UT2k4 Demo Released!
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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Jinx on Fri Feb 13th at 12:40am 2004


Combat was the s**t. I wish things were like in the Atari days, where games were about FUN, not about 'realism' and crap. Also, despite the limited game system, Atari games were all very different. Currently you have just a few cliched genres that video games distill down to it seems.



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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 13th at 12:42am 2004


jinxy, that new avatar of yours is... so jinxy

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Posted by Jinx on Fri Feb 13th at 1:19am 2004


? posted by Orpheus

jinxy, that new avatar of yours is... so jinxy

lol thanks. found it on some random avatar site. I was looking for a few good ones to add to the galleries on my own forums that I'm starting up. Still working on them, but if you want a glance:

http://www.cryotank.net/forum/

it's not game-specific, more for chatting about pop culture, etc. in general. decided to start it since me and some of the Action HL peeps like anime and wanted a place to share links and chat about stuff.





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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 13th at 1:29am 2004


i can say from experience, that finding the right avatar is no easy task.. took me a while, but in the end i feel i succeeded..

in any case, i doubt anyone would steal it, its not fit for many..

i like your new one.. its so jinxy

[edit] as to your forums.. i helped or at least tried to help with the color scheme here at snarkpit, its very much to my liking and find it difficult to view others well.. even tho i admin PFL, and will one day soon have total control over it, i hate its color scheme and will doubtless alter it then..

the fact that its yours tho, makes it special to me, so.. i like it in spite of the colors... it reminds me of SP a few years ago, and look how well it turned out

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Posted by Jinx on Fri Feb 13th at 4:52am 2004


? posted by Orpheus

i can say from experience, that finding the right avatar is no easy task.. took me a while, but in the end i feel i succeeded..

in any case, i doubt anyone would steal it, its not fit for many..

i like your new one.. its so jinxy

[edit] as to your forums.. i helped or at least tried to help with the color scheme here at snarkpit, its very much to my liking and find it difficult to view others well.. even tho i admin PFL, and will one day soon have total control over it, i hate its color scheme and will doubtless alter it then..

the fact that its yours tho, makes it special to me, so.. i like it in spite of the colors... it reminds me of SP a few years ago, and look how well it turned out

Well, atm the default is just "subSilver" (bleh). I like subBlack, but it has a bug in the registration screen, so I can't set it to default. You can pick it in your preferences, though, it's darker like Snarkpit's scheme. I don't want to start messing with the colors etc. just yet myself.





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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Cassius on Fri Feb 13th at 5:13am 2004


? posted by SuperCrazy
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Hooray for terrible Halo-rip addons to games inferior to their prequels.

Christ. Is it possible for games to have vehicles without being called Halo ripoffs?

Heh, I guess Edge already covered this.

It's quite possible. However, UT2k4 has every Halo vehicle, looking damn near exactly the same.

Jinx, the difference is that I have played both 2k3 and this 2k4 garbage, and neither of them warrant my respect, really... the fact that Epic couldn't upgrade the graphics of their game without screwing over the gameplay means that they didn't know how they achieved the awesome gameplay of UT in the first place, and UT2k4 is just trash. I can play BF1942 any day of the week for that gameplay, and more.

You have neither played nor had any in-depth experience with HL2, and yet you feel it necessary to break down and cry whenever you hear its name, spouting ignorant and nonsensical 'facts' at every turn.

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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Feb 13th at 6:15am 2004


? posted by SuperCrazy
? posted by Cassius
Hooray for terrible Halo-rip addons to games inferior to their prequels.

Christ. Is it possible for games to have vehicles without being called Halo ripoffs?

Heh, I guess Edge already covered this.

Holy crap, someone actually read all of that, or at least a portion of it!

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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Jinx on Fri Feb 13th at 7:54am 2004


? posted by Cassius

You have neither played nor had any in-depth experience with HL2, and yet you feel it necessary to break down and cry whenever you hear its name, spouting ignorant and nonsensical 'facts' at every turn.

oh, hey, at least you didn't call me a 'c**t' this time!





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Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Feb 13th at 8:53am 2004


Can you two just SHUT THE f**k UP!!!! [addsig]



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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Kage_Prototype on Fri Feb 13th at 9:25am 2004


I have a feeling that won't fix things Edge. [addsig]



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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 13th at 9:29am 2004


? posted by Edge Damodred
Can you two just SHUT THE f**k UP!!!!

let'em go, at least its not me this time

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Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Feb 13th at 10:12am 2004


I know it won't fix a damn thing, but I had to try, seems like there's some Snark venom in the water in this pit, and it's their turn at the drinking hole. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Fri Feb 13th at 10:13am 2004


Me and my flatmates played it on our LAN all of yesterday basically - onslaught is the s**t My one gripe is that the scorpion (the little jeep) is a fair bit overpowered - that link gun style thing is far too powerful against nodes, you can take one out in no time if you just do quick shots with it.

As for ripping off Halo - true enough some of the vehicles are comparable (Hellbender = Warthog, Mantra = Ghost, Raptor = Banshee, Goliath = Scorpion), but in all honesty, they are kinda standard issue vehicle types for a sci-fi FPS! Halo wasn't exactly being hugely original when it came up with these vehicle types was it, so its not as if it has any right be the one and only holder of these vehicle styles!

I was really impressed by the assault mode, its a really good improvement over the one from UT. Would be nice to see some with vehicles in, chasing after convoys and so on

Whoever knocked the DM map is somewhat wrong to state opinion as fact, personally I enjoyed it, although its not a patch on the assault and onslaught maps. It flowed well, weapons were well placed, plenty of vertical combat, and it looked good to boot. Perhaps it could be seen as lazy to be reusing many of the same meshes and textures as UT2003, but when the full game is coming with over 100 maps, you won't find me complaining!

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Posted by matt on Fri Feb 13th at 10:39am 2004


I'm very excited, as I've just been given the demo on a CD I now have in my bag Can't wait to play it tonight!!! [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Feb 13th at 3:27pm 2004


? posted by Edge Damodred
Can you two just SHUT THE f**k UP!!!!

I'm trying! I really am!

Glad I posted this, though, since (almost) everyone seems to be having a blast. I don't think I've ever been this obsessed with a just a DEMO before lol





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Posted by matt on Fri Feb 13th at 4:41pm 2004


I've just been playing it. Bloody hell its brilliant!!! I'm just making this one post and then going back on it. The vehicles are just ownage. Heres a pic from the flying thingy:

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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by azelito on Fri Feb 13th at 5:00pm 2004


The vehicularz are nice, I like the scorpion. But its all been done in Halo. UT is not good enough to be released once a year. [addsig]



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Posted by Gollum on Fri Feb 13th at 5:21pm 2004


/me downloads, even though my current computer is going to stutter with this.

I hope the university doesn't bash me for this abuse of bandwidth!





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Re: UT2k4 Demo Released!
Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 13th at 6:29pm 2004


? posted by Jinx

Glad I posted this, though, since (almost) everyone seems to be having a blast. I don't think I've ever been this obsessed with a just a DEMO before lol

the last demo, i truly thought was WWZERS was the heretic demo from ID software.. we played it for well over a year, AS IS till we finally stumbled across the full version in the stores.

yeah, i realize its old now, but heretic was "IT" then

? posted by Gollum

/me downloads, even though my current computer is going to stutter with this.

the unreal engine, simply is better at accommodating smaller computers mike.. if you have one of any size at all, you wont have much trouble.

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Posted by matt on Fri Feb 13th at 7:05pm 2004


*is now totaly hooked*

I'm getting real good at the "Raptor" which allows you to play where ever you want in the map, fires red energy things and rockets. I've played all the maps that come with the demo and there is a real mix in quality among them. In one hand you have the pure ownage that is on-Torlan and one the other this very shoody CTF map which is incredibly sucky. The double domination is just to big and open to be fun.

Now the assault map. This could of been a really fun map, but the continuous melee of automatic weapon fire just makes it pointless. The intro to the map was quite good, (you have to steal some WMDs from these moving vehicles) but the level just doesn't play right. As I said earlier, os-Torlan is great fun even offline, and the vehicles you get are a pleasure to play with/blow up. Think thats it.

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