Polge: We’re looking a lot to our community to tell us how and why to evolve. We’ll also be providing ideas. Matchmaking for example, Unreal Tournament’s basically all about browsing and picking which servers you want to play on. And we still feel like that’s a valuable way to go find matches. We’re sad that a lot of games don’t do that any more because going and finding the server where you like to hang out, where you know you’re friends are going to come and hang out, there’s always a good match, there’s no [trolling or griefing], that server works and you like those guys. That’s really great.

But at the same time there’s lot of cool things that people do now with parties and grouping your friends and finding a match, and different ways to find a match. We need to come up with a synergy of those approaches that really provides the best of all the approaches, and lets people find matches where they want. I’m sure we’ll have a traditional set of browsers that works exactly like it did in the past. But we want to make sure that we do a good job of getting people into the game they want to play.

H1ghlander will be pleased

it's the first time any dev had a clue other than the people at Valve for CS:GO

every game failed to see what things like dedicated servers and user made maps do, create culture and community.

look at titanfall, as great as that game could be (and for arguments sake, lets assume the game is the greatest thing ever made), the game doesn't have mods, dedicated servers, or user made maps. it's just like every other new game out, they run the servers, they run the maps, they make the rules, they do it all

this means people get bored as shit and don't care about your game after a while. with the SAME EXACT MAPS over and over, you bore the shit out of everyone.

remember that awesome feeling of going to a server where people knew your name and you knew you would have a good time playing on? like joes deathmatch or HORNY BANANA CTF?

yeah games like quake live took that feeling and killed the shit out of it. it sucks and that's why it's hard to care about games like this anymore. without that culture and community, the game is just waiting to die on release.

you can argue games actually survived longer than they should have if they didn't include user-run dedicated servers and the ability to make maps.

these are the only people other than valve that actually gets it when it comes to pc fps games. give us a goddamn canvas to paint on and we can keep your game alive and active

I meant highlander will be pleased that they are talking about matchmaking

Server browser + matchmaking for me pls

if there will be matchmaking only it will be fail.
and im glad that they talking about dedi servers and matchmaking.

i want it like csgo but improved.

yup yup. the best way.

Of the games slated to rescue fast-paced arena shooters from the abyss, I think UT is the most likely to succeed. I want to see the other projects come to fruition, establishing a healthy variety and competition within the genre, but it's doubtful any will compare to the production value of which Epic is capable. All aboard the hype train.

I've never played UT before. This might be fun.