Unreal Engine 3 press release

http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/022405_ue3_gdc.x

Epic will be demonstrating their latest Unreal Engine 3 technology at a private theater in their Exposuite, ES2000 located on the second floor. This year’s demos highlight content creation for next generation console and PC platforms, including two major new features which will debut at this year’s conference:

Seamless World Support allows the creation of virtually unending environments through background management of game levels and assets. Even titles not requiring open world support will benefit from these memory management techniques on next-generation console platforms. Second, the new UnrealKismet visual scripting system empowers designers to build and iterate detailed game scenarios and AI behaviors with limited, or even zero, programmer involvement – thus providing a massive productivity gain over previous generations. Epic will also demonstrate significant improvements in physics, terrain editing, lighting, material editing, animation, cinematic creation and particles.

Unreal for Tribes 4!! Hurrah!!

The UT engine has been the biggest mistake in the history of gaming.

This from the biggest fan of Unreal, the game, ever.

Bad netcode is one of the hallmarks of this engine and we don't even need to discuss the vulnerabilities, do we?

Thanks.

Netcode isn't bad at all. I really like the prediction from UT2004. Feels a lot more accurate than other games. It just doesn't do well for a lot for a large number of players since fps is tied to network performance/server. You need a beefy server and pipe to run a 32 player ONS server. T:V server is much worse in that regard and chokes up worse at 22-24 players.

Every game has hacks and vulnerabilities. Its nothing new. Unreal engine is a market leader for a reason. You can do much much worse than it.

Every engine may garner hacks, but not every engine makes it so easy for us ;)

I remember in Q3 there was this annoying little fucker called Mr. Bubbles or something that would crash servers with some exploit.

I remember some annoying little fucker doing the same for T1.

_cough_

xifon?

UNREAL Engine 3 for ever!

This engine blows my mind! Nothing else even comes close.

I remember some annoying little fucker doing the same for T1.

_cough_

Yeah, so do I...his name slips me at the moment ;)

This engine blows my mind! Nothing else even comes close.

untill the next carmack engine comes out. Remember, quake 3 > UT engine

untill the next carmack engine comes out. Remember, quake 3 > UT engine

NOT! Go take a look at what UNREAL3 is cooking.

Duke Nukem Forever engine for teh win!1

ok, I'll say it since it needs stating...

UNREAL FOR EVER!!!

I remember some annoying little fucker doing the same for T1.

_cough_

Ditto. There are still many little fuckers doing the same for T1 in 3, 2, 1.... :)

speaking of t1 heh remember one really stupid t1 bug (its still a bug so...) where you could join a nonexistent team and just fucking bother either of the teams in CTF or worse, in arena, disconnect everyone from the server.... god that shit was gay.

the noname connect/drop/reconnect to server flood bullshit sucked too...

ok, I'll say it since it needs stating...

UNREAL FOR EVER!!!

Best single player ever. After that, nothing to get excited about.

And yes, Q3 is incredible as an engine for resource useage and netcode.

Thanks for pointing that out above :D

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the noname connect/drop/reconnect to server flood bullshit sucked too...

Glad you liked it :P

Unbanned Nofix? Ha ha.

Best single player ever. After that, nothing to get excited about.

And yes, Q3 is incredible as an engine for resource useage and netcode.

Thanks for pointing that out above :D


well the netcode is better and whatnot, that was not what i was referring to. I was referring to that in terms of graphics and performance, quake 3 is leagues above UT. Just as the new doom engine is leagues above the Unreal 2.5 engine, the next carmack engine will kick the shit out of the unreal 3 engine (but both will of course still be sweet tho)

The UT engine has been the biggest mistake in the history of gaming.

This from the biggest fan of Unreal, the game, ever.

Bad netcode is one of the hallmarks of this engine and we don't even need to discuss the vulnerabilities, do we?

Thanks.

Actually I will admit that the new Unreal 3 engine looks awesome. If they can pull of fully immersive environements and excellent netcode with this engine than its a big step for Epic. Thats if..