Ok, it's time for a first impressions thread. Here are mine:

Colours: After being used to the softer pastels of original UT, the first thing you notice is that the colours are a lot brighter, and more garish seeming. They're almost candy like, although the browns and greys seem properly muted.

Textures: Pretty nice! A large improvement over the original UT textures. I love the grasses and the leaves on plants. Lots more 3D textures in this game, although they are not nearly so overt the way that the optional 3D textures are in OpenGL in the original game.

Bots: The AI must have been "improved" a lot. Put them at experienced or higher and they just absolutely take you apart. Lots of spawn/die, spawn/die action. The damned bots are all a bunch of Tamerlanes and Loques now. I've played a number of games at Schwantz's, and if you have 3 humans against 3 bots, or 2 humans and 1 bot against 1 human and two bots, the bots will usually win. (When you hear "Humiliating Defeat" once too often, you really wish you could frag the announcer! :lol: )

Vehicles: :D :D Leviathan! Oh yeah! I so wanna try driving that thing with a full complement of fellow players manning the guns! 8)

Ok, what did I miss? Anyone sorry they spent their hard earned money on this game? :?:

Didn't forget u send message u get voice read to u too

Yes, that speech recognition should be interesting. I forgot to turn it on in my game.

One thing I could have mentioned is the need for a compass in ONS maps. Too often I've looked at the little map in the top right corner, and driven off thinking I'm going the right way, then realizing that somehow I'm going off in the opposite direction, all because you didn't know which way you were facing when you started out! :?

Glider typed:


LOL, You should try the Sexy Announcer voice. Sounds like she's playing with toys... if you know what I mean :wink:


I am glad I did. Happy with the game so far, but I really can't say I like Onslaught to much. I have never been into team gaming. I prefer every person for themselves. I guess it's because I mess up too much and I don't wanna let the team down. :?

I'm not much into the team thing either except in monster hunt and invasion. I still haven't played onslaught though either.

You don't need to worry too much about letting your team down in Onslaught. Once you know what to do, just do your best. The weapons and vehicles have been carefully balanced. Every vehicle has its weak points. The tanks go down fast to all fire, especially Manta and Raptor fire, as does even the Leviathan. It is very vulnerable to air attack and the 5000 health it starts out with is whittled down way fast from the air! If you're good in deathmatch, then when it comes down to 1 on 1 fighting around a power node, you're in good shape. ;)

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A large ooopsie on my textures comment. I had them set to normal. By setting them on "highest", I'm getting textures equal to original UT with the extra texture set rendered in OpenGL. ;)

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Major quibbles so far:

Bots are too good! :lol:

I have to listen to the bot's taunts. Why can't I shut that off like in original UT? :?

Touching a key on my keyboard, any key at all, will randomly bring down the console, unbidden and unwanted, and usually at the wrong moment.

ok just tried the ut2004 demo again but still hasnt changed i cant play its like stop frame animation ( :lol: )
does any one recomend a place to buy cheap computer parts or am i better off buying a new machine. i wish there was some way i could make my laptop better without lashing out more money on a new computer :(

Glider wrote:


I don't hear them. I have mine set to no auto taunt, just like UT. It is in the options screen under the audio tab. Look for Player Voices.

MatrixMan asked:


Depends... What machine do you have now. Give us:
Brand of computer (Dell, HP, Gateway, home built...)
Processor
Ram amount and type (DDR, RDRAM, PC 133 etc.)
Video card with memory
Hard disk size (not too important) and Speed (Important)
Operating system (Aren't you using Win98?)
What else do you use the computer mainly for?
Is the computer you want to upgrade a laptop?

This will help us determine if you still have hope for your system, or if it is hopeless.

Always consider building your own system. It is a rewarding experience.... Frustrating sometimes... but rewarding.

Also, I like having the best tech that I can get, cause I like building new computers. So my answer will be swayed toward getting a new system. Others will be swayed toward keeping and upgrading. I think that the answer lies somewhere in between. For cheap parts, look *HERE*
Mahatma is a tight wad. He will know of other places to look for deals as well. :lol:

ok my laptop specs
Samsung V20
pentium 4, 2.4
512 ram cant find anywhere it says what type
i have 2 hard drives i dont know the speed one is internal 20gig
the other is external 40gig
Intel(R)82845G graphics controller 64meg i think shared


the trouble is if i buy a new computer im looking at about £1000 to get a fairly good spec machine. :oops: and i dont have a grand just lying about. :lol:

There is no spoonman wrote:


Does it have to be a laptop? You can build a great desktop machine for less than half of that price. Let me do some razzle dazzle. Before I do, is there anything different over the pond besides power current, that I should know about?

BTW... Your machine is great EXCEPT for the Intel integrated graphics. There in lies your problem. That chipset is not meant to run high spec games like UT 2004. It is just the basic graphics. Would around 3 to 4 hundred pounds be feasable for a good gaming rig?

And another thing. Ya gotta love the new skins and voicepacks! Maybe they're old hat to you guys, but to me it's all new. 8)

I just love two of the female voicepacks. I think its the mercenary and juggernaut packs? Anyway the one that sounds like she has an attitude says "kiss my ass!" so beautifully, and the one that sounds like a dyke says "Life is pain. Get over it!" just so, so, perfectly that you've gotta love it. :lol:

The nightmare skin of the Domina character goes so well with that dyke voice, that the faceless lady has morphed into DOMINATRIX, at least for a while. ;) :mrgreen:

£300 to £400 would be shweet

Also, would you consider building it yourself?

:D Got to talk to Nameless and Scify tonight. It was really cool to finally hear them. You folks gotta get this game.
P.S. Watch out for Scify's driving :lol: She loves to do doughnuts!