Stumbling together through Unreal Tournament 3 - Parts 3 and 4

[davidn]

Two new videos this time, as both of them are rather short. In them, we get our first taste of gameplay in the Capture the Flag and Warfare modes - I've chosen to showcase the fourth one because it's much funnier, directly due to some ill-advised person giving us access to hovercrafts.

Mission 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyR7qj2gFzA

Mission 4: http://youtu.be/x3EYkJKkynk

Comments

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

We changed it back! It's just that in Mission 1 you're still finding your feet, and the difficulty of Mission 2 is disproportionate compared to some later levels. We actually worked out why - The teams in Mission 2 have AI-players of varying levels of competence, descending from someone who gets 15+ points to someone who gets about... two. The game replaces the best-scoring one on your team with you, expecting you to make up about that many kills (a big ask when you're new to the game) and sticking you an overall-worse AI team than the enemy has. And I think if you play co-op, player 2 replaces the second-most competent bot - and that was with me, someone with even less competence!

I'm surprised to have our performance characterised as "doing very well" after that, considering some of the mishaps we encountered, but I appreciate the vote of confidence. =D

In the latter two missions we had a bit of an advantage over the AI - I went back and played them solo afterwards, so I can confirm this - in that human players are just more competent at going after the objective. The AI is pretty decent at defense, and that's all I had them do in the capture the flag match, while it was very easy for me to just steal the flag three times.