So here is the patch notes October 2016 🙂
The next public release is very close and promises major changes in the game. I must say, after reading the release notes, I’m not very enthusiast about it, far from it 😦
The map I’m currently working of will be affected by the mentioned changes and not in a good way since I’m making the layout, part of the map so it’s preferable to use this or that weapon.
I also see some talented mappers putting an old on their map since Epic is heading into a direction that isn’t much what the community was hoping for in the first place. This is very sad I must say.
Anyway, I’ll see…
The contest is now over. You can watch the last stream on twitch by clicking here. Congratulation to all winners 😀
Chris Kay, an Epic employee, started working on a new level for an experimental game mode 🙂 This time, he decided to record himself working on it. He produce a commentary style videos of it’s development and every session was fully captured. The videos have been speed up 5 times because it’s about 30 hours of work! Honestly, the speed works very well so you can understand what is going on with the addition of commentary 😀 There are 6 videos in total but only 5 of 6 as been published yet. Good watching 😉
I didn’t thought I’ll be writing this but since ±2 month, I’m playing with the UT4 editor and building a new DM map 😀
In the map making process, instead of making the layout with BSP and then replacing the BSP shell by meshes, I’m directly adding meshes to craft the layout. In the contrary to my previous maps, I don’t have a layout in mind so I’m crafting the layout as far as I go by adding meshes and play with them 🙂
I won’t go trough the standard process neither (alpha-beta-RC-final) but instead release 1 – 2 versions (R1, R2) before the final just for debugging purpose. So, I don’t know when I’ll release the first version (R1) to the public, only time will tell! I’m pretty sure this news will make my readers happy 😉 Now, few renders from the editor 😀
Following my first post about Epic Games and Mapcore’s UT level design contest, many maps as been submitted 😀 I gather the Epic forums links to all of them in this simple post it is easier to found them all and more importantly provide your feedback to all these LD creators 😉
Alpine by RescueTeamYoshi
Batrankus by G.Lecter
Bridge by kunalht
bTSD by lawlorz
Cascade by Flikswich
Croft by Scinbed
Dropoff by danpaz3d
Enclosure by Ayosso
Exo by tidu
Fall by Vilham
Formidable by Mitch Mitchell
Foundry by Sigmafie
GasDroid by WarpSpasm
H09 by Heresiarch
CTF-Phobos3 by MonsOlympus
Quayside by Crafty
Oxide by Mangley
Rust by Trekz
Thaw by poLemin
Train by -Designer-
TwinFalls by effects69
Vacant by NATO_chrisjm
Again, good luck to all participants!
Epic Games is teaming up with Mapcore for their latest level design contest for one of Epic newest gametypes, ‘Showdown’.
There are some great prizes and the Unreal Tournament team will vote for their favorite submissions. The results will be shared during a live stream on the Unreal Tournament Twitch channel.
Depending on how close the entries are to release quality, Epic will evaluate the possibility of adding one or more of the winning entries into the Unreal Tournament Marketplace or even the game.
Should this become a reality, Epic will work directly with the level designer(s) just as was done with Captain Migraine for DM-Lea and Jayoplus for CTF-Pistola.
The prizes are as follows:
First Place: 1 650$ and Epic Swag Bag
Second Place: 850$ and Epic Swag Bag
Third Place: 500$ and Epic Swag Bag
Fourth Place: Honorary Mention and Epic Swag Bag
Fifth Place: Honorary Mention and Epic Swag Bag
For the official rules and more information, head over to Mapcore! You can read more about Showdown here.
Playing UT4 and looking for alternate, Epic quality looking characters ? Well, Kingaz as made few Taye skins that are looking as good a own Epic Taye character and even better, they are all available for free 😀 Below, you’ll see Rook, Rook-Slider, Rook-Team Lead and finally Taye MK2 🙂
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