I'm Back!
After a fairly lengthy hiatus playing UT4 pre-alpha, I logged back into EVE again some 36 hours ago. All but 2 accounts had expired and one of those was about to expire in a few more hours. I burned a...
View ArticleVlad the Bot
Yesterday I said I'd disclose the name of a market  botter in my next post. Here it is, the botter's main character in Genesis is Vladimir Vladimirovitch PutainI've been watching this guy (or more...
View ArticleUedama - Nice Try Ganker
So there I was minding my own business on a 12 jump trip from Motsu picking up stuff scattered all over the region when I passed through the gank camp in Uedama.As usual I was on auto-pilot and afk......
View ArticlePLEX Report October 2015
Well after another month long hiatus, I've been back again for a little more than a week. I logged in 4 or 5 times, spending half an hour to an hour each time updating and placing PLEX orders.The...
View ArticleDM-Eliminator for Unreal Tournament 4
DM-Eliminator V18 - 07 Apr 2016A medium sized original map that plays well in FFA and Duel (assuming powerups off in Duel). Untested in TDM and Showdown (feedback would be greatly appreciated)....
View ArticleDM-Codex for Unreal Tournament 4
DM-Codex-A6Â - Released 20 Apr 2016Remake based upon Cliff (CliffyB)Â Blezinski's original map from UT99. Codex is a smaller, fast paced map with lots of vertical action.Server...
View ArticleMapping Progress
Yup, I'm still alive and I haven't quit UT4.Most of the maps I'm working on are getting quite large though and I don't want to subject players to constantly having to download large new paks all the...
View ArticleNew Remake Shell
Teaser screenshot of new shell remake/port I started on last night for Unreal Tournament 4.It's pretty basic atm, just a BSP shell with basic lighting, materials, reflections, bot support (navmesh) and...
View ArticleDM-Phobos for Unreal Tournament 4
DM-Phobos - version Alpha 1 (A1) released 12 May 2016This map is based upon the original DM-Phobos for Unreal Tournament. The UT99 version that is, not the 2kx version, which is very different from the...
View ArticleUT4 Quote of the Year
One of the best comments I've ever seen on the Unreal Tournament 4 forums and certainly the best in a year or more..Please reduce rocket speed and damage.Everyone just spamming with rox. Or remove the...
View ArticleUT4 Performance Fix
There's a lot of complaining about performance in the latest Unreal Tournament 4 build. Much of it from players who didn't have (or didn't notice) any performance issues before. Some have big freezes...
View ArticleUT4 Quote of the Week
Maybe I was a little quick declaring a UT4 forum quote of the year recently... Found another good one today!Im gonna be alittle harsh, what good is a crosshair if you cant hit whats directly under it...
View ArticleIf It Ain't Broke Don't Fix it!
Why is it practically every new build Epic has to make changes to materials and meshes that mess up all maps using them?Here's a recent example where for some reason they just had to screw with...
View ArticleDM-Nitro Progress
I've been working on DM-Nitro lately.I did quite a bit of meshing, another lighting pass and some optimization too (cut the filesize nearly in half).I'm mostly using stock assets in Nitro to keep...
View ArticleLightmass Swarm Farm Growing
I picked up a used Dell Optiplex 790 SFF for $140 CDN to add to my UT4 Lightmass farm today.The machine came with an i5 2400, 4G of RAM (2x2G) and a 360G HDD. I added a another set of 2x2G RAM I had...
View ArticleMy Favourite UT4 Maps
Unreal Tournament 4 already has a large number of custom maps, remakes and ports out there. These are my top 3 personal favourite maps to play in UT4.DM-Broken - by ConradJustin"This is my shield, I...
View ArticleUT4 Editor - Using Blueprint Skewmesh
Among the more useful new features in the UT4 Editor are skewmesh blueprints. There are 3 types of skewmesh blueprints, BP_SkewMeshX, BP_SkewMeshY and BP_SkewMeshZ.What these blueprints do is take a...
View ArticleDM-Codex Progress Report
My DM-Codex remake was getting a little too big (filesize) and I wanted to scale the whole map up a bit since it was starting to play a bit too tight after multiple in game changes to movement and...
View ArticleUT4 Maps Repacked
Another new build with a game engine bump means all custom maps need to be repacked again. All 16 of mine have been repacked and can be found...
View ArticleMaps repacked and moved to a new location
Since the Play Unreal redirect went down I've moved the Unreal Tournament 4 maps I'm working on back to MPF.Multi Player Forums RedirectUnfortunately while the MPF redirect is working for uploading and...
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