The Unreal Carnage Hub is now an Epic trusted Hub where you can gain Experience Points (XP) and watch replays. This will be denoted by a special U/xp icon next to the server name on the Hub list.
I haven’t completely tested it out yet so please report any issues here or PM me on the Epic forums. I will be doing more testing this weekend so hopefully all of the kinks can get worked out.
This week, Epic released a new build with a typically large number of changes (changelog HERE) with the obvious ones being the Halloween related items. Along with this come the usual complaints in the forums about Epic focusing on pumpkin heads instead of gameplay. Do these people ever look at the changelog?? One of the most significant changes was the shock ball speed increase which is great to see. Epic will never be able to please everyone though and complaints about all weapons will continue for the life of the game unfortunately.
A big announcement on this week’s Project Update stream, was Gooba (Adam Wood) being officially moved from contractor status to full-time Epic employee. What a great, great story and I personally have even higher hopes for the visuals of UT now that Gooba is full-time with Epic on UT. The Epic team’s comment – “congratulations to us” was a great nod to the excitement that Epic has themselves toward bringing on Gooba full-time.
No get crackin’ and grab those pumpkins in SpookyFace!
Lord Porksword has been chipping away at DM-Lost To Memory for a while now. With the arrival of the TitanPass assets, the visuals have taken a huge leap. The result is a stunning map that looks like it will be quite challenging to play!
Follow the development thread on the forums HERE.
Sorry folks, too busy grinding XP to post these days! Today’s project stream was notable since the discussion primarily centered around servers. New in the next build will be an admin panel that will give admins a fair amount of control over players and instances from within the Hub.
Joe Wilcox discussed the hottest topic currently among server admins. That is, will Epic allow non-Epic servers to have trusted status so that players can gain XP on non-Epic Hubs and also have match replays recorded. It is a little unclear at the moment how you actually get trusted status so hopefully that will be cleared up soon. Good to know they are working on it. The stream can be watched HERE.
This week’s UT project update features a review of two well-deserving deathmatch maps. DM-WarHouse by FreEp and DM-Deck by one of my favorite mappers, Chonglee.
DM-WarHouse continues the tradition of giant-room maps in UT but takes it to an incredible level of realism. If you haven’t tried the latest version of the DM-Deck WIP, be sure to download it and give it a spin.
Also, on the stream was the announcement of RZE’s promotion to producer. RZE is tireless and has a great attitude in the forums so this is great to see.
So it had to happen. Several forum members, including myself posted that if XP points were only to be gained on Epic servers for the foreseeable future, then they should run a Dallas server. Dallas is really the best place in the US to bring in the most players with reasonable pings. As of tonight, the first Epic Dallas server is live.
What this does is make the Unreal Carnage Dallas Hub nearly redundant. Hopefully Epic can figure out sooner rather than later how to authorize non-Epic Hubs to support XP progression and replay recording. Having a fully customized Hub like the current iteration of the UC Hub is only fun to run if people actually play on it.
Epic has released a new build today which is primarily focused on bug fixes after the huge CTF exhibition build. Notable are two new map editions, DM-RGB and CTF-Quick. DM-RGB is a crazy wall-running map from Clawfist. A wall-running map? Count me in!
The big surprise in today’s release is the unlocking of the Garog-Interloper version of the Skaarj character. I’m not sure what new players need to do to earn it but I only am at level 13 at the moment and it was unlocked. Thanks Epic!
Chonglee has continued to work on not one, but two Deck remakes for the new UT even with a busy real-life schedule. DM-Deck8 is the surprise map that has spun off the map that he started with, DM-Deck-CLee. Deck8 is closer to the original Deck map while Deck-CLee will continue to explore new concepts.
He has replaced much of the BSP with static meshes (minus textures at this point) and it is looking quite amazing already. It’s easy to see the promise of this map and the potential to become THE Deck map in the new UT. Follow the WIP thread HERE.
The UT Blog has been updated with info regarding the new progression system. You can now checkout the requirements to earn all of the goodies. Get crackin’ peeps!
The lead-in to today’s CTF event was this brilliant UT intro video. I’m reposting here just in case you need to get pumped up about UT all over again!
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