Remaining month Bethesda and unfashionable experts Nightdive Studios introduced the go back and shadow drop of Heretic + Hexen – a “definitive re-release” of the vintage spell shooters.
Now, just like the re-releases of DOOM and Quake, this newest package deal has now won its first main replace. As defined at the Slayers Membership site, Replace 1 introduces various new options, gameplay adjustments, fixes, and modding enhancements, and has been made to be had throughout all platforms.
This is the whole rundown of what you’ll be able to be expecting:
New Options
- Heretic: Added unique sport’s Firemace placement randomization (albeit with 100% spawn likelihood as a substitute of the unique’s 75%)
- Added method to disable cutscene subtitles in Accessibility menu
- Added method to repair unique two-button press habits when deciding on stock pieces
- Added method to repair unique habits the place flying ahead or backward will stay you on the similar top, without reference to having a look up or down
- Added method to disable weapon animation smoothing
- Added ‘glance up’, ‘glance down’, and ‘heart view’ key bindings
- Permit use of extra buttons to advance via intermission textual content displays
- Gameplay Modifiers menu is now obtainable from episode and participant elegance displays, as a substitute of simply issue variety
Adjustments
- Hexen: Buffed Bloodscourge injury and altered autoaim habits to paintings higher with huge crowds of enemies
- Hexen: Quite greater assault pace of Timon’s Awl
- Hexen: Lowered Quietus mana utilization from 14 of each and every sort to ten
- Hexen: Quite greater Wraithverge mana utilization from 18 to twenty
- Hexen: Progressed smoothness of weapon assault animations for the guns: Timon’s Awl, Hammer of Retribution, Mace of Contrition, Wraithverge, Sapphire Wand, and Bloodscourge
- Progressed smoothness of weapon lift and decrease animations
- Disable menu atmosphere if song soundtrack is about to None
Fixes
- Automap now scrolls at a constant pace without reference to display screen solution
- Automap now zooms extra temporarily when the usage of a mouse wheel
- Strafe left and proper keys will now cancel each and every different out to check unique sport habits
- Monsters can not be driven off ledges by means of participant weapon assaults
- Triggers can not be skipped in sure cases when sliding alongside partitions
- Enemy missiles will not fireplace relatively downward, fighting incorrectly exploding on sure windowsills
- Monster melee assaults not have limitless top
- Multiplayer scoreboards will not display zeroed out stats in sure instances
- Mounted instances the place disabling viewbob would purpose weapon sprites to offset incorrectly
- Locked door messages will not print if door is activated from again aspect
- Mounted strafe modifier key no longer running for mouse or controller motion
- Mounted lacking accented glyphs in supported languages when the usage of Vintage typeface
- Averted messages on the most sensible of the display screen from being caught after loading sure save video games
- Heretic: The Chaos Serpent in Religion Renewed will not shoot fireballs over the participant’s head
- Heretic: Gauntlets will not push enemies backward
- Heretic: Mounted standing bar no longer redrawing as it should be on degree transition if crossfade choice is disabled
- Heretic: Shadowspheres will now as it should be penalize enemy aiming on the participant
- Heretic: Repair black field on Firemace sprite
- Hexen: Mounted instances the place weapon sprites for sure melee guns (e.g. Cleric Mace) would now and again jitter
- Hexen: Mounted explosions having limitless top
- Hexen: Messages for transfer sequences in Deathkings will now print correctly
Stage Adjustments & Fixes
- Heretic: Mounted inconsistent blood ground texture habits; blood flooring will not deal injury)
- Heretic: Mounted inconsistencies between kinds of locked door textures to be in line with unique sport
- Heretic: E1M6: Mounted an example of overlapping monsters on Onerous issue
- Heretic: E2M1: Got rid of a couple of Weredragons in singleplayer, for just a little much less grind
- Heretic: E2M2: Take away mid-air floating stalactite
- Heretic: E2M5: Mounted non-damaging lava sector round yellow key
- Heretic: E2M7: Take away unreachable enemies from disabled inexperienced key observe on more straightforward issue modes
- Heretic: E3M5: Mounted gargoyles getting randomly caught on placing corpses
- Heretic: E3M6: Take away out-of-bounds Quartz Flask which led to 100% pieces being unobtainable
- Heretic: E4M2: Mounted softlock led to by means of skipping triggers for decreasing the yellow key pyramid
- Heretic: E5M1: Mounted unobtainable secrets and techniques; upload further Tome of Energy to maze space
- Heretic: E5M2: Mounted lacking texture on waterfall steps after blue door
- Heretic: E5M3: “Pod-walk” and “Barrel-walk” sections are not required to succeed in the non-secret go out
- Heretic: E5M5: Mounted unobtainable secrets and techniques
- Heretic: E5M6: Mounted sky-pillar cutoff when viewing the beginning space from the name of the game ledge outdoor
- Religion Renewed: E5M1: Mounted unobtainable secret
- Religion Renewed: E1M3: Mounted softlock led to by means of progressing past the golf green doorways with out a inexperienced key
- Religion Renewed: E1M6: Mounted non-lava adverse ground sector
- Religion Renewed: E1M7: Mounted accidental skip to yellow key and softlock led to by means of jumping into firepits close to get started
- Religion Renewed: E1M9: Mounted with the ability to get away past the playable bounds of the map in sure spaces
- Vestiges of Grandeur: Serpent Temple: Mounted portals to Lawn of Medea and Korax’s Area most effective being usable one time
- Vestiges of Grandeur: Korax’s Area: Mounted softlock when opting for incorrectly for the overall puzzle transfer
- Vestiges of Grandeur: Korax’s Area: Mounted co-op shortcut teleporter most effective being usable one time
Microsoft Retailer
New Options
- Added improve for the usage of the Home windows digital keyboard for textual content inputs
Adjustments
- Got rid of choice for unique fullscreen to mend some problems with Recreation Bar overlays and to permit digital keyboard to paintings
Modding Adjustments
- Added caution that the mod uploader isn’t to be had when the usage of a controller
- Heretic: Added a brand new non-randomized Firemace actor that may be positioned in customized maps
- Heretic: Resolved factor the place wand get started choice was once no longer to be had when launching Heretic mods
- Heretic: Got rid of ambient sound restrict
- Heretic: Got rid of D’Sparil boss teleport spot restrict
- Heretic: Sector sort 4 will now visually scroll once more
- Added WF_AUTOAIMFARTHEST flag for guns; instructs weapon to priortize the furthest to be had goal for autoaim, slightly than the closest
- Added A_MStaffAttackEX (customizable Bloodscourge assault) codepointer
- Repair factor when atmosphere playerclass flags in EXDEFS
- A_RadiusDamage now has flags for customizing habits
- Added ‘endpalette’ and ‘enddemon’ UMAPINFO keys, permitting arbitrary maps to make use of finales for Heretic Episodes 2 and three
- Repair crash when loading sure previous mods that make the most of customized textures
- Up to date order of graphic lumps in IWADs to check the originals, to mend attainable HUD show problems in group supply ports
- Moved UMAPINFO lump for Heretic to heretic_ex.wad, for higher compatibility with group supply ports
- Handiest overview the -warp commandline choice on first release, no longer when switching video games within the sport variety display screen
You’ll be able to in finding out extra about Heretic + Hexen within the unique announcement put up and our complete evaluate right here on Nintendo Existence:
