This Patch aims to make the game more challenging, add more possibilities, and squash some of the nasty exploits bad actors within the Duke Community were so nice to use!
Here is the full list of changes in this update. This is a stand-alone update so all you need is this to play the game!
Actor Class Changes
- Added New Decoration Actors
- Desk Bell Added with Animations
- Pool Cue Racks
- Duke Bandolier
- Slot Machine Arms
- New Suitcase Options
- New Soda / Beer Snacks
- New MultiBomb Box Actor
- M16 Case adjusted for new model
- Added M16 Duke Case
AI/Pawn Changes
- New Buddy System
-- New Improved AI Follow Pathfinding
-- Buddies can Move, Shoot, Open Doors and Navigate to the player
- Improved Snatcher AI
-- Can now fly at the player instead of just jumping
-- Can now take over Friendly NPCs
-- Can now hunt for corpses and burrow into them
--- Snatcher spawns Head Creeper if they burrow into enemy
- Concrete no longer spawns with blood gibs
- Resolved Some Accessed None
- Inventory destruction changes to help alleviate issues with Saves/Crashing
- EDF 209 Enhancements
– EDF 209 is now slightly more inaccurate to balance Miniguns
– EDF 209 now has a working RPG Variant
DukeEd Improvements
- Fixed some Editor Freezes
- Fixed bug in Playtesting from Editor that Causes GhostInPlace
- Added Tip of the Day
- Added New Classes from Right Click Menu
- DukeEd now supports PNG
- Added DukeEd Site to Editor
Mesh Changes
- Proper Authorship Set on some of Mighty Foot Meshes
- Texture Touchups on numerous Meshes
- UV Touchups on numerous meshes
- More Meshes from the Asset CD
-- Cactus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
-- Desk Fan
- New MultiBomb Box Mesh
Multiplayer Changes
- Re-Enabled Spectator Mode toggle in Player Setup
- Implemented Suicide Spam Prevention
- Implemented Chat Anti-Spam Prevention
- Increased the number of Kick/Ban and Whitelist IP Addresses
- Disabled Inventory for Spectators
- Patched Spam Message with Attack Dog Player
- Disabled some console commands
- Changed Connection Timeout Default Timer
- Patched Inventory and Pathing Exploit
- Patched Fake Player Exploits
- Fixed grammar in Radiation Death Message
UI Changes
- Tweaked HUD so it looks better in different aspect ratios
- Adjusted Scaling on SOS Messages
- Resolved Some Accessed None
- Improved Main Menu Video Sync
- Usable Objects now glow
- Text Color can now be set
- Menu Icon Color can now be set
- Crosshair color can now be set
- Crosshair size can now be set
- Patched Subtitle DukePlayer.Nones
- Added Banner for Config
- Added Paused Text to Paused game
- Fixed a bug that allowed the player rotate when paused
- Added Enable/Disable option for Auto Switch Weapon
- Added Enable/Disable option for Forced Default Player Mesh
– Allows for Custom SP Skins
- Added Enable/Disable option for Strafe Roll
- Profile menu can be closed with Esc
Misc Changes
- Mouse Acceleration now Disabled
- In-Game Screenshot now works
Chapter 1 Changes:
!e1c1_1
- Fix Jay's Animations during Interview
- Tweaked Press E to Sit prompt
- Greenroom Man no longer Wanders
- Subtitles Fixed
- Camera Men Saved
- Disabled TakeMomentium on NPCs
!e1c1_2
- Remove keycards
- Make both panels of Glass trigger event
- Press E to Close Oven setup
- Cole's Subtitles Fixed
- Cleaned up Pinball Machine Decoration Animations
!e1c1_3
!e1c1_4
- Cleaned up patrols
- Cleaned up the events tied to that door being hit (it was still moving before)
- Sound effects tied to that, too
- Generally did some organizing for the events that do matter (Dennis' stuff), so things are sorted in a line
- Dennis's Subtitles Fixed
- Fixed Invalid Animations on Lock
- Removed Unused Room
- Fixed Fell Out of World Decorations
- Removed Extra Geometry
- Removed Extra Decorations
- Tweaked Lightning Strike
!e1c1_5
!e1c1_6
- Adjust Keycard so it's in opposite doorway
- Added event to beginning of level
- Changed Frank Prompt
- Cleaned up None Group
!e1c1_7
- Stopped Harold from Wandering
- Cleaned up None Group
- Fixed Graves Subtitles
!e1c1_9
- Fixed BSP Hole at End of Level
- Removed Extra Geometry
- Removed Extra Decorations
!e1c1_10
- Brought over fixed TV from MP
- Fixed wall so it breaks more consistently
- Fixed Snatched Piggie
- Fixed movie screen
- Fix Door Handle on Back Entrance
Love the fact Duke is a fan of Serious Sam who was in turn inspired by Duke himself.
HUD scaling now doesn't work at all. With HUDScale=1.000000 HUD is very large and doesn't change at all with other HUDScale values. Fix please!
We did note this and are working on it!
If make a quick save (F6), then after a quick load (F9), the game crashes to the desktop with an error.
Ah, so I'm not alone with it under WINE (Linux).
I saved it cleanly, no ongoing action or so and then quick-loaded it, crash.
oh is this Problem still there hmm
Yes, from time to time it might randomly happen. 0.2.1 is still to low for a stable version I guess.
And remember to always bet ... you have to push the sliders up after an update of the game (if you keept ini files).
I can't get further in the level Slick Willy where the strip club is on fire.
I found the keycard where I can get through the area with the strip bars.
I also went through the ventilation shaft.
Here I stand in front of a locked door.
I am upstairs in the investigate the attack on the lady killer and have got to the aree where the popcorn machine but cant find where to go after this.
any help appreciated
I guess that is due to the fact that nobody "officially" worked on that chapter yet (except meowth, another guy and me). When I left the project in the same year of the leak, the Slick Willy maps were basically already repaired by us three to the point where it could have been played through. But I'm not surprised that my criticism wasn't addressed. One of the reasons why I left the project. I wouldn't be surprised if the level changer/transition fix by slade (Master of Rune modding) is still not included in the repo. Same to the Credits map. It was already repaired by me too.
When I try to launch the game for the first time after choosing the renderer (Dirctx9, directx8, etc) it gives a message saying there is a "debug assertion fail". Am I supposed to use this to patch the last update, or is it something else?
Every time I restart the game after quitting and try to load any save it says that:
DukeForever.exe caused an EXCEPTION ACCESS VIOLATION in module
Engine.dll at 0023:5F0AD65E, UObject::ProcessEvent0+0126 byte(s)
- Register Dump -
EAX=00000000 EBX=1853C000 ECX=1853C000 EDX=00006535
ESI=00000000
EDI=0E289D80 EBP=00FAF6D4 ESP=00FAF690 EIP=5F0AD65E
FLG=00210202
CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B
Stack Trace
0023:5F0AD65E Engine.dll, UObject::ProcessEvent0)+0126 byte(s)
0023:5F02B801 Engine.dll, AActor::UpdateTimers()+0417 byte(s)
0023:5F029E90 Engine.dll, AActor::Tickl)+2432 byte(s)
0023:5F02A6AB Engine.dll, ULevel::Tick(+1035 byte(s)
0023:5F02188F Engine.dll, UGameEngine::Tick0+0543
byte(s)
0023:5F031D81 Engine.dll, MainLoop(+0209 byte(s)
0023:00E3A1B4 DukeForever.exe
0023:00E3AC2F DukeForever.exe
0023:7521FCC9 KERNEL32.DLL, BaseThreadinitThunk()+0025 byte(s)
0023:77367C6E ntdll.dll, RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath0+0286
byte(s)
0023:77367C3E ntdll.dll, RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath(+0238
byte(s)
-- Memory Status
45% of memory currently in use
Physical memory: 0.00M / 1024.00M
Page file: 1024.00M / 2048.00M
Virtual memory:696.98M / 4095.88M
Working set: 32000 / 159000
--- Drive Status ---
C:\ - 106383.8M/148897.4M [Fixed]
D:\ - 734814.4M/803869.0M [Fixed]
--- System Information -
Microsoft
Windows 2000 (Version:6.2, Build: 9200)
Up Time: 8.82 hours
Current Directory:D:\INSTALL\DNFRP-Duke-It-Out-0.2.1\System
Windows Directory:C:\WINDOWS
System Directory:C:\WINDOWS\system32
-- Build Information
C:\Duke4\Stable\Launch\Src\Launch.cpp Modified: Mon Aug 21
16:43:55 2023
C:\Duke4\Stable\Launch\Src\Launch.cpp Built: Aug 21 2023,18:24:00
Settings: NDEBUG
cplusplus _CPPRTTI _CPPUNWIND _DLL
_M_IX86=600_MSC_EXTENSIONS_MSC_VER=1936_MT_WIN32
How to fix that?
im having the same problem too i cant load my save or any other saves
It needs to be fixed in Engine.dll. The only "fix" was to play it again from scratch. So far what I found is, that loading a saved game depends on the location where you saved it. Sometimes it loads and then I was able to load it again. Maybe some internal game flags/triggers are not properly set/reset?
I think i found out to at least reduce crashes though it worked with previous version, but may be fine with new either. You need to set Windows compatibility with XP in app preferences and use DX8 as renderer. Maybe this also could prevent save corruption? Gonna download this version and try later...
Fun
BugslayerUtil.dll and Engine.dll are not found or in my recycle bin. I have been able to play the first time I loaded the game then tried to at a later date but couldn't start a game because it wouldn't accept any user names. Despite deleting and redownloading/unzipping/installing the game many times all I get is the above error.
Please download it again and extract it to c:/ . Deeper directories aren't stable to use e.g. c:/Program Files/ will more likely crash it. The 2 files should be in the ZIP file at proper place. Also make sure to extract full path structure and all at once.
Could you please fix the save error? I tried loading the game into a save I made but instead of leading it in, it just crashed. I would be happy if you fixed it.
Still feels like mouse isn't using raw inputs. Or like it's skipping around at least. Checked both the default and user .ini files and both say smoothing is off and the threshold is 0 but I can definitely feel it in game.
Broken mess this is. So far:
No music in the first level, no sounds from the NPC's or the crowd from the tv show, the NPC who guides you to the tv show, stops at the first corner, after 5 new attempts it somehow worked but sitting in the chair with the host, nothing happened, no action script started or anything. So this become boring pretty fast.
For the time being, I'll go back to Ashes 2063, MUCH better old game.
Huh, I've played this build a few times, and haven't had those issues. But keep in mind this project is still in the very early stages. I mean they still have a TON of the game to finish, fix up etc. For two years of progress on a project that seeks to take a leaked build of a incomplete game and finish it, all done by volunteers, for free, in their spare time... I'd say it's pretty impressive already, and will only get better
Oh yes, I 100% agree on that, don't get me wrong! I only stated what I experienced when playing it, that's all.
Sounds like you were either playing original maps or did something wrong like copying the files over the leak.
Yes, it could be, I should check that out. Thanks for the reply
Always remove older game files first by deleting c:/duke4/ and then extracting the ZIP with full path (very important) to c:/ again.
Remember that this version is 0.2.1 so it is far from being completed. And for that it is already kinda playable.
First of all, i'm a bit late to play it but good job so far!
Game crashes to desktop whenever i try to load a save file. I don't know why is this happening but it's so discouraging. This is the first time i am playing DNF. Didn't overwrite files from older versions or anything.
Best Regards
Here's the crash report if it helps to find a solution. Imgur.com
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