Unreal Tournament III to get expansion

[KurlonT]

From this interview w/ Mark Rein:

"Our arrangement with Midway isn't a license but rather a straight publishing agreement and Midway is still very much the publisher of Unreal Tournament 3," he said. "In fact, we're working together on a major expansion that we expect will excite and grow our UT3 customer base."

If it follows anything like the ECE Bonus Pack for 2K4 I will be more than happy for the goodies...hopefully it will take the form of free DLC for the PS3...

[WalkinTarget]

I reall do enjoy a lil UT action every now and then, but I've mainly stayed offline and played bots. I played a few times online and its just sad to see any servers well populated.

We had such high hopes for this game, and it fundamentally is a good game, but its just not anything new for the old UT crowd to make them think its a worthwhile purchase.

I'd love to see the UT community get behind this and bring the online numbers up, so we shall see what happens.

[Rand{CLR}]

I hope an expansion would be for all platforms, because I'm worried about the PC version. Seems to have done much better on PS 3 than the PC, but I've got it on the PC.

-Rand

[KurlonT]

We had such high hopes for this game, and it fundamentally is a good game, but its just not anything new for the old UT crowd to make them think its a worthwhile purchase.

Really the same thing happened w/ 2K3...graphically it was miles above UT'99 but it didn't add anything significant thus didn't draw in the numbers. This was especially true when games like BF1942 started showing up w/ large player counts and vehicle play...something the UT series never had until 2K4.

UT3 probably does a little better on the PS3 (not sure on the 360 numbers) because it's different and new for that crowd. Although it still tends to get overlooked for other FPS games that offer rewards and unlocks for online play or ones w/ longer single player storylines.

[Grisu]

I enjoy playing it on the PC.

If they bring back the assault mode and get rid of the lame console main menu / server browser this game will be a winner.

[KurlonT]

If they bring back the assault mode and get rid of the lame console main menu / server browser this game will be a winner.

This is something I could never really understand w/ each UT game...all the fuss over the user interface. I mean once you find the right settings, favorite servers, ect...how important is the interface then?

I might spend about 10 seconds at the menu unless I'm trying out a custom map (which might add about 5 seconds) so for me it's not even a blip on the radar.

[Rand{CLR}]

This is something I could never really understand w/ each UT game...all the fuss over the user interface. I mean once you find the right settings, favorite servers, ect...how important is the interface then?

I might spend about 10 seconds at the menu unless I'm trying out a custom map (which might add about 5 seconds) so for me it's not even a blip on the radar.

+1. Once I rebind my keys, get the settings right, and figure out how to get into a server, I could care less.

-Rand

[[TT]BrundleFly]

I still play this at least 5 to 10 hours a week. I usually only play at one server running VCTF and using enhanced weapons. It is a blast and has a whack of us regulars there. It's too bad it hasn't caught on, I guess the grand UT days are over for good...

[KurlonT]

Well it looks UT3 will get a big revision in addition to the expansion.

Major UT3 Update Details

[*THOR*]

Looks like a lot of the issues the community had will be addressed in the next update, and the positive thing is, this is only part one of a two part update, the next update is going be called TITAN PACK with new gametypes!

[Rand{CLR}]

Expansion? What expansion? What Thor is talking about, or something else?

-Rand

[*THOR*]

Expansion? What expansion? What Thor is talking about, or something else?

-Rand

Theres one Expansion pack but it's coming in two stages, stage one will be a patch that takes care of quite a few issues with the game and the second will be the titan pack which adds new gametypes/maps.

[Duke{CLR}]

I will stay tuned. It would be a pleasure to load this game up again.

[{CLR}geneSW]

I like most of the updates. Sounds like they are bringing back a lot of the good things they did in 2K4 and what made 99 great to begin with. If this holds true, this will explode. We may see ONS come back here.....

[Nomadicus]

I am looking forward to this!

Sounds like they are bringing back a lot of the good things they did in 2K4 and what made 99 great to begin with. If this holds true, this will explode. We may see ONS come back here.....

Coincidentally, I have started porting DryIce to UT3 (and Crossfire and Dawn and a few more).

Maybe Cain will host a huge UT3 server one day?!?