How's that UT2004 ?

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

I'm sure most people are too busy playing the demo to visit the forums, but just in case someone is taking a break or checking in while at work **cough**, does anyone care to share their views on the game?

What is the biggest improvement in your opinion?

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:07 pm

the vehicles and gameplay is the biggest improvement Smile

but i'm talking about ONS there... that's all i care about atm

the game is bad ass. download it and try for yourself!

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:43 pm

Assault rocks when you are taking a clanmatch... don't think it sucks just because it's boring on public and I personally don't like the map though it's so freaking cool Confused

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

Oh, I've already done that. Took a whole 15 minutes, but I wondered what others here thought of it. I expect most here have been playing UT games for a long time.

Personally I like the ONS game but DM is good too. Can't wait to play LAn game with real people.

BTW - I don't play online cause of the lag and stupid people. no offense to stupid people.

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:35 pm

HAHAHA!!! real people.. lol

well. personaly.. assault is a bit... sometimes to hard, and you die every 10 seconds.. and i yet have to understand all the objectives.. and what they do.. whats the use of that big truck riding in?
and where can i see the kinda movie that was shown on that video?

also hellbender disapoints me, and to muhc lag.

and VoIP.. well i cnat get it to work on my server..
why?

also some bugs.. its imposible to add/delete favoritses and budys.. its a bit weird all..
maybe its me..

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

Yeah, real people. I don't play online. Too many cheaters and not enough bandwidth (Well, I should try it since my cable speed was improved). I prefer the LAN environment so I can yell at people when they frag me and so we can make big piles of nachos, pizza, beer, pop, whatever. Best party I can think of.

I played last night after a weekend away and noticed that the Hellbender has a cool name, but is really a VERY worthless vehicle. It's too slow, has not firepower and I wish it would at least destroy other smaller vehicles when you crash into them. Only useful when you have someone in back on the machine gun. Otherwise, it's just your basic hulking mode of transport. I hate it when the bots get in a vehicle then take off while you are trying to jump on for a ride.

Ultimate Fanboy Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 508

I just hop in and honk the horn while trying to run over people Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:49 pm

yeah, damn those bots...
yes, hellbender is a cool vehicle, maybe the coolest.. but it suxors..
tho, if you master it, like i did Razz

its pretty good.
nah realy. you do need 3 persons in it, tho the second guy has s shity gun (the ball combo)
o and it needs to be stabelized, the turet, like the one from the tank.
also.. what machine gun? it has no machine gun..

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

No machine gun? Well, now you know that I don't use it very much.

I got confused with the tank and the Hummer.

I played last night, but still forgot to get the redeemer! Dang it... I bet that could come in handy sometimes.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:17 am

yep, destroys nicely that deemer Razz

the tank is called goliath, or goliath tank, the hummer on steroid and cracks is the hellbender.

it has no machine gun, but you could get a guy with minigun stand on top of it and shoot.. Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:29 am

Does anyone know if the Goliath's machine gun is hitscan? When you shoot at Raptors, the tracers seem to be somewhat slow; the Raptor's usually moved out the way by the time they reach the target. So is this like the UT shockrifle, where the animation is comparatively slow moving but the shot actually hits instantly, or am I going to have to lead targets by half a mile to stand a chance of getting a hit?

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

Goliath's Machine Gun is so fast that you actually have to aim BEHIND that target in order to hit it.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:07 am

i dont know. Ive actually come across times that ive had to lead the target, but ive never had to trail the target....

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:58 am

yeah, when you zoom in, and aim at a moving object whiel shooting you see it has a arch, so the bulets are prety slow, i think you have to aim before the target.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:04 pm

Raven, he's taking the proverbial piss Razz

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Cheetah, that's not actually the bullets you can see, it's just a tracer. UT's shockrifle was instant-hit but the beam animation wasn't. Could be the same thing with the Goliath MG.