Low online population for PC?

[VirusX]

I've had the game for about 3 days now, and I noticed in every game mode the server numbers are at around a static 55ish.

This seems ridiculously low. I also noticed half the servers are hosted by Epic itself. Am I missing something or did this game just not sell very well?

Also, I couldn't help but notice how horrible the server filtering menu is. You can't filter by mutators, and there is no favorites list. They seriously need to work on that.

[weebl]

A large chunk of the world hasn't even been able to get their hands on it yet, that might be a part of it.

[jarablue]

It has been out for what? At least 2 days now in the entire USA. The online servers right now is jack. I mean almost none at all. I tried to get on the 1 out of 2 deathmatch servers and couldn't connect. I hope this games sells well. First special edition game I bought in a long time. Please don't say no one has it yet. Go to any game store it's there.

I mean there are almost 0 games online right now. Crazy.

[martinblank]

and another large chunk of the world is waiting for it to fkin' ship because they pre ordered it from an e-tail store. like me.

[dethmanrulz]

well... I've gotta say the numbers are very disappointing... HOWEVER, hopefully things will pickup when all of Europe gets it. Give it a week.

I know, UT2004 had MASSIVE player numbers right in the first couple days... but lets face it.. that's probably not gonna happen again.

[Loeder]

and another large chunk of the world is waiting for it to fkin' ship because they pre ordered it from an e-tail store. like me.

you mean e-fail store...

[Mouton]

Well, USA came out on 19th, Dedicated server for Windows (very important) came 2 days later then Canada had it on 22th. To me, the game will really start to shine once the first patch will be out. By then the dedicated setup for Linux should also be out. Some poeple must be waiting for computer upgrade for christmas or also waiting for the first patch.

[knuttraker]

The filtering is ****, no favorites, no mutator, and its a pain to get to one by ip.

[falldarkraven]

well another thing is that the game requirements are bigger then UT2004 and some lots of people might not be able to run it some may be hable to run it but in a ****ty frame rate and they dont play it not all people have a high end pc.


Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS 512 mb video ram
1.5 gigs of ram
AMD Atlon X2 3800 dual core 2.0
Dell 20 inch high definition monitor
X-Fi sound card(dont know which)

[jarablue]

I remember previous releases had at least some even a good amount of servers online. A lot of users have kick *** systems. Plenty of us enthusiasts. It's just odd. This is the only release I have seen this little. 03 and 04 had way more right at this point in release. Wonder whats up?

[dethmanrulz]

true, but we mustn't forget that the UT2004 requirements were not good for everyone back in the day either...

[Respen]

you should see at least 50 servers in deathmatch. if not something on your end is wrong.

UT3 is really picky about server detection, I had to throw in a pci ethernet as the one onboard my asus (p5b) motherboard wasn't picking them up. Others have had the same troubles.

[Skill]

Even in the usa, tons of people are having ot wait a few more days. i havnt heard of anyone in canada getting it yet. Plus look at australia, europe, and everyone else who doesn't have it yet. I know it's been said before, but its in the first 3 days! if my pc could run it, i'd be doin botmatches and campaign for the first couple weeks. give it a month

[dethmanrulz]

Even in the usa, tons of people are having ot wait a few more days. i havnt heard of anyone in canada getting it yet. Plus look at australia, europe, and everyone else who doesn't have it yet. I know it's been said before, but its in the first 3 days! if my pc could run it, i'd be doin botmatches and campaign for the first couple weeks. give it a month

most people in Canada can have it by now... since yesterday.

I remember previous releases had at least some even a good amount of servers online. A lot of users have kick *** systems. Plenty of us enthusiasts. It's just odd. This is the only release I have seen this little. 03 and 04 had way more right at this point in release. Wonder whats up?

it's a bit concerning, frankly.

[dethmanrulz]

you should see at least 50 servers in deathmatch. if not something on your end is wrong.

UT3 is really picky about server detection, I had to throw in a pci ethernet as the one onboard my asus (p5b) motherboard wasn't picking them up. Others have had the same troubles.

well that's something they need to fix asap if that's true. Anyway, yeah I get a fair amount of servers... just... they're mostly empty.