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SinKing bumps me thread	Nov 7 2009, 4:13am Anchor
SinKing bumps me thread	So cool that now everyone can play Unreal Mods! This should give the modding community a lot of energy and boost many projects, which have it easy to make an engine decision, now. I wonder what's going on at Crytek right now. They seem to be doing everything wrong that EPIC does right, lately. Edited by: SinKing
Sigma Resident Stepmania Freak :D	Nov 7 2009, 4:23am Anchor
Sigma Resident Stepmania Freak :D	SinKing wrote:So cool that now everyone can play Unreal Mods! This should give the modding community a lot of energy and boost many projects, which have it easy to make an engine decision, now. I wonder what's going on at Crytek right now. They seem to be doing everything wrong that EPIC does right, lately. no they can't :p the UT3 part is just as demo/showcase afaik only the pulse gun is in it xP you can use it as a base to make standalon games, not mods ;D -- Looking for musicians for unannounced project, PM me for further details
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Nov 7 2009, 4:27am Anchor
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	'yeah only Total Conversions will work- anything else though is off limits. --
Sigma Resident Stepmania Freak :D	Nov 7 2009, 5:56am Anchor
Sigma Resident Stepmania Freak :D	yay got the fractures working lol could anyone check something for me? i took a random wall -> 150 chunks -> composite thingy setting when i blow it up, the collision box is still there :p anyone can verify it aint just me? ;D -- Looking for musicians for unannounced project, PM me for further details
Metal_Warrior5/10 Newbie	Nov 7 2009, 6:01am Anchor
Metal_Warrior5/10 Newbie	Unreal 3 kicks ID tech 5 engine!
SinKing bumps me thread	Nov 7 2009, 6:19am Anchor
SinKing bumps me thread	Well, let me think - the ball = total conversion, The Haunted = Total Conversion, Planetstorm = Total Conversion (or is the sniper rifle from Unreal?), Prometheus = Total Conversion, Warm Gun = Total Conversion. If I count it right all of the Unreal mods I named are TCs, in fact I don't think any mods made it very far in the competition. So okay - you can't play mods, but you can play total conversions - which all those mods happen to be. --
MrTambourineMan Working on Maggie's Farm	Nov 7 2009, 12:57pm Anchor
MrTambourineMan Working on Maggie's Farm	SinKing wrote:Well, let me think - the ball = total conversion, The Haunted = Total Conversion, Planetstorm = Total Conversion (or is the sniper rifle from Unreal?), Prometheus = Total Conversion, Warm Gun = Total Conversion.. Don't be so sure about that - if any of this mods uses a single UT3 texture and/or sound it isn't TC - you'd be either missing this assets in-game or you'd be using copyrighted material in order to run it as stand-alone. -- I don't need to ''get a life''. I'm a gamer, I have lots of lives!!! Duke Nukem Forever BELIEVER Moddb Blog Industry (&) stuff
Gibberstein Generic Coder Type Thing	Nov 7 2009, 1:22pm Anchor
Gibberstein Generic Coder Type Thing	But the engine will quickly tell you what is missing - make new replacements and it's good to go. Not an overly painful task in exchange for standalone status -- "lets say Portal is a puzzle game, so its a rehash of Tetris" - Wraiyth points out the craziness of stereotyping games by their genre
MrTambourineMan Working on Maggie's Farm	Nov 7 2009, 1:29pm Anchor
MrTambourineMan Working on Maggie's Farm	Gibberstein wrote:But the engine will quickly tell you what is missing - make new replacements and it's good to go. Not an overly painful task in exchange for standalone status Yes, sure - I was speaking from costumer-side not developer-side -- I don't need to ''get a life''. I'm a gamer, I have lots of lives!!! Duke Nukem Forever BELIEVER Moddb Blog Industry (&) stuff
zenarion Non-Player Character	Nov 13 2009, 4:50am Anchor
zenarion Non-Player Character	Since when do indie game developers get rich anyways? Good move from Epic and the Unity guys, to try and save PC gaming. --
MrTambourineMan Working on Maggie's Farm	Nov 13 2009, 8:10am Anchor
MrTambourineMan Working on Maggie's Farm	zenarion wrote:Since when do indie game developers get rich anyways? Good move from Epic and the Unity guys, to try and save PC gaming. It's more about saving indie gaming I guess - most UE devs will probably be eager to release their games on X360/PS3 as well, while Unity is also an attractive platform for iPhone development. -- I don't need to ''get a life''. I'm a gamer, I have lots of lives!!! Duke Nukem Forever BELIEVER Moddb Blog Industry (&) stuff
Wraiyth That Guy Who Does Those Things With The Stuff	Nov 13 2009, 9:04am Anchor
Wraiyth That Guy Who Does Those Things With The Stuff	Funny that Epic are trying to save the PC platform when they came out and said they will be supporting consoles first and foremost with Unreal Engine 4 -- My Homepage
Dragonlord Linux-Dragon of quick wit and sharp tongue	Nov 13 2009, 10:34am Anchor
Dragonlord Linux-Dragon of quick wit and sharp tongue	Not funny, understandable. They fucked up the PC market for their UT3 game ( both windows users and especially linux users with their year long drama and lying ). Now they want to salvage this all with a marketing move. Not a bad one at all. It will get them back on the PC market this way. As lousy as their PC fuck-it decision has been as clever is this marketing stunt here. -- Leader, Head Programmer: Epsylon \| Drag[en]gine Game Engine \| ModDB Profile by Salohcin
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Nov 13 2009, 8:27pm Anchor
Mr_Cyberpunk Game Developer	Dragonlord wrote:Not funny, understandable. They fucked up the PC market for their UT3 game ( both windows users and especially linux users with their year long drama and lying ). Now they want to salvage this all with a marketing move. Not a bad one at all. It will get them back on the PC market this way. As lousy as their PC fuck-it decision has been as clever is this marketing stunt here. True, this was well established when Gears of War came out. --