Greetings!
Unreal Tournament 4 is currently undergoing development by Epic, in conjunction with player-developers. This development seemingly has a feel different to Unreal Tournaments past; it is the closest to the original UT99, uses the new Unreal 4 Engine, and has the largest community backing of any of Epic's previous attempts. It also feels like a classic, in terms of movement and gameplay.
No-one can be completely certain at this point, but the general consensus is that this new UT will be the most successful since UT99.
Epic have said that they don't have the bandwidth to work on game-types other than DM and CTF. As such, I've been coding an Assault game-type, the first version of which is now ready for testing internally.
A few of us have also partnered together to start planning for a true relaunch of this league and site. This will involve upgrading and clean-up of the forums, a site and logo redesign, upgrading the league code, along with putting some strong marketing and community generation in place.
In short - we have a lot of plans, and we want everyone to contribute their opinion and time; bringing back as much of the UT99 community (older, and wiser
) as possible is an absolutely critical step to success.
So, if this poor attempt at a call-to-arms has succeeded, please head over to this Trello board and join the conversation:
https://trello.com/b/Jtvc23S1/uta-resurgence
Thank you!
- Geoff