Gameplay Impressions?

[Cain]

I'm totally loving this so far. The movement is pretty good, however it could be faster. The graphics are awesome. And i can't wait till all the CLR's are duking it out and get some proper strategies going.

One thing i'm not doing with this game is comparing it to any other UT release. Maybe that's the reason i'm loving it so much.

1) Nothing like a bunch of CLRs duking it out !!

2) I suspect Warfare mode will be our Mode of choice.

-- Cain

[juneau]

I'm totally loving this so far. The movement is pretty good, however it could be faster. The graphics are awesome. And i can't wait till all the CLR's are duking it out and get some proper strategies going.

One thing i'm not doing with this game is comparing it to any other UT release. Maybe that's the reason i'm loving it so much.

1) Nothing like a bunch of CLRs duking it out !!

2) I suspect Warfare mode will be our Mode of choice.

-- Cain

I hope so. Hence my siggy.

[Starfire]

Remember folks, this is a BETA demo not THE demo although there are fewer bugs than I noticed on the bf2142 or quakewars betas. Three big things I noticed: raptor movement is somewhat unbalanced--left, right and up are equal but down is sluggish and slow comparatively. The headshot box is too big even for me. On a 200 ping server I got 2 headshots out of 3 of my first shots. The last issue is the Join Server issue. I'm not sure if it was intentional by Epic or not but only Epic-sanctioned dedicated servers(like Cains) can be joined via the master server list...the rest you must know the server ip and enter it through the console. Mojo ran a 10 person ded server out of his home on his fiber connection(6meg down, 3 meg up) and it ran very, very well with no lag.

I popped on Cains late last night and played on a 3/4 full server for a bit and it ran very well for me....better than his 2k4 ons server. It was great playing with Goat and Cain---been a while. That was a nice surprise hearing your voice Cain! Pretty neat option of server admin voip broadcast!! That will be a handy little tool.

[Cain]

Excellent point Starfire !! Excellent point!!

So far it looks to me as if this game uses LESS Server CPU than onslaught did !! I'm in constant communication with the Epic guys and they already have a bunch of bugs Id's and know how to fix them

Where you in CTF this morning when I apparently, accidentally allowed 153 players !!

That had to be intense !! I love big games, but I suspect that would be a little spammy even for me !!

[Cold Catalyst]

I cranked up the settings to world 3 texture 3 and EVERYTHING is still fuzzy and blurry. Is this my fault or what... why can't I get crisp clean gameplay?

[juneau]

153 players!!!

So isn't the player count hard coded?

[Starfire]

Where you in CTF this morning when I apparently, accidentally allowed 153 players !!

Missed that one:P but here's a related one...right now your dm server shows 24/34 and when I clicked Join it said Server Full then I clicked immediately and got in but there were only maybe 12 folks on and it was not the end of the map. Maybe Master Server numbers wrong???

[juneau]

Where you in CTF this morning when I apparently, accidentally allowed 153 players !!

Missed that one:P but here's a related one...right now your dm server shows 24/34 and when I clicked Join it said Server Full then I clicked immediately and got in but there were only maybe 12 folks on and it was not the end of the map. Maybe Master Server numbers wrong???

I've noticed that too.

On a unrelated matter i just got my first dominating and rocket scientist.

[dirtyoldgoat]

They've always suggested that the game was built for a certain amount of players and that you shouldn't go over it, but it's never been hard-coded like they do with any HL2 multiplayer games.

[{CLR} Naillik]

I'm totally loving this so far. The movement is pretty good, however it could be faster. The graphics are awesome. And i can't wait till all the CLR's are duking it out and get some proper strategies going.

One thing i'm not doing with this game is comparing it to any other UT release. Maybe that's the reason i'm loving it so much.

1) Nothing like a bunch of CLRs duking it out !!

2) I suspect Warfare mode will be our Mode of choice.

-- Cain

+1

and...

+10,000!!!!

[Rand{CLR}]

No CLRs when I managed to get into VCTF, but I was pimping up the server whenever I could (i.e. when I wasn't shooting at stuff with my Goliath ).

I'm sort of annoyed, I could only play about 40 minutes this afternoon. I'm out until much later tonight to go catch dinner and a movie with the wife.

-Rand

[juneau]

I really need to get into the VCTF server as ive only played on the TDM server so far.

I've been owning it up too. Jump + rocket to the head = never fails.

[KillerRabbit]

Personally, I hate this demo and despise Epic for what they have done. For years I've been playing 2k4 many times a week and have had a blast every time. So naturally I've been awaiting the UT3 release. But now that we get a look at how the game really is...well, the game is filled with far more awesomeness that I could have ever expected. And for that I curse Epic for making me wait another month for the full game! Seriously, awesome stuff.

[Sirex]

Erm lets see...

Dislike this windows 95 impression they got going "oh you changed something, restart"
Server browser... lets just say, meh.
- Horrible to use, no 'view server info' at least its not obvious where it is.
- No favorites or again its not obvious if it is there.
- I have to go thru all those horrible screens just to play a game on a server i know i would have in my favs.
Ingame...
-lets see, i've dropped my res, my detail, my tex, anything i can - think of and i still get 19fps.... whats up with that... and i get like 45-60 off line with a whack load of bots in 1 lil room....
- Too dark and gloomy, feels like GoW all over again.
- I dont like this have to press 'esc' to see chat, I know they are making this for the console too but i mean come on do we pc's have to suffer just cos of that
- No death messages... I want to know that jimmyjoe killed garrybaldie with a bioriffle..... or what someone killed me with!
- few other minor things

Other than that its fun
Guess i'm not 'with it' cos all games atm seem to have this style and i dont like it....

[fizbanrt]

Guess i'm not 'with it' cos all games atm seem to have this style and i dont like it....

Couldn't agree with you more; guess we're just too old skool? Maybe time to hang up our flak cannon's and move on to playing Unreal Shuffleboard 2007?

In all, the game play is much more slow than Ut2k4, but with the removal of the double dodge hand stand flip out stuff, I suppose that is to be expected. Either that, or being away from FPS games for quite awhile... well, whatever.

Though I want to add my loud voice to the "Down with the server browser" chant and hoping (but not expecting) that this is just a place holder.