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Yup. It's out.
It's about time there was an alternative to Halo. Looks like this is it, and judging from the early insight given by the 200+ MB Demo, i'd say it kicks halo's ass in almost every way.
The vehicles kick ass, and I can see some similarities between It and Halo.
Halo had the banshee, UT2k4 has the Raptor - two very similar aircraft, both with plasma style weapons and explosive secondary attacks. Heck, the wings on both craft even leave little air trails...
Halo had the Warthog, UT2k4 has the HellBender - two very similar vehicles, with a driver, gunner, and secondary gunner.
Halo had the Scorpion, UT2k4 has the Goliath. Two tanks, both with cannons and MG's.
Halo had the Ghost, UT2k4 has the Manta. Again, two hovercraft, both with light weaponry.
Ut2k4 also has the Scorpion (I think that's the name), a Buggy type car with a top-mounted turret that fires electric 'ropes', a very inventive weapon, might I add.
Thankfully, it runs just as fast as UT2k3, has a nice new-ish look to things, and has great gameplay too, in my opinion.
Unlike Halo, which was sluggish and buggy, and lacked the 'Aaahhh, having a PC is worthwhile' feeling.
As always, some nice new weapons are included, and the assault mode is back with spectacular style. It really is so VERY impressive.
I Personally think that we're looking upon a game that'll make a bigger impression than we think. Definitely worth checking out.
It's about time there was an alternative to Halo. Looks like this is it, and judging from the early insight given by the 200+ MB Demo, i'd say it kicks halo's ass in almost every way.
The vehicles kick ass, and I can see some similarities between It and Halo.
Halo had the banshee, UT2k4 has the Raptor - two very similar aircraft, both with plasma style weapons and explosive secondary attacks. Heck, the wings on both craft even leave little air trails...
Halo had the Warthog, UT2k4 has the HellBender - two very similar vehicles, with a driver, gunner, and secondary gunner.
Halo had the Scorpion, UT2k4 has the Goliath. Two tanks, both with cannons and MG's.
Halo had the Ghost, UT2k4 has the Manta. Again, two hovercraft, both with light weaponry.
Ut2k4 also has the Scorpion (I think that's the name), a Buggy type car with a top-mounted turret that fires electric 'ropes', a very inventive weapon, might I add.
Thankfully, it runs just as fast as UT2k3, has a nice new-ish look to things, and has great gameplay too, in my opinion.
Unlike Halo, which was sluggish and buggy, and lacked the 'Aaahhh, having a PC is worthwhile' feeling.
As always, some nice new weapons are included, and the assault mode is back with spectacular style. It really is so VERY impressive.
I Personally think that we're looking upon a game that'll make a bigger impression than we think. Definitely worth checking out.
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Well I tried to set up a date but most people ignored it so bah to that. I'm not that crap since I'm usually 2nd or 3rd on my team.
I wanna play you people sometime.
Someone name a date and time.
Someone name a date and time.
I suffer from it too.
It's called being crap :P
Hehe...I always get a low score on this game, between 10-20, I see some people with 54!! Bah...
Mind you, I'm a bit of a hog on my network. I use all the bandwidth, all the time.
Good. :P
Good. :P
I was on 1Mb with nothing else going on and I was getting 80 pings plus the lag meter would be up to over 200 at times. Also the pings to the servers were 800+, it was unplayable.
Turned out to be the firewall that I use, so I disabled it and used Windows XP firewall and everything is ok. Servers are less than 30 ping with my ping being under 20.
Turned out to be the firewall that I use, so I disabled it and used Windows XP firewall and everything is ok. Servers are less than 30 ping with my ping being under 20.
UrkiE-UK wrote:
> I had lag a few times, but the fact that three other PC's are sharing
> a 512K connection kinda tells me it aint UT2k4's fault.
Yeah I know how you feel.
> I had lag a few times, but the fact that three other PC's are sharing
> a 512K connection kinda tells me it aint UT2k4's fault.
Yeah I know how you feel.
I had lag a few times, but the fact that three other PC's are sharing a 512K connection kinda tells me it aint UT2k4's fault.
Its ok now. Found out the laq was due to the firewall. Playing at nice sub 20 pings :D
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