Unreal Carnage

New Build Released Today for Weekend CTF Event!

September 16, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

The huge “CTF Event Build” is here with boatloads of changes! Highlights include Epic’s now fully meshed CTF-TitanPass and CTF-Face. In addition, Jayoplus’ CTF-Pistola is fully meshed and available on the Marketplace. CTF-TitanPass will be the closest you ever get to playing UT inside one of Gooba’s paintings. It is quite astonishing to see!

Coinciding with the release today, Epic held a Twitch stream and covered some of the new functionality. You now need to gain experience points to unlock items such as the Skaarj character and other wearables. Obviously the current community will be split on this but Epic is doing the right thing by adding modern game functionality to UT to hopefully garner some new fans.

The only way to currently build XP points is to play on an Epic Hub or complete some of the offline challenges. Therein lies the rub for admins running their own Hubs e.g. the Unreal Carnage Hub. Hopefully Epic will allow both XP points and replays to work on non-Epic Hubs very soon.

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The Making of CTF-TitanPass – Part 1

September 15, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

As Epic prepares for the big #UTCTF Event this weekend, they have started a multi-part series on the making of CTF-TitanPass. Part 1 doesn’t show footage of the completed map yet which undoubtedly is designed to keep us clamoring for Part 2 and beyond. If you like spoilers, more content can be found online that reveals more details…

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UT4 Hub Tickrate Set to 100

September 12, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

The tickrate on the Unreal Carnage Hub has been changed from 60 to 100 and it seems to have better performance overall. One of the most notable differences is that it seems to have reduced instance crashes.

Epic has made bug fixes in that regard in the most recent build but there still have been a few crashes. So far, with the server tickrate at 100, there have not been any instance crashes on the Hub.

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@utgame Skaarj Flickr Page Updated

September 11, 2015 / MauL / 0 Comments

Epic has updated the Flickr page dedicated to their WIP efforts on the art side (Flickr link added to left sidebar).

The Skaarj images shown on the stream this week have been uploaded with several provided at very high resolution. Awesome!

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UT Project Update: Skaarj Reveal! #UTCTF

September 9, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

On today’s UT project update, Chris Perna officially revealed the new Skaarj character which will be released next week alongside the new female character.

In addition, Chris also showed off a screenshot of the meshed version of CTF-Outside which will be renamed CTF-TitanPass and it is looking beautiful. This will also lead to the release of the “Castle” asset set which should really fire up the mapping community.

Flak also announced the winners of the #UTCTF contest to send a couple of lucky winners to the 9/18-9/19 Epic Community Event. Congrats to fb.pb and Fe4r! Be sure to watch the stream replay HERE.

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Unreal Engine 4.9 Released!

August 31, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

Unreal Engine 4.9 has been released and along with it, the usual massive list of updates. It truly is mind boggling how many updates the Epic engine team crams into each new release!

Hub Instance Crash Fix Coming Soon

August 30, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

RZE has stated in the UT Forums that the issues causing Hub instance crashes are being worked on. It seems to be centered around the Flak Cannon strangely enough.

This explains why the Unreal Carnage Hub had a 16 player iCTF match going for several hours last Friday night with no issues. No Flak Cannon in instagib :).

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New Rocket Launcher Renders from YemYam

August 26, 2015 / MauL / 0 Comments

YemYam released some new renders of the Rocket Launcher that we will see in the Community Event build expected on or before 9/18.

As is typical with YemYam, it is a beautiful, extremely professional piece of work!

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Cliffy’s New Game is… LawBreakers!

August 26, 2015 / MauL / Comments Off

Today was the official announcement of Bosskey’s new game with Cliffy at the helm. The LawBreakers trailer released today is just a teaser with a gameplay trailer expected this Friday. I’m in!