Comments on: 3 Reasons why UT3 isn’t as good as Unreal Tournament

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:48:08 +0000

That is true, I agree with J. Connecting to servers or to people is just not straight forward anymore! Lots of fidgeting around with ports, and when you still can’t figure it out, you have to go onto servers which you both have to connect on to (or try) and there’s other people who are pwning you when really you just wanna pwn each other! TBH i only bought the game for UnrealEd, and the whole new swanky normal mapping and lovely graphics :3~

But the game itself…. yeah, nice to look at, nice to play, but when you’ve beaten the game i wanna play with my friends!!! But i’m seriously considering installing UT2k4 and see how easy it is to connect to my friends and play like the good old days!

By: Guido

Guido — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:26:42 +0000

Now if you’d have made this post before the official bonus pack (with Face, by the way) would’ve been available, you might have had a point with #2.

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=608057

#3, there’s plenty of community maps (although admittedly, most servers don’t play them). Have a look at the forums here.

I entirely agree about #1 though. Although port mapping is _not_ necessary if you just want to play online, it is for being a server – and what’s worse, it requires your NAT to be able to not map outgoing ports. Which my router’s NAT isn’t – so I’m screwed, and unless I buy a new router, I won’t host period. Now that’s seriously annoying.