Unreal Tournament 4 release expected alongside Unreal Engine 4.0 completion

[NINE-BREAKER]

Looking forward to the next next-gen (8th console generation) Unreal Engine 4.0 is expected to be released with Unreal Tournament 4 to show off its prowess, as with every new Unreal Engine comes a showpiece, usually an Unreal game. An example of this happened before the release of Unreal Engine 3, when Epic Games’ own projects — Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 2007 (later renamed to Unreal Tournament 3) — were touted as the company’s showcase titles for the latest Unreal technology.

Back in August 2005, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein revealed that the creators of the Unreal games and technology have already begun work [two years before in 2003] on what will eventually become Unreal Engine 4.

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney, who’s been working on the Unreal Engine 4 core system design as the technical director, said in March 2008: “There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. [Unreal Engine] Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft’s successor for the Xbox 360 [AKA Xbox 720], Sony’s successor for the PlayStation 3 [AKA PlayStation 4] - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs [AKA Wii 2], then that also. PCs will follow after that.” Mark Rein later clarified that Tim Sweeney meant that Unreal Engine 4 was coming to PC, and that “When Tim Sweeney was talking about Unreal Engine 4 … he mentioned something along the lines of it being exclusively for the next generation of consoles… what he meant was, it won’t run on this generation of consoles.”

For those interested, Unreal Engine 4 development will fully start sometime in 2008. With the next generation of consoles not expected to launch until around 2011-2012, it’ll be a while before you’ll be fragging photo-realistic enemies in Unreal Tournament 4.

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[Kel]

Maybe they should focus on UT3 and UE3 before they get pounding on the next one...

[JoystickMonkey]

Maybe they should focus on refining their next tech to get it running faster and smoother on current gen technology.

[Berjj]

With a release date not set before 2012 they should have more than enough time to patch UT3 UP.

[SuperApe]

Hmm. I guess that's just too long for me to skip the current version.

[Klaphat]

Maybe they should forget about making new version of the UT series before they totaly screw up their image. If they already moved on that means that they have to cut down resources on their bugfixing for UT3.

yehaw ...... cheers for good old UT99, that where the time where gameplay was actualy implemented in the released product.

[DeadMeatGF]

Originally Posted by Klaphat

Maybe they should forget about making new version of the UT series before they totaly screw up their image. If they already moved on that means that they have to cut down resources on their bugfixing for UT3.

yehaw ...... cheers for good old UT99, that where the time where gameplay was actualy implemented in the released product.

Hopefully you'll find they're using the same development model as one of the companies we buy from at work, where the developments for the next-gen release are developed alongside the current improvements, and where possible new developments are put into the current version/engine as minor releases/patches.

[Klaphat]

I will be very surprised if that is to be the case.

They should start listening to US instead of banning us from their "support" forums every single time we point the finger at a bug or revealing things they don't want in public.

[share_the_pain]

Originally Posted by NINE-BREAKER

With the next generation of consoles not expected to launch until around 2011-2012, it’ll be a while before you’ll be fragging photo-realistic enemies in Unreal Tournament

Maybe the Mayans were right?

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 21 December 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a mis-interpretation.

[Klaphat]

Originally Posted by share_the_pain

Maybe the Mayans were right?

I'll drink to that

[Ghost_of_War]

To Epic...

Before you do anything else you should...

FIX MY FRAGGIN ROCKET LAUNCHER!!!

Five f**king rockets you arseholes!!! Five! This pee-wee, limp-wristed, three rocket crap is retarded. The 5hit has been broken since UT2(Quake)3.

Bastards.

$0.02,

GoW - Likes weapons that work.

[JoystickMonkey]

I was ok with making the shock ball smaller, because it makes it more exclusive to skilled players.
I was not ok with nerfing the explosion damage on it as well.
To compound this, instant hit aiming absolutely sucks in UT3. The screen movement does not synch up with the mouse movement.

[Cobra]

Like said before, epic fix UT3 before messing around whit something else. You kno the UT3 game. How long will it take before you fix it. Small pacth by small pacth, until 2012 ? maybe whe whon't be here to play it in 2012.


So fix the damn game MORONS, before starting anything else YOU SUCK EPIC

[Berjj]

Great... Another thread reduced to discussing why UT3 sucks.

EDIT: JoystickMonkey, try to disable mouse smoothing and view acceleration, that'll make it possible to aim.

[faet]

Originally Posted by Ghost_of_War

To Epic...

Before you do anything else you should...

MAKE IT SO I DONT HAVE TO AIM AGAIN


GoW - Likes weapons that require no aiming.

ftfy