news Epic stops work on 'Unreal Tournament' sequel because of 'Fortnite'

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Epic has officially downed tools on its long-in-development Unreal Tournament revival, company boss Tim Sweeney has confirmed.

It's not a huge surprise - the Fortnite maker has been rather busy focusing on its battle royal phenomenon, not to mention prepping its

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. Still, it was thought a skeleton crew might have been aboard the Unreal Tournament ship. Alas, not.

"Unreal Tournament remains available in the store but isn't actively developed," Sweeney told

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. It's a change in message from two months ago, when Epic admitted the game was not making much progress but, seemingly, was still in the works.

Progress on the new Unreal Tournament had been slow for some time. Originally announced

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as a project Epic would work on over time with input from its community, Unreal tournament initially only

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us to

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of what it might have eventually become.

In 2015, the project gained its

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But in 2017 Epic was still referring to the game as being in a "pre-alpha" state, even as it experimented with new features such as a

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I'd love another Unreal Tournament, but it is understandable why Epic mothballed its attempt at recreating the series' arena-based frag-happy gameplay for a new audience. Epic already has the biggest audience in the world, for Fortnite - a game

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is probably more interesting.

 

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[MobCat]

This has been for like years now. I use to make maps for UT4 back in the day but the seen and the forum after fortnight came out and became a thing dried up and most of epic staff got moved to that so what was left felt like 5 people so i'm a little suppressed this announcement took this long.
All in all it's kinda sad UT4 was shaping up to be a good game for people that are into 90's fast paced shooters and could of easily killed TOXIKK and other games that where trying to bring back that area of games. Epic could of launched launched UT4 back in mid 2016 ~ early 2017 if they just doped the hole "alpha early access" BS and made a few more of there one maps and content instead of relining on the community to do it for them.

[watyermelon]

Heck yeah! This is really EPIC! FORTINITE FTW!!!