Monday, February 23, 2009

UT3 Titan Pack information

Content of the Titan pack for Unreal Tournament 3 is revealed. And as name says it is a big one. This pack is like the other ones before free and includes the following:

  • 16 new maps
  • new mutator - Titan
  • 2 new game types - Greed and Betrayal
  • 2 new weapons - Stinger Turret and Eradicator Cannon
  • 2 deployables - X-Ray Field and Link Station
  • new vehicle - Stealthbender
  • 2 new characters - Nova and Kana
So this is the short list of feature and for each of there one could write a separate post... This may be the case once Titan Pack is available for download. This is just 10 days away!

Kana

New game types are intersting but they may cause severe cases of rage and swearing. Especially the Betrayal. Here is how scoring works:

Opponents have a score above their head, reflecting their value if the player gibs them. Current teammates are blue. Every kill by a teammate adds one point to the team pot, shown at the top of your HUD. Teammates can betray each other using the alternate fire of the rifle, which shoots a blue beam. Assassinating a teammate gives the assassin both the score over that player’s head, and all the points accrued in the pot. However, the assassin becomes a Rogue for 30 seconds, during which he is not on any team, and his former teammates can garner a score bonus for getting payback by killing him. The score above a Rogue’s head is red for his former teammates. Once the rogue timer has counted down, the rogue can join a new team. Daggers beside each player’s name shows the number of times that player has betrayed his teammates.

Even with the Titan mutator gameplay will change significantly. With this mod you can mutate into Titan with huge fire power but for a short time. If used wisely, this allows you to destroy enemy nodes in warefare. With smart timing one can mutate from Titan to Behemoth. Behemoth is huge with even more punch but it lives for only 30 seconds.

More details about the pack is availble on Beyond Unreal site and the review of hand-on of Titan pack on Planet Unreal site

With this pack Epic is addressing at least one of the issues people have with retail version of the game -  small number of maps. These 16 new maps will give us something to do over next month or so.

Blizzard updates Starcraft II units visuals

After a long silence there are some news on Starcraft II. This time it is coming from Q&A batch 49. What do we have here is refinement of visual for some units, mainly Zerg.

New units are bit darker, meaner (as the Zerg should be anyway).

Here are before and after versions.
Drone

New drone (on right) is meaner with bigger claws and slightly bigger in size. Personally, this is the best of updated units.

Baneling

As with drone it is bigger and has more details and looks deadlier with all these sacks...
Hydralisk
There seems to be no change in size for Hydralisk but head and jaws are more prominent than in original design. Purple shades are replaced with darker brown/clay colours. It makes it perfect camouflage for a desert worlds.
Overlord
Like with Hydralisk, no more purple shades and sacks looks so much better now.

Overseer
This time round purple is in and the eyes are lot easier to see.

Infestor
Just a concept art but is look very interesting.

Here are few more updated graphics of Creep Tumor, mules and mule variations.

Creep Tumor
Mule
Mule variations


For Full update on this Q&A go here. Hopefully we won't have to wait this long for next update on Starcraft II.