User blog:BlueChoco/Where do I spend my time?

I'm sure people noticed my lack of anything in CA, from not playing for about 3 weeks to really little focus on the wiki. Aside from the little activity here of course, I mostly spend my time each day doing various things. I check the CA site daily for updates, CA Wiki, also I browse the Minecraft forums for new things. Also been browsing through various other things, but also I spend time in Minecraft itself for hours. Along with jumping on UT3, which totally blows CA out of the water.

It's totally not fair comparing engines or both shooter genres, because really each have their own niche to be honest. Also between those things I check my twitter for new videos, etc on general contacts I follow. Also sometimes be prowling the CA Forums, to see what kind of daily issues people are having. If I'm not playing MC or UT3, I'll often watch various videos my friends / subs uploaded each day.

Wish I could literally record my game play of UT3, but the game is totally dragged down by Fraps. Otherwise people would see, how completely fun it is really. It's a higher grade engine of course, so you'll obviously notice how demanding it is. I get about the same FPS from CA in UT3, but on high quality with 32 combatants all running around at once.

If I really had a choice between both, and UT3 was actually with a larger population? I'd stick with UT3 to be totally honest, because really there's no huge "rage" factor from it all. You suck against a lot of players? Swap some players out for bots, and set em to a reasonable setting. Or totally mess with the weapon choices, so it suits your needs. I'm an old school arena shooter, and this has WAY more fun written all over it.

If anyone wonders, I average about 25-50fps in CA on low settings. I pull about the same in UT3 on high settings, so that goes to show how really the game has degraded in terms of engine performance. I play usually on UT3, Greed with 32 players on Facing Worlds. Mostly pistol-only, sometimes add in rockets for laughs too. Add in the slow-mo upon kills, you really find this to be way more fun. For those who buy NX, feel free to pick it up on Steam! $20 for the game or $40 for a 5 pack of Unreal games.

I'm in no way advertising here, just promoting a good game that's long forgotten. xD