🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:10:11 -0900, GTD <Stooopid@duuuh.net> wrote:

>Folk wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:02 -0700, "skippi" <spam@spam.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> If the mutator and MOD community get on board for UT3, then UT3 will be 
>>> great. But, why did Epic do such a half way job on UT3. At least that's what 
>>> it look like to me. I'll keep UT3 on my hard drive for a while, but if the 
>>> modding and mapping community doesn't get to work then I'll go back to the 
>>> other Unreal games for deathmatch botting.
>> 
>> UT3 suffered from two problems...
>> 
>> 1.  Rush job, just like you say.  It was obviously pushed out the door
>> to catch holiday sales.  But then *that* problem was compounded by...
>> 
>> 2.  The success of GoW.  All the talent at Epic games was siphoned off
>> to work on Gears.  UT3 got the second string talent and it shows.
>> 
>> It's going to be a couple of patches before some of the most glaring
>> issues are addressed.  But it's not just the clients that are
>> suffering.  I've talked to a couple of server admins and they also are
>> faced with a ton of problems.  An emergency beta patch for servers is
>> supposed to go out next week.  I haven't heard about a client patch
>> yet, but it's sorely needed.
>
>I'm not seeing patches fixing everything that IMO are problems. I'm not 
>sure if they can up the limit of bots to 32 or more with a patch, but 
>that's a big one, , but, , if they don't add some gametypes, I have 
>little use for it. The (lack of) Adrenaline system is another thing I 
>doubt can be fixed with a patch, and even if it was, the maps would need 
>  fixing also.
>
>I spent more on this than '04 was when it came out, yet there is what 
>feels like half the content, maybe less.

You don't read alt.games.unreal.tournament2003?  I posted a changelog
of a beta patch over there.  One of the several thousand <g> things
they're fixing is adding the capability of having 32 bots.  The beta
version is already available for download but if I were you I would
wait for the official patch.