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It's year 2024+ 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!

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Category: Achievements, Characters, Classes, Co-op, Crafting, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Secrets, Story or Lore, Trading, Walkthroughs, Weapons, Workshop

Languages: English

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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.

#UPDATE
As one of the commenting steam members have noticed - what's above might be out of date.
Here comes update:
Link to original post on steam you can find here: https://sp.zhabite.com/app/13210/discussions/0/3770110614220691143/

Making it as short as possible:
- Download https://en.webshare.cz/#/file/TITfgEQnjS
- Extract the downloaded file to D:\Game(s) 2.0\Steam\steamapps\common\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries
That's it.

Note that if you cannot log in after creating a new login, try this dll which should solve this problem.
- Download https://en.webshare.cz/#/file/zrOrMIPWVg/dinput8-dll
- Extract the downloaded file to D:\Game(s) 2.0\Steam\steamapps\common\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries
Enjoy.

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://sp.zhabite.com/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.

53 Comments

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Doc✪Hollywood 5 Apr @ 11:40am

If I start up steam and then directly UT3 I get the same "online feature will not work" message. Restarting UT3 and then its okay. It seems to me that if the game starts too fast (espcecially with -nomoviestartup, then the going online part isnt ready yet. If steam is running since a while and then I start UT3 I dont get this error as far as I remember and I play more or less every day.

Ninge 5 Apr @ 11:10am

I just wanted to give an update. For about 5 minutes, I could not get multiplayer to work. I had no option to even to sign in. I would get an error talking about certain online feature will not work and was forced into offline mode. With intro videos still on, I was ok with just hitting escape to fly passed them, and so the game gets to the main menu faster. There was no option for me to go online. I got annoyed with the intro videos enough that I added -nostartupmovies to the properties to the game in steam.

Once I did that, I was given the option to sign in/create an account. I did so and now I'm able to find servers and connect.

Doc✪Hollywood 22 Feb @ 2:15pm

I just played the last two hours. Works fine for me.

76561198067006151 22 Feb @ 1:24pm

having returned to after long break it no longer runs. I have an RTX 3080 with latest drivers and tried uninstall UT and rer-install, but it just shows the red banner which then vanishes after a few seconds