Unreal Tournament 3 / 2007 Beta Demo Released!

[[AM] RPDUmbrellaSTARS]

Hi all KF Members, the UT3 Beta Demo has been release, so download and have fun! ;D. The links for downloading the UT3 BetaDemo are as followed! ;D

Beta Released...
Mirror 1: downloads1.totemarts.net/UT3BetaDemo.exe
Mirror 2: downloads2.totemarts.net/UT3BetaDemo.exe

I download it and it runs fine apart from the graphics, looks like I require a new up-to-date graphics card, Perhaps a new CPU unit too! :

STARS Out!

PS Btw, it took about 1h20 minutes to download and it weight in mb's is 741mb ( something like this)

Enjoy

System requirements for Unreal Tournament 3 released!!

:oMinimum System Requirements


• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
• 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
• 512 Mbytes of System RAM
• NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
• 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended System Requirements


• 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
• 1 GBytes of System RAM
• NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
• 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

If you want to see from site click here, arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/10/03/system-requirements-for-unreal-tournament-3-released

The UT3 Beta Demo includes three levels: a vehicle-based capture-the-flag map dubbed VCTF-Suspense, and two deathmatch maps titled DM-Heatray and DM-ShangriLA.

The full version of Unreal Tournament 3 is set to hit stores in November, although Epic VP Mark Rein cast doubt over the schedule last month by mentioning, "We're hoping for a November release but as you know we value getting it right over getting it right now so there's no guarantee of that."

stars out!

[RoBoT]

hmm... i have to delete my old games then =/

[Blue]

Downloading, this will be fun ;D

[[AM] RPDUmbrellaSTARS]

Yeah its anoying, to delete games that you have, instead i'm having a upgrade of my cpu and more ram and a new graphics card so i will be able to run UT3 at the recommended system requirments. Blue can you tell me your thoughts about the game when it's finished downloading, as i will have to wait till the release of it in shops!

[[AM] madmax]

WOOHOO I have the recommended graphics card. Although a processor upgrade will be needed.

Downloaded it last night but shutdown hald way through download so have to start again. D'OH!

[[AM]Echo 419]

I disliked the demo strongly.

[RoBoT]

WTF???
"Error 2350.FDI server error"

[[AM] madmax]

Well just razzed two games of it.

1. had it on full graphics and I could just about run it. The graphiics are amazingly crisp though I would have to say the levels given in the demo don't really show off what this game can really do so far.

2. AI is wicked. I had it on Normal setting to enjoy the graphics I was still given a bit of a challenge until I started properly playing and found point 3

3. The Vehicles OMG the tripod thingy was excellent I could almost hear the War of the Worlds music playing in the background as I tore through my enenmies with the heatray style gun.

4. The weapons all look rubbish.

5. Levels are a bit ruubbish too.

Still this game is gonna rock when the full release is out as I imagine there will be some fantastic level designs (you only have to look at what you get with UT2k4 for that) and hopefully the weapons will be improved upon and they were just giving you the run of the mill weapons before surprising you with a.......

Yes you guessed it A PNUEMATIC DRILL!!!!!!

[Grex»]4D[«]

the weapons dont look too bad for the next generation of futurey shooty things, although the sniper rifle looks like someone went nuts with a mecano set

i've been playing it with some friends for quite a while today, and the weapons are very crap damage wise, you die in an instant, but you can NOT kill a vehicle with what it gives you

there is an avril, a whole 1 per base, in an awkward to get to place.

the tank, will not die, rediculously overpowered, until you drive it yourself and get raped by a manta that will not die

now you start with, link, stinger, flak. stinger is the underpowered imo. and theres always a raptor pissing about, and with them 3 weapons from the lockers, no chance

hoverboards though, they are so fun. you cant carry the flag in any vehicle apart from hoverboard. but if you even take 1 bullet on hoverboard, you get knocked down and drop the flag, which isnt too bad really

the levels arnt too bad really, but they all have the same sort of quality about them, gloomy texturing, i don't know the right word for it, but you don't get bright colours like you did when you load up torlan and see all the nice green grass

and the ai, redicilous, i dont know what my friend had it on on the server, but as soon as a tank came around a corner, we were getting blown up miles away. it was ok, definately a challenge, but there was alot of calls of BS when we were simply getting killed and no knowing how

leading onto next point, it doesnt come up on the screen or console, all the player killed player 2 messages. so you know who killed you from the quick message, but not with what

on foot combat wasnt too bad, the weapons wernt overly bad at dm, but you do die alot quicker, a couple of hits. i'm sure its not supposed to be a realism game UNREAL and all

so overall, we're not majorly impressed with it. if they toned up the weapon damage to vehicles, and toned down the weapon damage to players, wouldnt be too bad.

the movement, well, you can dodge, and double jump, but you run faster than 2k4. travelling on vctf mainly hoverboard really though

blah blah blah

[Blue]

Well, basically it´s UT2k4 with a whole new look.

The weapons retained their old functions, but look like a sleep-depraved and coffeeine-overdosed team of designers drew them - while on crack. I still like the look somehow, especially the Bio-Gun with it´s containment field. If you fire it at an enemy, it gets stuck on him,slowly eats away on his body and ultimately lets him explode violently - a very nice sight.

A very nice sight, indeed. The graphics are just stunning and I don´t know how to start describing them other than asking "Ever played Gears of War?". Yeah? Like that, only better.

I had no performance issues whatsoever but I´m over the recommended specs, so I guess I´m not one to talk.

I found it a bit confusing that you couldn´t customize your character, yet. So everyone that ran around had the exact same yellow character and it wasn´t long until bits and parts of yellow-ish armor flew around the whole map.

The walker vehicle is awesome, but I just can´t figure out what the secondary fire is for. It lets out some sort of roar and that´s about it. Is it just some sort of horn ?

What I found out pretty fast is that you can´t double-tap forward and then jump anymore.

The redeemer is disappointing. You carry around this very tactical looking device with a mounted rocket launcher. If you fire it, it launches a rocket (ya, rly) that procudes a shockwave on impact and affects the whole area ... at least graphically, hard to describe. The explosion itself is rather small, smaller than in UT2k4.

Vehicular combat: I´ve got to agree with Grex here. It doesn´t seem to matter which vehicle I´m in, I always get shot down pretty fast. Whether I´m in the Goliath, Hellbender, Manta .. I always seem to get hit and killed by either a Manta or the enemy Goliath - pretty fast, too. But I just can´t kill them.

In general I die pretty fast and I´m often left wondering who and what killed me, especially in deathmatch.

I haven´t played this online, yet, so I can´t give an oppinion about online playability.

Bots now announce where they are, what their status is and what they´re going to do next.

Old cheat codes work.

The hoverboard is pretty cool and I can imagine myself fooling around with it endlessly. The animation that follows when you get knocked off is pretty awesome, too. Hitting the ground and then slowly getting back up while the player is gnawing on the mouse cable in tension... just cool.

The three demo maps are a bit boring. The mini-map on that one ctf-map even seems to be a bit off, showing buildings not correctly.


All in all it is a pretty solid demo that does what it´s been made for: Demonstrating another UT game I´ll buy.

[Grex»]4D[«]

well i've got ingame death messages enabled again, been doing hoverboard tricks ;D

the highest killing spree is massacre, proven 3 times

and the walkers secondary fire knocks over the players around your feet like when you get knocked off the board

[Protector]

bah, this all sounds so awesome, but my computer is no-where close to the minimum specs, so i guess ill wait for a 360 demo...

[kyben]

Nnooooo.... the recommended specs are higher than mine. I got a 7800GT, lol. I had a average fps of 30 at 1024x1280, so its not too bad.

@ Grex and Blue
Hmm... You die fast in vehicles but they are overpowered? Doesn't make much sense. Maybe you just suck with them?
I hate people who are complaining because its not exactly like UT2k4. It would suck if it all was the same. Deal with the fact that you might run a different speed, guns do different dmg, and vehicles drive differently. Hey, someone might make a mod to change it all back. But I'm pretty sure Epic knows what they are doing, considering all their games have been kicked ass.

Anyways, I had fun driving the scorpion, I wanted some ramps. Walker was also sweet, but I wish I could climb to the top of the buildings and just wreck everyone in the map, muahaha!

I found it cool overall, but I was looking more closely at what the engine, framerates and graphics were capable of over acual gameplay. Course I'm not much of a UT fan, UT99 was cool, but I think I only played UT2k4 for bout 5 seconds.

[el'PiX]

Indeed, all their games have been kick ass! ;D
Mind that this company has been around since the beginning of time.

[Grex»]4D[«]

maybe its the bots being overpowered and doing more damage at higher difficulty. if you get in a tank and a bot manta comes at you, it can demolish you in seconds

and i'm not saying i want it like 2k4, 2k4 is shit, 2k3 was better than 2k4