Unreal Tournament 4 Changelog

What's new in Unreal Tournament 4 Pre-Alpha (2015 08 24 Update)

• We’ve got another new public build of Unreal Tournament, with lots of new features and improvements as you can see from the detailed change notes.
• We have an updated sniper rifle mesh and material from community contributor Aberiu. There’s still some visual and animation polish left to do, but the sniper rifle is really shaping up nicely. You can see it in the shot below, held by the new necris female character (necris female is coming soon, not yet in this build). In addition, we’ve adding animated hands to the first person weapons, with support for different hands for each character.
• The main menu page has been revamped to make it easy to get to where you want to be in Unreal Tournament. This is still a work in progress, and we’d love to get your feedback on the forums.
• We also revamped the hub interface to improve the experience of finding and creating online matches and chatting with other players.
• This build has an all new status announcer voice, with new announcements to improve player understanding of match state. We also have a very work in progress first pass of support for bot voices (taunts and status messages).
• There are notable improvements in gameplay as well, with weapon balance tweaks and networking improvements included in the build, addressing some of the feedback we’ve seen in the forums. We’ve continued to refine and make improvements to the CTF-Volcano and CTF-Lance shells. Lea Observatory, by community contributor CaptainMigraine, has some significant gameplay, visual, and performance improvements. This build also includes some effects improvements, including new shock rifle visual effects.
• The new advanced graphical settings menu makes it easier to optimize Unreal Tournament performance and visuals for your PC. We also now support custom crosshairs, with a menu allowing you to customize the crosshair used for each weapon.
• This new build also includes improvements in our features to let you review your matches. We’ve made significant improvements to replays, and we’ve added more new stats to both in-game and persistent global stats, like number of shots fired and accuracy for each weapon. We’ve also made it possible to view the persistent stats of your friends and recent opponents.
• The new Showdown game mode is an experimental round based duel prototype. This build includes some updates to Showdown, including a new spawn selection system (see below), and various experimental roundbreaker options that can be toggled in custom games. We’d love to get your feedback about these options, and any other suggestions, on the Unreal Tournament forums.