UT32K4 Thursday Nights 7PM Pacific

[Ghosted]

UT3 sucks. I know it, you know it. The movement is gimped, the vehicles are overpowered, our precious hitscan weapons have been nerfed, etc.

I've been dicking around with a mod for a while, trying to fix these issues. It's finally to the point where I'm satisfied. Seriously... it's fixed. I will be releasing this mod later this week. Details are below.

I know there are over a dosen or so people that have played on the CTC UT3(2K4) server and really liked it. What I would like to try here is setup a night where we can go play and try out my changes. We tried this before on Saturdays, but that's kindof a fail night due to some of the cooler folks here actually having lives on the weekends. So, now that I'm basically done my mod, I'd like to see if anyone who's interested would like to hop on on Thursdays starting around 7PM till whenever. I figured we could try this for a while and see if it catches on.

In addition to my mod, I am also running utcomp and ping compensation, so you get your precious hitsounds and netcode The shock rifle is now just as effective for me as it is in 2k4. The main gametypes on there are TAM and VCTF, but we can play whatever.

Here is the current version of what I will be posting to the epic forums. Grammar nazi's are welcome for once.

Mutator: UT32K4
Author: Ghosted
Version: 0.1b
Status: Beta
Developer Thanks: Captain Snarf, Xyx, BattleMode
Playtesting: Tigr, Mr. Bean, Badasp and many more. Thank you for your support and feedback!

Description:

The purpose of this mod is to make UT3, specifically the VCTF gametype, play similar to UT2k4. The main goals here were to
reintroduce manta runs, restore 2k4 style movement and address many of the complaints the 2k4 community had about UT3(and UT3 VCTF).

This mod also works great with any other game mode where you want movement to feel more like 2k4 (ex. TAM, DM, etc).

Why: (I figure someone will ask that )

Because many people still enjoy UT2k4 VCTF and I thought it would be a fun
project to try to mimic similar gameplay with the newer UT3 engine.

++++ Changes ++++

Movement/Other:

- Walking speed increased 10%
- Jump height increased 20%
- Added dodge jumping
- Weapon switch speed increased
- Added behind view (use shift+b to toggle), currently only works in offline mode

Vehicles:

- All ground vehicles can carry flags

- Most vehicles have camera zoom as in 2k4 (excluding goliath/nemesis due to a bug atm, should be fixed in final release)

- Scorpion (many people complained it was too squirrely)
+ suspension loosened for a smoother ride
+ steering speed reduced
+ throttle speed increased
+ can be knocked around by weapon momentum as in 2k4 (removed heavy feel)
+ players can ride on top

- Deluxe Hellbender (from Snarf's vehicle mods)
+ increased speed
+ passenger seat now has chargable beam as in 2k4
+ can be knocked around by weapon momentum as in 2k4 (removed heavy feel)
+ players can ride on top

- Manta
+ increased speed
+ reduced turning speed (similar to 2k4)
+ increased down thrust
+ players can now ride on the manta wing for manta runs

- Viper
+ increased speed (to match manta)
+ players can now ride on top of the viper for viper runs(!)
+ reduced roll making it easier for a rider to stay on

- Hoverboard/Trickboard (from Snarf's vehicle mods)
+ goes faster/jumps higher than standard hoverboard
+ double tapping forward provides a temporary boost
+ getting hit at normal speed will knock you off of the board instead of ragdolling you
+ you will still ragdoll if hit while boosting
+ note: will make this optional in the next version of this mutator

Weapons:

- Shock Rifle (all changes made to better simulate 2k4 shock rifle)
+ increased fire rate
+ increased damage against vehicles
+ increased momentum against vehicles
+ increased momentum against players

- Avril
+ rocket speed slowed down

Known Bugs:

- Camera zoom is broken for vehicles with zoomable weapons (currently disabled for goliath/nemesis),
bender passenger seat can flake out if vehicle zoom is used as well
- Behindview does not work online
- Not configurable by ini yet (it will be)

Possible future development:

- Adrenaline combos
- Delayed damage projectile for scorpions

[Mr Bean]

What a great contribution Ghosted! I'm off this thursday and friday. I'll definately be there. I've never done any UTscript, but it looks like you've done a helluva lot of work on this project. I've been online a few times in the past week. Feels exactly like 2k4 to me. Adren sounds like a lot of work as well, but would be a great addition. I'm looking forward to some GG's every thursday night.

[Ghosted]

Thanks Bean

Here's a thread on how to avoid redownloading the same maps by chaning your cache size. This is actually necessary because the maps are rather large and it's a pain to have to redownload them all the time.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1897&p=20979#p20979

[Tiggrrrr]

I was there a while ago,(thurs night 8ish) also in ut2004.
Didnt see anyone yet, maybe later!
~Aly~

[x-GAMBIT-x]

Sorry I bailed I tried to play it but It just doesn't work for me.
Took me over 30min to get on the game, then it's like my screen size was way to small to
see what was going on around me then when I changed my Resolution to 1024....ect then
my game was laggy it was making my eye's bug out.

Seems Like the only game that runs for me Is UT2004 Iv'e tried all these other game's on
steam also and some I was unable to even get in the game yet.
I feel bad that you guys had got me these game's and I can't even play them.

Well I'll catch ya guys later I'm going to just hit the hay......

[Ghosted]

Gambit can you post your hardware specs? I know alot of us programmer types have hardware lying around unused. I'm sure we could help.

Also, awesome games everyone. I hope we can do this every Thursday, it was alot of fun.

[Mr Bean]

Thanks for putting this on Ghosted. I had a lot of fun and am looking forward to doing this more often.

[CTC-PapaSmurf]

Yes, yes.. UT3 sucks.. But, somehow I found myself having fun on your server tonight Ghosted. Thanks for making UT3 fun!

We had some great games tonight.. good stuff!

[v0idNull]

Quit trying to make UT3 happen, it's not gonna happen!

[ICEMAN]

Copy Pasted your Post Ghosted and put it on the NBS forums , hope it helps Bro

[x-GAMBIT-x]

Gambit can you post your hardware specs? I know alot of us programmer types have hardware lying around unused. I'm sure we could help.

Also, awesome games everyone. I hope we can do this every Thursday, it was alot of fun.

[Ghosted]

Ram is dirt cheap and 1gig is not enough. I have a bunch of sticks lying around, I could send you a few gigs (ur running DDR 800 right)?

UT3 is slowly turning into an older game. There have been a couple of generations of graphics cards since it has come out and even then it ran on older generations, so we're talking maybe 4-5 gens. What that means is you can get a 'newer' budget card for next to nothing.

Check out this card, it's $22 after the mail in rebate!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121235

I checked to see if that card could run UT3 and the posts I found were encouraging:
"well i run unreal3 on max setting except world is only on 3 of 5, i have no lag problems at all"

It won't run great, but it will run well enough and... $22; I didn't know they sold gfx cards for that much.

You would need both though, more ram and probably a new card, to run it reasonably. It taking forever to load is most likely due to the amount of ram you have as it's probably swapping to virtual memory.

[x-GAMBIT-x]

Ram is dirt cheap and 1gig is not enough. I have a bunch of sticks lying around, I could send you a few gigs (ur running DDR 800 right)?

UT3 is slowly turning into an older game. There have been a couple of generations of graphics cards since it has come out and even then it ran on older generations, so we're talking maybe 4-5 gens. What that means is you can get a 'newer' budget card for next to nothing.

Check out this card, it's $22 after the mail in rebate!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121235

I checked to see if that card could run UT3 and the posts I found were encouraging:
"well i run unreal3 on max setting except world is only on 3 of 5, i have no lag problems at all"
It won't run great, but it will run well enough and... $22; I didn't know they sold gfx cards for that much.
You would need both though, more ram and probably a new card, to run it reasonably. It taking forever to load is most likely due to the amount of ram you have as it's probably swapping to virtual memory.

I don't know what DDR 800 is but I have a DDR2 Type.

And as far as Upgrading my PC Like a graphics card I would love to but being unemployed
and behind on bills isn't good and I'm also trying to save up about 4k for a buisness thing
that I hope will turn things around for me and my family.

But thanks for pointing this to me I will keep this in mind when the time come's.

[Mr Bean]

What's your Model? As in...Dell Inspiron 1500... or something like that. At least some memory would be a step in the right direction. DDR2 800 I think is the most common right now.

[x-GAMBIT-x]

What's your Model? As in...Dell Inspiron 1500... or something like that. At least some memory would be a step in the right direction. DDR2 800 I think is the most common right now.

It's a dell dimension xps Gen 4