I bought the German special edition of Unreal Tournament 3 yesterday and want to give you some tips about it.
First of all, the special edition comes in a black steel box and includes includes the game DVD, a printed manual, a little hardcover artbook and a DVD with bonus videos:
The bad thing about it is: It's in German language and it's censored (which means that the ragdoll system is inactive and you don't see any blood - instead killed enemies just fall over). :suprise:
So I took a look into it and found some interesting things. Like in UT2004, there a language setting in the .ini files. But changing this from DEU to INT isn't sufficient. So I took a closer look into the file structure ans found out that most localised files are supplied in German language as well as in English. There are the following locations:
Folders:
Unreal Tournament 3\Engine\Localization\DEU\
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\CookedPC\Sounds\DEU\
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Localization\DEU\
Files:
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\CookedPC\Maps\*_LOC_DEU.upk
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\CookedPC\Private\Maps\*_LOC_DEU.upk
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\CookedPC\Startup_DEU.upk
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\CookedPC\UTGame_LOC_DEU.upk
Everything of the above is also present in English (INT), except the last folder in the list. There's no INT folder inside Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Localization\ and the required files aren't on the DVD either.
So what you can do to switch the game to English sounds (but German text) is the following:
1. Edit these two .ini files:
Eigene Dateien\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini
Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\DefaultEngine.ini
In both files search for a line like this:
Code: Select all
Language=DEUCode: Select all
Language=INT- create a subdirectory called INT
- copy all files from the DEU folder to INT
- rename the copied files with the extension .deu to .int
Note: You will get an empty menu in the game if you leave out step 2!
At this point you have an English game with German text. But what about the censorship? It's still there. But I found a solution for this, too.
First, I searched the internet for a so called "blood patch". I found and downloaded it and saw that it contains a couple of files from the Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\ directory. These files are surely copied from the uncensored US version of the game and shall be copied over the German ones. But I was curious about which files actually differ, so I made a test for differing file content and found: just the UT3.exe file is different. So the patch contains far too many files (about 20, if I remember correctly).
Now my idea (inspired by Skaarijscout - thanks mate!) was as follows: If just the UT3.exe has to be exchanged to unlock the gore and ragdoll features, why not simply install a US update patch?
So I downloaded the current US patch V1.2 (the .exe is a self-extracting RAR archive) and found out that besides the required UT3.exe file, it also contains all files of the Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Localization\INT\ directory. So installing the patch finally solves all remaining problems.
I now got a fully uncut English version (with English sound, text and subtitles)!
So if you have the same problem with your German game and don't want to install any dubious patches from the internet (except the official update patch from Epic), here's what to do again:
1. Edit Eigene Dateien\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini and Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\DefaultEngine.ini (change Language=DEU to Language=INT)
2. Clone Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Localization\DEU to Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Localization\INT and rename the files inside ending with .deu to .int
3. Get the latest US patch and install it - done!
Note: You could probably leave out step 2, but I wanted to avoid problems when the US patch probably finds out that the version to be patched actually is a German one. So if you want to be sure, do it like described above. It worked 100% for me!
Coco.
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. Orb is really nice thing, you just need to know how to use it properly. I didn't like Warfare at the begininng, but now I like it, its harder than ONS, though. Really great team play curve.
