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Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 11, 2004, 04:50:31 pm
http://www.unrealtournament.com/ (209MB)

Thought it might be of interest.  Albeit the full game will apparently require 5.5 GB to isntall, so it'd have to be a hell of a game to justify 1/6th of my hard drive.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: phreak on February 11, 2004, 05:05:53 pm
it has assault maps again.  yay!

i dont have any HD space though.  time for a new 120GB drive
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Joey_21 on February 11, 2004, 05:29:51 pm
:wtf: I see a bunch of PHP code...
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 11, 2004, 05:32:05 pm
Um, yeah.  Odd.  Try the link from www.bluesnews.com

EDIT - seems to work now from the link above.  tres bizarre....
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Liberator on February 11, 2004, 11:49:22 pm
Me likey!  It may even coax me to do some online play.  Not a whole lot different from 2003 graphically, but it does have vehicles, lots of em!
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Nico on February 12, 2004, 01:48:06 am
2004? whoa, first time I hear about this one :p
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Gortef on February 12, 2004, 03:44:19 am
Downloading it as we speak
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: akeizm on February 12, 2004, 07:28:11 am
Heh, its the same game with a few mods to the gun models, new maps and some vehicles.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Ashrak on February 12, 2004, 07:32:16 am
im not even gonna bother ... its NEVER going to run on my pc
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: J3Vr6 on February 12, 2004, 07:40:27 am
Same here, although UT was a fun game.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Rictor on February 12, 2004, 09:01:23 am
Pretty fun game. I'm not to huge on multiplayer shooters, so a demo has the just right amount of content to last while I'm still interested.

I really like the vehcles. The Hover-ship (Manta I think its called) is especially original. And there's no greater satisfaction than getting a multi-kill with the side blades on the buggy.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Stunaep on February 12, 2004, 09:46:27 am
5.... point.... 5.... gigabytes....

I once had a hard drive that wasn't this big.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Lightspeed on February 12, 2004, 10:51:44 am
I remember my first 20 MB harddrive :D
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 12, 2004, 11:19:25 am
Not actually Dl-ed it yet - cna you use a joystick to control the hoverfly-thing?

Incidentally, I'm still waiting for a game with a flyable dropship in MP.... Breed is my current best hope.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Rictor on February 12, 2004, 12:36:29 pm
I think the 5.5 gigs is mostly becase they intend to ship a crapload of 3D software and tutorials along with the game. They seem very serious about promiting the moding capabilities, so they are including everything one needs to make models and such. Its supposed to be 6 CDs or 2 DVDs. There will most likely be the option to install just the game without all the extras.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Ace on February 12, 2004, 01:12:00 pm
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Incidentally, I'm still waiting for a game with a flyable dropship in MP.... Breed is my current best hope.


http://www.starsiege2845.com/

There's going to be a flyable dropship for both the Humans and Cybrids. (Cybrids=Evil Robots//Constructs)

Plus Tribes 1 and 2 have had flyable dropships for years.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 12, 2004, 01:17:45 pm
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Originally posted by Ace


http://www.starsiege2845.com/

There's going to be a flyable dropship for both the Humans and Cybrids. (Cybrids=Evil Robots//Constructs)

Plus Tribes 1 and 2 have had flyable dropships for years.


Yes, well bear in mind that i only got a decent net connection a few months ago - and thus years after the Tribes games came out.

I'm not too keen UT2004 now, actually.... doesn't feel 'right' to me, and the vehicle controls are a bit ****. Although i'm looking forward to that Soldner game and Joint Ops - I want to strafe people, dammit! :)
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Nico on February 12, 2004, 01:18:16 pm
You had the chinook in Renegade. Not a dropship, of course, but still a nice flying personal carrier.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: phreak on February 12, 2004, 04:26:10 pm
yea but sniper rifles took them out way too easily.  they needed to balance
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 12, 2004, 04:35:17 pm
No game, no matter how great it is, should occupy more than 3gig.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: TheVirtu on February 13, 2004, 01:21:56 am
Just started playing it tonight, I love this game. Nothing more satifisying than Onslaught and slicing people with buggy blades.

Didnt do too bad Hehe.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: 01010 on February 13, 2004, 06:50:10 am
So who's going to make the HLP server?
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Gortef on February 13, 2004, 06:50:57 am
the game seems entertaining enough. Not that much graphical advancement from 2003 but that doesn't matter since it still looks pretty enough. And what really matters... no lag with full graphics :D
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Ransom on February 13, 2004, 07:46:12 am
Silent Hill 3 is 5GB to install as well. I can only afford to have a single huge game on my computer at once. Games are starting to get damned huge. Thankfully at least they're starting to come on DVDs so there's less juggling involved in installing them. I only have to juggle things into the trash instead to clear enough room now.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Stunaep on February 13, 2004, 09:52:31 am
Onslaught is.... lovely
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Rictor on February 13, 2004, 10:20:36 am
As I've said above, a large chunk of those 5.5 gigs will probably be the 3D software a tutorials.

Comming off of XMP, I thought the vehicle controls rocked. Its all a matter of perspective. The fact that I wasn't crashing into things ever 2.3 seconds allowed me to actually enjoy driving the vehicles.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 13, 2004, 01:08:26 pm
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/february04/ut2004dvd/

To quote; "The minimum install reportedly takes 5.5GB"

Which i would interpret as the bare essentials of the game - ie. not tutorials, no modding software, and possibly no video/audio that could be streamed.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: phreak on February 13, 2004, 01:23:57 pm
SIX DISCS??!1/!1  If i had a DVD-ROM for my PC i'd get the DVD version,  it definiately would be worth the extra $20.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Kamikaze on February 13, 2004, 07:35:46 pm
Sweetness. The demo just got released for Mac and Linux. :D
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 13, 2004, 08:47:21 pm
It's good to see them supporting all OS' - the sooner more companies do the same, the better,
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Stunaep on February 15, 2004, 05:39:22 am
I'd like to use this opportuniy to say:

[size=8]ONSLAUGHT ROCKS[/size]

thank you
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Fineus on February 15, 2004, 05:44:31 am
I'm having some issues with the game at the moment (it looks kinda ****, but runs badly).

That said, everything seems good. Onslaught does indeed rock, and so does assault (a lot more "story" to it... certain objectives that makes sense etc.) So, so far so good.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Hunter on February 15, 2004, 06:36:52 am
Does no one read anything?

The Demo has lower-resolution graphics than the full game, because of the size required by them. And thus, the graphics and performance of the demo are radically different. Btw Thunder, I'm using a 1.8XP/GF3 with no frame problems at all, so you need to seriously sort out your system.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Fineus on February 15, 2004, 06:46:47 am
Oh I read, but I doubt you'd expect me to recite Shakespeares complete works... likewise I'm not going to trawl through readmes and what have you to discover differences in textures between the demo and the full version. They should make such information more obvious.

As for sorting my system, I'm all ears. What've you got yours set to etc? Given I can run most other games out there with no problems at all I'm understandably reaching the conclusion that the game is to fault - not my system.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 15, 2004, 10:06:39 am
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Oh I read, but I doubt you'd expect me to recite Shakespeares complete works... likewise I'm not going to trawl through readmes and what have you to discover differences in textures between the demo and the full version. They should make such information more obvious.
 


Not to sound a smartarse of anything, but the file is called a 'read me' for good reason..........
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Fineus on February 15, 2004, 10:43:12 am
Do you read the EULA for every piece of software you install? Or the read me for every program? I doubt it. It's a common known fact that they all contain mostly the same information and that it's only really necessary to read them if you experience issues with the software.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 15, 2004, 10:46:07 am
Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
Do you read the EULA for every piece of software you install? Or the read me for every program? I doubt it. It's a common known fact that they all contain mostly the same information and that it's only really necessary to read them if you experience issues with the software.


The readme?  Yep - because it's written at the latest possible stage before shipping whereas manuals are normally written much earlier (for printing reasons).
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Fineus on February 15, 2004, 10:55:38 am
I rarely read manuals either. I've played enough games and/or used software to know the basics of what I need to know to get started. Of course if I have issues I'll reference the read me, any manual or online aid as a first course towards solving the issue.

Suffice to say, when you download a demo you expect it to be just that. If there are changes like lower resolution textures packaged with the demo as opposed to the full game then I'd expect it to be made slightly more obvious since - at least where FPS games are concerned - graphics are part of the bread and butter.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 15, 2004, 10:58:50 am
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Originally posted by Kalfireth

Suffice to say, when you download a demo you expect it to be just that. If there are changes like lower resolution textures packaged with the demo as opposed to the full game then I'd expect it to be made slightly more obvious since - at least where FPS games are concerned - graphics are part of the bread and butter.


Well, i'm not sure how/where else they could put it... although wasn't it also shoved at that 'buy me!!' screen at the end which no-one ever reads?  

NB:  they did the same thing with the previous UT2003 demo, too.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Fineus on February 15, 2004, 11:06:34 am
If they put it on the "buy me" screen I certainly haven't read it... sorry but things like that really bug me. I'm trying to quit the demo, not seek further persuasion through advertising.

Perhaps, when entering the graphics options screen, a popup was displayed stating that high resolution textures are only availbe on the full game. Most enter that to change their controls etc (and the graphics tab is the first to show up when you click on settings) so it'd be hard to avoid.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: aldo_14 on February 15, 2004, 11:10:19 am
Just be glad you don;t have to wait to click the 'quit' button........

I would guess the reason there isn;t a change in the graphics setting is because the texture change isn't in code, it's just in the filesize.  They probably wouldn't want to touch the code unless necesarry.... i'm not sure how much stuff they would remove from the full game code.
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 15, 2004, 11:31:53 am
Hold on. The game looks pretty ****ing 1337 on my system and runs silky smooth with maximum visual settings. Are you telling me the game itself will look better?
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: Hunter on February 15, 2004, 12:35:45 pm
^ Yes
Title: UT2004 Demo out
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 15, 2004, 01:06:35 pm
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