Unreal Tournament III Patch Plans

Epic Games has released patch notes for version 1.3 of Unreal Tournament III. The patch is currently undergoing testing, so no release date has been announced. A list of gameplay fixes to the online FPS can be seen below:

- Fixed overlay mesh showing up on hidden sniper rifle when un-zoomed.

- Now hear own auto-taunts.

- Fix for Liandri bots riding high in vehicles.

- Fixed mutators disappearing between matches.

- Fixed up PC DLC screenshots and player counts.

- Vipers can no longer be driven around underwater if entered while underwater - they pop up out of the water, even if deep in it.

- Fixed announcements not playing properly in WAR-MarketDistrict during the campaign.

- Fixed manta crouch exploit.

- Fixed loaded RL switching away before releasing load on net clients.

- Fixed occasionally getting stuck when getting up from ragdoll.

- Fixed ending zoom when go into feign death.

- Fixed giving proper stats credit for translocator telefrags.

- Fixed giving proper suicide stat credit for certain environmental suicides.

- Fixed Hoverboard foot placement when watching other client get on.

- Improved the turret controls on the rail turret with analog controller.

- Fixed friendly fire mutator showing up as option for Duel.

- Fixed bug where second enforcer wouldn't show up if picked up while switching to enforcer.

- Fixed shock/instagib beams which were grabbed from emitter pool sometimes incorrectly having DPG_Foreground set.

- Fixed "missing required file for demo playback" error message.

- Fixed redeemer explosion on client when shot down.

- Fixed big head mutator head scaling popping out at distance.

- End the match right away in duel if a player leaves.

- Fixed not getting kismet node destroyed event when node captured by orb.

- Fixed effect showing up for disabled weapon lockers.

- Don't modify power core damage caused by kismet.

- Fixed scavenger legs disappearing in kill volumes.

- Deployables can no longer be deployed onto hover/flying vehicles.

- Fixed Hoverboard script warnings and possible crash if hoverboard fails to spawn.

- Fixed impact hammer impact camera shake for low gore clients.

For a complete list of patch notes that covers other tweaks/additions, visit IGN's sister site, planetunreal.gamespy.com. For more information on Unreal Tournament III, read our review of the game.

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