Mod DB and UTU News

UT Unlimited now has a front page of sorts, just a temporary one at the moment.  Hunter is doing sterling work and much praise and thanks must go to him.

In addition to my last two posts I want to introduce a site, Mod DB.  This lists lots of mods released and in development for a number of games.  UT3, as well as the rest of the unreal series, being included of course.

If you still think the UT3 scene is lacking then have a look through that site.  There’s more than you think.  Plus, you’ll find that something to interest you.

Till then

Servers Are Back

Well most are.

The exploit was a memory call within the unreal server code (I know nothing about programming by the way :D). The guy has now released two unofficial patches for server admins. One for 2k4 (Windows only at the moment) and for UT3 (both Linux and Windows).  Those files are posted at the guy’s site.  He seems to find these exploits, have his fun for a day or so then release patches plugging the holes.  I wonder if he realises or cares about the damage he does?  I doubt it.

More finalists of the Make Something Unreal Contest have been announced.  This list has been posted here originally over at Beyond Unreal.  I’ve C&P’ed for those to lazy to go there :D.
The Best Game Type finalists:

• Battle Team/ Freezetag Arena by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• Cubes of Serenity by Anna Beck-Thomsen, Lawrence Johnson, Jens Hammerhøj, André Johansen, Martin Larsen, Janusch Häring
• UT3DOM by Team Domination
• Domination Reloaded by spl0k
• Galtanor’s Invasion by Michael “Galtanor” Wells
• Proelium by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• The Ball: Pehua by The Ball Team
• Unreal Demolition 2 by Dan Weiss
• UT2D by Team Joe Bates (and various mappers)
• Written Off by David Jenkinson and Ben Moser

The Best Game Type honorable mentions:

• Attrition by “OlympusMons”
• CTF++ by Shee Labs Game Development
• Endless Falling by Yuan Shen, Kai Song Liu, Chen Huang and Tao Cui
• Fleet Wars Alpha by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Mini-Golf Tournament by Rob Howland
• UT Race by Matthew Fawcett
• Zombie Invasion by Eric Blade

The Best Tool finalists:

• Blender_export by John “Darknet”
• HMCS by David “DGUnreal” Green
• Mark4U by Andreas
• skUT3 by Nicolas “SkorpSSS” Imbert
• Ultimate Console by Matthew Fawcett
• uMax by Christian Herzog
• Unreal Visualization Toolkit by Alastair Hebson
• UnrealPackage by Sam Harwell
• UnrealRSC by Alan
• UT3 Tweaker by Brad G.
• UWindow2 by James Tan

Best Tool honorable mention:

• rK DemoWatcher by Ulrich Scheller
• UnrealScript Editor Alpha 1 by Aurélien Reeves
• UT3 Cache Converter by Brad G.

The Best Use of Physics finalists:

• Ash Gravity Gun by Aaron “Charybdis” Ash
• Cubes of Serenity by Anna Beck-Thomsen, Lawrence Johnson, Jens Hammerhøj, André Johansen, Martin Larsen and Janusch Häring
• DM-Blockland by Simeon “Lord_Simeon” Spargo
• DM-Nowhere by Remus Brailoiu
• JetPack by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Mini-Golf Tournament by Rob Howland
• Raggy Weapons by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• The Ball: Pehua by The Ball Team
• Unreal Demolition 2 by Dan Weiss

Best Mutator honorable mentions (Best Mutator finalists were announced earlier this week):

• The Mutator Weeks by Shee Labs Game Development
• Gibalicious by Miles Asvachin
• VAS Volatile Ammo by Dion “KalCorp” Rentos
• Raggy Weapons by Martin “Pfhoenix” Actor
• Defector by Jeremiah Ellison
• BattleMOD by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• VAS Auto-Shields by Dion “KalCorp” Rentos
• Coda Sword by Denrei
• Portable Spawners by Antone Franich
• BattleTrans by Nico “BattleMode” de Vries
• Circus Mutator by James
• JukeBox by Jason Yu

Who says the UT3  scene’s dead 😀