Advice on UT mods and skins

[nate hancock]

I was hoping someone could help me with UT mods and skins. I've been only a casual UT demo user for some time. However, I recently got the GOTY Edition and it's hooking me fast. I have seen a lot of sites that talk about mods and skins you can add but I wanted to ask the more experienced of you about using these:

1- Will downloading and installing the mods/skins out there make my UT or system to run "buggier". I honestly don't know what it takes to create the mods and I don't know if "homemade" ones are less stable.

2- From my multiplayer experience so far, I have seen a lot of maps that I don't have but most games have the same skins. Are a lot of other skins in use but I simply don't see them because I don't have them installed? I join multiplayer straight from the UT multiplayer list, I don't belong to any particular gaming sites like mplayer and the like.

3- Can anyone recommend better sites for downloading the mods and skins? Esp. any places where the site administrator zips a lot together to make it easier to obtain a lot of files with one long download?

I hate to sound so clueless, but I would appreciate any (friendly) advice that helps me get even more enjoyment out of UT. Thanks!

Nate

 

[Wellcky]

1- nope your system wont get buggier

2- if a server was running a skin that you didnt haev then you would automaticly download that skin the same as when you download the maps.

3. hmmm.. let me take a look.. ah yes here we go Nali City

hope this helps ya!

also check out TheGameBox it's curently down but will be up shortly if ya want more info on GB head on over to the Distributed Thread you'll get mroe info over there..

Happy U teaing

 

[nate hancock]

Thanks for the tip! NaliCity is an impressive place. I am pretty pathetic at UT but I still love to play. Just the feeling of foating and flying across some of the maps is amazing - I tried Hall of Giants tonight and I was blown away (countless times)!