UT3 Titan Pack expansion this year

By Robert Purchese Published 28 January, 2009

And Epic's working on a gigantic patch.

Epic Games has told Eurogamer that the Titan Pack expansion for Unreal Tournament 3 will arrive this year.

Specific details are still scant, but a spokesperson told us more will be revealed "very soon".

The words follow the revelation of an enormous Unreal Tournament 3 patch for PC, according to BeyondUnreal.

This enhances server browsing and beefs up the performance and appearance of the menus and interface. AI, too, has been "significantly improved", and client-side demos can now be recorded.

There's more: better network performance, map voting tweaks, Steam Achievements and fancier mod support. Full patch notes can be found on BeyondUnreal.

This update will arrive within the year, but that's as much as we know. Whether and when consoles will get the same treatment is also unknown.

Unreal Tournament gradually rolled out across PC and PS3 during late 2007, before heading to Xbox 360 in the summer of 2008.

Head over to our Unreal Tournament 3 Xbox 360 review for our most recent thoughts.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Widge #1 3 years ago

    Adding trophies and offering it as a PSN download would be a real PS3 boost. Perfect to be a PSN game.
    In game mod downloading thing would be nice to ala LBP.

  • Dizzy #2 3 years ago

    I thought everybody was making maps for this?

    Hmmm " Titan Pack"? Maybe it will have gigantic Japanese robots?

  • Unclebenny #3 3 years ago

    I bought this game for the xbox not long ago. Played it and really enjoyed, took it online and there's nobody there. I traded it in soon after, which was a shame as it had great potential against actual people.

  • Eraysor #4 3 years ago

    "This enhances server browsing and beefs up the performance and appearance of the menus and interface."

    I have a feeling this might mean returning it to the PC style of menus, considering how much of a pain the current UT3 ones are. It's odd that almost nobody plays this game.

  • Vistrix #5 3 years ago

    @Widge If the they added trophies and made it purchasable on PSN I would buy it instantly.

  • dr.glyndwr #6 3 years ago

    @Unclebenny when it hit £15 (in the two-for-£30 offer in Gamestation) about a dozen of us from the Beex forum bought it. I can confirm that with 8-12 mates it is enormous fun, and refreshingly old school (no reload! Health pickups! Very fast!) compared to most console shooters. We play regularly, if anyone wants a game, come check us out; we're always happy to meet new people.

  • chessboxer #7 3 years ago

    It's a shame it's not as good as UT2004. UT3 was one of the best shooters on the PS3 until Resistance 2 came out. 60 players online is great. It reminds of my PC FPS gaming days in CS:S and BF2, except a bit more organized for the most part.

    @ Dizzy

    People are making maps and mods for the PS3 and PC versions. There's a few hundred maps for the PC version and over 150 for the PS3.

  • Widge #8 3 years ago

    I think its perfect for a PSN game. Strip out the single player bollocks (or compress the audio & video to save DL/install size) and make it like Warhawk. No frills, jump in FPS. I play Warhawk alot because it just sits there ready to use. Slap trophies onto it and it'd give people a hook.

    Not a bad game, some of the maps are great like one where you teleport between a real variety of locations. Dead old school! Like Burnout where instead of having your finger jammed on accelerate, its on SHOOT instead.

    EDIT:

    I've said the above and more in a UT3 features request section on the epic site so fingers crossed that someone might listen!
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/09 @ 16:12

  • dr.glyndwr #9 3 years ago

    I hadn't considered it before, but you guys are right, it'd make a great PSN game. It'd help reinvigorate the online market if they punted it out as a download title for £15 or something. Shame XBLAH couldn't handle it, I have a lot more friends with 360s.

    UT3 is the only game I own for both PS3 and 360. In fact I absent-mindedly picked up the wrong box the other day and put the BluRay disc into the 360. It didn't work, but the universe didn't end in a howling maelstrom either.

  • miiiguel #10 3 years ago

    "Shame XBLAH couldn't handle it"
    It couldn't be a Live Arcade title because it isn't an Arcade title. But Live can distribute episodic content and +1gb demos why couldn't it be delivered through Live network?

    @ Unclebenny: I play it often. If you happen to buy it again, you should join us.
    Edited by 2 at 28/01/09 @ 17:21

  • chessboxer #11 3 years ago

    @ Widge

    The single player was the problem with UT3. Epic should've told Midway where to go and released the game when it was finished. UT99/2k3/2k4 all had excellent single player campaigns and Epic said that the majority of people who had UT2004 didn't even play online!!

    UT3 manages to recapture the movement of UT99, but a true UT game should have an excellent (Tournament based) story and full mod/map support, but that's just my opinion as a veteran player...

  • Widge #12 3 years ago

    ah you see, this is my first experience.

  • Buran #13 3 years ago

    This is IMO the best fps to date in PS3 and the only one that I play consistently. The best thing is that it gives you the option to play with keyboard & mouse, with fits perfectly to enjoy it in my 46" Panny. I can't say the same for other fps that I try to play with pad as Resistance or Halo 3.

    The balance betwen the weapons is superb -no one is useless- the dodges, double jumps and wall jumps are always giving new ways to run the maps, and some of them -like Sentinel or Arsenal- are truly masterpieces of the DM design.

    The bad thing is that the campaign is bad and the storytelling terrible, and also lacks the tournament feeling of the previous ones, plus the HUD is worse tha UT 2003/4 which also was worse tha in UT, but aside from this the game is awesome. I'm thinking about to buy the PC version too, but in this platform I actually play more monsters like Crysis -that has not that good gameplay in Wars mp, but much better graphics.

    Sadly most of the people today prefers to play COD 4; is a good mp -well, not as good as BF2- but martyrdom spawning style isn't for me.

  • Nithron #14 3 years ago

    I actually kinda liked the singleplayer campaign. It didn't make any sense, but it knew it didn't make any sense, and played it for laughs.

  • StooMonster #15 3 years ago

    It's sad I know, but with this Steam integration I might have to buy it again on Steam and donate my retail copy to a friend.

  • dr.glyndwr #16 3 years ago

    @miiiguel: yes, granted, the reason it can't be done is because of Microsoft policies on Arcade sizes, rather than anything technical.

  • the_mtfr #17 3 years ago

    It was amazing when I played the demo, but when it comes out on Linux, then I'll buy it. The guy at icculus.org was showing a working screenshot of his porting on both Linux and Mac's OS a long time ago. I salivated then but you know what, Icculus? .......saliva gets dry if it's waiting too long for the port!!!!!

  • Beano #18 3 years ago

    "yes, granted, the reason it can't be done is because of Microsoft policies on Arcade sizes, rather than anything technical."

    Xbox Classics are also large in size... 4-6 gigs for many titles, so selling UT3 on on XBL is entierely possible. It's just up to MS to allow publishers to sell full games on XBL.