Duke Nukem Forever patch makes Single Player enjoyable.

[Triforceformer]

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=128056


-4-weapon inventory option for single player
-MP Server favorites
-Dedicated server overhaul
-FOV can be modified
-Change VOIP to push-to-talk (bandwidth fix)
-VAC anti-cheat system enabled
-Support for Japanese Steam ID?s for PC release in Japan
-Auto-aim fix
-Blood effects on surfaces behind enemies when shot
-Steam.exe no longer uses an unusually high amount of CPU
-Texture quality improvements
-Fixes to prevent single player and multiplayer save data corruption
-Leaderboard exploit fixed
-AMD Dual-Core Optimizer no longer automatically installed (fixes rare bugs with Intel processors)
-Crash/compatibility fixes and other minor bugs

Dedicated Servers can now be made with very little hassle. But you still aren't able to play DNF and run a server at the same time. And you seem to only be able to watch the matches in a text-based console. 4-weapon system gives you the choice and consequences of the 2-weapon limit, but the variety in combat that old-school games are praised for (I believe). Damn good patch overall.

Note that is is only for the PC version. The 360 and PS3 versions are getting patches as well, but what is in them is still unconfirmed and up to debate.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Did they get rid of The Hive level?

Nope? Then I'm still not buying it. Hell, I doubt I'd buy it even if they DID get rid of that.

Still, from what I heard, this can only improve the game, so I guess it's good.

 

[RaNDM G]

This patch came too late. The damage has already been done.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Wouldn't suddenly having 4 weapons made the game incredibly easy and unbalanced? It was a decently balanced game if nothing else. Suddenly having 4 weapons without changing the amount of enemies or anything like that will probably fuck that up.

 

[Triforceformer]

Did they get rid of The Hive level?

Nope? Then I'm still not buying it. Hell, I doubt I'd buy it even if they DID get rid of that.

Still, from what I heard, this can only improve the game, so I guess it's good.

You're criticizing a level in a game you haven't bought yet? I mean, yes, it is somewhat discomforting at points, but you really are thin-skinned if you're that disturbed by it.

This patch came too late. The damage has already been done.

They released a patch addressing as much as possible only 6 weeks after release to repair the damages you mention. I think this is as quick as they could have done it.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

You're criticizing a level in a game you haven't bought yet? I mean, yes, it is somewhat discomforting at points, but you really are thin-skinned if you're that disturbed by it.

Not at all, dear reader

But I watched someone play that level all the way through. I think that MORE than entitles me to make a jugement on it, don't you?

 

[Triforceformer]

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You're criticizing a level in a game you haven't bought yet? I mean, yes, it is somewhat discomforting at points, but you really are thin-skinned if you're that disturbed by it.

Not at all, dear reader

But I watched someone play that level all the way through. I think that MORE than entitles me to make a jugement on it, don't you?

Fair enough. But the level really wasn't that disturbing in retrospect.

Wouldn't suddenly having 4 weapons made the game incredibly easy and unbalanced? It was a decently balanced game if nothing else. Suddenly having 4 weapons without changing the amount of enemies or anything like that will probably fuck that up.

Having just gotten to the level after the first Battlelord with the new system, I can safely say that the game is just as difficult, but much more fun. But I played with my EGO bar rolling over. So if anything, the 4 weapon limit, on a "From scratch" playthrough, will give a needed edge on higher difficulties and makes things a little more interesting on normal and below.

 

[Vrex360]

All these improvements do is show us just how shoddy the actual original product was. Besides if it's still got all that lower-then-low-level humor, blatant misogyny and generally makes me feel repulsed to be in the same room as it, suddenly fixing the weapon limit isn't going to sell the game to me.
Look, if you like it fine. That's your right and I won't try to stop it, but honestly I was already repulsed by Duke Nukem Forever before it was even released and a patch isn't going to sell it to me now.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Fair enough. But the level really wasn't that disturbing in retrospect.

Perhaps not to some. But to people like me, yes. Yes it was.

All these improvements do is show us just how shoddy the actual original product was. Besides if it's still got all that lower-then-low-level humor, blatant misogyny and generally makes me feel repulsed to be in the same room as it, suddenly fixing the weapon limit isn't going to sell the game to me.
Look, if you like it fine. That's your right and I won't try to stop it, but honestly I was already repulsed by Duke Nukem Forever before it was even released and a patch isn't going to sell it to me now.

Very well put. I agree.

 

[Signa]

Cool. I was hoping to finish the game soon. I'm on the Dam and I just want it to be over. Allowing more weapons might make the game more enjoyable. Hell, if I end up loving it, I might go for that gold pistol achievement. There was no way in hell I was going to restrict myself to one weapon before.

 

[Triforceformer]

Cool. I was hoping to finish the game soon. I'm on the Dam and I just want it to be over. Allowing more weapons might make the game more enjoyable. Hell, if I end up loving it, I might go for that gold pistol achievement. There was no way in hell I was going to restrict myself to one weapon before.

Well since the new inventory isn't considered a cheat, that Pistol achievement is piss easy now.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Hm. If this makes the game genuinely fun, I may just wait until this game hits thirty bucks as opposed to hitting ten.

 

[cubikill]

I dont care this is the worst game I have ever played. DNF makes me ashamed to be a gamer, and it is an atrocity that this pile of crap was funded for 15 years while other worth wile games were rushed and canceled. So unless the patch takes back the worst game ever, gives back the times wasted on the game, and 3D Realms apologies to the world for creating this atrocious piece of shit, then the patch was worthless.

 

[Baralak]

I dont care this is the worst game I have ever played. DNF makes me ashamed to be a gamer, and it is an atrocity that this pile of crap was funded for 15 years while other worth wile games were rushed and canceled. So unless the patch takes back the worst game ever, gives back the times wasted on the game, and 3D Realms apologies to the world for creating this atrocious piece of shit, then the patch was worthless.

Umm, 3D Realms doesn't even exist anymore, to my knowledge. Gearbox (the guys behind Borderlands) took the unfinished data, finished it, and shipped it out.

 

[Smallfry]

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3d Realms fell apart like 7 years ago. Most of the coding had already been done, so Gearbox just took what was there, voiced the Duke lines, added textures, and shipped it out. That's all they could do short of starting the whole project over again.

 

[JamesStone]

I dont care this is the worst game I have ever played. DNF makes me ashamed to be a gamer, and it is an atrocity that this pile of crap was funded for 15 years while other worth wile games were rushed and canceled. So unless the patch takes back the worst game ever, gives back the times wasted on the game, and 3D Realms apologies to the world for creating this atrocious piece of shit, then the patch was worthless.

Umm, 3D Realms doesn't even exist anymore, to my knowledge. Gearbox (the guys behind Borderlands) took the unfinished data, finished it, and shipped it out.

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Yes, but it was 3D Realms that created the original, and if that was the finished data, I don´t even want to imagine the hell Gearbox had to go with the unfinished one

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NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I IMAGINED! (*gunshot to the head*)

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

So... raising the weapon limit and improving some texture makes a bad game suddenly enjoyable? I don't think it's that easy...

 

[Vault101]

Did they get rid of The Hive level?

Nope? Then I'm still not buying it. Hell, I doubt I'd buy it even if they DID get rid of that.

Still, from what I heard, this can only improve the game, so I guess it's good.

Ive herd alot about it....so whats so disturbing about it?

then again if its what I saw in the miricle of sound video..yeah

 

[ScrubberDucky]

This is going to get bagged on to no end because it's become the cool thing to hate on DNF no matter what, just like it did with Kane And Lynch 2, but I think it's a really cool thing to hear. Shows the developers were really trying to make the game the best it could be, not just throw out a piece of slosh. Mad props for a patch that substantial.