Bl!tz wrote:

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u did it!....finally...haha

welcome aboard mate, and thx for sharing all this....

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Sorry it took so long!

1xTrEmE wrote:

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Personally between my business/family/RL I haven't much time if any to play online recently, Odedge used to have a UT3 server that he rented and I'm sure he'll be happy to see someone else here from our neck of the woods. <the trick will be getting him over here to notice this thread> lol. 

The trick has been completed!

Hope to see ya around <gramps>. - while I do respect your modesty; I actually dig your maps dude, hardly hack. <believe me I can spot a hack job when I see it> ... heh ...

 Every time you look into the mirror?

Peace bro.

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 Welcome Maul.  I am a native southern Californian myself and have been playing the UT series for a while (since 2003/4).  I think I may be the second oldest guy here (41), but I don't keep track of such things.

Can you please post your site's address as I don't show signatures (and must be too lazy to toggle them off).

Bl!tz wrote:

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rofl....yeah you are all old farts...i feel suddently young and awesome! muhahahaha

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LOL!  He he, enjoy yourself Bl!tz - just not too much, you might put your back out .

1xTrEmE wrote:

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Nice to finally formally meet ya ... I'm originally from Santa Cruz Ca .. <before I moved to Nevada> any way cool write up man. Yeah I remember my 1st 3DFX Monster Voodoo card; first publicly available card with hardware acceleration ah Motoracer, Whiplash, Decent 2, etc. I remember literally driving to Canopus in San Jose to pick up a Pure 3D card back in the day (maybe slightly before UT) then Nvidia arrived on the scene with the Geforce cards - they would eventually buy out 3DFX / Voodoo .. I was on the cutting edge of hardware because of our consulting business at that time. Yes certainly good times indeed. There was nothing like playing the original UT online with real people; and head-shotting the endless waves of nOObs that would come around the corners on CTF-Facing worlds, we also used to impact hammer camp at the top teleport of Face so as soon as they'd come through they were toast. We actually played on the CTF ladders competitively back in the UT99 / early 2003 days - it truly was like a virtual sport, an absolute rush; this is why we still play on our LAN to this day. / Ah yeah Beer UT & the LAN ... good times good times.

Wait Steve posted his pic? must have missed that ..

I started mapping again with UT3 for LAN use, ended up at the Epic forums releasing some of what I'd made for personal use and ultimately arrived here with a bunch of cool dudes with the same interests. - The community is very small and getting smaller compared to each previous year, although I noticed there are lots of downloaders and people who view threads on the Epic forums but don't say anything, apparently not everyone is as social or talkative as some of us. If everyone who downloaded something posted a simple thank you I imagine the community would seem probably about 25 times bigger, at any rate; its all good & this is the internet after all.

Personally between my business/family/RL I haven't much time if any to play online recently, Odedge used to have a UT3 server that he rented and I'm sure he'll be happy to see someone else here from our neck of the woods. <the trick will be getting him over here to notice this thread> lol. 

Hope to see ya around <gramps>. - while I do respect your modesty; I actually dig your maps dude, hardly hack. <believe me I can spot a hack job when I see it> ... heh ...

 

Peace bro.

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Thanks 1X.  Sounds like you had similar experiences in the early UT days.  The good ole days...

Lord_PorkSword wrote:

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Welcome M8!

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 Thanks dude!

stevelois wrote:

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Hé hé, hi Martin & welcome on UOF

Glad to see you register here

Nice presentation & damn I had a really good time laughing by reading all others comments LOL

I think a bunch of UOF members can be call grandpa' now, me include, uncle is to young LOL !!!

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  Thanks Steve.  Yeah, I'm lame, I actually registered a long time ago but just didn't make it over to post.  Grandpa Maul, reporting for duty 

1xTrEmE wrote:

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All in good time ... all in good time my bro's.

Hey Marty if ya ever feel like doing some private testing with us let us know! <we have a fairly substantial private area with WIP, etc.> 5 bucks says I can get ya access in a heart-beat if you were interested, especially considering you're still fairly active on the scene. No pressure & no rush either though, just wanted to put that out there.

 

BTW I heard a good thing on Epic about the staff playing the latest CBP maps @HQ before they were released. If that's not a small hint at the very least it indicates they still have interest in the series .. and- their paying attention to the community.

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 I wouldn't mind checking out the WIP area but no pressure from me back at ya.  That is very cool about Epic playing CBP maps.  I'm not holding my breath about any future UT's of course.  I was always hoping Cliffy would get back involved with it but he's gone now obviously.  I think alot of the humorous over-the-top side came from him.  Good to hear they still pay attention to the community.  Flak probably helps with that.

MauL wrote:

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 Cool, good to see other CA types in here.  Here's the site address:  http://martyscablecarnage.com/

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 Nice site.  I didn't realize you are the MCC guy from Epic forums.  That hangar map is pretty damn cool.  Irrc, I opened up the Kismet window and said... WTF?!?!?

Take that as a compliment.

Sly. wrote:

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Well, Odedge wouldn't be so slow if you would stop pushing him into that slo mo field.

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 I know right ...

I like to run the MCC site in the background when I map, it has a kick-azz rotation of unreal tunes.

Marty, I really dig the dynamic music thing you have going on your site. IMO the music from the UT series is some of the best in any video game ever period.

 If your at all into remixes I have some killer shiat.

SkywardFire Remix ..

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/721026-CTF-Maelstrom-REMAKE-DL-Pics-PC-FINAL?p=27719416&viewfull=1#post27719416

A remix of Superfist complete with an intro <its pretty much professional grade> you can hear that in my UOF-CTF-AndAction2K10 spam fest map , I also have a nice remix of Run and some others. If your interested I can upload them, if not no worries.

Thrallala wrote:

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Welcome!

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 Thanks Thrallala!

Odedge wrote:

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MauL wrote:

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 Cool, good to see other CA types in here.  Here's the site address:  http://martyscablecarnage.com/

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 Nice site.  I didn't realize you are the MCC guy from Epic forums.  That hangar map is pretty damn cool.  Irrc, I opened up the Kismet window and said... WTF?!?!?

Take that as a compliment.

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 The Kismet in Fith is pretty insane also.  If you're bored, you can open up the matinee for the door on the floor blowing off for some laughs.  It was quite a PITA trying to get that to look right.  In the end, it looks more like a leaf blowing in the wind LOL!  The other funny thing is that where the door ended up it blocked player movement from one angle so I had to slide in a wedge shaped dynamic blocking volume at the end of the sequence.   I used to do quite a bit of FPGA design on the engineering side so I think I'm drawn to it due to the logic design aspect of it.

I made a very basic version of Hangar for UT2004 as my first map but Hangar for UT3 was my first real effort and it shows because I would do it differently now.  I probably took a few years off my life making it .

MauL wrote:

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Glad you like the music on there.  I'm probably violating some EULA's but I will wait until someone asks me to take it down .  I downloaded the Skyward fire remix.  You can upload the others if you get a chance.  Just so happens I added more music on there yesterday so there's about 50 songs on there now.

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 Sounds good, I dug up the info for my old mediafire account, I should have some uploaded by the weekend. - damn 50 nice selection bro.