Unreal Tournament 3

Unreal
Unreal	1998
Unreal Tournament	1999
Unreal Tournament 2003	2002
Unreal II: The Awakening	2003
Unreal Tournament 2004	2004
Unreal Tournament 3	2007
Unreal Tournament 4	Cancelled

Key points

Comes bundled with modding tools

Small community

General information

Official developer site

Official game site

Epic Games Official Forum

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' forum - For game series

Planet Unreal

Liandri Archives - A dedicated Unreal wiki site that collects information about all the games in the series.

Availability

The serial key is used either for installation or tied to an online account for use with online play. Can also be activated via Steam using a retail serial key.

Improvements

TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.

Ultron has a forum post that has various fixes and tweaks for the game.

Official Patch

• The latest patch is version 5.
• Only needed for retail versions.

Titan Pack

Free DLC that adds a significant amount of fixes and content.

You don't need Titan Pack if you've bought the Black edition.

Increase Player-Model Resolution

Insert these lines in your UTCustomChar.ini file under [UTGame.UTCustomChar_Data]

BodyMaxTexSize[0]=2048

BodyMaxTexSize[1]=2048

BodyMaxTexSize[2]=256

BodyMaxTexSize[3]=256

BodyMaxTexSize[4]=512

HeadMaxTexSize[0]=2048

HeadMaxTexSize[1]=2048

HeadMaxTexSize[2]=512

HeadMaxTexSize[3]=256

HeadMaxTexSize[4]=256

SelfBodyMaxTexSize[0]=2048

SelfBodyMaxTexSize[1]=2048

SelfBodyMaxTexSize[2]=256

SelfBodyMaxTexSize[3]=256

SelfBodyMaxTexSize[4]=512

SelfHeadMaxTexSize[0]=2048

SelfHeadMaxTexSize[1]=2048

SelfHeadMaxTexSize[2]=512

SelfHeadMaxTexSize[3]=256

SelfHeadMaxTexSize[4]=256

Mods

Where to Download

Mods can be easily found through quick Google searches; there are many fan sites dedicated to Unreal Tournament 3 modding with the most popular being Beyond Unreal or Epic Games Official Forums. Epic Games Official Forums have a forum category for custom maps and mods. An Epic Games Forum post has the winners of the "Make Something Unreal" contest which list many great mods for different categories.

Maps

Maps are custom levels that are created using mod tools or editors.

• A forum user at Giant Bomb has compiled a list of essential maps, although some have broken links.
• A list of essential custom maps for Unreal Tournament 3 can be found on GameSpy's Planet Unreal website.
• Community Bonus Pack (CBP) is a famous map pack featuring many great high quality maps.
• The COMP (Competitive) Map Pack focuses more on competitive 1-on-1 style maps.
• The Unreal Old Friends Map Packs Volume 1 and Volume 2 contain a high amount of high quality maps in various game types.

Characters and Skins

Characters are unique custom races that can be downloaded, skins are different color schemes or textures for current existing races.

• Skins and characters can be downloaded from Beyond Unreal's Skin City website.

Total Conversion

Total conversion mods use the game's engine, while letting you play a whole new game, for example The Ball mod which is a single player total conversion mod.

• Total conversion mods can mostly be found in Mod DB's Unreal Tournament 3 page.
• The Haunted is the winner of the "Make Something Unreal" contest and one of many entries of the contest that have gone commercial as a stand alone game.
• Angels Fall First is a large scale sci-fi multiplayer mod that has now undergone UDK development.
• Renegade-X is a multiplayer mod that is a remake of the Command & Conquer: Renegade game.

Game data

In-game audio settings.

Video settings

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In-game general graphics settings.

File:Unreal Tournament 3 Advanced Graphics.png

In-game advanced graphics settings.

Multi-monitor

The game is compatible with AMD/ATI's Eyefinity solution and NVIDIA's Vision Surround solution although the HUD elements are enlarged and disproportional. Increasing the FOV can help with multimonitor displays but the weapon view models and HUD elements get in the way. Widescreen Gaming Forum's article also has an FOV fix for multimonitor displays as well as more information.

Field of view (FOV)

Unreal Tournament 3 supports an FOV view slider in the options menu, however the slider moves to a maximum of 100 which is roughly correct for 16:10 displays. As described in Widescreen Gaming Forum's article, a custom mutator, FreeFOV must be used to increase the FOV further for 16:9 displays.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Unreal Tournament 3 does not have an anisotropic filtering option, it's changed through the "Texture Quality" option. Anisotropic filtering can be forced through AMD/ATI or NVIDIA driver settings.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Unreal Tournament 3 does not natively support anti-aliasing and must be forced through AMD/ATI or NVIDIA driver settings.

Input settings

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In-game general input settings.

In-game key map settings.