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It's year 2016+ and you just bought the game?

By Nexiu

Hello there you beast!

This tutorial is made for you to cut unnecessary searching for updates or problem solutions. I'll try to make it as simple as possible!

Award

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer

Languages: English

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12 Aug, 2016 @ 10:44am

5 May @ 4:24am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction.

Updates.

CD Key

Servers unavailable.

All multiplayer characters.

Dunno how to solve your problem?

A few words at the end.

Comments

Introduction.

Let's suppose that you just bought the game (steam version). It doesn't really matter that you're new to this one or you have had non-steam version before. The only thing that matters is that you want to play this game. The question arises:

What do I need to do to run this game properly (Play Multiplayer/Run the game/Solutions to some of the most common problems) ?

I made the steps in weird order but the ones marked with "~" are not required, important/might not appear for some of you.

Presenting my personal experience.

Updates.

FIRST STEP IS OBLIGATORY!

#1 Personally I play this game for multiplayer like most of people, I guess. So you need to actually download only one patch to be happy. UT3 GS patch FOR STEAM! (it's important that you have to download the right one, the one for steam)
UT3 Steam Update[archive.org] <-- You can also read about this here.

Ad. 1 Steam automatically downloads updated version of UT3 for you (Version 2.1 - it's after 5th patch) so you don't have to worry about looking for previous patches. But there is one extra patch or should I say pack that you may want to have. You can download it here --> UT3 Titan pack which contains new maps/modes/mutators and things that will improve the range of fun.

CD Key

~#2 CD Key - where to find?

Open Steam -> Library -> Right click on Unreal Tournament 3 -> Manage -> CD Key

There you go.

Servers unavailable.

#3 Pop-up window in the login menu that says "The online service is currently unavailable. Please wait and try reconnecting again." whenever i tried to login it just forced me to go offline mode.
How did I fix this? Simply, adding an exception for UT3.exe in my antivirus.

#update - you actually need to install UT3 OpenSpy Patch to login. You can find it here: UT3 OpenSpy Patch[en.webshare.cz]

All multiplayer characters.

~#4 How do I instantly unlock all the characters without passing a singleplayer game?

Go to settings -> Player -> Press F10 to open console -> Write down "unlockallchars" -> Move to Customize Character and then Create New -> Type in "phayder" and "jihan" to unlock 2 additional characters.

Dunno how to solve your problem?

https://steamproxy.net/app/13210/discussions/0/846957366852721905/
Here you can ask one of the developers of this game about any case you have.

A few words at the end.

Thank you for spending your time reading this guide. Hope that I was able to help you somehow. Please leave a comment with your opinion and don't bother to chat me if there are any other problems/questions.
Have a nice day!

I'll keep my guide updated.

39 Comments

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Gordon✪Gekko 20 May @ 11:20am

Well, at least I tried.

unityg 6 May @ 4:50am

@Gordon✪Gekko
Thank you so mutch :D

Gordon✪Gekko 5 May @ 11:51am

I tried to prevent that. Also granted considerable financial aid.

But what can you do when people are like people are? The social project of a free UT4 was such a crackpot idea. And instead of inviting the best players from all over the world they mostly just invited this one stupid American clan members where the one community manager is in. That all was such obvious nepotism and doomed from day 1. Then they closed the unreal forums. Both together was the clear beginning of the downfall.

R.I.P. Unreal Tournament. After 25'000 hours of fun together you deserve the rest.

Gordon✪Gekko 5 May @ 11:46am

All the servers I loved closed

Nexiu [author] 5 May @ 4:25am

@unityg updated the link that wasn't working.

Gordon✪Gekko 4 May @ 10:53am

These two awful community managers really destroyed the game. They've let down everybody.

unityg 4 May @ 3:47am

"FIRST STEP IS OBLIGATORY!"
And the URL don't exist anymore :/

Nexiu [author] 30 Mar @ 2:27pm

Just added a few updates.

Gordon✪Gekko 3 Nov, 2023 @ 1:03pm

Because it's old.

Open Steam-Client - Library - on the left side of the screen right-click on Unreal Tournament 3 - Manage - CD Key

ALX84PR 3 Nov, 2023 @ 12:38pm

Just bought this game on steam, why is it asking for a CD key? any help would be great

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