Titanic update to Unreal Tournament 3 coming on March 5th

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/02/titanic-update-to-unreal-tourn.php

Midway and Epic took a break from dealing with financial ruin and counting Gears of War money, respectively, to announce some details about the massive update to Unreal Tournament 3, dubbed the "Titan Pack", for the PC and Playstation 3 versions of the game.

How much would you pay for 11 brand-new multiplayer maps (with an additional eight maps previously unavailable to PS3 owners)? But that's not all. How about two new game modes? One of the criticisms of Unreal Tournament 3 was that it was lacking the variety of game modes in the previous versions. Here come new game types called Greed (described as a "tug-of-war-****kill points battle") and Betrayal ("cutthroat ****of play where alliance and teams can shift fluidly"). Now how much would you pay?

But wait, there's more! A couple of the vehicles in the game could drop deployable items. Now there's a new stealth vehicle that can drop X-Ray fields to make enemies more vulnerable to damage, and a Link Station to automatically repair vehicles. Two new defensive turrets include a long range artillery piece that can attack all the way across the map, and a powerful new gun that knocks back targets. How much would you pay for all this?

But before you answer, there's one more thing. I'll just quote the press release, which has the appropriate amount of enthusiasm:

The Unreal Tournament 3 Titan Pack also features the new Titan mutator where fragging enough enemies turns you into the almighty Titan, a 15-foot tall maestro of wholesale carnage that has the effects of every Power Up in the game... ALL AT ONCE!!!

Now how much would you pay?

Whatever you said, it's too much. One of the trademarks of the Unreal Tournament series is free content. The Titan Pack is no exception. On March 5th, it'll be available as a free download for the PC and Playstation 3. It won't be available for the Xbox 360, probably since Microsoft is notoriously uncool about free content.

considering killzone2 only ships with 8 maps or call of duty 4 ships with 16 is funny, and they releasing 16 maps free.

id probley pay 5-10$ if they had a preview of each map/pictures .

but major props to epicgames, i bought ut3 the day it was released on pc epicgames should support people like me damn it the old school fans.

I dont really think im better than anyone, but if you really think about it if it wasnt for people like me and others who bought epicgames unreal games on pc back in the day epicgames probley wouldnt be around today or had money to even create gears of war franchise for them to get rich lol.

i think they should show respect to people who got them where they are today by maybe releasing some updates every once and awhile.

MS' patch regulations probably mean that this can't come to the 360. I may pick up the PC version for a really cheap price soon if this is the case. I've seen it for $14.99 pretty much everywhere I go.Saturos3091

[QUOTE="Saturos3091"]MS' patch regulations probably mean that this can't come to the 360. I may pick up the PC version for a really cheap price soon if this is the case. I've seen it for $14.99 pretty much everywhere I go.dgsag

Which I don't get. They don't like free DLC, so instead they get NOTHING. How is that better? :?

This game sould have had all this in the first place!

When it comes out, i'm going out and buying UT :D

i am thinking of picking this up do many people still play it????tOtalPWNaAe

[QUOTE="tOtalPWNaAe"]i am thinking of picking this up do many people still play it????tOtalPWNaAe

This may offer some sort of boost in online play, but if I remember correctly from the last time I played there weren't a whole lot of players.

And the numbers will probably only decrease with KZ2 releasing, cause then there is that, R2, MGO, CoD4 & WaW, so yeah there are probably fewer now.

But I'm liking the update. :) I loved playing with bots and such, and so this update could bring me back to it for a while longer.

Sounds kinda coolif it werent for the fact that there is no one playing this game...

The 4 people on the PS3 version are going to excited and the 20 on the PC as well.

I sold my PS3 copy but have it on my PC when I got the Unreal deal. But I doubt I'll reinstall it with R2, KZ2, CS, L4D taking up my online shooter time...

[QUOTE="FirstDiscovery"][QUOTE="dgsag"]Shipped:? The 360 version hasn't sold that well...dgsag

I wish I could be excited about this but UT3 is awful on the consoles, and my PC isn't monster enough to handle UT3.

*Sigh*

I really fear for this franchise though. IMO UT2k4 is the absolute pinnacle of the series. And while I DO like the return of UT3 to its UT99 roots, why did they have to remove so much of the wall dodging and crazy jumps you could do in UT2k4. It really added a whole level of depth that has never been matched in any other FPS to date. I hope the next iteration is a combination of UT3 and 2k4 somehow. BRING BACK MY MID AIR WALL JUMP SHOCK COMBO!!

This is good to see. While i dont enjoy unreal3 as much as Unreal2k4, its still a fun game online. IMO Unreal does the best CAPTURE THE FLAG games.

IMO Unreal2k4 is one of the best online FPS games ever, was kinda hard for the next few Unreal games to measure up to it imo.

I wish I could be excited about this but UT3 is awful on the consoles, and my PC isn't monster enough to handle UT3.

*Sigh*

I really fear for this franchise though. IMO UT2k4 is the absolute pinnacle of the series. And while I DO like the return of UT3 to its UT99 roots, why did they have to remove so much of the wall dodging and crazy jumps you could do in UT2k4. It really added a whole level of depth that has never been matched in any other FPS to date. I hope the next iteration is a combination of UT3 and 2k4 somehow. BRING BACK MY MID AIR WALL JUMP SHOCK COMBO!!

D1gitalDiv1de

daaaamn!!! y on earth did i seel ut3, THAT WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFFFE!!!!!

oh well, kz2 comes soon

[QUOTE="D1gitalDiv1de"]

I wish I could be excited about this but UT3 is awful on the consoles, and my PC isn't monster enough to handle UT3.

*Sigh*

I really fear for this franchise though. IMO UT2k4 is the absolute pinnacle of the series. And while I DO like the return of UT3 to its UT99 roots, why did they have to remove so much of the wall dodging and crazy jumps you could do in UT2k4. It really added a whole level of depth that has never been matched in any other FPS to date. I hope the next iteration is a combination of UT3 and 2k4 somehow. BRING BACK MY MID AIR WALL JUMP SHOCK COMBO!!

SeanDiff

I wonder why this game sold poorly? Is it because it's twitch based?dark-warmachine

I always wanted UT3, but the communities so small I thought it'd be a hassle getting a decent sized game going. >.> Hopefully this patch brings some players back. killab2oo5

when unreal tournament 2003 first released more people played unreal tournament 1999 because it was older and had more time to sell copies.

but the same crap happens every unreal, everyone say's the next one is dead, lol there's always people playing ut3 online any gameplay mode on pc always games going to play in, i dont see how it's dead.

most people havent moved from ut2k4/ut3 because they are cheap asses and afraid of change need their lame shieldgun,

That'll please its player.noswear

Seriously people like you should be banned, making false claims.

If you are a noob you would enjoy unreal tournament 2004 if you got skills you'd enjoy unreal tournament 3.

the shieldgun was kinda cool at first, but it's not cool when dorks around with it the whole time it's just annoying, even though i still kill them.

they think they smart or some crap or pro players when i was first person remember doing weapon/shield combos.

unreal tournament 2003/2004 is alright, i used to think shieldgun was pretty cool, but it's just so lame everyone running around with it whole time, trying to do shield/weapon combos that people started doing on unreal championship 1#, now the noobs in ut2k4 constantly running around with shields.

it's a noob game, you dont have to even dodge weapons fire, just put up ur shield, even though 3 direct rockets will usually kill their ass lol.

it just pisses me off royally seeing people doing crap i was doing.

ut2k4 shieldgun totally noobified the capture the flag mode, made running the flag way too easy, you can basically just run into weapons fire with the shieldgun.

as epicgames explained instead of ut2k4 being in ur face action like ut3 it's basically musical chairs/noob game.

[QUOTE="dark-warmachine"]I wonder why this game sold poorly? Is it because it's twitch based?Gh0st_Of_0nyx

gears of war on pc has better models than ut3 or textures kinda, but ut3 has some maps much more complex than gears of war in design.

plus ut3's gameplay is better and you can switch to third person view like gears of war or first person lol.

epicgames did put more effort into making gears of war graphics, but the game still sucks compared to ut3.

See unreal tournament 3 >>> third person view screenshot>>>> http://i43.tinypic.com/m74yue.jpg

all unreal's even first ut you could switch to third person on pc,

behindview 1=for third person

behindview 0=back to first person type those in console >>> on pc