Okay so we know Epic is not working on a new UT. One of the reasons is that they have been hard at work on Fortnite. Very little has been released about this game however there is finally some new footage in the following video.
I’m not that excited but it is cool to see a UE4 game being made by the company that invented UE4.
Flak posted the following comment today in the Epic Forums:
“UT3 is safe. We have an in-house solution and it will just require you to do a few steps locally to get it running. More info coming!”
So, it looks like UT3 will live on!
I’ve been lurking around the UE4 forums lately, marveling at the amount of interest in the tools.
Today I stumbled on a post asking to form a team to build a UT clone in UE4! It really is good to see interest in moving forward on this. Frankly, I was waiting and hoping for someone to chime in and start it (someone younger and more energetic than myself!) so I’m excited to see it beginning.
Epic had previously been negative on this using the UDK but today, Alexander Pascall from Epic stopped by and left the following very encouraging post:
Originally Posted by Alexander Paschall
Hi Everybody,We are very honored to see how many people are interested in creating this project; it speaks volumes about how much Unreal Tournament has touched our lives.I went ahead and talked about this to our business department and what it comes down to is this: We encourage you to create a community-based “spiritual sequel” project that can be 100% your own. We would be ecstatic to see a project that is inspired by the fast-paced and intense gameplay of Unreal Tournament. However, we also want to make sure there are no business complications down the road, so please do not use the Unreal Tournament name or any trademarked or copyright protected content in the project. Other than that, we are thrilled to see what will come of the project. Please keep us posted with updates!
Well here we go again. GameSpy Technology, the company running the multiplayer interface for several games including UT3 is officially going down.
What this means is that if Epic does not come up with their own solution by May 31, 2014, the server browser in UT3 will be nonfunctional. The only way to connect to your favorite server would be through direct IP and I’m assuming you would not be able to “login” to the game as normal.
The good news is that, according to THIS article, Epic is working on a their own solution. Here’s hoping they can pull that off seamlessly.
Ever since the release of the Unreal Engine 4 development tools, the Unreal Engine YouTube channel has been flooded with an incredible amount of instructional videos! Well, if I don’t quit my job, I guess I will have to give up sleep.
One of the two has to happen because it would be such fun to get good at using these tools. Head on over HERE for the video listing for UE4.
There is a petition up to let Epic know that we want a new UT with UE4! It gained 20 signatures while I was on the page. Good to see that level of interest. Head on over HERE to sign.
Okay, so I signed up for at least a month subscription so I could check out what all of the fuss is about. There are some really cool features. I think the Marketplace idea is a great idea for people to sell their game content wares.
Epic has provided some examples of basic game functionality in UE4. The image below is from a playable “Shooter Game” example that I was able to walk around in. Here’s hoping I win the lottery so I can build the next UT in my free time. Someone has to do it…
Okay, here is the bad news Unreal fans hoped we wouldn’t hear. Tim Sweeney has announced at the Game Developers Conference today that Epic is not working on any games in the Unreal universe at this time.
This is really a shame for Unreal fans. I wish they would allow a community built UT at this point. Now that they are opening up UE4 as a subscription model to all developers, the community could take UT to the next gen on its own.
Here’s a fun video showing off Nvidia’s APEX physics effects in UE4. Time to upgrade the ole videocard!
PlayForGG has made a boatload of changes to his previously released Malevolence-LP map. Most importantly, quite a few blocking volumes have been added to improve players getting snagged in addition to mesh collision changes.
The server has been updated and it should be available off the redirect if you’re just going to play it online only. See the Epic forum thread for download links if you are going to play offline.
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