Unreal Tournament

UT3 is alive and well at TAW

HudsonC — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Now, what's good about UT3, no one every complained about the gameplay. That is rocksolid.

Now about TAW UT, I think we are going to take UT3 to a new level of gaming. This is Unreal, No classes, no types. You want to be a sniper? Pick up a sniper rifle.you want to run over people and get credits for "Road Kill" grab a vehicle.You want to get up close and personal? Grab a flak cannon or rocketlauncher. In UT3 you can be anything.

You like vehicles, we got vehicles from quick little hoverbaords to heavy artillary. You want to fly? We got that too.

You want to go out and frag the opposing team. We got that.

What we ain't got:

Standing around for 5 minutes beatining away at a rocket launcher that may kill someone.
no medics you want health go find a keg 'o'health or a first aid kit.
waiting on software developers for maps and mutators. When Valve released there 1st maps for TF2. The Unreal community had 100+maps out plus Mutators and 2 different game types.

New characters coming out, You can be anything, anywhere at anytime.

What game let's you do that?

Yes, there are faults on UT3 any UT forum will spell them out. Yes, Epic has screwed the UT Community

But the mappers,modders and everyone who have made tweaker like BradG haven't screw us over. Let's supprt them.They are doing a great job.

Epic can "bite me" as far as I am concerned. They made a good game, and the UT community will make it a great game.

Yes, I want the patches, But you kow UT 3 has a great engine and they gave it to us, the gamers. We have a couple pf mappers already in TAW.

This game can go as far as we take it. Not as far as Epic will take it.

So TAW UT is got maps 125+ and more in the works. Mods at least 5 and probably closer to 10. Mutators at least 5 because we were trying to be nice to "Epic" and not screw with the game.

I say to heck with Epic,They screwed up the game. TAW's server we will do what we want.

Nest week I'll talk about our new recruits. Great players and I am looking forward to talking about them.

Also award and promotions to put out as well.

UT3 is alive and well!

HudsonC — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:00 GMT

Well TAW UT just got a bunch of quality recruits. They're posting in the forums, great in practice and are very fired up. Got a new recruit from one of our newest members"Vulkor". Vulkor also led the last practice in "Frags" Great job! Vulkor

I know I was resigned to just doing UT3 in practices and some pick up games if we were lucky, because of all the "talking down of UT3" But, we have a great server with all kinds of custom content. It runs well, we have members that are from the EU that stay up until 0300 am to play with us. ANZAC battalion is rebuilding, but it looks to be geting some great players.

So I am looking forward to some great matches, some great training, and al sorts of great things from TAW UT. It's getting very exciting so if you ever wondered about UT3 check out TAW UT and see a lot of custom maps game types. Quality players and Team play and "Fragging Action" that is completely over the top. Jump into TAW UT!

UT3 getting lots of recruits coming in

HudsonC — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:19:00 GMT

Wow just all kinds of things happening for UT3. Recruiting is going like a house on fire. 8 applicants, 1 returning member Marine, 4 Boot camps done, Mapper, Dazedit,Vulkor,Kinneson. Welcome aboard new members. This is very exciting for UT3. I think that people are stating to recognize that UT3 is a great game, and that TAWUT has a faboo server, 100 + custom maps,Gametypes, Domination,Bombing run,Battle Arena/BattleFreeze Tag. Joining the MajorLeagueGaming for ladders.

UT3 is a great game

HudsonC — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:17:00 GMT

I think what makes UT3 a great game is the UT Community, not the developer,Epic. I have seen so much user content made, characters, game types and maps I am astounded.

Maps that are bright,light and almost whimsical. To dark,gritty and very goth. All gametypes recreated Dominaition, Bombing Run, Invation, Survival and Freezetag and Battle Freezetag Arena. We are lucky here at UT we have a Officer named Dmac that is making all the server stuff happen.

UT3 is still totally unreal! Great FPS action, you needs tactics a strategy to win the game in team games, but Death match is still Deathmatch. UT3 is very true to the roots of UT99.

UT3 is ready to get some

HudsonC — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:07:00 GMT

Well we had a rough release with UT3 but everything is coming tgether. Epic has announced it's "Make something Unreal" Contest, and $1,000,000 yes ONE MILION US Dollars is up for grabs. I have personally got over 140 maps made by the community ans I am not the biggest downloader. Returning game types made by the UT Community include... Bombing Run, Invasion 2 types, Battle arena and Freeze Tag, Sno-board runs, Characters, Physix games. It's been slow getting going but people want to play the game. If you go into the TAW UT servers besides practice time we will get 6-12 pubbers wanting to play. Gameplay was not the problem, Buggy drivers,software, Lousy UI. That was a problem, but now that the UT community is making maps, Gametypes and characters. We can move past that.

If you loved the original Unreal you will find that the movement and weapons in UT3 are very much like UT 99. UT2004 was a very movement orriented game. UT3 is a throwback to the old '99' style of play.Run and gun, Shoot and scoot. Very tactcal on team play. I would say being a good shooter is more important in UT3 compared to UT2004 were you had a good mover.

Dmac, UT's WO1 has done a great job getting all game types up and avalible. The redirect server is working pretty well but is still being tweaked. Guitaslim UT's 4 th Battaalion CO is doing a great job with the training Calendar.

So if you want to get into some over-the-top fragging action, check out our UT servers or touch base with Guitarslim and ask when you can get in on a practice or set up a match.

UT3 TAW is catering to all sorts of players

HudsonC — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:46:00 GMT

Well Bombing Run is up and working. We need to add some more maps to the server.BR server is there 67.19.248.138:5555. Great work Dmac! I look forward to all the other maps as well for BR.

We are trying to do something old, something new for UT3. The engine gives us tons of flexibility. So you may see some UT2k4 movement on one server or some Instagib/Sniper action on another. We will be doing some testing on the server for gametypes and maps this weekend. Redirect seems to be working well and we are having a ball with DM, CTF,TDM,VCTF, Warfare and Bombing Run. We are still tweaking the server, but it has gotten much better. Especially since we are up to 5 game types. Give us a bit of time to clean up the code and make this a great game to play and have fun on the TAW server.

UT3 Bringing some great gametypes and some old weapons as well

HudsonC — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:08:00 GMT

Well UT3 didn't get a great introduction on PC, but it is a great game lot's of patches coming from Epic. Our new WO1 Dmac needs some help. He is doing a test for a lot of different game types for UT3. A few throwbacks to UT2K4, UT99, lots new weapons, Bombing Run, Rippers, Freeze tag, and Battle Arena. If you have UT3 and would like to get your game on and help us test our UT3 server. Check it out Friday the 9th of May or the 10th of May. All of TAW and Pubbers are welcome. Let us know how it works, redirects,maps and game types.

A lot of changes for the UT Division

HudsonC — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:37:00 GMT

Well the UT3 server is really coming along because of the great work by Dmac. Please congratulate him on his promotion to Warrant Officer 1. He has got UT3 up on the server in 4 different instances, Warfare, VCTF, TDM and CTF plus custom maps working and a redirect as well. Outstanding job Dmac!

Promotions are also a big thing in UT. I,myself got promoted to a DO, and Guitar Slim is now the 4th Battalion CO with a jump from SSG to 1LT. He's going to make a great CO I'm sure. I like knowing I left my "Horsemen" in good hands.

I'd like t give you an update on UT3. Lot's patches came down and some stuff we needed like webadmin is finally in place. 3 new Maps from Epic, tons of maps and mutators from the community. So i think I feel good about inviting people to our server now. Very few people have complained about the game play. It was buggy software, bad UI feels like a Port from a console... That sort of thing, But if you liked the original UT99 or UT GOTY edition trust me you like UT3.

UT 2004 players I believe there is something for you as well. Great maps, Bombing Run, Domination, Invasion, and lastman standing or Survivior. Have been built and released as mods. No the movement isn't the same as UT2K4, What of it? 2K4 wasn't the same as UT99. What's great about UT3 is if you don't like where the game is at you can do maps, mods and mutators to make it the game you want.

So if you like over the top, fragging and speed and gaming action checkout UT Division. UT3 4th Bn. practice every Mon. and Thur 9:00 21:00 EDT. We are trying to get up a couple of fundays going as well 2100 EDT Wed. and 1400 EDT Sundays. Hope to frag you there.

UT Division is really starting to get it going on UT3

HudsonC — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:56:00 GMT

Well it's been a bumpy ride since the release of UT3 in Nov. 07. I think everything that can go wrong has gone wrong with UT3. But, TAW has adapted and overcame all issues. UT3 has had issues with just about everything from the OS to videocards, and sound cards. Oh by the way an entire new file system and server set up. Epic also forgot to setup a webadmin on release as well. Many patches and frustrated TAW IT people working their tails off, we have a pretty good game. To Ironhead, and Kidagoat, thanks for your hard work and not giving up when it seemed Epic/Midway were fighting us. Dmac great job of taking on FST on this beast of a game and getting the redirect up so fast. The rest of UT Division thank you for your patience and for sticking it out through all of the mess of getting UT3 Online. It's not perfect, and still needs a bit of work at Epic/Midway level, but we can get into some ladders now, and show the pubbers we are always getting new content, maps and game types. I really think that UT3 can be a great game if we can get people involved. The crucible is over UT3. We have weathered the storm. UT3 needs some tweaking but I hope the worst is over.

Great game Play and some great Maps

HudsonC — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:25:00 GMT

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I have downloaded most of the maps,gametypes and mutators at my filefront site. Kind of a one stop shop for everything UT3. I have to say on average the maps tend to be a step above. Very well done and very good game play. Plus when a lot of games release 1-4 maps, the UT community crushes them with the amount of maps,mutators and types of game play. There are 97 different files for maps,mutators and game types. You will find great gaming and some incredible artistry in these maps.If you are looking for some great stuff for UT3 I think you should check this site out. If you want to join our practices. I will post the upcoming practice maps on UT non-secure side.

TAW has UT3

HudsonC — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:46:00 GMT

The game play for UT3 is great.The graphics are outstanding. The movement and feel is a throwback to UT99, you don't have the dodging or movement like you had in UT2K4.

The community is great they have created over 100+ maps I've downloded and that are on our server. Plus several game types, Invasion,Survivor and Bombing run. Domination is coming this month. I think you can fault Epic about a terrible launch, terrible UI but the gameplay is outstanding. I look forward to people getting into the faboo graphics. Great custom maps, and great game play that is out there for UT3. Don't get caught up in the lousy UI. Play a bit with us and you will find out how deep and complex the game play can be. Plus the game is on Steam and you can get UT99,UT2004 and UT3 for $53.00 USD.