🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:18:45 -0800, "goPostal"
<agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message 
>news:spfbk3da3toeuudjhdhs52ekius779pg4j@4ax.com...
>> 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.
>
>Not to turn the thread in another direction Folksie but has the GoW save 
>problem been addressed? I deleted it until saves could be made locally. I 
>was absolutely pissed when I played for a couple of hours then found my game 
>wasn't saved. I'd have taken the game back if I hadn't ripped the box open 
>to make a lunchtray (doh). 

Not yet.  I found a method that's *supposed* to preserve your saved
games but I didn't have to use it... I reinstalled the game and after
that didn't lose any of the saves.

But then in the final act I ran into another problem... stuttering.
The Epic forums are filled with people having the same problem.  The
game just starts chugging like crazy and then often crashes to a blank
display.  I was *going* to get it to crash and post my log file to the
forums, but then it magically quit stuttering and I was able to finish
the game.

This is one of the few single player campaigns that I will probably
play again.  They did a great job on making it a compelling story. But
I'm not going to bother until they get a patch out.