HQ

this is kinda cool for all you UT fans. even if we don't meet each other online, we can (sorta) compare UT skills by this PC Gamer Olympics UT mod:
http://planetunreal.com/features/pcgo/


download the mod here:
http://modsquad.online.fr/mods/pcgo.zip

HQ

oh yeah... i'll explain it a bit. there's 10 tests. if you can't complete one of the tests, then it'll time out after 5 minutes or so and move you on automatically. i've only tried it twice. i still can't complete the 10th test.

try it and post your scores!!!

so far i've done it twice (the faster the better) and got:
13:22.60
16:41.84

i'll destroy those scores later on though! the 3rd and 10th tests are bitches!

HQ

ah fuck, i tried one more time and got 11:33.78.

i want some of you GFY'ers/UT'ers to try it and post your scores! come on!

HQ

4th try: 9:05:72

slick, goliath, oscer, drake, u all play UT. try this out!

whoreans

i need to get this game.. but 1st.. i need a geforce card

HQ

whoreans, what system do u have now? UT works surprisingly well on lower end systems

Goliath

Whore UT was designed for 3d Fx cards and seems to work best under openGL mode. If you got a voodoo 3 thats plenty for ut.

I'll download this and post my times. I do have friends that have dont the whole thing in under 2 minutes though.

HQ

2 minutes is insane. i could do it a lot faster than 9 minutes; definitely under 5 minutes. i've just fucked up the last test every time.... haven't even completed it yet... so that's 5 minutes exactly added on my time.

Juge

My first try, I had to quit, and I didn't finish it. I did hit the shock rifle on the first shot, though.

My second try was 21:58.84, I couldn't finish the shock rifle, the redeemer, or the jumping.

My 3rd try was 10:40.97. I couldn't finish the jumping course. Although you get used to it pretty fast, it's a stupid fucking mario bros. type game with shit ass fucking control - depends largely upon your take off speed, mid-air control is minimal, and sliding when you land is a bitch if you're moving too fast. Unreal has always had this problem. Luckily most of the game never requires this, even in 1 player mode. If I try it a few more times, I would be able to beat it in about a minute, bringing my time down to at least 6 minutes. If I wanted to play mario bros, I'll start up my emu.

For the shock rifle, turn on dynamic lighting - you can gauge the distance much easier.

For the most part this test sucks. The sniper should test accuracy - I could only do this test in 16 seconds, since it took me that long to zoom in and hit all 3 the first time they appeared. I know it's possible in 8 seconds. For some reason I can't just zoom in right away, it stops if I do it too quickly.

The shock rifle shouldn't be a bitch and make you wait 10 seconds for another chance. Why not be an accuracy test, as well?

Anyway, I should be able to destroy this time in another few tries.

Keep posting.

Juge

I have a voodoo 3, and it's fine. Full framerate most of the time with action on the screen. You may like to turn details on low (this goes for anybody) to improve response times.

Goliath

I'm averaging around 200 FPS on my geforce 2 mx, but thats with 1333 mhz pushing it along.

I had mixed feelings about the test, i think the redeemer test was pointless. That weapon is for newbz.

ILl post my times here in a few, i've only done the test once and didnt know what to do on most of them until i got 30 seconds in or so.

I will say the Jump Test is easy if you have the piston jump binded to a key

HQ

Goliath, that's impressive speed. what are your UT settings like? did you minimize stuff to get more speed? i've done that. i average 50-70 fps i guess with my GeForce (1) 256 and 733Mhz P3.

the redeemer test is pointless. and does nothing but show off how ridiculous it is to shoot it down a very narrow hallway (hard to adjust left and right due to 'pauses' in controls.) also stupid to fly it straight up and down!.

i was lost the first time too, as you can tell by my score! try it a few times!

you can bind piston jumps to a key??? how??? also the jump test is easy, if you are talking about test #2, but #10 is crazy (and pointless too).

Goliath

ya HQ, u can bind anything to a key
i dont do it, but u can bind the sniper ZOOM to any weapon, so u could technically zoom with your minigun, etc...
it ruins the game though so i dont mess with it. but i do have a key binded so when i hit it is switches to my piston then as soon as i release it it hits the piston and jumps at the same time, therefore piston jumping 100% with no error

I have all my UT settings on high, but 16 bit. i dont like 32 bit, makes everything seem slow. i get around 220 FPS, my highest is 280
T-bird power baby

hit me up on icq if u want a game 30422199

[This message has been edited by Goliath (edited 08-07-2001).]

HQ

just tried a 5th time and got 5:16.84. first time i've finished the 10th test. damn it's hard.

if your buddy got less than 2 minutes, then i'm missing some kinda trick. obviously the piston jump is a trick i didn't know of! but certian events you can only do so fast (redeemer.)

the bot chase is annoying, but it teaches you that the regular fire is much better than the rapid fire with players who dodge and jump a lot.

Goliath, how do you actually bind those things to a key?

i find that 16 bit isn't faster than 32 with my geforce. so i keep it at 32. the rest i have minimized except for medium level detail. there's a lot of advanced settings you can set to speed up UT! if ya know how!

you have incredible speed for full detail!

Juge

Mother fucker, key binding is such cheap shit. I had no idea you could key bind a piston and jump at the same time, so it works perfectly. That's such bullshit - like having an extra weapon or strength that no one else has. I call cheaters all the time over then net. You can pick most of them out so easily. I can still kick their ass unless they have a really good ping with an aimbot. CSHP doesn't block all those cheap idiots, unfortunately.

There are other ways to cheat, like camping, hiding and all that BS. But, fuck 'em, it makes the game boring and no fun. I'm only playing it to have fun.

As for the test, I tried it again, and got 10 something - the reedemer fucked me up - I was getting pissed. The redeemer is for beginners, I wish more levels would turn that shit off. In these tests, it only shows how stupid the controls are - once you hit left, you're fucked if you want to make a quick right. Why? why in the world did they program it that way? because of physics? they need to take a course in that again, if that's the case. And up and down movement is foolish, as well. Near the end of that test, pointing straight down, you need to rotate the redeemer in order to face down past 90 degrees - which is impossible - so you have to rotate it. of course this subtle rotation, which does not effect the direction of the redeemer has the same crap controls as a normal left-right turn - even though it doesn't have to bank since it's pointing straight down. Which proves that they do not follow any laws of physics correctly. How foolish and annoying. Let the newbies play with it.

The last test - you dont need to cheat with a key bind - just stand near the exit, and jump when the platform is about to hit you - you cant exist inside of it or the wall, so it bumps you up. I imagine there are other cheats of this type in the game.

The below 2 minute times is total bullshit without these type of cheats. Who cares. Why people want to cheat at everything is beyond me. I can think of tons of cheats just off of the top of my head - that piston thing could bump you passed the barries in half of the tests, so you can shoot things better - probably kills the bot fast, too. How lame. You can only compare test times that are played in the same manner (i.e. both not cheating, or both cheating in the same manner)

But the test licks is really bad anyway, so it's not much a real competition, but it's a neat idea, and had great potential - I hope they work on it...

[This message has been edited by Juge (edited 08-07-2001).]

Juge

hey, Goliath,

what resolution are you running at? just curious. nice speed from the thunderbird.

HQ

does key binding allow u to use weaspons (piston) when u don't have them??

HQ

4:34.86 my 6th try

could still shave a whole minute off that though, but the damn redeemer was giving me a tough time this time around

under 2 min = impossible without cheats. no question. i think they should have designed these test a bit better. the first thing i thought about when i got to #10 was cheating due to level design.

Goliath

Binding your piston is not cheating. You cant use it on most of them tests anyway cause it doesnt give you the piston as a weapon in most of them. And when you play CTF as a team on the ladders, u gotta have shit like to be competitive. However other binds are fucked up, like the zoom. There is also a bind that changes your netspeed while your playing, with the press of a key. So essentially you could take the enemy flag, in ctf, and hit the bind to make your netspeed 500 (laggy as fuck), 500 will make you lag across the map all the way back to your base, then you could change it back to non laggy (10-20k) and cap the flag. This shit has been done many times in overtime CTF matches and it ruins the game.

By the way, im runnin 800x600, theres no other way to have it

HQ

Goliath, so how do you bind keys with actions?

Rivux

Well all this talk of 5-6 minutes is making me sick, first time I did it I got 18 and change, 2nd time i got 13 something, I am going to be here all night trying to get to 6 minutes

Juge

Hey, Goliath, yeah, I run in 800x600 - the higher res don't add anything except lower frame rates, so this is how I like it, too

I really do think that key binding the piston is cheating - it's a tool set up for the player after the game is released - i.e. it's not standard - so it's bs in my book. But you are probably right - everyone's probably using it, and you'll need to use it if you're in competitions. Oh, well.

I never heard of the netspeed thing - what does it mean, and why does it create the lag effect? Does it force the computer to accept/send info at a slower rate to make it seem like you just jumped on a 56k? Nasty trick. Boo.

Juge

You have to learn the levels a bit to do better at them - another thing that I think is shitty about the challenge... Look how much you improved your time in just one more attempt... keep trying. it's a bitch, and it's annoying, but you do get better.

Goliath

Anything can be binded by typing preferences in your console. Piston binding is not cheating according to the leagues, however everything else is.

And yes the netspeed is just a way of making you lag, i think it lets the packets in at a slower rate, causing you to just slide across the map. Next time your online pull down the console and type "netspeed 500" then enter. go back and try to play the game...hehe. to change it back put it back on "netspeed 10000" and hit enter.

Its pretty crazy. Hit me up on icq if you ever want a game 30422199

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"Stop the teasin' and start the pleasin'"

HQ

i find it odd that piston jump binding would be allowed. cuz sometimes u don't need to jump all the way (and he helps to jump only half-ass cuz u don't get hurt as much.)

Rivux, 5 to 6 minutes isn't that hard, cuz u haven't played it enough to learn the levels properly. once u do, then you can start to compete! look at my first 6 tries and how fast i improved:

16:41.84
13:22.60
11:33.78
9:05:72
5:16.84 (used the 10th level cheat from here on)
4:34.86

Crutch

I'm just a massive shock whore

Rivux

level 10 is where most of my probelms occur. But fuck it, cuz according to The Book Of Mormon, Mosiah 27:30
"I rejected my redeemer, and denied that which had been spoken of by our fathers."

Amen

HQ

Rivux,

in level 10, jump to the unattainable exit right off the bat... but time it so the moving platform hits you at the peak of your jump. you'll bet push up into the exit. you don't even have to time it well, it almost always works!

now, post your times!

Draked

downloading this mod now and will give it a shot. sounds like it could be fun. will post results once i've tried it out. thanks for the tip!

HQ

np Drake. i figured we probably won't meet online, so this is a cool way to match skills. i think i can do better, but it's easier to try when u have someone else to beat

HQ

3:29:23

my best yet... still haven't even done the test 10 times yet. still lots of room for improvement too!

Juge

My next attempt:

5:58.39

the shock rifle and bot kill gave me trouble this time. this time the bot moves and jumps a lot more than the other times...

HQ

i bet i can get 2.5 minutes on it, if i can just be more consistent.