4 Free, New Maps added for PS3 UT3!

Winter47th - 735 days 14 hours ago

Couldn't agree more, and this's just a taste of all the great things to come.

What's it been, two weeks ? and we've got 4 new maps for free !

Kudos to Epic and for the good people behind those maps.

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DARKKNIGHT - 735 days 13 hours ago

dammmmmmmmmn this is awesome, they should add more weapons though

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aceman7 - 735 days 12 hours ago

New weapons take weeks to make.

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Winter47th - 735 days 12 hours ago

Plus that would totally screw up the already perfect balancing in the game IMO.

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ravinash - 735 days 13 hours ago

But be careful you don't end up sounding like our old friend Zhuk.
And why do you keep referring to your self in the 3rd person?

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Polluted - 735 days 13 hours ago

Ravinash is right. Talking up the PS3 is great, but we don't need to slam the 360 at the same time. Guys like Zhuk and The Mart do that. I suppose I'm guilty of it too, but only when certain xbots are really getting on my nerves. K...off to try the new maps. See y'all online.

PSN: zollner13.

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LinuxGuru - 735 days 13 hours ago

Although his statement is rather Zhuk-ish...

Microsoft loves their licensed product, and I wouldn't doubt it for a second that Epic would cancel the 360 version for those reasons.

I already see European potential buyers frothing at the mouth because of all the user-created content that will already be available the day they buy it.

I just can't see Microsoft bending over backwards for Epic, and if they choose to not do so....

bye bye 360 version!

Also, the "one warhawk map" is not just that. It's an expansion to the game, adding new strategy to the gameplay.

- It adds FIVE new map layouts to the game.

- It adds a new 7-man dropship

- all maps have been modified to allow the usage of the dropship

This being unlike Unreal Tournament, where it's just new maps and mods....not completely new content that's built from scratch and put into the game.

I'm glad to pay 8 bucks for the Warhawk expansion.

Considering you just received a crapload more replay value AND a completely new approach to strategy within the game itself....it's worth it.

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pwnsause - 735 days 13 hours ago

Talking in 3rd Person is Epic, just like The Rock

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shrimpboat - 735 days 12 hours ago

Polluted is right. I think I will stop slamming the 360, but i will still talk $hit on zhuk and the Mart. They are the worst thing on this site.

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DethWish - 735 days 10 hours ago

@CoeusTitan

Mods can actually change all what you said there using the Kismet scripting.

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IRISHCALIBER - 735 days 5 hours ago

and they all sucked! Gears of War was Fun for a minute and looked great but i have no interest in an Unreal Tourney shooter, Run N' gun!!All of your skill is in your jump, Gay!! So, please keep this game off of the 360 as we only care for the visceral shooters. But at least you PS3 guys got a game to your liking, congrats!!

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mavent - 734 days 17 hours ago

I'm not sure you know what "visceral" means

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Kleptic - 735 days 7 hours ago

dude...this is why a lot of us have been so excited about this type of UGC coming to a console...there is nothing close to it...

most console users only related add-on content with payments required by XBL (and more recently paying on PSN for additional maps)...but PC gamers were used to maps every few weeks...and always for free...

within the next few months there will most likely be well over 200 hundred maps available...probably at least 20 full featured modifications/mutators...and 3 or 4 completely different games altogether...

not every map will be great...you are guaranteed quantity with UGC like this...but not so much on quality...check the Epic website often, most of the really impressive stuff always gets official plugs from Epic...and the forums are great for sifting through whats worth downloading...but 4 maps in a week?...that is nothing...there will be hundreds once that mod tool is patched...

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Tranz - 734 days 20 hours ago

these maps are not created by EPIC, they are user created... so why would EPIC charge for them? Maybe if they made the map... I played them all... they are nice... not bad for user stuff... but when you play an official map the quality difference is HUGE...

THIS IS A MOD...thats why its free... so don't get too excited

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Kleptic - 734 days 6 hours ago

Epic already has official maps in the pipes for the PC and I would assume will cook them for the PS3 also...of which Rein confirmed they will not charge for...

One of the biggest factors in this Epic vs. MS mess with UGC was MS requiring the charge for the Gears map packs...Rein was openly criticising that decision, and apparently wanted to let it known that Epic was not collecting any of that charge...

in either case...Epic didn't make these maps...they only cooked them for the PS3...I have played all of these on the PC already...and I wouldn't say the quality difference as "huge"...but there are some texture coats in areas that clash with each other and the lighting...as always though its the weapon spawns that usually fail the most...user maps end up that way often, its difficult to balance weapon spawns with vantage points and character spawns I guess...

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DethWish - 735 days 10 hours ago

That's the thing about UT... The hundreds of mods and thousands of maps that will be released for it will increase it's lifespan for years.

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Kigmal - 735 days 13 hours ago

they never really let anything be free. But that's how MS became one of the biggest corporations in the world.

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Ju - 735 days 8 hours ago

What I have seen of UT3 so far is pretty amazing and has exceeded my expectations. Actually a UE3 game that really works! (compare that to the just released BS51 demo! - also UE3) I have just snooped in yet, and did expect, a noob that I am, to die right away. But I could stay alive for quiet some time. The user maps are great, IMO.

But I agree, that Warhawk is worth the money, too. They could probably also add user created content, which would be free (but Epic's big bonus is their public available editor). I am curious, if all the additional content, that Epic wants to provide, will be free. I guess not forever - as soon as you have to pay some salaries. WH1.3 is supposed to be free as well, and should include new content, AFAIK.

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Marceles - 735 days 13 hours ago

lol, well you can't really blame Insomniac for charging for maps, it's just the same as Epic charging for official new maps for GOW. But we can definitely thank Epic for bring UGC and mods to the PS3 for us to use on the console version.

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lodossrage - 735 days 13 hours ago

Microsoft are the ones that forced epic to charge for those maps on GOW.

Epic wanted to make the maps free

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Chubear - 735 days 13 hours ago

These are MODed maps not brand new from scratch. Yes and great MOD could feel like a new map but it's still using stuff from the base of an already existing module.

Epic will, and do, charge for brand new content made from scratch so don't go crazy thinking developers need to work for free. It's just that it's great Epic has lead the way to making availible a great feature for it's gaming community which other developers hopfully follow.

LBP is doing the same type of thing only their's in unique in the sense that they allow gamers to bring forth new content from scratch. Anyone in doubt about how incredible gaming is on the PS3 really needs a reality check.

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ALItheWISE - 735 days 12 hours ago

Man my bro has the same problem he used to love FPS's and now he cant even look at them... Try playing on a smaller tv and far from the tv, works for him sometimes

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krik - 735 days 6 hours ago

I have this problem with 30 FPS shooters too. The only ones I can play long periods of time without an headache are CoD4 and Warhawk. They both run at 60 FPS and for me that makes a big difference.

Do you guys also get the headache with CoD4 and Warhawk?

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mighty_douche - 735 days 13 hours ago

If you include "unofficial" (MODS) then LOTS!

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Polluted - 735 days 13 hours ago

Well when I tried to graduate from the old "Build" engine to the original Unreal engine my head pretty much exploded. I guess what I'm saying is it was goddamn hard. Now that was a long time ago and apparently things have gotten much easier with each iteration of the Unreal engine. So...lol...I don't really know.

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mighty_douche - 735 days 13 hours ago

"think about how much money MS makes off charging people"

^^exactly why it'll never stop.

[EDIT] @ Below... stop whining

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LinuxGuru - 735 days 13 hours ago

And we ALLLLLL KNOOOWWWWWWW that:

Long-Time Forum member = super MOD maker

&

Beta Tester = Super-dee-duper MOD maker

Shut up William....always spinnin' the negative web, aren't ya' ?

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romemac7 - 735 days 8 hours ago

so williamRLbaker, here we are again!!! you seem to love the ps3 news comment side more then your 360 side mmmm. also williambot just by saying fact at the begging of you comment doesn't make it a fact dumba$$. IT just make it a OPINION and a dumb one at that.

grow up bit@h and stop being so damm immature!!!

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