Duke Nukem Forever

[Widjaja]

Was that the underwater stuff near the end?

Nah that just made me rage a little
It was before that where there is an old man controlling a moving bride above a room of large fans.
Don't want to put out any spoilers.

 

[qubit]

Just found this. Look carefully at where it's being advertised...

And notice the 'Vista' branding on the sign! Remind you of anything?

Source

 

[fullinfusion]

Just found this. Look carefully at where it's being advertised...

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg16/qubit10/TPU Forum/DNFadvert.jpg

And notice the 'Vista' branding on the sign! Remind you of anything?

Source

Haha Good find!!!

 

[Widjaja]

The Vista branding doesn't remind me of anything but it's amusing to see Duke Nukem being advertised behind the Church Billboard.

 

[qubit]

The Vista branding doesn't remind me of anything but it's amusing to see Duke Nukem being advertised behind the Church Billboard.

Vista reminds one of the lame duck Windows Vista, which kinda goes with the poor reviews that DNF has received, lol.

And yeah, seeing that advert there is great, innit?

 

[qubit]

DNF DLC on the way!

Hits August 4th:

Duke Nukem Forever’s First Add-On Content Hail to the Icons Parody Pack, is headed to Xbox 360, PS3, and PC this Fall. The pack contains three new game modes, and four new multiplayer maps – each with new weapons– and, this pack will be FREE to all First Access Club members who registered their FAC membership prior to the launch of Duke Nukem Forever (subject to availability).

Want to know more? Here are some details about what the Parody Pack includes:

Three All-New Modes –

Freeze Tag provides some of the most fun team gameplay in Duke Nukem Forever. Players cooperate to freeze and shatter their opponents in succession for huge point streaks and combos. See who can hold on to the babe the longest in Hot Potato and play free-for-all Duke style in Hail to the King.
Call of Duke – Duke engages in modern combat in a war-torn city. Foes don’t stand a chance against the Duke when he spams the map with the N00b T00b.
Sandpit – Players take the role of mini-Duke in a giant sandbox with two bases at either end made out of children’s toys. This map features Sticky Grenades.
Inferno – Time machine engage! Duke does combat in a hellish landscape of lava and teleporters. Who turned on the 16-bit graphics, and more importantly, where did this DFG come from?
2Forts1Bridge – Hats? Duke doesn’t need no stinking hats. Give him a minigun and he’ll beat off all comers.



Excited? Don’t want to wait to get your hands on these new modes and maps? You’re in luck. On Thursday, August 4th we’re going to be hosting Multiplayer Dukematches in our headquarters in Novato, California (about 30 minutes north of San Francisco). If you are over 17 and can make it to our office at either 4 PM or 6 PM, email 2KElizabeth@2KGames.com with the subject like "DNF Dukematch!" and include the following information:

- Full name
- Age
- Address
- Top 2 forums you post on (and your username!)
- What time you are available to play



I’ll be emailing our lucky VIPs early next week to let them know when their Dukematch is.

Hail to the King, baby!

2K press release

 

[happita]

That's pretty cool. I like that it's free to first club access members, because frankly, I think DNF wasn't quite worth the $50 I paid for it. With this, it balances out the seasaw a little more to being worth it. Cheers!!

 

[qubit]

Updates released!

Just ran Steam and saw that some major improvements have been made. In particular, 4 weapons and the CPU-hogging problem that I reported in my DNF tech review has been fixed.

But they still haven't fixed the stupid checkpoint system though. Think of the way they did it in Half-Life 2 for the gold standard in game saves.

- 4-weapon inventory option in single player campaign
- 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

http://store.steampowered.com/news/?feed=steam_updates&appids=57900

 

[1Kurgan1]

Awesome, 4 weapons will make the game so much more fun. Can keep silly weapons to shrink and crap, and actually have some serious weapons as well. I seen the update but haven't checked it out. Nice to see they are keeping with it, those are some nice fixes!

 

[qubit]

Yeah, It's much better. I've finished the game, a week ago, but I replayed a bit of it just now and it ran nicer. The four weapons are the best improvement, of course. Also, alt-tabbing out of it no longer saps CPU power, generally screwing Windows. It didn't seem to suffer the sudden frame drops like it did before, either, but I'd have to play it more to say for sure.

Seems like the game had a tendency to corrupt save games, but luckily I never experienced this.

I turned on invincibility and infinite weapon ammo and it was great fun. This really made me feel like I was playing as the Duke - totall baddass just annihilating everything in his path!

It now easily gets that 8/10 from me.