The Haunted and UT3 engine

[Zeus]

here

Have been chating it over with the authors HEGI and ? and its very close to beta relaese!

Have also chatted with Zofo about it and we both think it will be 'good for a laugh'

So we may be sticking it on one off the servers - unfortunately its not a gametype so it cant be voted it. it needs to run as a stand alone. Just a case of changing the command lines over. It may be buggy!

It will be about a 300MB download (dont plan to put it on redirect ATM)

ATM I am thinking of using server 3  on Wednesday and Thursday nights mainly (BTFA and Warfare nights - on thinking this wouldn't be good as we would be playing BTFA/Warfare -Doh) as would like to keep the greed going. If its any good theres always the 'spare' server (just me thinking aloud!)

will keep you updated  

[Scummm]

looks like fun m8

[Zeus]

well its like UT3 and L4D all rolled together

[Zeus]

uploading Beta ATM any one interested in trying it its 300MB download post in thread

[Zeus]

Its up and working well - its a laugh and not easy  

interested in trying it?

[Zofo]

Played this, its fun

Its third person view, the aiming is like gears of war, you press down on right buttonto aim and fire with left

You start out with all weapons - Knife, handgun, shotgun, uzi, but only ammo for the handgun, the rest u pick up around the level

I think the basics of it is to stay alive, if u die and theres another player playing you turn into this runestone thingie and he/she has to shoot it to free ya

have special melee moves which are a bit of fun, i haven't got used to them

You can also roll away like gears of war, the movement is quite similar tbh

The zombies come at u really slow, i got up on the roof thinking haha i'll just shoot the sons of bitches as they come up the ladder but then I got attacked by flying thingies, like overfed vampire bats

The zombies range in difficulty, they all have different abilities



Overall on first play the game was a laugh, would certainly be good craic with a few of us on in coop mode

[Zeus]

The Haunted is a multiplayer third person shooter with human players controlling the enemies. One player is the haunted and the other players are demonic spirits who have to do everything in their malevolent power to prevent the haunted from lifting his curse. Demons have to work together, possess creatures, place traps and perform environmental actions to agonize and finally kill the haunted. Whereas the haunted has to survive and investigate eerie places to finally liberate himself from the malediction.

[Zeus]

Any one interested in help beta test this let us know.

Going to be letting them use one off the UT3 servers (with notice) easy enough to switch it over to any of the 3 servers.

So it should interfere with the normal running of the UT3 servers too much.

[Zeus]

OK

Its getting close to release - so far its planned for the 1st may for Admins and 2nd of may for Public.

I Have spoken with Zofo about it and we will be running 'The Haunted' on one off the UT3 servers. I will get a download link setup via Gibs for us lot (when  its released) and we can easily change over which server we have it running on, so we can keep the Custom nights going or I can setup the servers to run say BFTA and Greed together - I'm in two minds how to do it  

How long we will run it depends on how popular it is - But like L4D it should be good for a laugh on TS