To make a game as complex as Unreal Tournament 3 you're looking at millions in dev salaries alone. Meanwhile UT3 is still available to play, if anyone wanted to.

Not being as complex as UT3 would be a good thing. I wanted to love UT3 but it's so graphically busy that it distracts from the game play. Even UT2004 — as great as it is — misses the *SOVL* of UT99's simple geometry and colored lighting.

Not really. You can't buy it, and it doesn't work online without community support.

You need to find a reason why it would be better than the original or UT2004.

New game means new players.

Maybe they can relapse a map pack like id did for Quake and Quake II, that would be a way to get in the news again.

Any recommendations for the genre? Most games are just way too slow nowadays.

Unironically Splatoon 3. It's so fun once you master the motion-controlled aiming and Squid Rolls and all that. Clam Blitz especially is the most fun I've had in any multiplayer game in years and really scratches that old UT2004 Bombing Run / Tribes / TF2 itch: https://old.reddit.com/r/splatoon/comments/13eslyb/at_the_bu...

Tactical-Ops: Assault on Terror was very good. However, Urban Terror was good replacement, when it was alive.

Is it slow, or truly dead?

Urban Terror's death has been exaggerated before =]

Urban Terror in Fedora cannot be ran, unless symlink from /usr/share/ to user /home/ is made. When I ran it anyway, I saw zero users at all servers and maps, including Eagle.

Oh good times om Tactical Ops. I did enjoy Verdon a lot.

There isn't. It's a genre that's pretty much dead.

Titanfall 2 is really good.

Quake Champions is the best I've found.

Quake Live, Quake Champions both have some activity. I don't think either has the numbers for big onslaught maps like the good old days.

There's a beta from like 5 years ago

I know, but maybe if they want the epic store to be popular maybe release new versions of your classic IP on it?

All games in the series before UT3 are co-developed by Digital Extremes so they aren't exactly theirs, also that's probably one of the reasons they were removed from everywhere.

They did, it failed. It was called Unreal Tournament 3.

There is one that is on their site since fortnite released but stalled i think

They were working on it but then Fortnight made a trillion dollars.

Fortnite made a thrillion dollars because people who were making UT4 were tasked to make a little F2P mode for it called Battle Royale.

So hire people to finish it?

No reason to hire people at Fortnite Salaries to complete a game that won't even make a million dollars. Arena shooters are pretty much dead.

Yep. They can't get zoomers to spend $30/month on a "free" game's marketing skins if the skill floor is too high.