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Spice up Forum (UT <-> Q3)

David Schwingenschlögl · 2000-07-05T17:22:07

For all who don''t know what these shorties mean: UT stands for UnrealTournamen, Q3 stands for Quake3:Arena. If you don''t know the games, you can stop reading now To put it in a nutshell: I want to spice up the Forum "Linux" a bit ...I was looking for some discussion stuff, and I think the topic I chose can be used for discussion(s) quite well What would you recommend a newbie to purchase? UT or Q3? I want to voice my opinion first (all Q3 players don''t feel offended! Tell me what you think I''m wrong at!) To my mind UT is superiour. Why? Because it features huge halls without losing performance. You might say that UT runs very slow on machines with older graphic cards. That''s not true since Epic released some patches fixing all these problems! I have no real good 3d accelerator, but UT runs with average 53 fps on my computer... I must admit I had some problems with getting OpenGL running, but Epic fixed that with their latest patch. Also, the "ngWorldStats" used in UT guarantees long-time motivation for every player. You can watch your rank in the world, look through some in-depth statistics about your games (even about the efficiency of the weapons you used!) As to the leveldesign: UT features a variety of distinctive levels, whereas in Q3 all levels look the same (due to very similar textures). Furthermore, UT offers the players some cool gamestyles, such as Domination, Assault and LastManStanding... (Don''t take the following for granted!) I aestimate there are more MODs available for UT than for Q3. (and they are all really VERY cool!) Yours, Indeterminatus --si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses--

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Started by Indeterminatus July 03, 2000 02:18 PM

14 comments, last by Indeterminatus 24 years ago

Neuro

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July 04, 2000 04:58 AM

Haveing played both online I would have to say that Q3 is better due to the crap online performance I have experienced with UT. I am a little fed up with shooting at someone to only see them jump because they had previously moved... ARRR..

Q3, for me, doesn''t suffer from this problem - though I do get the odd network problem.

Also, the online user community for Q3 seems larger meaning more people for me to kill

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All messages are of my own personal opinion and
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Neuro.

-----------------------------------------------All messages are of my own personal opinion and not meant to offend. But if they do - tough :)Neuro.

deakin

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July 04, 2000 05:08 AM

I think both games have a LOT of good points, and not many bad points at all. Q3 is a lot more action packed, the weapons fire faster, everyone moves quicker etc. but UT has a lot more strategy to it.

For me, I like UT better because I am getting a bit sick of just blowing things up. The guns are lot more original too - you can fly a missile!! That is too cool...

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nes8bit

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July 05, 2000 01:02 PM

I always thought UT was much faster. Q3A is more out in the open though. And Rockets get kind of boring after the 50th frag.

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