MSU Phase 4 Best Non-FPS Mod Finalists

**Steve Polge** · 10-07-2009, 09:32 AM

Here are the Phase 4 finalists for the “Best non-FPS Mod” category in its $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. All finalists in this category (as well as in the best FPS Mod category) are eligible to enter the Grand Finals. This competition rewards top mods created for Unreal Tournament 3 with cash and hardware prizes in four preliminary phases and a grand final. Visit http://www.makesomethingunreal.com for full details.

The competition was stiff in this round - there are a number of honorable mentions in this category that would easily have been finalists in previous phases.

Best non-FPS Mod Phase 4 Finalists:
Coda http://www.moddb.com/mods/coda
The Haunted http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-haunted
Steam Racers http://www.moddb.com/mods/steam-racers
Unreal Tactics 2 http://www.moddb.com/mods/unreal-tactics
Airborn http://www.moddb.com/mods/airborn
Archasis II http://www.moddb.com/mods/archasis-ii
Hazard: The Journey of Life http://www.demruth.com/hazard.htm
Renegade X http://www.moddb.com/mods/renegade-x
UnWheel 2
BailterRay http://www.moddb.com/mods/bailter-ray
Killing Time UT2D (eligible for grand finals, but not for Phase 4 prize since not updated from Phase 3)

Best non-FPS Mod Phase 4 Honorable Mentions:
Voider
Takeshi Gladiators
Millagun UT2D
Robo Coop
AZ66 Mod
Macchinisto
Steel Halo: Imperial League
The Year 2000! Gameshow
ToonDoom http://cs14productions.com/toondoom.php
Cartel
Cubes of Serenity
Project Swing
CarBall 3
Ancient Tales Mod
SCUM
Adrenaline Rush
Doll Carnage

**ogssan** · 10-07-2009, 01:09 PM

Uhhh nice...

And congratulations to the other finalists.

-Steam Racers team

**RenderMonkey** · 10-07-2009, 05:01 PM

Congratulation to all the finalists.

While I am happy for all finalists, I must admit that I am surprised to find Renegade-X on the list. Can Epic clearify the rules for us? The official rules says for example:

"All Submissions must be available for free public download at the time of submission and playable with the retail version of Unreal Tournament 3 patched to the latest officially released update. "

To my knowledge, and to the rest of the public, Renegade-X was released on 30th September, while the deadline for phase 4 was end of August

Can Epic please explain what has happend? To me it would appear that Renegade-X have been given special treatment.

**Steve Polge** · 10-07-2009, 05:05 PM

Renegade X submitted a version for the contest before the contest deadline. This version has been publically available from fileplanet since then (you can see the download link at www.makesomethingunreal.com). This mod was judged based on the version submitted before the deadline.

**RenderMonkey** · 10-07-2009, 05:19 PM

How is it public if it is not on MSUC page nor does Renegade-X team call it public release, but rather the one released now?

**Steve Polge** · 10-07-2009, 05:28 PM

It is on the MSUC page, and has been since the deadline.

**RenderMonkey** · 10-07-2009, 05:31 PM

Besides a trailer, Renegade-X is not on http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/phase4.aspx , and never has been.

But this doesn't seem to go anywhere, but I find the whole thing very weird, and I think there are other people that would agree with me..

**Steve Polge** · 10-07-2009, 05:34 PM

I just checked again. It is there, and has been since the deadline.

**Jetfire** · 10-07-2009, 05:40 PM

I expect, like Planetstorm, it was submitted quietly for your benefit, in order to make the thing more suitable for public consumption and to save downloading a full mod (1.1gig in our case) twice in a short time. The links to ours and Ren-X were there if you knew where to look, simply not shouted around all over the place. No conspiracy >.<

edit, oh, and of course congratulations to everyone!

**RenderMonkey** · 10-07-2009, 05:48 PM

Edit: Seems for some reason Renegade X is found as Ren X. When searching I searched for Renegade and found only the trailer, my bad about that at least

**NEfobbyGEN** · 10-07-2009, 05:53 PM

CHECK AGAIN.

The name is set as Ren X.

**AStepIntoOblivion** · 10-07-2009, 05:55 PM

I beg to differ, but it really was. Unless you were looking at the front page where only the first few mods submitted where mentioned (unless you follow the link to the rest of the mods).

In fact, one of the reasons why I remember that it was there so clearly as soon as FPGundam updated it with all the entries was that the description for Planetstorm and RenX was somehow confused, and we got the same description as RenX.

**Steve Polge** · 10-07-2009, 05:58 PM

Did you look in the FPS mod category? It was entered in that category as well (we judged it as non-FPS to be consistent with our criteria for which category a mod goes into, although unfortunately our criteria and the categories seem a bit dated).

**Havoc89** · 10-07-2009, 06:02 PM

Hmm... I'm pretty sure I see it.

**Jetfire** · 10-07-2009, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Polge

Did you look in the FPS mod category? It was entered in that category as well (we judged it as non-FPS to be consistent with our criteria for which category a mod goes into, although unfortunately our criteria and the categories seem a bit dated).

I knew we should have put a keybind to toggle behindview

**frvge** · 10-07-2009, 06:17 PM

Not even a honourable mention for Project Stealth? I'm disappointed (expected more with the close to 3 years we put into it).

Aw well, we'll probably be done shortly after Phase 5 with a truely playable version.

Congrats to the rest of course.

**Potens** · 10-07-2009, 08:42 PM

Congrats to all the other finalists. Steve, when you say all the finalists in phase 4 are eligible to enter the grand finals, does that mean there will be twenty possible entries, or that 12 entries will be chosen from the pool of twenty to compete in the grand finals? If it is the former case do we still need to get back to you in 72 hours to confirm our intent to submit?

**Scubamonkey** · 10-08-2009, 01:03 AM

Good question Potens,

I would also like to ask some other specific questions about phase 4 - 5 transitioning. Any moderators or contest judges that can answer them for me please PM me. My previous questions went unanswered on the forums, and until I spoke to Dana. Please let me know if that is the route I should take again or if anyone here could help me out. Thanks, I appreciate it.

Also, I would like to give a shout out to all of the fellow non-fps finalists and HMs, as I had one of each this phase (Killing Time and Millagun) too bad I can't swap the two - I am extremely surprised and disappointed that Millagun did not do as well as I had hoped in this category but still hold hope that it may do better in one of the remaining categories... good luck to everyone else - I can't wait to see the remaining results!

**HEGI** · 10-08-2009, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Potens

Congrats to all the other finalists. Steve, when you say all the finalists in phase 4 are eligible to enter the grand finals, does that mean there will be twenty possible entries, or that 12 entries will be chosen from the pool of twenty to compete in the grand finals? If it is the former case do we still need to get back to you in 72 hours to confirm our intent to submit?

That would indeed be intresting to know if we have to contact epic again to be part of the grand finals.

Congrats to all other finalists btw.

**Jetfire** · 10-08-2009, 04:38 AM

72hrs what? Where did that come from? O_o

**HEGI** · 10-08-2009, 04:42 AM

I see, it's in the official rules, but this only applies if you are contacted directly.

Up to 12 Submissions will be selected as finalists ("Finalists"). Finalists will be contacted by Sponsor or a representative of Sponsor and will have up to 72 hours to respond via email and confirm their interest in moving to the Final Round.

**Polyphobia** · 10-08-2009, 05:42 AM

congratz to everyone making it!

**Mighty BOB!** · 10-08-2009, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by Jetfire

I expect, like Planetstorm, it was submitted quietly for your benefit, in order to make the thing more suitable for public consumption and to save downloading a full mod (1.1gig in our case) twice in a short time. The links to ours and Ren-X were there if you knew where to look, simply not shouted around all over the place. No conspiracy >.<

Bingo!

Congrats to everyone and here is hoping for a great grand final!

**JeepRubi** · 10-08-2009, 02:33 PM

Any idea when we will see the phase 4 winners?

**micahpharoh** · 10-09-2009, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by JeepRubi

Any idea when we will see the phase 4 winners?

We must be getting close

**Demruth** · 10-09-2009, 11:44 AM

How unexpected. I'm quite glad. Thanks, and congrats to the other finalists.

**AStepIntoOblivion** · 10-09-2009, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by HEGI

I see, it's in the official rules, but this only applies if you are contacted directly.

AFAIK The finalists listed in this and the other thread are still only for PHASE 4. Not the Grand Finals.

**glow_trance** · 10-11-2009, 09:42 AM

definately congratulations to finalists, there's some seriously talented modders out there.

wish I had more time to work on mine

**crowl** · 10-14-2009, 03:49 PM

Hi everyone, email notifications to all the finalists have been distributed.

If your team leader did NOT receive an email, please PM me and we'll make sure your team is provided ftp instructions for the next deadline.

Thanks to all of our awesome mod teams.

**Baleno** · 10-14-2009, 06:31 PM

Thanks Crowl, and congrats to the other finalists

**LittleMOM** · 10-17-2009, 03:49 PM

Congratulations and good luck to all FINALIST

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