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"goPostal" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Derek" <del.wattsnospambaby@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
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>> "goPostal" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> In article <YIMPi.7$Ew1.2@newsfe03.lga>, "goPostal" 
>>>> <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>Torrent link to UT3 demo:
>>>>>http://www.mininova.org/tor/936323
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>>>>>All your base belong to us!
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>>>> SEND US UP THE BOMB!
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>>> You have no chance to survive! Make your time!!
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>> Kill em all let god sort them out.
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>> First impressions
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>> Well I spent a long time downloading and installing  thanks in part to an 
>> inexplicable descision to use mickysnot " .net " to interface the install 
>> so I imagine linux users are going to have a problem . In order to get 
>> online you must set up a profile so that should end the player 3 et al 
>> problem and in the UK due to an act of programming genuis it will not 
>> allow you to put in the @ symbol  this is needed as to setup a profile 
>> after setting the user name and password you have to put in your email 
>> address -pressing @ just opens a console line  in the end having tried 
>> the any key and every key I just typed in "at" so I don't expect feedback 
>> off Epic any time soon.
>> The default settings do not give the sidestep using the left or right 
>> cursor keys these are set to turn r/l it becomes evident when a bot 
>> shoots you up and you cant dodge  instead you need to bind the keys to 
>> strafe r / l strafe does not give simutaneous firing - or did I just bind 
>> that to UT myself it was a long time back either way.getting online well 
>> it recognised available servers but couldn't connect probably as well 
>> till I get a little practice.Then it crashed in a big way with several 
>> grovelling apologies popping up
>> Nick-Dastardly
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> I noticed that too about the strafing keys not being bound. Weird because 
> that should be the default. Maybe you could look in the ini file and see 
> if you can edit your login info? I've played all day today without any 
> problem. The maps load faster and the game seems more "polished". Still 
> get some odd hitching now and again but I can't tie that to anything in 
> particular. There are going to be some spectacular maps when the editor is 
> released...
Yes I experienced the hitching and then horrors the lockups which meant a 
hard
( press the power off button ) reboot.
Now I have just done a clean install of XP on a new HDD ( running out of 
space)
and intended to keep the old drive as slave and run UT3 off the previous 
install
 but no way so it must need .net to run will I reinstall?  no I don't think 
so I don't
think the beta is close to a release version  no doubt we shall she more 
feedback
one way or the other but more important I am not having .net installed just 
to play
a game I regard it as little better than licenced spyware.
Nick-Dastardly