Stumbling together through Unreal Tournament 3 - Part 1

[davidn]

I'm opening another Stumbling Through, which if all goes to plan, I'll do alongside a new Team Hatoful project! This one is a small change of pace from Super Metroid to a game about flying through space shooting each other with big guns - it's Unreal Tournament 3, and rakarr and I are going through the cooperative mode together. (It's still an old game, though - it came out six years ago. Frightening, isn't it?)

It's probably one of the very few cooperative videos around over the past six years because I didn't realize at first the Unreal Tournament 3 requires a degree in network engineering to get it to run - I was hunting through masses of config files to set it up how we needed it, and I install distributed medical software as part of my job so I'm used to doing that to set things up, but I forgot that... games aren't usually like that. Now I see why, despite being a great sequel to the UT99 at heart, the game never really took off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-TfGGzrnDw
Doing a cooperative play introduced its own unique editing challenges, and super-professionally, the style of this video changes halfway through - we didn't do this for every match, but going forward with the series, I'll be putting his view inset on my own where we have it. But at least here you can watch the completely unnecessary introduction, followed by us finding our feet against the computer-controlled tutorial-bot and later ally Jester.

Comments

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

If it goes anything like the matches I used to play on Halo at the local gaming centre a few years back, it becomes a race to get to the vehicles, then an argument over who drives and who shoots, then an argument that each party is doing their job wrong, then a flaming ball of wreckage as the guy who got the Vulture takes advantage of the distraction.

Man, I loved that Vulture. It was the only way I was every any good at the game. ;) :P

D.F.

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

There's no cooperative flying in it (boy, I suddenly wish there was) but wait until level 4 if you want to see some truly horrible piloting!

I've been commenting here for a while so it's probably fair to say you know me a little, although you probably didn't realise it at the time! I should have had him say "It's the rambly upside-down Guile guy", or something.

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

Actually, I thought I already had you on my friends list - this error has now been corrected! Nice to 'meet' you more formally! I didn't realise, until I heard your voice and looked up your profile, that you were in Tasmania! Nice!

And there's nothing wrong with Guile - his theme goes with everything, after all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLrAA-j61MQ et seq

D.F.

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

You know, given the long-term semi-dead nature of my Livejournal account, it's been a long time since I've actually added anyone, but now I've done the same!

As to your own location, I don't know whether I can get away with a Coventry joke, so I'll just go a bit broader and compliment Britain - I was practically raised by British TV and, oh, fifth-generation or so Britishisms (convict settlement and all) so I'd love to go one day.

I was only just watching a Guile-theme-goes-with-Unreal-Tournament-3 video, actually, and I think I spoiled one of the later missions for myself. =D