New Unreal Tournament Detailed @ 7pm

Niko

Niko

Active Member
So they've announced that they've started developing Unreal Tournament 4, which is going to be free. No purchase, no micro-transactions, no pay to win, completely free.

No console launch planned, made using Unreal Engine 4 and lots of modding support. Sounds like a recipe for success. If the requirements to run it aren't too high it could be good for future LANs.

Source: https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/464466531297284097
 
Castiana

Castiana

Soon™
The engine that it's built on, UE4. They licence it to studios for $LOL.

Think of it like the BF series. BF3 was just a Frostbite 2 (BF4 was Frostbite 3) engine demo. Except EA/DiCE have the balls to charge stupid amounts of money for engine demos.
 
.AC.

.AC.

Well-Known Member
They're going to have a steam-community style store which will sell user mods, a portion of revenue will go to Epic. Of course as castiana says, UT has often been used as a sales pitch for their engine, but I think in this case UT is coming quite a bit later than the actual engine.

Summary of the new UT can also be found here: https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Unreal_Tournament

The really cool thing is they have found a way to make moderate a game's development for free(ish) and ensure it's success via open development. It's like crowdfunding investment done with interest instead of cash, but we might actually see a good game come out of it.* As some of you know, i'm a massive fan of Arena / Competitive FPS, so I'll be signing up interest in the project.

*This statement is harsh and probably unfair, having said that the only crowd funded game I can bring to mind that's actually any good is Kerbal Space Program.
 
RolandOnTheRopes

RolandOnTheRopes

Member

It's a Win/Win - free labour in the guise of a collaboration and quite honestly - I fucking trust Epic. They are stalwarts of the PC and LAN gaming scene... It makes me want to learn UDK just to help out.
 
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