UT3: How to play downloaded maps??

I don't know. Epic always did make things a lot more complicated than
ID and Valve, in both their directory structure and console commands.
It sounds like you have the maps in the right place. Are you trying
to play them offline or online?

This was found in the Epic forums:


"It would be nice to have something official as to where to place
custom content, I've gone through all the mutators in beta and final,
all maps in beta and final, and no one seems to be totally in
agreement as to where to place things.

So far, this is what I'm using, and it seems to be working , but
again, it would be nice to have something official from epic.


mutator .u files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame
\Published\CookedPC\Script
mutator .upk files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
3\UTGame\CookedPC
mutator .ini files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
3\UTGame\Config

weapons .u files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame
\Published\CookedPC\Script
weapons .upk files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
3\UTGame\CookedPC\Weapons
weapons .ini files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
3\UTGame\Config

all map files go (map .ini, .ut3, .upk)
User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC
\CustomMaps"
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:27:28 +0000, Andrew <spamtrap.DeleteThis@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:55:49 -0700, PW
><paulremove_williamson858.DeleteThis@removehotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>How do I run these new maps? Custom maps are now appearing! Thanks
>>guys!
>
>Is there no readme with the maps?

The readme files just tells you where to unzip the file to.

-pw
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:41:22 -0800 (PST), "Mr. Stabby"
<dbateman.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>I don't know. Epic always did make things a lot more complicated than
>ID and Valve, in both their directory structure and console commands.
>It sounds like you have the maps in the right place. Are you trying
>to play them offline or online?
>
>This was found in the Epic forums:
>
>
>"It would be nice to have something official as to where to place
>custom content, I've gone through all the mutators in beta and final,
>all maps in beta and final, and no one seems to be totally in
>agreement as to where to place things.
>
>So far, this is what I'm using, and it seems to be working , but
>again, it would be nice to have something official from epic.
>
>
>mutator .u files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame
>\Published\CookedPC\Script
>mutator .upk files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
>3\UTGame\CookedPC
>mutator .ini files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
>3\UTGame\Config
>
>weapons .u files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame
>\Published\CookedPC\Script
>weapons .upk files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
>3\UTGame\CookedPC\Weapons
>weapons .ini files go User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament
>3\UTGame\Config
>
>all map files go (map .ini, .ut3, .upk)
>User\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC
>\CustomMaps"
>

Here's what the problem was:

1) There was no "Published" folder so I had to create one
2) Winzip absolutely unzipped nothing into that folder!
3) I created a folder on my desktop to unzip the files into
4) I manually copied them into the CookedPC (why is it named
that??)/Custom Maps folder.
5) One of the downloads unzipped the files into it's own folder so I
copied the files from within that folder.

None of these maps have any mutator or weapon .u files so I haven't
had to create subdirectories for them.

I think I only saw 4 new maps at GameSpot for UT3 since the game came
out!

I tried all four and they appear to be working fine.

-pw
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"PW" <paulremove_williamson858 RemoveThis @removehotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3oftp3t9f6v4h7ebgak5435r4mth7m51h4@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> I unzipped a few maps from Gamespot (to: C:\Documents and
> Settings\*YourUserNameHere*\My docs\My Games\Unreal Tournament
> 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\CustomMaps) but they do not show up on the
> map listing in the game (yes, I did replace "YourUserNameHere" with
> fragPUP
>
> How do I run these new maps? Custom maps are now appearing! Thanks
> guys!
>
> -pw

Great all 90 people online playing PC-UT3 should enjoy them new maps,
literally.
I have the PS3 version and it's a flop on there as well, might be less than
120 people online at any given time if that.
I think the only reason UT3 sold as many as it did is because there are
really no good games to play on the PS3. Zero must haves's.
Plus the older console versions of UT were pretty lame.
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