January 7, 2008 – 1:20 pm
Epic has released a beta version of the imminent update for the Unreal Editor 3. What’s in the this update? Oh, nothing big. Only the ability cook PS3 mods! Currently, this is a closed beta, so unless you got the email from Epic, you’re going to have to wait a bit. The final release is expected in about a week, so don’t get too hung up on waiting.
We’re checking in with Epic to see how long this will remain a closed beta. We’ll see what they say, but if this goes public, we’ll have the download link for you. Keep checking here or the Unreal Developer Network for updates.
December 29, 2007 – 5:15 pm
Ok so if you have been wondering how to get those great Unreal Tournament 3 mods up and running on your PS3 here you go.
A special thanks to the folks over at UT3MOD.
You will need a few things to get started:
A USB Drive, Flash Drive, or Memory Card
A working Internet connection
A working PS3
A copy of Unreal Tournament 3 for your PS3
For the full walkthrough guide hit the jump or visit our friends over at UT3MOD.
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December 29, 2007 – 1:30 pm
Yeah, I didn’t want to say ass in the title. Sue me. I’m sure you’ve seen Tycho over at Penny Arcade rant on the modding in the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3. Basically, he thinks it’s crap that you need a USB flash drive (or other memory card type) to copy the mods from your PC to the PS3. Personally, I could care less about this. Who doesn’t own a PC and some sort of memory card these days? It’s not that big a step. It’s not completely necessary either. If you try to play online with someone using a mod, it will be automatically downloaded to your machine.
What bugs me is that you need to copy one mod at a time via your USB drive. So in my case right now, I had to make 5 trips from my computer to my PS3, loading one mod each time, then starting over. There is only one file that is used on the USB key to transfer the mods and that file can only contain one mod at a time. I think Epic REALLY needs to come up with a better way of doing this. Yes, we all love mods. Yes, we love user created content. Yes, we know it’s a totally new concept to console gaming. But we need a much more streamlined way of getting them. Direct downloads from the PS3’s Internet Browser would be ideal, but allowing multiple mods to be copied over at once on a USB drive would work perfectly as well. And with the Unreal Editor update coming very soon, the amount of mods available on the PS3 is going to increase exponentially. Imagine wanting 25 mods, but needing to make 25 trips with your USB key. I think I’ll pass.
This has nothing to do with the PS3 being good or bad, so it shouldn’t turn into a flame fest. This is Epic’s implementation of mods for the game on PS3. It’s the first time it’s been done, so there are growing pains involved. Just pointing out some optimizations that need to happen sooner rather than later for mods to become more mainstream on consoles.
That’s my 2 cents. What do you think?
December 26, 2007 – 3:00 pm
Since users can’t create their own PS3 mods yet for Unreal Tournament 3, Epic decided to cook up a few themselves. Right now, there’s some legal issues involved with adding some code to the Unreal Editor to allow cooking of PS3 mods. As soon as that’s worked out, the update for the Unreal Editor will be released. It’s slightly annoying this all wasn’t worked out before the game was released.
Anyway, Mark Rein posted a couple links to some of the best mods so far for UT3 cooked up for the PS3. Extract them one at a time onto a USB key or however else you want to get them to your PS3. You can’t do multiple ones at a time, unfortunately. They all look pretty cool, and free maps is always a great thing. So check them out and see what you might be able to come up with yourself.
