Comments on: Unreal Engine 3… Free.

By: Dain

Dain — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:27:19 +0000

http://www.moddb.com/mods/prometheus/news/prometheus-available-now-as-free-downloadable-game

So it begins.. this really is excelent!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:04:43 +0000

is this means that ut will be in the category of free online games ? available to dwnd? :d

By: Okami

Okami — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:32:54 +0000

This is actually a rather sensitive move on Epic’s part. It means that more people (especially students)will have free access to their tools, meaning more people who are experienced with the use of Unreal are on the job market, thus more companies that are likely to license their engine and also more likely to switch to UnrealEngine 4.0 once it’s out, rather than to one of their competitors.

By: dsmart

dsmart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:32:46 +0000

I have moved my GCO commentary to this thread to curb the OT posting.

http://rockpapershotgun.com/rpsforum/topic.php?id=680#post-28908

By: David Gentle

David Gentle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:23:39 +0000

iD. They realeaesd the actual source for Q3A allowing standalones to exist

By: dsmart

dsmart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:10:05 +0000

@ Ralick

OMFG Supreme Commander (Aka Dsmart for everyone else)
I was able to look at that website you linked to and watch the video I think I need a change of pants! I can’t wait for this game to come out, you’ve just ruined my life (Again) my wife is going to leave me when this comes out :P
What are the chances of you taking the updated engine used in this and releasing a final Universal Combat single player game? These graphics are amazing, That SENTRY is amazing :) It looks so much better than the old one, I always thought the Sentry in UC games looked a bit off but this new one is beautiful mate.

heh, those are based on a pre-Alpha engine. That Sentry is actually the same one in our latest games in a “boss battle” scenario. Thats the quality for all the assets in upcoming game.

This past May, I did upgrade Universal Combat CE to a FREE v2.0 upgrade which uses the Echo Squad SE engine from 2008. And this is how much work went into it.

As to updated UC games with new engines, well, thats partly what GCO is mate – since most of the UC features are intact. Rather than do one off games every two years, we’re switching to the MMO model since our space combat fan install base is more than enough to keep the game going over the years.

By: Amqz

Amqz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:01:22 +0000

Does this mean Unreal 3 is free too?

By: Flint

Flint — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:13:37 +0000

Someone remake Unreal 1 with this please.

By: Generico

Generico — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:52:48 +0000

This is awesome. Hopefully epic means to stand by this and support it with future toolset updates. If that is the case, I take back all the horrible things I’ve said about Epic, and I will pack my Mark Rein voodoo doll away indefinitely.

By: Droniac

Droniac — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:45:58 +0000

Bethesda doesn’t really compare. The tools might be there, but the community isn’t.

The only games I can name that come close to the Unreal series in terms of modding support and sheer size of the modding community are the NWN series and Half Life 2. Neither of those offer $1 million competitions for modders, nor do they have vast video archives of how-to-mod-this-game sold with their CEs, so they still fall well short of the Unreal series.

Epic may suck at making PC games lately, but they’re great at giving PC gamers the tools, support and incentive to make something good out of their mess.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:23:33 +0000

Which will never be completed, but the thought’s there.
Quoted for truth.

On an even more obvious note, this is shockingly great.

By: Droniac

Droniac — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:03:59 +0000

Actually the Doom 3 engine is easily the worst choice for multiplayer gaming, but you’re right: Unreal engine isn’t known for it’s stellar netcode.