Ye olde Nineteen Nineties knockabout shooter Rise of the Triad was remastered and rereleased as Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Version final yr. As our Shaun Prescott mentioned on the time, it hasn’t aged effectively however it is best to nonetheless play it. It is a goofball historic artifact with some enjoyable power-ups and extra hidden doorways than Fortress Dracula, and it is simply obtained an replace.
Model 1.1 brings cross-platform multiplayer, which means that gamers on Steam and GOG can gib one another finally, in addition to our mates over on Change, PlayStation, and Xbox. It additionally provides an alternate Lightning Guard enemy—the final minimize character from the beta model to be restored for the Ludicrous Version—and reveals your kills and secrets and techniques completion on the map display for every stage.
Different additions embrace a toggle to show off mechanically switching to new weapons while you choose them up, a jukebox for the extent editor, and default sound settings that the patch notes name “much less ear-splitting.” Here is the entire record of adjustments.
Added
- Cross-platform multiplayer.
- Added the ultimate alternate actor, the lightning guard.
- A brand new setting that permits gamers to forestall mechanically switching weapons on pickup.
- Textual content chat button has been added to multiplayer menus.
- Degree statistics: akin to kill and secret counts, have been added to the map display.
- (PC) Added assist for connection to a LAN deal with from the interface.
- (PC) Degree editor now has a music jukebox.
- (PC) Foyer invites can now be despatched to mates from the primary foyer display.
- (PC) Add affirmation for beginning a COMM-BAT recreation whereas enjoying single-player.
- (PC) Added assist for `-file` parameter for loading customized KPF information.
- Previous `-file` parameter has been modified to `-file0`.
- (PC) A brand new community stats choice has been added to the choices menu.
Modified
- Fonts now have slashed 0’s to make them simpler to learn.
- On-line timeout has been adjusted to twenty seconds.
- Higher default sound settings which can be much less ear-splitting.
- (PC) Scanning for lobbies now tells you what’s going on with the scan – if it is nonetheless scanning or if it is full.
- (Change, Sony) Vital efficiency enhancements when taking a look at flooring or ceiling textures.
Fastened
- Varied rendering glitches that had been observed at increased resolutions have been mounted.
- Vital enhancements to on-line lobbies have been made, making connections extra dependable.
- Quite a few shortcomings with the netcode have been addressed, particularly in situations of low bandwidth.
- It’s not potential to get caught within the recreation upon connection to a server that shuts down throughout stage load.
- Booting into the editor now not has messed-up digital camera controls.
- Platform icon is not stretched within the scoreboard.
- Killing Large John with a flamewall or god ball not softlocks the sport.
- Many situations of menu stack corruption have been addressed, fixing varied softlocks.
- Title display has many fewer lacking pixels on the backside of every column of pixels.
- Rumble not persists between ranges.
- Default music tracks not trigger extra CPU utilization.
- Disabling freelook now snaps the view to the horizon.
- Utilizing the “No goal” cheat code throughout the oscuro battle not crashes the sport.
- HUD Preview is now correctly cleared when the menu is exited by way of unconventional means.
- (Consoles) Default binds at the moment are not merged with user-provided binds.
- (Sony) Music not stops enjoying in situations the place it incorrectly stopped.
- (Change) Going from docked to handheld mode not prevents controllers from getting used.
- (PC) Rumble now correctly works in on-line video games.
- (PC) Invites to affix a recreation can now be accepted in additional locations.
- (PC) Becoming a member of from an invitation not probably causes a dangle.
- (PC) Previous lobbies at the moment are cleared when lobbies are re-scanned.
- (PC) Degree editor verification has undergone a number of enhancements.
- (PC) Invalid display sizes not trigger the sport to refuse to launch.
- (PC) Customized gravity not carries over from multiplayer video games.
- (PC) Disconnections have been made extra dependable and are much less prone to freeze up controls.
- (PC) On-line lobbies at the moment are somewhat extra useful in telling the person why the foyer died.
- (PC) Stop the scoreboard from being caught in an enabled state between matches.
- (PC) Varied lightning ranges ought to now work in COMM-BAT mode.
- (PC) Cases the place participant coloration and character might be switched within the menu with out taking impact ingame have been addressed.
- (PC) Objects that spawn in midair at the moment are correctly respawned at their right Z top.
- (PC) Voice chat choices not present up in a LAN foyer.
- (PC) Violence is now all the time compelled to HIGH in a foyer, for consistency.
- (PC) Returning to the foyer in the course of a recreation not has the potential to crash the server.
- (PC) Taking pictures one other participant point-blank will now all the time hit them.