UT3 nitpicks

[Killerus]

I'm not opening up all my ports, that would completely defeat any security I have.

I believe it has something to do with having to print french materials in Canada, so instead they just ship a cd with a pdf on it.

i am not saying open them permanently, just try for a round to see if that fixes the problem, if it does then you know that you need to forward specific ports.

[Frustian]

I'm not opening up all my ports, that would completely defeat any security I have.

I believe it has something to do with having to print french materials in Canada, so instead they just ship a cd with a pdf on it.

[Killerus]

i am running behind a linksys router and have nothing forwarded or open. If you were attempting to host then i would think you would need to open some ports. Did you try to open all ports and see if that fixes the problem?

[dethmanrulz]

I can't believe that Canadians don't get a manual.... is there a good reason for this?? Mark?

[Frustian]

Like I said, I can understand if I need to open a port for MP, but at least make it easy to find said port.

I can't see why the campaign bug is my fault, the games works fine in every other mode and I can watch 720p movies fine in any comression.

[Killerus]

sounds more like problems specific to your setup than actual game bugs. I have experienced none of what you stated.

[Frustian]

First of all UT3 is great imo, but there are too many bugs and issues that I can't overlook.

What I didn't like about UT3:
1) Canadians like me didn't get a printed manual it seems.
2) Campaign is seriously bugged, it crashed during the opening cinematic, and when I changed the .ini so it stops crashing, it stutters during the movie (this is not a hardware issue) then it crashes while loading the first map.
3) Multiplayer is bugged. I get disconnected, and logged out almost every map I play, and I CTD once (for 2.5hrs of playtime, 1 CTD is a lot). This may be a firewall issue, but since I have no idea what ports UT3 uses, I can't fix it.
4) Why have so many things from games like UT2k4 been discarded? Specifically Assault mode.

So, I am stuck playing instant action until the next patch comes out. This is by no means a bad review, you have done a lot of positive things with the game, including no copy protection and a Linux client in the future, if only more games would follow your lead with those 2 things. Hopefully Epic can get a patch out quickly, although I would have thought it wouldn't be this buggy at release. I'm probably just paranoid, but my DVD label was UT3_RC7, I hope I didn't get a beta RC build or something.