Ballistic Weapons Bonus Pack 4 Released!

[dwax]

On there website!! YAY!!

Written by ShadowBlade
Tuesday 15 January 2008 - 17:00:10
The long awaited Ballistic Weapons Bonus Pack 4 has at last been finished!

This RuneStorm developed pack has been in the works for a very long time and features 8 brand new, fan designed, unique tools of destruction! The forces of heaven and hell clash with two mythical staves, unleashing awesome secret powers.
Old-west styled guns make skilled hands even more deadly and devastating futuristic cannons are sure to leave no enemy standing on the battlefield.

Rounding off the battle nicely, is the brutal 'Thor' Assault Tank, armed with a devastating dual cannon and 50 Cal machinegun, sure to turn the tide of any battle.

Includes the following:

'GRS9' Pistol
'Redwood 6000 Deermaster' Rifle
'Wilson 41-DB' Revolver
'E-23 ViPeR' Plasma Rifle
'J2329 HAMR' Artillery
'JL-21 MRL' Rocket Launcher
Nova Staff
Dark Star
'Thor' Assault Tank

http://www.runestorm.com/news.php

[warts]

dead tie...

[AnubanUT2]

Are you folks going to start working on UT3 modding projects now ... like converting all these over and updating the graphics since the weapons can now really be made to look realistic? I appreciate this update ... since I still play UT2K4 but I can't see not making the move since the UT2K4 forums are so dead these days.

[sdf234]

Awsome..... Awsome

[Sonix]

Are you folks going to start working on UT3 modding projects now ... like converting all these over and updating the graphics since the weapons can now really be made to look realistic? I appreciate this update ... since I still play UT2K4 but I can't see not making the move since the UT2K4 forums are so dead these days.

If the forums are so dead these days, why are you trying to turn them over to the dark side of UT3? ^^
Ah... these new weapons.. its exactly what BW lacked, although the ViPeR is a plasma version of the battlerifle...
And the tank... its so awesome... it just owns all... i wish it had a special function though, like all BW stuff...

[akstylish]

best ut2004 mod. period.

[warts]

ties always dead...

[a_giant_flea]

I think its good that people are still making mods for ut2k4. Not everyone has ut3 (like me ) and some cant afford it. about the mod, I think its great, just the graphics are slightly low quality. (then again, i have just been playing a lot of Bioshock and with the ut3 graphics engine it looks great

[Bjossi]

UE2 is an aging engine, no wonder it looks pretty bad compared to UE3 or other modern engines.

[Doc Shock]

True, Bjossi. Though, that being said, I think BW looks pretty darn awesome for a UE2.5 project. I'd never rate its graphics as low quality. Weapon design is top-notch and the effects are great. Surpasses standard UT2k4 by far, in almost every aspect. Some explosions looks even better than the ones in UT3.
Imo, all that BW would need to look up par to the "next gen" stuff would be a few shader effects and a bit of nomal mapping, the rest is cool as is.

[Bjossi]

The problem is that UE2.5 doesn't support normal maps natively, they'd need the engine source and compile new binaries for that to work out.

What I think would be badass is if they'd use an open source engine and create a whole game around the BW universe. To this day they have been stuck with most of Epic's code which was not at all designed for the gameplay the BW devs aim for.

[UTDDRmaster117]

Is it a TC mod or a mutator? Or just a replacement?

Either way... This is so kickass... xDD

[4TX4]

What I think would be badass is if they'd use an open source engine and create a whole game around the BW universe. To this day they have been stuck with most of Epic's code which was not at all designed for the gameplay the BW devs aim for.

Nice idea, but is there a truly 'next-gen' open source engine? These things tend to be either aging commercial engines, or relatively simplistic hobby projects, afaik.

[Bjossi]

Even though an engine is aging, nothing stops the coder from simply updating the graphics. The Doom 3 engine will be going GPL before long (in 2 - 3 years afaik), that is a great base engine that can be updated to meet today's (and tomorrow's) standards.

[Bjossi]

If it were a TC it'd allow more possibilities. But I like the mutator setup, more simple and still lots of fun.