

So far, here's what I've got, in no particular order (and no, I haven't tested any of these yet);

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=638720 - gives you back scrolling view of vehicles

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=612189 - Team balancing

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=592319 - gives you back ability to change your nick

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=593367 - Weapon toss

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=663912 - ability to become spectator mid-match

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=663379 - removes that business of starting with 'nearest weapon locker' weapons

That's not a bad list. Some good stuff there. I might start adding a bunch of these to our private server, and see how it goes. Although without any progress on the In-Game-User-Manual, and no grapple, I'm still not sure I'm ready for vanilla UT3.

Now if we could just get a decent VDM, and proper carry your flag CTF w/vehicle flag carrying.... and .. and ... :wink:
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Post by R.Flagg »

Here's another one, just needs compiled or whatever...

http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.ph ... stcount=21

removes the player name tags (billboards) from DM. I actually tried to compile it myself, but failed. He says he has added it to another mut he is running on his server, that does other stuff as well. So I could I guess just get it from my cache, but it would no longer just be this one thing.

I guess a potential problem here is that he mentions changing the UTPawn class, which is what I think Wormbo was on about... but anyway, I'm no coder, just looking for help on this, to see what's possible.
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Post by R.Flagg »

Not sure if these still work, or how well they ever worked in the 1st place, but still... it's worth noting, just in case anyone ever decides to tackle a CUT3 CTF.

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=602073 - carry your flag rules in CTF

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=598981 allows vehicles to carry flags
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Post by R.Flagg »

And here's one that Charredbits pointed out... which contains code for a grappling hook, of sorts...

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthrea ... mitter+ut3

Turns out Charred has even compiled that code, that we've fired up in game. It's about a light-year away from what you might remember as a Chaos grapple (it's not even off-hand, for one thing), but hey... it's a grapple.

Just adding to the list of ingredients that would all have to be combined, and stirred up, and tweaked... to create a CUT3 stew.
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Post by Hammerman »

MMMMM.....Chaos stew 8)
"If you build it.....they will come."---Field of Dreams
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Post by James0310 »

This might help the CUT situation indirectly, in that it might get more people playing UT3.

Steam has a deal going on "UT3 Black" for the next few days (through 03/22). $11.99, instead of the usual $19.99.

I'm still keeping myself entertained with UT99 and UT2k4, but I'm planning to go for it. Hard to resist at that price.

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Post by R.Flagg »

You're right. At least it can't hurt. They supposedly have made the game better for modding too. It might seem odd to some that I still hold out hope after this long, but hey... sometimes the unexpected does happen.

You mentioned UT2004...., genman has a CUT2 server, and if your timing is good, you can catch a few of us on there from time to time.

Welcome to the forums by the way. Thanks for posting.
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Post by James0310 »

Hey, nothing wrong with a little hope. :-)

Yeah, I saw the posts about the server. Never really got into the online thing. Played literally like a half dozen online matches in UT99, once upon a time, and never bothered to go back. <shrug> Of course I was still on dialup at the time, so my experience might not have been "optimal". :-)

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Post by R.Flagg »

R.Flagg wrote:Here's another one, just needs compiled or whatever...

... removes the player name tags (billboards) from DM.
He has now released a version that is supposed to remove all the billboards above players heads, in all game types.

It's called Win_Dex
http://forums.epicgames.com/showpost.ph ... stcount=29

I checked it out for a few minutes... so far it seems to work pretty well. But you still get 'vehicle billboards'. So, it's better than vanilla UT3 that's for sure, but there's still room for improvement.
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Post by R.Flagg »

R.Flagg wrote:Not sure if these still work, or how well they ever worked in the 1st place, but still... it's worth noting, just in case anyone ever decides to tackle a CUT3 CTF.

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=602073 - carry your flag rules in CTF

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=598981 allows vehicles to carry flags
Just checked out the carry-your-flag mutator, and it's causing crashes. Original author hasn't posted on Epic's forum for something like a year now. Might be a lost cause unless another person decides to take it on.

Still haven't gotten to the 2nd one, that allows flags in vehicles.
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Post by James0310 »

I tried the first one and UT3 crashes with it here too. Not right away, but eventually. People in that thread reported crashes quite a while ago, after an earlier UT3 update, so there seems to be some compatibility issue with more recent versions of the game. I've never done any UT scripting, but I was curious and was going to take a look at it. I found a command that's supposed to decompile compiled scripts (the .u file), but it's not working here. It may be something about using the Steam version of UT3. The command tries to use UT3.EXE and I get a message that Steam is preparing to launch UT3, and that's as far as it goes. <shrug> Oh well. Maybe someone will fix it. I've never looked for something like this, but it does make an interesting change in the gameplay.

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Post by R.Flagg »

Yeah, it sure does make an interesting change in game play. And I agree, hopefully someone will try to tackle it, and bring it to life.

This next one isn't really Chaos-y, but it's still handy - IF we ever have Chaos stuff to play test, ....

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=674250

Spectate Botmatch, by Wormbo. Completely unexplainable as to why Epic has (once again) left that option out of a game, but now it's available again. It can be very useful when trying to see how bots are handling your mod.
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