It’s “hold your breath time” as we get near to the GameSpy shutdown and the switch-over to Epic’s new in-house master server. Bubbaaxm2 reported in the UT3 forums that it should be up and running next week. It looks like it will entail a replacement of your UT3.exe file.

More concerning is the long list of questions that were asked by RattleSN4K3. One of them relates to the server query ports that server monitors use. Potentially, the Gametracker server monitors (like the one’s on this site) will no longer function unless they are modified by Gametracker. If that takes much more effort than lifting one, maybe two fingers, I don’t see them putting the effort in for a old game like UT3. We will see…

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Well, I can always count on my fellow nostalgic type Sneh to bring back some of the classics. It’s very early days but he’s been playing around with DM-Hyperblast in UE4.

The new UT could possibly see a Deathmatch alpha release in a few weeks. Might be nice to have a DM-Hyperblast alpha to go with it!  Hint, hint Sneh…
 

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Epic will be continuing to give updates via the Unreal Engine Twitch TV channel to cover progress on the new Unreal Tournament. Today’s Twitch covers movement concepts primarily.

Nick Donaldson has already provided a quick movement prototype to get further discussions going in the forum. If you have a UE4 subscription you can download it from the Github and try it out!

 

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Epic has produced an updated video to present the how’s and why’s of the new Unreal Tournament. Great to see Steve Polge and Stacey “Flak” Conley involved in this. You had to figure that they always wanted to do something like this so this must be a hugely fun, yet slightly frightening thing for them to tackle!

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I almost fell out of my chair seeing a post in the new Unreal Tournament forums by Michiel Van Den Bos! His quiet post where he sheepishly announces himself thinking that people didn’t remember who he was is followed by a MASSIVE love-fest for him and his cohort Alexander Brandon!

Seeing that I wake up every morning to Foregone Destruction on my phone alarm, the fact that he and Alex are showing interest in making music for the new UT just puts this whole thing into the stratosphere for me!!

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This is not a huge surprise given the announcement of the new UT. OT Lead Victor Blanco posted the following in the UE4 forums:

This project gets discontinued, Epic new Unreal Tournament is all we wanted from Open Tournament, so OT doesnt have a reason to exist now. The OT team and chat will still be there, for discussions and help regarding UE4.

We may never know for sure but it is quite possible that OT actually forced Epic’s hand into doing a new UT. The fact that they are just starting RIGHT NOW is quite interesting. Victor and the team will just be moving over to the new UT so all it not lost.

The OT forum is already down so I will be removing site links to that project and focusing on the new UT. All hail the  new UT!!

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