Do you play it online Fribbles?

I'll have to buy it! I've got the demo, and I really like it! It's the most Quake-like gameplay about at the moment.

Loading times are good, graphics are tremendous! Gameplay is fun - fast and furious.

Also I like the newer games (steam etc) just because it's so00 easy to get straight into an online game.

So hey, there's finally something we agree on! :D 

I haven't tried online play yet. To be honest I usually just play versus the bots (or LAN) in UT games. I tend not to play it online. That's not to say I won't give it a go though.

I do really like the gameplay, as always with UT. Maps are for the most part stunning visually, and the game as a whole has a much more coherent look than previous UT games (both with the maps and character designs). I have a little bit of a hard time picking players and pickups out from the background though... it all blends together a bit to be honest.

Haven't played enough to learn the maps well yet, so I can't comment in any meaningful way on layouts etc.

Tell you what though, the default mouse movement is completely fucked! It feels so wrong, acceleration is forced on and there's no way to turn it off in the game menu (this is a pretty big oversight). I had to search around and find out how to disable acceleration and change some other stuff in the config files to get the mouse to feel halfway decent. (It's pretty nice now, just gotta tweak sensitivity and stuff a bit more to my liking.)

So, in summary:

Awesome: load times.

Strong: gameplay, art.

Shithouse: default mouse movement and options. 

Yeah, games like CoD4 and UT3 are awesome when it comes to load times, I wish TF2 loaded the maps faster, it seems to take ages...

Played UT3 a bit, dunno, not really doing anything for me, think I spent more time checking out the characters in the character creation screen than actually playing. 

Checked out the demo a bit.

What a radical progression over UT/UT2/UT2k3/k5/k5/k6 eh. 

how did you fix the shitty mouse in UT3 Frib?
that was the thing that totally ruined the game for me to the point of unplayable 

more input options in the latest patch so you can turn off mouse acceleration and all that other shite.

As for the load times, I'm no expert on UT tech or anything but I think its got something to do with the streaming nature of the engine, my guess is it only loads what you see when you spawn into the world and streams the rest in and out as you move around. It was the same with Gears of war there were very very few actual loading screens, usually there would be a brief pause after a cutscene and thats all. 

Sarcasm? I haven't played it. 

The main thing is turning off the mouse acceleration:

My Documents/My Games/Unreal Tournament 3/UTGame/Config/UTInput.ini

[UTGame.UTConsoleP_layer_Input]
bViewAccelerationEnabled=FALSE

This thread could also help (some different stuff to try, not sure how much it helps if at all):

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=605871 

....mouse acceleration. I notice v_sync more - I prefer it to be off, unless the game runs constantly above the refresh rate. Crysis it has to be off. Doom3, Quake4 and UT3 it can be on. 

thnx. mouse in bioshock was equaly bad btw, less of an issue in SP but still


oh and on the topic

played Alice - rather boring combat design due to crappy one-ammo-for-all weapons and mostly turret-like enemies. FAKK2 had pretty much the same puzzles and jumping but much more interesting combat. Atmosphere is nice but not enough to keep my interest for more than ~5hrs. next
... comes Getting up: contents under something - yeah that Mark Gekko` graffiti game. Which has some parkur (which is luckily much easier and far more forgiving than Tombrider or the insta-death-frenzy Prince of Persia); some sneaking (which is mostly unnescesary if you dont mind to fight) and ofcourse the best part of it - asskicking which is a rather solid beat'em'up with some depth. Oh and there is spraypainting the walls which is done well. 

didnt have the atmosphere to match Alice though, although I agree that Alice gameplay got old. But there was some pretty imaginative dressup of some puzzles and the level design was great. 

Was a missed opportunity for me. A real shame they didn't use the thirdperson perspective a bit more - dodging or close combat or something.

I remember I was looking at the pause screen loads of times before I noticed L-oad S-ave D-elete.

Another one of those subliminal design things.

Here's a great Portal article:

http://www.game-ism.com/?p=91 

Agreed in general. Alice had good music too. 

never played it before. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32939.html 

Nevermind the game - the demo is brilliant! 

That ad rocks. =) 

Wow. Runs very slow for me though (well with Wine). Nice details etc. I'll need to find some "impulse 9" cheat though to trash the whole map.

http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/ 

kinda cool! Haven't seen voxels for ages. What was that game that used them, Outcast? And there was an rpg too.

Just googled Outcast, it looks pretty good for a 1999 game!
http://www.quandaryland.com/2006/pix2006/Outcast1b.jpg

Then I remembered the voxel rpg I played was called Hexplore, and I remember that looking good too, but apparently my memory has completely deserted me:
http://www.vollversion.de/bilder/197_2_full.jpg

Oh dear. 

I'm not sure Outcast uses voxels, there's a load of sites saying it does, but surely it just uses heightmapped terrain? 

its both voxels and polys (for models)
it has bumpmapping, bump+reflection on the water, AntiAlasing and DepthOfField - all in software running pretty fast on a 400mhz p3 

I must have been running a P233 at the time, and I don't remember it running that badly on that even! 

still everyone drowned in that darn pool right after the start. 

Picked this up for 5 pounds yesterday. Sat up till 3:30 playing it! I'll tell you what it is to me: Half Oblivion and half Half-Life.

I dont like the Oblivion elements (crappy animation) but I love the Half-Life side. Very atmospheric, addictive RPG game-play, non-linearity.

Gameplay seemed a bit unfair at points. For a game called Stalker you would have thought it would be a bit easier to stalk things!

Good fun none-the-less! 

I think I have to get it, don't I. Dirt cheap bizzle.

Still playing Gothic3 BTW. Only just discovered you can dig up some graves to get more cash. Woot.