Game News Second patch for Boiling Point incoming

[Spazmo]

Tags: Boiling Point: Road to Hell

Developer Deep Shadows' <a href=http://www.deep-shadows.com/en/>website</a> reveals that a second patch for their RPGish game Boiling Point: Road to Hell will be coming soon to North American and European customers, having already been released in Russia. Here's some of what it does.<blockquote>1. improved car dynamics
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2. improved passer-by behaviour
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3. cans to refuel cars
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4. upgrades to repair weapons</blockquote>And hopefully bags of bugfixes.
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.bluesnews.com">Blue's News</A>

 

[Screaming_life]

And hopefully bags of bugfixes.

yep, here's a more complete list:

- fixed: crash while loading some save files;
- fixed: camera control when firing from the Pirania;
- fixed: rendering error in landscape while flying a plane;
- fixed: some situations where the user car would disapear;
- fixed: sometimes in the vehicle list NPC names are displayed;
- fixed: list of vehicles, now the last car you were using is N1;
- fixed: when FPS are low you could fall through the map while driving a car;
- fixed: the snake wasn't able to bite you while you were crawling;
- fixed: car kills NPC's from slight touch;
- fixed: car map indicators remained even after it was destroyed;
- fixed: when you fire the RPG and quickly switch to a different weapon the remaining ammo does not decrease;
- fixed: size of the moon;
- fixed: corrupted frames beetween AVI movies were visible;
- fixed: windows appear as dark squares while it's raining;
- fixed: some open doors dissapear at certain view angles on indoor levels;
- fixed: flickering triangles on bus (3rd person view);
- fixed: boat appears to be filled with water;
- fixed: boat trace can dissapear and flicker under some viewing angles;
- fixed: flickering carpets in federal base;
- fixed: posters in bar vanish as you turn away from them;
- fixed: dog does not cast shadows;
- fixed: water and landswell are not animated in 6th cutscene;
- fixed: white square from car lights are visible on GeForce cards(1th person view);
- fixed: on some occasions a white square is clearly visible around the moon;
- fixed: savegame icon does not contain horizon and fog when saved in plane;
- fixed: slight screen borders darkening on GeForce cards with Bloom effect on;
- fixed: fog from car lights casts shadow;
- fixed: portals on airport and city;
- fixed: sports car's wheel are not clipping by the ground
- fixed: grenades get stuck in the doorways and windows;
- fixed: NPC standing in chairs;
- fixed: missions "The Intimate drama - 1 and 2";
- fixed: a metal clanking sound plays, if the user's character stabs the curtains;
- fixed: user character stands in the air inside don pedro's island house;
- fixed: passer-by's in Pueblo Faro walk in air near the bar;
- fixed: the dead body lies in incorrect positions;
- fixed: money obtained from the bus drive missions is not consistent;
- fixed: if the music settings is set to min (any %), and the user rests in game, then suddenly the music blasts to 100%;
- fixed: characters speach is too quiet;
- fixed: wrong message when paying for a vodka shot at the Puerto Sombra bar;
- fixed: change a tire icon does not update correctly;
- fixed: no driver in the taxi in pueblo-faro;
- fixed: PSS is not available in the Trade Menu;
- fixed: jaguar floats across screen at treetop level;
- fixed: character fails to stop running if objectives window is open;
- fixed: hint appears if the user is on the other side of wall;
- fixed: soldiers do not hold Shotguns properly;
- fixed: the two Policemen appear to stare at the ground;
- fixed: npc die on contact with grenades, and not from the actual explosion;
- fixed: prison A.I. gets stuck in doorways;
- fixed: remove voice "A-a-a" when passer-by's are running away from player.
- fixed: problem with invisible NPC

- improved: car dynamics;
- improved: NPC & Combat AI;
- improved: weapon's balance;
- improved: helicopter dynamics, you can now turn on the spot;
- improved: barrel physics;

- added: cans to refuel different kinds of vehicles;
- added: Weapon repair upgrades;
- added: support of non-4:3 video modes;
- added: the Nissan(Melarud) car now has it's own gfx-interface (cockpit);
- added: NPC reacts on car horn;
- added: steering Wheel Sensitivity lacks Plus and Minus signs;
- added: informative messages appear while upgrading;

- optimized: grass rendeing and fixed flickering on hilltops;
- optimized: Bodies of Drivers accumulate over time;

 

[Shagnak]

WOAH
Now that's a fix-list. :shock:

Edit:
I've finally seen the game running, and I think it has massive potential.
Lets hope that they keep churning those fixes out.

 

[Lemon]

Their next title is an Elite style space trader/sim, Screenshots at 3dgamers.

 

[Screaming_life]

Their next title is an Elite style space trader/sim, Screenshots at 3dgamers.

indeed... and i heard there will be rpg elements as well... although what exactly i have no idea!

EDIT: ooh they have a few new screens! thanks!

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Sounds (and looks) promising. Hope the QA goes a bit better with Precursor, though.

 

[Gwendo]

After Boiling Point, I'm afraid I can't expect anything serious from that company. I know they are beggining, I know most games come with bugs, but BP was clearly an unfinished product, with such a poor execution and and overwhelming quantity of bugs and such low engine performance, that it can't be excused. There's no way that any decent QA could have missed BP's issues. They just had to play 2 minutes to find a few dozen bugs and performance issues...

They are already creating a new product without finishing the previous one. I won't be waiting for that game. Maybe if future reviews of the game say it's bugless (as humanly possible), I'll give it a try.

 

[Claw]

Play "Big Rigs" to pass the time.

 

[Shagnak]

and such low engine performance.

Hmmm...I think you've posted something before about how it ran like shit for you, and you had a pretty flash computer or something.
Well, I recently saw it running on a Athlon 2600+, 1 gig ram, gf6800 (vanilla flavoured), and at default settings it ran pretty smoothly.
The detail settings were then ramped up quite a bit, and though it was juddery at times (think Morrowind for a lot of rigs when it first came out) it was still playable. Even combat wasn't too bad. I played for an hour or so (admittedly, a lot of it was pointless playing around) and didn't see any game killing bugs. Sure, I will undoubtedly come across some, but from where I stand your current claims seem a bit overdone.

Maybe I lucked out and had some wonderful HW combo the game favoured?

Edit:
Your specs

Well, in my PC, the weapons work like crap. Maybe it's because of my weak p4 3.4GHz with only 1GB DDR2 ram and a X800GET 256MB graphic card, but I can't play combat in that game, it just lags more than if I were playing online with a 28.8K modem. And the weapons... Too erratic!

Wow. Looks even better (on the surface) than what I used. Maybe the game doesn't like ATI? Has anyone else compared cards?

 

[Kraszu]

Hmmm...I think you've posted something before about how it ran like shit for you, and you had a pretty flash computer or something.
Well, I recently saw it running on a Athlon 2600+, 1 gig ram, gf6800 (vanilla flavoured), and at default settings it ran pretty smoothly.

But Far cry insted run perfect on medium setings on athlon 1700+, 512mb ram, gfti4200 and i don't think that boiling point look any beter.

 

[Funktion]

They are already creating a new product without finishing the previous one.

Based on the list of bugfixes I would say they are doing their best to "finish up" the game. Just because they started production on a game doesn't mean they stopped supporting Boiling Point, and so far it seems they're giving it better support than most releases nowadays. This patch is even adding some features that were requested by the fans.
Based on what we know about Atari (they are not really found of paying for patches), they are probably doing this from their own pocket. Atari didn't care to advertise the game, and until recently they didn't even had a forum for it, so all things considered it's great they are taking the time to further improve the game (and I must say while I encountered some minor bugs, I never experienced a single crash or major bug, something I can't say of games like SW: Knights of the Old Republic II)

I own the game, and I've been having a lot of fun. I don't have a top of the line PC, and I don't have any performance issues at all (I spent 10 minutes or so messing with the game's settings to find the "optimal" combination, and I now I rarely have any slowdowns). I keep my PC fully updated, defraged, virus/spyware/adware/trojan free, which helps...

It's a shame more people don't give this game a chance (hopefully when the price drops people will take notice). While it isn't as polished or "pretty" as games made by bigger companies I find it pretty impressive, especially since a significant part of the game was made by a team of 4 people (from Ukraine), without a huge budget or support.

I personally can't wait for their next game. Boiling Point + space setting + space combate + RPG, what's not to like...

 

[Thydron]

before you become any good with the guns, around 1/2 of your shots will misfire - ie the gun just clicks, you might be mistaking this feature for bad perfomance

 

[Funktion]

before you become any good with the guns, around 1/2 of your shots will misfire - ie the gun just clicks, you might be mistaking this feature for bad perfomance

It's not so much as a problem with the weapons skills, it's just that most weapons you pick up have lots of "wear", and they misfire/jam a lot. With new weapons this doesn't happen.

Previously it was pretty hard to repair a weapon (apparently there is a weapon mod that reduces the wear, but I never found it), but fortunately with the next patch you will be able to repair weapons much easily.

 

[gromit]

I've only had a couple of misfires so far, even with low skills. You just need to use fresh guns.