Black Sierra

Unreal Tournament 3 mod | Released Jul 27, 2009

Set in modern times, Black Sierra is set upon a fictional mountain where its habitants have disappeared. Communication, trade, and signs of life from the communities stop after a group of miners break into a deep and complex cavern system where a group of carnivorous beasts resided in. Now set free, and with no reason to fear man. These beasts spread out, and prey upon the communities of the mountain. Weeks pass as missing persons reports increase before communications stop all together. Now after a Search and Rescue team goes missing suddenly, it is your squad's job to find them and extract them. However; after finding yourself in the mists of the S&R's remains, your objective clearly becomes to just make it down the mountain alive.

Black Sierra is a basic first person shooter at heart, but is being completely designed with cooperative gameplay in mind without going over the top. Teamwork is encourage greatly, yet it will never be forced upon anyone to require a team mate in order to win. Maps, pickups, monsters, weapons, and events are designed to be played with friends (or strangers if you have no friends), yet at the same time never requiring an AI team mate if you feel like playing alone.

Survival is carefully planted into the mix as your team runs low on ammunition for their high-grade weapons, and are forced to acquire civilian weapons, ranging from shotguns to hunting rifles. Slowly the chance of survival decreases as weapon reload time increase, less ammo is held per clip, and it's accuracy degrades. Pitting players with a choice of holding onto their beloved high-tech weapons, or snatching a low-grade one in order to have plenty of ammo.

Features:

5 Player Co-op: Play with up to 4 other players as you trench through the entire singleplayer style campaign. Team work is encourage through various features, such as being able to hand out ammo to team mates.

"Smart System": The "Smart" system is designed to give total replayability, it calculates and generates weapons, monsters, ammunition, and more depending on how many players are currently playing, and what their load outs are. Yet will also randomly generate them at the same time, keeping players on their toes at all times even the second time through as those precious weapon spawns some one always rushes for may produce nothing at all.

Scavenge and Survive: Starting with military-grade weapons, players are forced to take arms with civilian weapons as their ammo is decreased, search through the world in order to find weapons and ammo.

A New Breed of Monster: A fast and accurate shot is needed in order to survive, the beasts of Black Sierra aren't your usual dim-witted brutes that require 3 clips to put down. These monsters are quick, agile, and aggressive. The blend into their surrounding, and pounce upon their victims when they're least expecting it. Quick to take down, hard to hit is the idea. A new challenge awaits.

For full on information regarding gameplay, maps, weapons, features, and etc please visit our ABOUT page on our website.

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Here are the Phase 4 finalists for the Best non-FPS Mod, Best FPS Mod, Best Machinima, Best Vehicle Set, Best Level Set, Educational,Best Use of Physics, Best Art and Best Graphics in Maps category's in the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. All finalists in this category are eligible to enter the Grand Finals. This competition rewards top mods created for Unreal Tournament 3 with cash and hardware prizes in four preliminary phases and a grand final. Visit Makesomethingunreal.com for full details.

Best FPS Mod Phase 4 Finalists:

Best FPS Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

Best non-FPS Mod Phase 4 Finalists:

Best non-FPS Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

Best Machinima Phase 4 Finalists:

Best Machinima Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

  • DoubleKill Episode 1
  • DoubleKill Jess
  • FightSabers
  • The Crucible Trailer
  • UT3 News Take 1
  • The Last Stand
  • Dream
  • Silent Scream of Vengeance
  • Prometheus
  • HOLP 3 Teaser

Best Vehicle Set Phase 4 Finalists:

Best Vehicle Set Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

  • XS Prototypes
  • Starbase Defense Vehicle
  • VCTF-Boilerplate

Best Level for a Mod Phase 4 Finalists:

Best Level for a Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

Phase 4 Educational Category Finalists:

  • Arizona State University (Becca's Tale, EXILE)
  • Art Institute of California, L.A. (UT2D Killing Time, vCTF-Boilerplate Team Art Mod, Millagun UT2D)
  • Art Institute of Vancouver (TikiWiki)
  • DePaul University (ToonDoom)
  • Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden (Sanctum)
  • IT University of Copenhagen (Steam Racers, The Witching Hour, Cubes of Serenity, Chalupa, Takeshi Gladiatiors)
  • North Carolina State University (Blackbeard's Escape)
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (BailterRay)
  • Supinfo International University (Defend Unreal Territories)
  • Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia (Hazard: The Journey of Life, Steel Halo)
  • Starr's Mill High School (Project Swing)
  • University of Oulu, Finland (Robofonics)
  • Vancouver Film School (Curvature, Ascendancy)

Best Use of Physics Phase 4 Finalists:

Best Use of Physics Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

  • XS Prototypes
  • MillagunUT2D
  • UnWheel 2
  • Snarf Vehicles
  • DM-NewHorizon
  • VCTF-Electro
  • UT2D Killing Time
  • Cubes of Serenity
  • TRE - Last Life
  • DM-RB-Labyrinth

Best Art in a Game Mod Phase 4 Finalists:

Best Art in a Game Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

Best Graphics in Map Phase 4 Finalists:

  • City_Domination
  • CTF-Strand
  • CTF-CBP3-Antediluvian
  • CDom-CBP3- Saip
  • DM_AfterInfection
  • DM_Nano_Beta
  • Planetstorm-Space_Ixion
  • TH_Temple
  • War_CBP3_midst
  • War_Haunting_The_Chapel

Best Graphics in Map Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:

  • CDom-CBP3-Yarith
  • vctf-electro
  • The Ball
  • Black Sierra
  • Deadman's tales
  • DM_Dust
  • DM_Gamme
  • DM_Necrosis
  • JB-pagoda
  • CDom-CBP3-Velocity
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Black Sierra - Full Install - V0.21

Black Sierra - Full Install - V0.21

Aug 29, 2009 Full Version 2 comments

The full installation of Black Sierra Alpha v0.21. Readme included this time! Yay.

Black Sierra Alpha v0.18

Black Sierra Alpha v0.18

Jul 17, 2009 Demo 13 comments

First release of Black Sierra, alpha v0.18 5-Player Co-op madness.

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Xeion
Xeion Jul 20 2009, 2:55pm says:

This mod i GOD,, ;D,, And at the time i went down i the mine, damn.. Im missing words,, ;D

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madgernader
madgernader Jul 20 2009, 1:16pm says:

It was fun. Definitely some areas that could be touched up on, and its dying for a musical score to go along with game play and bring it out more. But for a first alpha release its very very good. I had a great time until I ran out of ammo...

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Micah
Micah Jul 20 2009, 3:03pm replied:

Glad you liked it, we're hoping to improve it with each update we release. Look forward to see what you think of the next build.

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madgernader
madgernader Jul 22 2009, 10:17pm replied:

Played through it again, and actually finished it this time :) Definitely make the doors at the start more obvious that they do something, thats why i ran out of ammo, I got to the point that I was shooting wood boards in the mines seeing if I had to break through them, not wanting to miss something.

Only other suggestion is in the scenario mode either give the player a flashlight of some kind at spawn or make pickups more obvious, the pistol spawn I saw was in a completely dark corner that was nearly black without the use of a light, so if I didn't have the M4 already I would have never found it.

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Arkanj3l
Arkanj3l Jul 20 2009, 1:26am says:

Hey, I'm getting an Alan Wake vibe, this is great.

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Micah
Micah Jul 20 2009, 6:54am replied:

Hey, thanks. Alan Wake looks sweet.

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danw13335
danw13335 Jul 19 2009, 11:15pm says:

Sorry for my newbishness, but how do you install this mod (i.e. where do you copy the files to)? I've only ever installed maps for UT3 before, and googling it only gave me many different instructions.

Also, you should include a readme in the download to prevent things like this from happening. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Kyben
Kyben Jul 20 2009, 2:52am replied:

Instructions here: Blacksierramod.com
Yea, completely forgot about a readme. I'll put the link to the instructions in better places so people can get to it.

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dave_5430
dave_5430 Jul 18 2009, 5:52pm says:

Rawr

Oh, and ... I give it 5.

It's excellent.

Just kinda weird.

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Kyben
Kyben Jul 18 2009, 10:08pm replied:

Weird?

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