Developer Epic has spilled the beans on a forthcoming major patch for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3, which will pack Steam achievements and other tweaks.

The Steam achievements will only be available to those that installed the game through Valve's digital distribution platform, though the other changes will be available to all.

The developer also revealed that it's readying collection of bonus maps dubbed the Titan Pack, with lead designer Steve Polge telling BeyondUnreal that it will be "substantially bigger than any bonus pack we've released in the past."

No word yet on a release date, with BeyondUnreal writing that the following list of changes and fixes is "very small part" of what Epic will bring to the shooter.

• SUMMARY OF MAJOR FEATURES:
• Major enhancements to Server Browser
• Visual and menu flow overhaul for improved useability of user interface.
• Significant AI improvements, especially in vehicle gametypes.
• Client-side demo recording support
• Improved networking performance.
• Midgame map, game type, and mutator voting support
• Award system using Steam Achievements
• Improved mod support

• Improved Steam integration
• Steam Achievement support for Steam installations of UT3.
• Integrated Steam Authentication support.
• 57 achievements mark your progress and mastery of UT.
• Progress screen shows which awards you have earned, and completion progress on all awards.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56939

Link above shows the full list of changes/fixes of this MASSIVE update. This shows commitment from Epic to Steam - kind of like what happened to Mout & Blade last weekend, the Steam version of UT3 had sold out in the last winter holidays because Epic didn't give Valve enough CD Keys, lol.

To be honest, these changes are coming awfully late.

hmm sounds pretty good.. I guess it will improve the the game..

looks like they are finally adding a PC server browser then, something I guess I'll be waiting forever in COD4

talking about UT3, it's time to review the mod scene and check how is it going, especially the singleplayer ones

Well that's the beginning of making UT3 even bearable on the PC. Still needs a lot of work before I consider it something more than crap though. Some major mechanics will have to be worked out. Maybe UT3.5 will do it just like 2004 did over 2003 (cause UT2003 was pretty bad tbph, though still far better than the PoS that UT3 is).

yeah, they really should release a UT2009 or something. Hopefully it would make what UT2004 did.

UT3 was garbage just like Quake 3 Arena. 0 story n plot, boring n outdated game modes, ugly art style, artificial setting n atmosphere.

Quake 3 was a good game engine for it's time though.

UT was just a better MP component of Unreal. Since then it really doesn't need a sotry at all. Its gameplay however is what counts and UT2004's is still the best MP shooter in existance. Now if UT3 hadn't fucked up with the core mechanics (WTF!? you die with ONE FUCKING ROCKET?! What was Epic even thinking?).