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Unreal Tournament 2004 shots

Posted by Marcel Klum on 05 June 2003 - 20:07 · 44 comments & 818 views

Atari is bringing Unreal Tournament 2004 to the PC this fall. Unreal Tournament 2004 is once again being co-created by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It includes all of the content from Unreal Tournament 2003 - allowing UT2004 users to join matches on UT2003 servers - plus the two free bonus packs released by Digital Extremes and Epic. Also packed into the game are new modes and maps as well as additional characters and vehicles. Fans can also expect plenty of gameplay tweaks and refinements - including unique crosshairs for each weapon and the ability to carry dual Assault Rifles. Also planned are improved bot team coordination and movement as well as network bandwidth optimizations.

News source: The Adrenaline Vault

TCP breaks down large files into small packets of about 1500 bytes, each carrying the address of the sender and the recipient. The sending computer transmits a packet, waits for a signal from the recipient that acknowledges its safe arrival, and then sends the next packet.

If no receipt comes back, the sender transmits the same packet at half the speed of the previous one, and repeats the process, getting slower each time, until it succeeds.

This means that even minor glitches on the line can make a connection very sluggish. Because Fast TCP uses the same packet sizes as regular TCP, the hardware that carries messages around the net will still work. The difference is in software and hardware on the sending computer, which continually measures the time it takes for sent packets to arrive, and how long acknowledgements take to come back.

This reveals the delays on the line, giving early warnings of likely packet losses. The Fast TCP software uses this to predict the highest data rate the connection can support without losing data.

Since the packets are the same size as those used in TCP, none of the equipment along the internet itself will have to be modified, and no new hardware will be needed on computers receiving the data.

The first practical test of Fast TCP took place in November at a supercomputing conference. Researchers from Caltech, Stanford and CERN near Geneva in Switzerland, sent data 10,000 kilometres from Sunnyvale, California, to CERN at an average rate of 925 megabits per second. Ordinary TCP managed just 266 megabits per second on the same routes.

By ganging 10 Fast TCP systems together, the researchers have achieved transmission speeds of over 8.6 gigabits per second, which is more than 6000 times the capacity of ordinary broadband links.

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#1 Posted by DOCa Cola on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:08: WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWOW! want to drive that tank now

(2 replies) #2 Posted by oateater on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:09: hl2 > ut2k4

#3 Posted by velocity3k on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:12: looks interesting.

(1 reply) #4 Posted by hobsgrg on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:22: dual assault rifles, me likes the sound of that, i missed the dual enforcers in ut2k3

#5 Posted by Phil Gates on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:29: looks nice

#6 Posted by Sawyer12 on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:36: that looks soooooooo sweet, Although the vehicle in the first screen looks like its off Halo. I recon microsoft had some influence there.

#7 Posted by RanCorX2 on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:37: oo looks sweet as a sweet cake.

(1 reply) #8 Posted by daveS on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:46: mmmm stuff to drive !!! .. its gonna be fun !

(1 reply) #9 Posted by Liquid on 05 Jun 2003 - 21:27: it doesn't look to great graphiclly but man that game is fun...

#10 Posted by darkmatter on 05 Jun 2003 - 21:36: looks good

#11 Posted by lardboy on 05 Jun 2003 - 22:09: The vehicle looks like a rip off of the warthog from Halo and the graphics aren't a patch on HL2.

I mean have you watched that 25 min video.

(2 replies) #12 Posted by nonick on 05 Jun 2003 - 22:14: talking about mad responses when they announced it, saying its ripoff, looks like things changed .. eyyy

(1 reply) #13 Posted by insaneshaft on 05 Jun 2003 - 22:17: *EPIC*

ideas meeting for ut2k4:

- 'well we messed up ut2k3 pretty bad'
- 'yeh.. it sucks'
- 'lets just rip off halo..that buggy looks cool'
- 'great !! lets roll production asap'

#14 Posted by jagedEdge on 05 Jun 2003 - 22:20: Ah shut it. Plenty of people can use that idea. The Warthog wasn't patented.
As for HL2 and UT2K4, you can't compare them. HL2 has a proper storyline, it's not just carnage, so basically they are different games.

The shot looks sweet. Can't wait to play it.

#15 Posted by Solarix on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:17: hmm halo?

(1 reply) #16 Posted by pr0mpt on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:46: hmmm, not really fond of the screenies though..
not quickly comparing to a game as HL2, but they just don't look so appealing

For me the entire UT series is "kill everything that moves".... that does not include driving or anything..

Don't think this will be a good choice by Epic & Digital Extremes

#17 Posted by kev64 on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:49: It looks better then Halo on PC.

#18 Posted by INFERNO2k on 06 Jun 2003 - 01:29: Looks like crap.

(6 replies) #19 Posted by Wing on 06 Jun 2003 - 02:30: Halo really copied CS because CS had drivable jeeps BEFORE.

#20 Posted by BananaMan on 06 Jun 2003 - 05:35: Looks like a blast but I have to admit, I raise an eyebrow to the fact that they are selling this as a stand-alone product rather then an expansion pack - because that's all it is, an expansion pack!

#21 Posted by Billo3121 on 06 Jun 2003 - 05:42: i give Epic and Digital Extremes a 0 for originality

a definite Halo/Tribes 2 ripoff

just another boring shoot em up.

#22 Posted by Knight' on 06 Jun 2003 - 05:56: couldn't they just of made this as an expansion pack?

#23 Posted by M1ke on 06 Jun 2003 - 06:16: HAHAHAH if that whole thing doesnt look like halo i donno wtf it is thats very sad a cheap impression of halo and the **** doesnt even look like it has good graphics i wont be buying that game ......thats just an insult halo is just the best game ever...... god damn i even noticed the gun looks like a boxy assualt rifle......

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(1 reply) #24 Posted by nookadum on 06 Jun 2003 - 07:55: The vehicles in UT2K4 look way better than the ones in Halo to me.

#25 Posted by EddiE314 on 06 Jun 2003 - 13:23: bleh...i've seen better (hl2), half the crap looks the same, has a few good features, but just a repackaging of ut2k3.

#26 Posted by gabebster on 06 Jun 2003 - 14:19: Hmm... It looks nice, but it does just look like ut2k3 with some new features. The "Onslaught Mode" looks like the best improvement with the enhanced aduio.

#27 Posted by Andre on 06 Jun 2003 - 15:27: I dare to say that Unreal 1 was the best Unreal game. All others are just money makers with no new real breathtaking stuff. And now with UT2004 it's gonna be the same. It's like.. "so what's new about this version of [insert_random_program_here]? ooh yeah, they put a new button and called it version X". That's exactly with UT. They mod UT2003 by adding some phunky cars and news maps and sell it as a new game - basically exactly what others already have said.

I am sure it will be fun to play, but it's just getting really boring. Next thing you know they will be releasing UT2005, then UT2006. Seems like FIFA series.

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#28 Posted by EddiE314 on 07 Jun 2003 - 07:08: Unreal 1 was the shizznit

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