Will you play UT3X?

[Cannonball]

I'm a big fan of the series and dissapointed with Epic's action since filthy Gears - it was the first betrayal of UT. The second was with UT4 - I was on the Epic's forums during 2014-2017 and it was horrible: favoritism, ban of good artists, CoD-like direction of game - yeah: unreal tournament was too unreal, lol. The third betrayal - right now.

Epic really hate this series.

But regardless of unpleasant situation with delisting of all U/UT games from steam (probably gog will later). EG wants to return UT3 as UT3X. Definetely not the best game in the franchise, but still solid.

So, I wonder: will you return and play UT3X?

I definitely do. I love UT regardless of things around. And because I don't see an other fascinating shooters now, exept QC - this game is beautiful, but get undeserved hatred. Not only afps but all modern shooters either tasteless or too complicated in comparison with UT and Q(C).

So, I will play. But you?

[tyl0413]

I hope everyone including F2Pers downpatch it to the current version and play that instead of the EOS infested trash.

[Sifer2]

No. Even if they finished UT4 I would hate to use the EGS client to play it. I would at least be tempted to though. Am I going to make an EGS account to play UT3X? Hell no lol

So they effectively just removed UT3 from my library.

[Bubbaxm2]

If I decide to start playing it all again then yes, absolutely. I have no issues using the EGS. Also think that having it FTP may help generate some new players that wouldn't typically buy a dated game so personally I am all for it.

[KingyWingy]

Yes. The only thing changing for me is the end of the login bugs from the old Gamespy system.

[EliteSarge]

That'll be a hard no.

[LucidusAtra]

Why wouldn't I? Before the announcement, I tried to find some people playing. There were two. Two people playing UT3, in the entire world, in some region where my ping was almost 200. If they keep true to their word, don't add any microtransactions, and really do just release the game as it always was, completely free, people might try it, and a populated UT3 is a good thing in my book.

[KingyWingy]

There were a few more people playing shortly after you posted. Fewer than usual since it is Christmas eve.

[i know kung fu]

Of all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ UT's to bring back online... why not UT4 or UT2k4? Why this Gears wannabe one?

[i know kung fu]

Originally posted by LucidusAtra:

Why wouldn't I? Before the announcement, I tried to find some people playing. There were two. Two people playing UT3, in the entire world, in some region where my ping was almost 200. If they keep true to their word, don't add any microtransactions, and really do just release the game as it always was, completely free, people might try it, and a populated UT3 is a good thing in my book.

HA

[Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ]

Maybe for a week until it does again.

[Tears For Fears]

So what exactly is this UT3X? They should just remaster the good ol Unreal Gold, Tournament 99 and 2004 and everyone would be happy. Corporate Greed is in favor though it seems

[Crusader_bin]

Originally posted by Tears For Fears:

So what exactly is this UT3X? They should just remaster the good ol Unreal Gold, Tournament 99 and 2004 and everyone would be happy. Corporate Greed is in favor though it seems

Think Quake Live. Because it will be that.

And back to the topic, yes, I will play, there is chance they will listen to community (don't laugh at me) and make changes accordingly.

[z3d*kfa]

Despite UT3 being the most underdelivering game in a series, I've played it a lot during my school days (~500hours in Steam + over9000 hours on a retail German censored version since it first appeared in a local store). Mostly with bots, but it was freaking fun: jawdropping graphics, mutators, different game modes, awesome community content after I got internet access etc etc.
Honestly I'm quite happy Epic decided to make it free for everyone. Still any PC can run UT3, even old Core2Duo and Pentiums, which I can't say about modern UT4 project: very unoptimized and CPU bound, because of old UE4 version and abandoned updates.

All they need to do is: to get rid of the most bugs (+game breaking exploits), add decent FOV-slider, use proper UI like MapMixer, improve netcode, other QoL stuff.

To the OP. Of course I'm gonna play the 3X version! Would at least try it for a few weeks. If everything is right and less broken, it will get my attention.

Originally posted by Tears For Fears:

So what exactly is this UT3X? They should just remaster the good ol Unreal Gold, Tournament 99 and 2004 and everyone would be happy. Corporate Greed is in favor though it seems

Unreal, UT99 and even 2k4 can run on office PC nowadays, would remasters do the same?
Personally, I'm not eager for improved graphics, old games have their own charm without modern bells and whistles (imo).

Originally posted by Crusader_bin:

And back to the topic, yes, I will play, there is chance they will listen to community (don't laugh at me) and make changes accordingly.

This! We need a good bridge between community and developers.

[Vadim]

For sure, my N-word!

[ReL0aDed]

Yes, I would at least try it out of curiosity. I really hope that they update to a newer version of Unreal Engine 3, as UT3's colors doesn't pop at all, the lightning doesn't look very good and the visual fidelity is not very good in my opinion (comparing to Toxikk & the UT4 pre-alpha). UT3 is almost as brown as Quake 1, it's like every color in the game has a brown tint.

If they could port this one fast & easy to Unreal Engine 4 I'm sure the graphics would look less dated, but I suppose that the differences between Unreal Engine 3 & 4 are way too big that it's possible to move engines seamlessly.

I'm very corious to what Unreal Tournament X is going to end up like. If they aim for a new audience, they have to update the graphics to some extent in my opinion.