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The crew from Epic Games are at it again. We have now been teased to a video showing the Unreal Tournament crew playing Team Deathmatch in the brand new game.
Considering Linux hasn't had an Unreal Tournament game for quite some time it will be interesting to see how well received it is. We do have a number of good fast paced shooters, so I hope they offer something different.
Great to see it's coming along, and considering how fast they are developing it I am wondering how long it will be until we have a public playable build.
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Are you getting excited yet? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The crew from Epic Games are at it again. We have now been teased to a video showing the Unreal Tournament crew playing Team Deathmatch in the brand new game.
Considering Linux hasn't had an Unreal Tournament game for quite some time it will be interesting to see how well received it is. We do have a number of good fast paced shooters, so I hope they offer something different.
Great to see it's coming along, and considering how fast they are developing it I am wondering how long it will be until we have a public playable build.
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Are you getting excited yet? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Do we really have a lot of *good* fast paced shooters on Linux? Modern, top tier multiplayer shooters?
I can't from the top of my head recall a single one right now, not if we define "good" as a modern game with a metascore of at least 80 and released within the last 4-5 years or so...?
I can't from the top of my head recall a single one right now, not if we define "good" as a modern game with a metascore of at least 80 and released within the last 4-5 years or so...?
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I was meaning more towards the open source shooters of which we have a fair few.
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Well yeah we got a few of those, I've tried a couple built on the good old Quake engine. And no disrespect to those projects, but in my humble opinion we really, really need more than that.
So, I'm really excited for this release. For me UT beats COD, Battlefield, Crysis and the likes in sheer plain fun factor. Can't wait to double jump around with my good old flak cannon and shock rifle once again! :)
So, I'm really excited for this release. For me UT beats COD, Battlefield, Crysis and the likes in sheer plain fun factor. Can't wait to double jump around with my good old flak cannon and shock rifle once again! :)
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as much as i like seeing them beeing so motivated about their project and the promised linux support i cannot see this going anywhere still. maybe i should point out that im 30 and basically grew up with playing unreal tournament and especially quake3. so instead of beeing the typical console-CoDisCool-Kid i am actually part of the easiest to convince targetgroup for this project.
i dont think the arena fps genre is bound to be dead, instead i believe that every attempt to it in the last 10 years or so was totally lacking what modern multiplayer games are all about. the prolly best try was quakelive which attracted many new players in the openbeta / early release stages due to accessability (install browser plugin, play) free2play (the real one, where you still get 100% content) and it still most players stopped playing it after some time because of various but obvious reasons (bad matchmaking, no cheat protection, very bad noob protection, no laddersystem, no longterm strategie nor investment by the developer).
i feel like what we have here is another team of people that tries to bring back a game from the old time, relying on the powerful name of a franchise that will be thrown on the market at a state where most work is done to fancy graphics and leveldesign. what it will lack is:
a) the fulfilling and easy to access multiplayer experience that makes you have a good time even as a noob of say Hearthstone or Dota. these games are neither original nor good looking, but when you play them you really feel the work that has been put into delivering a non frustrating pvp expirience.
b) the financial and persistent power of a bigger company that aims for a longterm investment and is willing to fund tournaments, cups, advertisment and whatnot to get the machine going. yes, it may be possible to create a successful multiplayer title without that still, but then everything else about the game has to be perfect
with that beeing said i still wish them best luck. personally i'd wished that this was another quake game instead of ut (because i dislike the slow clumsy movement) but whatever :D
i dont think the arena fps genre is bound to be dead, instead i believe that every attempt to it in the last 10 years or so was totally lacking what modern multiplayer games are all about. the prolly best try was quakelive which attracted many new players in the openbeta / early release stages due to accessability (install browser plugin, play) free2play (the real one, where you still get 100% content) and it still most players stopped playing it after some time because of various but obvious reasons (bad matchmaking, no cheat protection, very bad noob protection, no laddersystem, no longterm strategie nor investment by the developer).
i feel like what we have here is another team of people that tries to bring back a game from the old time, relying on the powerful name of a franchise that will be thrown on the market at a state where most work is done to fancy graphics and leveldesign. what it will lack is:
a) the fulfilling and easy to access multiplayer experience that makes you have a good time even as a noob of say Hearthstone or Dota. these games are neither original nor good looking, but when you play them you really feel the work that has been put into delivering a non frustrating pvp expirience.
b) the financial and persistent power of a bigger company that aims for a longterm investment and is willing to fund tournaments, cups, advertisment and whatnot to get the machine going. yes, it may be possible to create a successful multiplayer title without that still, but then everything else about the game has to be perfect
with that beeing said i still wish them best luck. personally i'd wished that this was another quake game instead of ut (because i dislike the slow clumsy movement) but whatever :D
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lave, interesting post, but I respectfully disagree.
A couple of comments on your two points:
a) There's very few multiplayer games who has frustrated me as a noob more than DOTA2. Bear in mind that I've never played a moba before so I am a 100% noob, but the whole concept of letting your minions do the groundwork and just go for the final blow yourself was just annoying to me, and felt so unnatural.
Also it felt utterly overwhelming with all the items to buy/choose from, setting up a transport to the store and all that stuff along the levelling route, not to mention the ridiculous amount of heroes to choose from. In short: I think UT (or COD for that matter) is a much, *much* more accessible and less frustrating game for a noob than DOTA.
b) The most popular mainstream multiplayer FPS today is COD. And that franchise keeps owning the multiplayer fps throne despite lacking any major tournaments etc. It's just a bunch of player hosted quick games - very similar to UT.
There's one major difference though: In COD you got the grinding to unlock weapon mods and skills. That's an incentive to keep going that lacks in UT. It would be sweet if they add something similar to UT, although one of the sweet things about UT is exactly this, it's all up to your skills and not your unlocks.
We'll see how it goes, but I sincerely *hope* there still is room for UT in the gaming landscape.
A couple of comments on your two points:
a) There's very few multiplayer games who has frustrated me as a noob more than DOTA2. Bear in mind that I've never played a moba before so I am a 100% noob, but the whole concept of letting your minions do the groundwork and just go for the final blow yourself was just annoying to me, and felt so unnatural.
Also it felt utterly overwhelming with all the items to buy/choose from, setting up a transport to the store and all that stuff along the levelling route, not to mention the ridiculous amount of heroes to choose from. In short: I think UT (or COD for that matter) is a much, *much* more accessible and less frustrating game for a noob than DOTA.
b) The most popular mainstream multiplayer FPS today is COD. And that franchise keeps owning the multiplayer fps throne despite lacking any major tournaments etc. It's just a bunch of player hosted quick games - very similar to UT.
There's one major difference though: In COD you got the grinding to unlock weapon mods and skills. That's an incentive to keep going that lacks in UT. It would be sweet if they add something similar to UT, although one of the sweet things about UT is exactly this, it's all up to your skills and not your unlocks.
We'll see how it goes, but I sincerely *hope* there still is room for UT in the gaming landscape.
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Xonotic is actually pretty good. It just doesn't have a very high playerbase last time I checked which is kind of essential.
As long as UT can bring in the numbers then that alone makes it worth having another fast paced shooter on Linux IMO.
and it looks like it's shaping up pretty well too.
As long as UT can bring in the numbers then that alone makes it worth having another fast paced shooter on Linux IMO.
and it looks like it's shaping up pretty well too.
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Xonotic is actually pretty good. It just doesn't have a very high playerbase last time I checked which is kind of essential.
As long as UT can bring in the numbers then that alone makes it worth having another fast paced shooter on Linux IMO.
and it looks like it's shaping up pretty well too.
I think also that Xonotics lacks some fast development... it seems to me that people got away with time, which is sad, as I do think the same as you. The same thing happened to Warsow, it was much more populated before 1.0, which arrived a bit too late. Today there are only Clan Arena et Instagib games, both of which I don't like much.
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Xonotic is actually pretty good. It just doesn't have a very high playerbase last time I checked which is kind of essential.
True. Xonotic and Nexuiz is very fun to play but lack the player base.
I've been a UT fan since GOTY edition and still play GOTY and 2004 just about every day. I can get GOTY edition to run under wine with no problems and great performance and run 2004 natively on linux. I am so looking forward to this next release but having the game free and having a marketplace is going to be kind of weird for me. Maybe it'll be better. Looking at the work the developers are putting into it, I think this will be a great game, especially for Linux.
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