UT 2003 being uploaded to servers right now

cak · Post by **cak** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 10:00 pm

Doh, i was told 3 days ago it would be oct 3rd.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 10:48 pm

about 20k/sec here... Should have it all in an hr... gettin' it off of a server in the netherlands... couldn't get into one in the US..

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 10:51 pm

getting about 172k here, had t use a gay downloader though

Fu Manchu · Post by **Fu Manchu** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:27 pm

sorry guys .. dont think you are gonna have an excuse for the 9700's lol .. my gf2 ti played it schweet lol.

overall i think the actual game is gonna kick total ass .. its like quake 3, UT, and duke nukem all in one.

but only with the best feature of all the games.

TheManiacal1 · Post by **TheManiacal1** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:31 pm

i've got 3 seperate downloads going at the same time.. one at around 55kbps, another at about 37kbps, and a turtle crawling at 7.5kbps. one of them is bound to finish by the time i wake up in the AM.

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 2:42 am

been playing for the last 3 hours, actually plays fairly nice on my sys (athlon 1.2 gig 266fsb/512 ram/GF3)
the question is, to crank up the goodies and run ubersmooth, what would benefit me more, upgrade to gf4 ti4200 or upgrade cpu to an xp1800 or better??

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 8:16 am

anyone who ended up with that gamespot/kontiki downloader might want to delete it asap - i checked the settings your files=our files

cak · Post by **cak** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 8:47 am

So what does everyone think of it?

I was rather disapointed, felt like i was playing quake in a way

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:39 am

sbp, no need to worry, I passed out last night AFTER I downloaded it and did a quick testrun (it was already 5 AM European time, hehe).

Welp, my main reason to get this demo was to see if my hardware can keep up with the demanding 3d-engine. I'm really waiting for Unreal II.

It plays rather nice at 1024/32bit without fsaa on my tbird@1.6 with my Ti200@Ti500, full details.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 9:40 am

Okay quick impressions (and keep in mind that I was not a big fan of UT):

- Looks great (maybe a bit cartoonish, but that's the texture designers).

- Physics feel nice.

- Same lame-ass weapons (give me a NORMAL rocket launcher and a shotgun and I'm a happy camper, thank you).

- Models look damn nice.

- Performance seems to be very smooth on my AMD XP2000+ w/GF3 Ti-200. Playing it at 1024x768 32bit, all the eye candy (no FSAA) and it runs smooth.

- Bots seem pretty good.

- It loads VERY fast (big plus for me - one of my major problems with UT was the rediculously long load times)

Overall it looks like a nice engine. Not sure I'll get into playing it as-is (I just don't like the stupid weapons) but it'll be a great engine for other games and mods.

Is there some kind of trick to getting multiplayer servers to come up? I get a "Querying Master Server" message but no joy. Turned of the firewall and still no joy. Stuck playing bots.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 10:10 am

the people are WAY to cartoony looking so far. besides that im pretty happy with it.

I personally like the weapons. Keeps it origonal.

Greg

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 10:42 am

Game play is much faster than the "leaked" demo from a couple months ago. I give it a thumbs up rating. :up

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 10:59 am

It must irk Greg to have to watch that NVidia promo every time he runs it....

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 11:11 am

Haha, I found this funny thread from waiting UT fans, check it out right here

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 12:03 pm

ROFLMAO!!!