Missing the Good Old Days...

[HEDRumple]

I've been getting that old UT3 itch. I miss coding & making stuff. Been thinking about hosting a UT3 server from my old PC. I rented one from gameservers a while back but their service sucks.

[Skaa3z]

Some hate ut3 and others like it. The fault lies with epic games that did not know how to cover its franchise. And he started being ******** with Fortnite. They even put halo.
Epic games is not epic anymore. He is dedicated to selling and giving games. NO to innovate. For even giving a recognition to the saga that took him to the top in the unreal tournament saga. It hurts me. But ut3 is dead. The future remains for mobile battleroyale games. The pc is already more for photorealistic or immersive games such as survival, graphic adventure. Plus it's so crazy bio ware makes a mass effect remaster. Why not an ut3 remaster fixing the bugs of yesteryear. Even gears had its final version. Or maybe a remastered ut2004 version.

I have ideas to finish in ut3. But with all the virus disaster and such I was left hanging. And in my country we have a donkey for a president. Anyway, I don't trust epic games like before. I abandon us and betray us.

[TKBS]

HEDRumple nice to hear from you.
If the purpose of this thread is to gauge interest and also give your life story Skaa3z (Lol wat?), then for me it is the same;

 

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- I would play, would appreciate a server, but will always be bound by ping and bad internet. I have not played UT3 for many, many years, with the exception of maybe 5mins here n there offline.
- i checked servers the past week or 2, sadly it it the same experience: same empty servers, or ping i cannot play servers. VCTF worse map ever and stinger spam lame server. I played 1 duel yesterday, which i suck at, but so did the other guy and i stole his shield, which was pure Nostalgia goodness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EziBTFVL8BA
- in 30 years in infrastructure of my cities have not changed, i will never get to play an online game again, "UT3 is my only hope Help me Obi-HED-kenobi"
- on a side note, my old PC died due to Epic Games Launcher overheat bug and a binge of downloading 100 games at 300lb/s, only to test SOMA and it PoP (true story),

* It would be very nice if you decided to run a server, im sure people will feel the same.
- To also make a fresh comprehensive pack of the HED stuff would be cool; it can be added to the "Lack-Of Community Update Edition" LoL.
...i know u and Rumple sent me stuff years ago, but i lost a bunch of my own files too and i didn't want to upload your content to the UT3 archive without permission and especially not incomplete/messy.

Now for Skaa3z


* It would be cool if you made/ uploaded a complete pack of all your releases. So i can add you to the community Edition update thread..

// waffle;

 

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I am not moderator or admin, so im stuck with keep my mouth shut (lol yeh right) or basically explain myself for the last time becuase wtf are you talking about this stuff lol. These are facts
- UT3 not being active is NOT Epic's Fault.
- Epic Games provided Unreal Fans with more services that the Doom franchise until circa Doom Eternal.
- They had servers (official) running longer than any other Game, in the history of games.
- Epic gave UT to everyone, although i do not follow it, 1 hour on the forums tells me that people have infact created a huge amount of content for new UT, bombing run, invasion, assault, etc all weapons, characters... It is all present, just the same as all UT games. //Private gated small groups of users, NONE of which post on the forums.
- By "He" i assume you are reffering to Tim Sweeney and although on a personal level i may have good reason to be ****** off with this dude, you could at least use the name of the person you are implicating in your accusations, you know - out of respect...
- Tim Sweeney would never have an UnreaL Tournament Game identical to what has been already created, nor would he personally code a UT game again, except as test environments for UE5/ UE6. He specifically enjoys "New Movement Mechanics", movement that makes the game fun to play and it a strong believer in pushign an changing these mechanics.
p.s. he totally screwed me lol but that is a private matter and i could rant all day about some of their lameness

- "He" single handedly starts each new Engine sat in his room, and writes like a billion lines of codes and learns new things. That level of dedication and the size of the company has no room for UT - period.

Unreal remake; well that is most definately the Swan Song, i really wanted this in UDK, and UE4, and UE5, but hey imagine it in his final Final UE6.. WoW
Incidently, although i do not have all the stuff anymore, i recently pieced together my downloads online for this :


- been playing invasion on them

Now Mass Effect:
Mass effect is nothing like UT3. Bioware OWN the IP and have the Engine license (UE3). The remaster, i believe, is going to be terrible, and everyone will love it. So far i have been unable to get a straight answer from the developers regarding anything, but it sounds like it is simply not going to be worth it. and the lensfalres, wtf. Bioware probably only remade it becuase of UDKUltimate and Gildors UModel, combined with an endess string of complaints about people loving Mass Effect but it being so buggy and broken, empty levels, disgusting visuals, etc.. I love Mass Effect story, but the gaem is genuinely bollax, the 2nd one improves, and the thrid one merged with 2 would be perfect, new mechanics, with no buggy animations, great stuff.
* I totally understand the need for an All-In-One Engine game release
- im still waiting to hear back with regards to the Pinnacle Station DLC. reported to be corrupt and lost source, despite the fact that Gildor worked as a programmer they said it is nto going to be included. Which is bizaare, because you can use Gildors tools and some Engine tricks to actually decompile and port the whole thing, it is 1 fing map and they can't be bothered to do this.
- the lens flares are still hardcoded with cpp, to the UI so yeh;; no thanks keep you 8K lens falres to yourself bioware, ill stick iwth my own mods and other community content that remasters the entire games already.

Epic Games do not own UT3 per-se, nor do they own any of the Unreal games in full. Somewhere in each game, their is something that they do not have the license for.

Epic Games are definately creating a company that could crash on a massive scale, hopefully it will not fail, same as many other huge studios in the past. They are pushing the Engine hard, creating a tonne of users, jobs, content, patents, acquiring licenses so i do have concerns they are creating an opportunity where alot can be lost with the next innovation or risky move etc...

The community:
i.e. people.
well, some insanely talented stuf being produced and if your part of a private group, server, forum whatever, then your UT3, or UT4 or even UT99 experience is probably fantastic.

For everyone else, complaining hasn't changed anything and the days of groundbreaking UT3 engine fixes that are adopted on mass are basically dead. Only ratt cracked that nut and Epic didn't respond to his stuff so he, liek everyone else, left for UT4

still have no idea what is going here

[Skaa3z]

TKBS They know I'm Latino Here is a sample that does not leave ut3 but. I'm hanging.

The dea de doa5lr. It is all I can offer at this time. I will post things again when I have something more solid. The truth is ut4 (I don't like alpha) When I don't see some immersion I feel empty.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/81fjbv...aGDqxqqMl-g0Bs

[TKBS]

• No idea what you are saying...
• Good quality video.
• Huge improvements to what i saw years ago with your messy upks.
• Excellent file organisation.
• Lighting: Try to stick with lighting values less than 2 where possible.
• Plant: looks like the vertex lighting maybe inverted, that will require a new 3dmodel, but could be wrong, could just be bad settings or 50 other reasons..
• Materials: Nice.
• This High detail stuff is probably still best for Campaign and single player, consider this. Unless you have a server?
• This thread: Hijacked lol

So-if you and HEDRumple would like to join forces, there could be a server with Rumple style-Saa3z content. You could also restart the Unreal remake and just make them playable.

Skip the first 9Mins: (#t=8m55s)

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwdsweYVJK0#t=8m55s

[HEDRumple]

Hey guys! Nice to see someone is still around. I have something like 14 YEARS of UT3 content. All the Hedsteem stuff I made plus my Bloodshed warfare mod & so much more. I probably have 1TB of UT3 files & assets on my old PC. I even made a new Rumple's Raceway 2020 map that has NEW vehicles that can drift & hop like the UT2004 cars. I need to get my old PC back up & running somewhere so I can access the files. Oh and Fartnite...

[Mazey_de]

Oooooh, TKBS I would loooooooove to get my fat little fingers on your map pack for UT3!! Just chiming in....

[VegaSharpew]

• This thread: Hijacked lol

hey That's funny

Re-compiled a lot of third-party script. (fresh dates keep rolling baby) None of this works without each other. That's a problem!!! Will not fix it


Motivation = Mutators, recording and coding. A lot a lot of problem solving because you have to make all mutators work with each other; And also a lot of balancing as well; It just has to feel right; And that takes hours and days of gaming; I linked you to 7 hours of video up there already.
I upload very frequently. my videos are the only way right now to see my progress, cause I'm having way too much FUN. However I bet you aren't interested since it's just mutators and not the stock game!!

Uh oh Greed is pretty broken right now... Will now look into that have fun yourselves guys. in my yard UT3 is rocking hard (if any demand, just ask i may make a proper forum post)

[HEDRumple]

I made a greed mod for Hedsteem that replaces the skulls with beer bottles, has advanced titans, & a sticky trans-kill-ocator.

[HEDRumple]

I made this melee mod a long time ago. I should release it.

[TKBS]

@VegaSharpew

• nice to see you having fun.
• probably should not be decompiling and recompiling other people's work, but fi you do, at least use a new naming system, and changelogs.
• ^^ also congratulations on even being able to do that, it could save alot of mods, post a tutorial lol
• Also definately stop messing with "Revilution's" Code, that dude is pretty cool and would probably just share src with you, but since you didn;t ask first, im guessing that may no longer be the case.

Personally i don't care, decompile, use src, whatever, but never keep the same names, it is just asking for a disaster, and before you even begin down that path, ask first, if they don't reply, make a choice.

Now if you want to modify the titan you need at least this code:

 

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• Revilution & I worked together on another bunch of titan stuff, one was called "Mini-Titan" which i loved, but no longer have, maybe it was released, maybe someone has it, maybe it is gone forever..

Here's another Mod we worked on and never released: Titan Pickups
* You going to have to create a new Ini file for the Config folder:

 

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[UTMutator_NewTitan UTUIDataProvider_Mutator]
ClassName=UTNewHero.UTMutator_NewTitan
FriendlyName=Improved Titan
Description=Type some stuff here, like "Allow Titan Pickups"
GroupNames=
UIConfigScene=
bStandaloneOnly=False
BitValue=0
bRemoveOn360=False
bRemoveOnPC=False
bRemoveOnPS3=False

@HEDRumple

• Cool stuff
• You and Skaa3 could make the Doom glory kill, since you know, he loves to use other games assetts flol

Someone test some of the stuff i have released recently. I have no idea why i am even bothering lol

Happy Modding

[HEDRumple]

You're bothering because:
A: You have fun making stuff.
B: You love this game & don't want it to die.

Same reasons why I always come back to UT3. It was a big part of my life & has helped me through some rough times. We need to brainstorm ways to bring this game back. Lets Make UT3 Great Again!

[VegaSharpew]

TKBS Are you serious?!?! you guys worked together???? Man!!! i gotta get in touch with Revilution RIGHT NOW!!!

I'm knocking his door at Mod DB, I managed to contact him a year prior, but now i have power to fix it myself. lol :')

i F I X E D all his MOD. I Really Mean it.
He said his code was a mess. Well it was a piece of cake for me personally; Please watch my comment I left on his website

https://www.moddb.com/mods/oversizer-device/#7932434
Gotta get in contact, and just talk it up.!!!

[HEDRumple]

I'm working on my Rumpled Metal mod. I'm gonna try to get a test server up this weekend. Anyone will be free to join to test. I have 4 vehicles so far. Two cars, a dune buggy, & a semi-truck. All start with basic weapons & there are weapons that you can puck up on the map, health pickups, & powerups for your vehicles. Weapons are mortar shells, hydra missiles, tank shell, land mine, power missile, freeze ray, & dark matter cannon. I have a 71 Cuda & a monster truck to add along with some more weapon ideas.