ut2k4 too fast?

gurke · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 260

In game, the ut2k4 demo feels like it has 200% of the speed, ut2k3 had. is that normal? i thinks its unplayable, since you cant point at any target, while strafeing in an hovercraft, for expample.

ardnut · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 94

havent played ut2003 in a while but yea it does seem a little faster game play, but I like it. With onslaught and assualt modes its now got all the best bits of games like quake3 (in its speed), battlefield 1942 (in its vehicles, large landscapes and multiple point "capture and hold") and rtcw:et in its objectives. I'm definitly getting the 2 dvd set.

asiobob · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:31 pm Post subject:

Tried adjusting your mouse sensitivity?
The speed on mine is normal, as I expected, just like the windows version

gurke · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 260

its not the mouse, i mean, its the game. but maybe im just to slow

DrFishstik · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject: Just so you know...

The OpenGL rendering engine in UT2004 is vastly improved over 2003's IMHO, 2004 is far more playable than 2003 was so you're not crazy

blue.sca · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

havent played it yet, but to be faster than ut2003 is not a problem

i like it fast, perhaps it can compete with quake3arena in gameplay...
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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

if you want speed, turn up the gamespeed.

it doesn't need to 'compete' with quake to be good.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

The gameplay is faster, however it isn't still that fast like Q3.
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blue.sca · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:

never said, neenee. ut2003 was created to be number one in none-objective-fps before q3, this has never been possible. perhaps ut2004 makes the right step...
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Drewgrange · Guru Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 483 Location: Ohio, US

I felt that ut2k4 was slowed down a little bit from 2k3, which I thought was a good thing. Maybe it just "feels" better. I thought UT2K3 was way too Quake-ish for my taste, but 2k4 is a great improvement.

jonnevers · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

ut2k3 nor ut2k4, even exaggerating, don't come close to the raw speed of the quake3 engine.

but they are very different games, q3 dosen't have nearly as many bells and whistles.

i have noticed a speed improvement in ut2k4 over ut2k3, but I seem to be having a large amount of trouble aiming in ut2k4 (vehicles are fine) and it is really driving me nuts. I cannot track people nor can I hit them with my weapon fire.
has anyone experienced this sort of debilitating gameplay and found a resolution? (this was a commone problem for me in ut2k3 too)

one thing i miss from q3 was the "buzzer" when i did damage to my opponent. That buzzer at least gave me an indication of how I was shooting. in UT its like a free for all where It appears to be completely inconsistent in terms of effect and damage.

Drewgrange · Guru Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 483 Location: Ohio, US

You know you're hitting them when blood starts flying

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Sefthuko · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 64

You might have speedfreqd running as dynamic mode, in which case it thinks your computer's running in powersave mode at the beginning. Then as the game plays, the CPU shoots up to the maximum speed, and your game is 200% faster

floam · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the current demo build of the game does calibrations before the actual game starts, so if something like cpufreqd is upping the frequency of your processor when stuff gets busy, the game will mess up. There is an unofficial fix here: http://icculus.org/~icculus/tmp/ut2004demo-lnx-cpufreqd-fix.tar.bz2
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