I like this a whole lot more than UT2003. This feels more like the original UT. Less Quake-esque. The Mad Max style inter-vehicle assault is great fun as long as your team knows what it's doing. It's insanely infuriating if you've got a competent opposing team and everyone on your team has decided to just snipe from the spawnpoint...

TIPS: At the end, segment where you go from the repair vehicle to the nexus-missile carriage. There's a car that weaves back and forth between the repair vehicle and the missle-carriage. Jump on it, ride it to the end, then jump off. It works even better if the Nexus van's wing platforms are open, right at the end. The minigunners are pretty oblivious to this method since they're usually looking to the front carriage that most people take. Easy pickings, give them an orfice in their temple when the turret is looking to the side. For now, when many people haven't mastered the maps yet, it works REALLY well.

On the same map, if you're defending, be sure to go to the secondary armoury spawn place and use the turret there. You're (barely) out of range of rockets fired from the primary spawn, and can nail anyone who's stupid enough to come out of the spawn vehicle and stand still. You can also cover the entire side of the orange boarding vehicle, forcing the opposing team to take the side that's exposed to the repair vehicle and it's compulsory snipers. I got 53 kills in a row during one five minute round when I pretty much just sat in the turret and fired away, only stopping to repair with the link gun or counter-sniping.

On the Onslaught map, there's a Redeemer on top of the central Comm tower. Take a flyer and park it there. You can see both bases and all the node points from up there.

Anyone know any of the adrenaline combos?

Yeah. It's much more like UT, and thats a good thing.

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Pre-ordered. Nuff said

Looks great... Too bad my machine is excelent for JK... and almost nothing else:

AMD K6 III 500Mhz
192 MB 100 Mhz RAM
ATI Radeon 7000 w/64MB DDR

JK: 70Fps @1024x768x16
UT: 30Fps @640x480x32
Q3A: 18Fps @640x480x32
JO: 2Fps @320x240x32
JA: 1Fps @320x240x32

Oh well... at least I can play anything at my colege's library! I have yet to see <60Fps at ANYTHING...


I could never figure those out... I only knew how to use "Speed" and "Booster" in 2k3...


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Are you sure? It tells me that I'm getting ~300k/sec, but I look at the meter, and it increases at speeds between 10-100k/sec (usually arround 10k). The connection I'm getting can get me more than a megaBYTE a second, so I know the blame isn't on my end... I never cared for Gamespot that much anyway...



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Holy crap... I just pissed myself! I just got finished owning it up in a game of Assult, right now I am 100% sold on buying this game. My team literally beat the living crap out of the other one.
On offence ALWAYS stay on the right side for the first objective, if you run fast enough you can get there before the enemy knows whats happening.
On defence try to get a gun turret, those things kill REALLY quickly. If someone else has taken the turret, and if your team is smart enough RUN to the ramp right before their spawning vehicle. Everyone snipe the people as the come up from the spawning ramp.

That was like pure gaming bliss, the games of deathmatch I have played were just so-so and the Onslaught mode was decent, but Assault, wow... co-op at its best, ever.

Demo Rating: 9.5/10 (-0.5 for bad deathmatch level)

EDIT: Adrenaline combos I think are:
UP,Up,up,up
Down, down, down, down
Left(strafe), left, right, right
right, right, left, left
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When you expect the pain - nothing left to ascertain
When you respect the lie - Deadly chasm open wide
---Circle of Dust "Chasm"

[This message has been edited by FH_PhoenixFlame (edited February 12, 2004).]

UT2k4 is leauges better than what UT2k3 is. The weapons look way better (less plastic, more metal), the effects are nicer, the sprees are cooler (vechiular annihilation, top gun and so on) and the new modes kick *** .

Can't wait for the final product.

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-Robert Jastrow

I quit downloading after waiting about an hour, and getting only 10% of it... "Accelerated" is what GameSpot calls it... I call it sllooowww... Any places I can download it without having to fork over an E-Mail address?

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Okay... I just checked their mirrors... I'd reccomend Yahoo... They seem to have unlimited bandwidth(makes sense), so I actually get it at about 500kb/sec.
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[This message has been edited by nottheking (edited February 12, 2004).]

www.speedbit.com

Download Accelerator Plus is a great program.

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I HATE "Download accelerators". They are essentially legal trojan horses. They also don't do much for download speed; they simply pick THEIR favorite mirror... You can usually find the fastest download for something by checking the official site... I found that Yahoo is pretty fast:

http://gamesdomain.yahoo.com/feature/5214

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nottheking, i have a pentium 3 500 mhz computer with 128 ram also...it runs JO and JA perfectly at max settings.

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As far as download acceleraters, I like GetRight the best. It connects to multiple servers so you can get high speeds even if the servers individually are only so-so.

As for UT2k4, I won't even bother downloading it. My PC will melt.

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Grrr I can't find *anywhere* to download this, and I don't want to sign up for Gamespot DLX.

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Crazy game. Definitly gonna buy it. Runs awesome on my computer. Download now.

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www.filemirrors.com

right now it's on the top downloads list... twice

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I believe most of my problems are caused by JO/Ja not liking my computer. I don't really doubt what your saying, aside from it running "perfectly". I would presume you mean a good framerate, like at least 30. You also may very well have a much better graphics card (The Radeon 7000 costs roughly $30US these days). For now, I'll just borrow somebody else's to play these things, like I just did for UT2k4 (thank goodness for public libraries)



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This game kicks @$$!!!!!

I love shooting the bombing run ball in the other teams face... they don't know what to do with it and I blow their head off!

This game is infanitly better than UT2003... I simply LOVE onslot mode... the huge map is great for driving/flying crazy fast. And jumping from vehicle to vehicle in assault is great fun as well.

I can't believe this thing is shipping with over 100 maps! Epic has gotten so good at mapping it's not even funny...

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Linux and Mac demos are out.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

What I love is how they're including ALL the good old features from games that are being dropped from new ones in favor of "more gimmicks". They're definitly making lots of advancements in this game by including everything, i.e.
-in game music player
-speech recognition/communication
-backwards compatability

as well as implementing some awesome new stuff.

Must preorder!

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Eat the pudding.

*sigh* another month..

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

Anyone know where to preorder from in Canada?

Ebgames charges 11.99$ for shipping, which makes the total cost almost 80$ 0.o Pretty steep.

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Yay!

I played one game and then had to quit, now whenever I try to join any multiplayer game I get the message "connection failed." What the hell? A full reboot and cycling the router won't fix it.. I don't feel like reinstalling and loosing all my settings.

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What kind of connection are you trying? Right now, I think that LAN play might be the only one possible at the moment, given that Epic has yet to put up a network for Internet play... And there may very well be very few people playing it in multiplayer as of yet.



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Um...yeah...there are only a few hundred 'Net servers up...

There are tons of severs up.

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use bit torrent... the more popular the file, the faster the download... what more could you want for the hottest demo on the internet?

10%.... its gonna take an hour

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What's your connection rate? The various "Downlaod accelerators" only improve the speed on the server's side of the connection. Usually, the bottleneck for downloads is the user's connection. From your comment, I would judge that your connection is either Cable or DSL, giving you a connection rate of about 500Kbps, or roughly 60 KB/sec. I highly reccomend seeing where one can get the best connection... I'm lucky to be in college. Many larger universities have their own Internet hub (the highest level on the Internet), and thus have ludicrously fast connections. I downloaded the demo in about 7 minutes. As for my preference, I usually prefer directly downloading it from the company, or from a major site such as Yahoo, as they generally give you the maximum possible speed.

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Well, it just decided to start working. I've noticed my crosshair keeps changing too. Oh well..

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UT2k4 has a new feature over UT2k3: a variable crosshair. In other words, you can set a crosshair for each weapon. By defeault, they give a certian large crosshair to the superweapons, and give a different one to the others. Check the "Weapons" tab in the settings.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
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I dunno about anyone else but I can't stop playing this game. I've been up till 3am most nights playing this.

I love onslaught mode and can't get enough of it. I had a game going with max amount of bots which is 32. That was crazy, though to keep it sane I usually do about 6-8 people per team.

Assult was pretty fun too, I'm looking forward to better missions when the game comes out though!

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I felt like destroying something beautiful.

yay downoaded it on 56k only took 3 days!

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

Hahahaha watch its corrupt!

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I definitely agree that the gameplay in UT2k4 is MUCH better... Onslaught, even with that simple map, is really fun. Now, If only I could manage to keep from running into walls/hills while driving, and knocking off those blades...

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Don't extend the blades unless there's a person on the side. Remember: If he's right in front of you, running him over works just as well.

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I'm a C4D b****!

Well, I try to do that, only I can't have both 60 fps and max settings/800x600... So my judgement suffers. Oh well... I actually only broke off the blades once... I usually get the vehichle destroyed before then...

On a side note, I discovered that there are numerous messages the games uses when you've accomplished frags in a certain way. I'm pretty sure most of you know most of them, but I'll post all I can remember:

2 kills in a row: "Double Kill!"
3 kills in a row: "Multi Kill!"
4 kills in a row: "Mega Kill!"
5 kills in a row: "Ultra Kill!"
6 kills in a row: "MONSTER Kill!"
7 kills in a row: "LUDICROUS Kill!"
10 head shots: "Head hunter"
10 kills w/flak cannon: "black monkey"

And my favorite:

Run somebody over, then ditch the vehichle: "Hit and Run!"

I think they add to the game... I keep trying to find others...


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You don't need to ditch the vehicle to get a hit and run

If you steal the other team's vehicle, you get a "car jack"

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Eagle Eye for long-range goliath shots.

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Eat the pudding.

Is it better than the original UT? I wasn't very impressed by UT2k3s gameplay and feeling.

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It does a good job of recreating the UT gameplay w/ UT2k3's stunning look.

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