Epic's new free Unreal Tournament (development halted)

[Excidium]

fag shit looks like fucking halo or destiny not UT

 

[DraQ]

At least Deck never changes.

 

[zerotol]

UT used quite dark colours i don't even know what this shit is.

 

[AlexOfSpades]

This alien here looks fucking awesome, much better than those boring Gen Mo kai from UT2k4.

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And the shock rifle... I approve

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It reminds me of UT3's shock rifle, but more firearm looking

 

[Excidium]

You people have a seriously lack of taste. That crap is just generic sci fi trash by some art school student

 

[UndetectedButthurt]

UT3 looked like typical GoW fat marines crap but deathmatch. Space goths > GoW fat marines. Those assholes even polluted Bulletstorm.

 

[Astral Rag]

BAD:

GOOD:

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GOOD:

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GOOD:

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It's not rocket science FFS.

 

[tuluse]

In the future every surface will be made out of brushed aluminum, and all lights will be neon.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

They could definitely go for more industrial grit with concrete and steel as background to better contrast those glowing troopers. It's really important to not have too much visual cluster in level design.

 

[AlexOfSpades]

It's a fucking tournament, not Saw. Enough with making it look grimy and brown and edgy, that's so 90's. Liandri is a billionaire company, i'm sure they can afford clean arenas. At least their main flagship arena, Deck 16.

You people have a seriously lack of taste. That crap is just generic sci fi trash by some art school student

Thanks for the feedback cunt, we're waiting for your art submission to see how the next ASMD should look like

 

[Tehdagah]

GOOD:

I liked the different shades of grey and brown.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Thanks for the feedback cunt, we're waiting for your art submission to see how the next ASMD should look like

How about you show us your own art submission that proves your taste is ho so much better than ours, cunt.

UT needs to be UT. Fat marines suck shit but there's nothing wrong with the style of the original.

 

[Excidium]

You people have a seriously lack of taste. That crap is just generic sci fi trash by some art school student

Thanks for the feedback cunt, we're waiting for your art submission to see how the next ASMD should look like

Like in UT99

 

[Astral Rag]

It's a fucking tournament, not Saw. Enough with making it look grimy and brown and edgy, that's so 90's. Liandri is a billionaire company, i'm sure they can afford clean arenas. At least their main flagship arena, Deck 16.

Thanks for the feedback cunt, we're waiting for your art submission to see how the next ASMD should look like

Not like this:

But a lot like this:

Obviously.

 

[DraQ]

Actually, original UT weapons were already mostly generic looking takes on U1 arsenal (they did pack some nice oomph, though and had some neat special effects).

Apart from two cases where the designer clearly overdosed on creativity enhancers* - nuflak and nuGESBiorifle - and one case when he copied UT2k3/4 popamole weapon rather than glorious master race one - RL - UT3 hardware art design design is actually the best of all UT series, if a bit too much on the baroque side.
Shock Rifle is the only one since U1 that doesn't look like generic laser gun an 11yo would draw, Pulse Gun is neat, Stinger draws from both U1 Stinger and U1 minigun for great, if a bit overdone (come on - a big gatling made of three gatlings?) effect, Sniper Rifle is, for the first time, not generic sniper rifle/M16-with-long-barrel.

Yeah weapon design is way too busy and would benefit greatly from being cleaned up (so would levels, for that matter), yeah there are GOW fatmarines (which were already in UT2k3/4) and GOW degenrate beastdudes, but UT3 still mostly surpasses the rest of the series in terms of art (shame about shit postprocessing and retroactively smudging team colors on characters in game.
And no, neither space goths, nor fatmarines are cool.

*) Glue.

 

[Baron Dupek]

After reading the thread and watching artworks/screenshots I get one impression - good weapons (not only ASMD) have basic compounds (like few combined blocks?), and not that much gimmik stuff like lighting bulbs, twistet metal plates.
Dirt, rust and some damage visuals are ok. Just... try to make functional simple gun not christmas tree?

Same to character models.

AlexOfSpades
you should know that talking about games older than Oblivion is fighting with solid wall of nostalgia with bare fists.
Don't get too much upset until it deliver lulz. Just sayin'.

 

[Lyric Suite]

After reading the thread and watching artworks/screenshots I get one impression - good weapons (not only ASMD) have basic compounds (like few combined blocks?), and not that much gimmik stuff like lighting bulbs, twistet metal plates.
Dirt, rust and some damage visuals are ok. Just... try to make functional simple gun not christmas tree?

Same to character models.

I think those iFag sci-fi designs are the equivalent of huge shoulder pads and retarded unrealistic weapons in modern fantasy games. I'd take "genetic" realistic medieval looking swords and armors any time, and the same applies for sci-fi involving any type of standard military themes.

Those concept arts basically suffer from excessive style, and i'd argue animu influence is possibly to blame here.

 

[DraQ]

After reading the thread and watching artworks/screenshots I get one impression - good weapons (not only ASMD) have basic compounds (like few combined blocks?), and not that much gimmik stuff like lighting bulbs, twistet metal plates.

That's my main beef with UT3 weapon design - most are full of busy shit that serves no purpose.
Still, they clearly reference the superior designs of U1 and if they were cleaned up of all the spurious shit, they would look pretty spiffy - some do already.

And UT'99 shockrifle didn't look particularly stellar - all in all it was generic looking laser gun thing riddled with blue glowy bits (compare U1 ASMD).
OTOH UT3 one, while glowy, at least makes effort to make the glowy part look like central part of the weapon around which the rest is essentially built - at least there is no asking what the fuck is glowy part for because it makes pretty clear that it is THE weapon.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Hurray, Apple design is still infecting everything. Thanks a lot, Steve Jobs.

you should know that talking about games older than Oblivion is fighting with solid wall of nostalgia with bare fists.

I should know that talking about games older than Oblivion with newfags on both the Codex and on Earth, is like fighting an infectious cesspool with no hazmat suit.

 

[Konjad]

I would care about maps and guns as much as you guys, if only the game wasn't F2P and therefore infected with microtransactions that will kill all the fun beyond the first few hours of gameplay and therefore bound to be boring.

 

[Minttunator]

I would care about maps and guns as much as you guys, if only the game wasn't F2P and therefore infected with microtransactions that will kill all the fun beyond the first few hours of gameplay and therefore bound to be boring.

It's not going to have microtransactions.

 

[AlexOfSpades]

Yeah. That was said in like, the first five minutes of the first livestream.

 

[Excidium]

I would care about maps and guns as much as you guys, if only the game wasn't F2P and therefore infected with microtransactions that will kill all the fun beyond the first few hours of gameplay and therefore bound to be boring.

Yes microtransactions in an open source game

 

[Perkel]

free to open source

 

[Konjad]

this game is going to be open source? well, then i wonder how will they make money, because i doubt they do it out of goodwill

 

[Minttunator]

this game is going to be open source? well, then i wonder how will they make money, because i doubt they do it out of goodwill

Unreal Tournament will "eventually" have a marketplace where modders can post and give away or sell their maps, mods and other content.

 

[Turisas]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-24-this-is-how-the-new-unreal-tournament-might-look

They show the level a bit starting from 1:38.