I've been a Sam fan from day 1 and i've never managed to play co-op
Gonna change that with 3. Not sure how I missed out on the first and second encounter HD since I was there day one for those too.
Let's play, Tekno! (Soons. SOONS.)
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Serious Sam 3: BFE |OT| No weapon limit, no regenerating health, no cover, all man.
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Let's play, Tekno! (Soons. SOONS.)
God bless PC gaming.Woo, download finished, will probably post some impressions later on
EDIT: first start didn't go that well :/
I'm on nVidia
I hope that was just a fluke. I'm usually so good about avoiding PC pre-orders but not in this case.
I closed all other open programs and it runs fine now, was probably just D3Doverrider messing with the game.
Does anybody know the console command to change the FOV?
edit: found it, it's
plr_fFOVOverride=85
or any other number, TAB in the console gives options for autocompletion of commands
I knew there was no FOV selector in the options *sigh*, being on a 4:3 monitor I NEED to change the FOV.
Where did you put that command, wrote it directly in the console (do you need to write it every session)?
Ok, I only have the pistol, and this game is already awesome.
Quick question though- what the hell is up with using melee to rip the eye out of the brute? What am I supposed to do with it? Throw it at another enemy?
Do you get more "money" if you melee something other than shooting it?
The game is hilarious in the fact that it has no tutorial. I'm willing to bet it wasn't a matter of not having enough time to make one, but more like "f tutorials!"
Quick question though- what the hell is up with using melee to rip the eye out of the brute? What am I supposed to do with it? Throw it at another enemy?
Do you get more "money" if you melee something other than shooting it?
The game is hilarious in the fact that it has no tutorial. I'm willing to bet it wasn't a matter of not having enough time to make one, but more like "f tutorials!"
So awesome, just got my first achievement for killing an enemy i kicked while it was still in the air 
Yeah, just type it into the console (fov at 100 seems about right to me in 16:9). Press tab after the first few letters for autocompletion. No idea if it stays between sessions.
This game on ultra is also pretty taxing on my gtx580, had to lower quite some settings to get 50-60fps in 1080p.
Yeah, just type it into the console (fov at 100 seems about right to me in 16:9). Press tab after the first few letters for autocompletion. No idea if it stays between sessions.
This game on ultra is also pretty taxing on my gtx580, had to lower quite some settings to get 50-60fps in 1080p.
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Any crazy performance issues? I'm interesting in buying this tonight or over the Thanksgiving break, but ever since RAGE, I've become more cautious again with day-one PC games.
It won't start for me. I'm stuck on a flashing screen with a swirly loading symbol in the bottom left corner.
cyberheater
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Does this game support a 360 controller?
plagiarize
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I'm playing Zelda, picking up batman today too... This shouldn't be so hard to resist.
But
It
Is.
Must not spend that $40 no matter how bargain priced that seems.
But
It
Is.
Must not spend that $40 no matter how bargain priced that seems.
TouchMyBox
Member
People still don't know that BFE stands for Bum-Fuck Egypt?
Of course
I've gotten through two levels so far on Normal.
I'm incredibly impressed. First off, the graphics engine is extremely good. They do tricks I haven't seen before with lighting, specifically casting shadows through real time volumetric effects such as smoke and dust. You really need to see it to appreciate how good it looks.
This is also not your average Serious Sam game. There are definitely moments of overwhelming ridiculous waves you need to mow through, but there are also very tense corridor sequences. Some of which are mini-sandbox, such as a massive hall inside the Egyptian museum where the arachnids could be crawling on any surface.
This brings another great aspect to the game- it utilizes obscuring effects very well. If you unload a ton of pistol bullets towards an enemy, it's going to kick up a lot of dust. This makes a natural risk-reward for unloading your weapon. Sure, you might kill whatever you were shooting at, but you've created so much dust debris that it could have scuttled off somewhere else. On top of this, if there is a sun beam near this dust, it creates a very bright beam through the new dust in real time, obscuring even more.
This also comes into play dealing with HDR. In the Egyptian museum hallway, there is a huge glass ceiling with sections missing off it. If you stare directly into a hole, you become temporarily blinded. It sounds gimmicky, but it actually makes for some great tactical positioning to make sure you can see your surroundings sufficiently.
There was also an extremely tense moment in the second level that reminded me of a great Doom/Aliens scenario. Flashlight, creepy noises everywhere, dark walls, and spider pods all over the place.
The new melee mechanic is great as well. Every enemy reacts differently to it - shotgun/machine gun guys get kicked back about 30 feet, but they'll stand back up so it buys you a little time. On the larger spiders, you rip off the top of it's carapace, killing it instantly. For the brutes, you rip out it's eye, which is an instant kill. One of the cool design systems they introduced here is that afterwords, you're holding the eye, so you either have to throw it or drop it before you can use your weapon again. It doesn't seem like throwing the eye at enemies does any damage, but I'm sure some of the later archetypes will have some beneficial temporary weapon you gain. I haven't tried meleeing the headless bomb guys... maybe you get one of their bombs.
These guys really know how to make a good shooter. They've taken everything that made Serious Sam fun and added some really well thought out design principles that have been introduced since it's release.
Definitely recommend it.
I'm incredibly impressed. First off, the graphics engine is extremely good. They do tricks I haven't seen before with lighting, specifically casting shadows through real time volumetric effects such as smoke and dust. You really need to see it to appreciate how good it looks.
This is also not your average Serious Sam game. There are definitely moments of overwhelming ridiculous waves you need to mow through, but there are also very tense corridor sequences. Some of which are mini-sandbox, such as a massive hall inside the Egyptian museum where the arachnids could be crawling on any surface.
This brings another great aspect to the game- it utilizes obscuring effects very well. If you unload a ton of pistol bullets towards an enemy, it's going to kick up a lot of dust. This makes a natural risk-reward for unloading your weapon. Sure, you might kill whatever you were shooting at, but you've created so much dust debris that it could have scuttled off somewhere else. On top of this, if there is a sun beam near this dust, it creates a very bright beam through the new dust in real time, obscuring even more.
This also comes into play dealing with HDR. In the Egyptian museum hallway, there is a huge glass ceiling with sections missing off it. If you stare directly into a hole, you become temporarily blinded. It sounds gimmicky, but it actually makes for some great tactical positioning to make sure you can see your surroundings sufficiently.
There was also an extremely tense moment in the second level that reminded me of a great Doom/Aliens scenario. Flashlight, creepy noises everywhere, dark walls, and spider pods all over the place.
The new melee mechanic is great as well. Every enemy reacts differently to it - shotgun/machine gun guys get kicked back about 30 feet, but they'll stand back up so it buys you a little time. On the larger spiders, you rip off the top of it's carapace, killing it instantly. For the brutes, you rip out it's eye, which is an instant kill. One of the cool design systems they introduced here is that afterwords, you're holding the eye, so you either have to throw it or drop it before you can use your weapon again. It doesn't seem like throwing the eye at enemies does any damage, but I'm sure some of the later archetypes will have some beneficial temporary weapon you gain. I haven't tried meleeing the headless bomb guys... maybe you get one of their bombs.
These guys really know how to make a good shooter. They've taken everything that made Serious Sam fun and added some really well thought out design principles that have been introduced since it's release.
Definitely recommend it.
I can agree with this, at least. The SS games usually lock you into a battle, making it way easier to save yourself into a corner.
I still know what I'd prefer, though!
cyberheater
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Great. Will have to get it after I've completed Skyrim and Rage.
BobsRevenge
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PixyJunket
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Whoa. Is this seriously a new-gen Doom-era FPS?
darkpaladinmfc
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Hype x 10. After Zelda and Batman I know what I'm playing!
BobJustBob
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Is there really no recharging health? The HD versions of first and second encounter have recharging health on the lowest difficulty.
It's actually modern day Cairo so far. I've been on the city streets, in a museum and in a mosque. The environments are very nice. Tons of pallets/crates/debris that's destructible, and lots of clutter every where. It looks like Call of Duty, to be honest.
I've encountered about 10 different enemy archetypes, and I'm just past level 3. I have 3 of the 20 (!!) weapons so far. There's also a pretty cool encyclopedia you can bring up that shows the model of every gun and enemy, and goes through and animated sequence showing it's attacks and weaknesses. Much more impressive than the one in the previous Serious Sams.
No regenerating health on Normal difficulty.
And yes, this game is like a mixture of Call of Duty, Doom and even a little bit of Half Life 2...
EDIT: Also, 4 player split screen on PC for both Co-Op and Versus, and 16 player online Co-Op and Versus.
EDIT2: And, there's a horde mode for both single and multi
EDIT3: There are decently spaced checkpoints, so you don't have to abuse the quick-save if you don't want to.
It's pretty damn challenging even on normal. The third level boss encounter was pretty epic.
It feels a lot like doom in some parts, but COD or HL2? No way, man.
TyrantGuardian
Member
Oh my god I've had this game prepurchased for so long and completely forgot about it due to DotA 2. Installing it now and hoping I won't have any technical issues. Let's do thiiiiiis! Need more friggin circlestrafing in my life.
By the way, to change the FOV, bring up the console and type in plr_fFOVOverride = 110 (or whatever number you'd prefer). You'll have to re-do it every time you restart the game BUT it saves your console input history, so just press the up arrow key and it'll be there each time you boot the game.
Edit: Okay, whoa. This game is SO good. It lets me run it at 60 fps with a huge FOV even though the game now looks like complete dogshit. I wish more games gave me this option. I'll always take performance over fancy graphics, especially in a fast-paced game like this. And boy, is it fast-paced. You run WAY faster than in the old games, especially when sprinting. The fight right after "Put a sock in it" really made me feel like I was finally playing a real Serious Sam game again. Loving the humor, loving the feel of the weapons thus far and the music is hugely improved over the originals. The metal track I just heard actually sounds like something I'd listen to outside of the game, go figure.
By the way, to change the FOV, bring up the console and type in plr_fFOVOverride = 110 (or whatever number you'd prefer). You'll have to re-do it every time you restart the game BUT it saves your console input history, so just press the up arrow key and it'll be there each time you boot the game.
Edit: Okay, whoa. This game is SO good. It lets me run it at 60 fps with a huge FOV even though the game now looks like complete dogshit. I wish more games gave me this option. I'll always take performance over fancy graphics, especially in a fast-paced game like this. And boy, is it fast-paced. You run WAY faster than in the old games, especially when sprinting. The fight right after "Put a sock in it" really made me feel like I was finally playing a real Serious Sam game again. Loving the humor, loving the feel of the weapons thus far and the music is hugely improved over the originals. The metal track I just heard actually sounds like something I'd listen to outside of the game, go figure.
Optimus Lime
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Holy shit.
This game is fucking great. I loved the original Serious Sam games when they were new and, like all gamers of a certain age I'd imagine, I was obsessed with Wolf3D/Doom/Quake/UT for over a decade. This is the modern iteration that we've been wanting.
Also, it is a true PC game. It has an absolutely insane amount of customisation options as far as optimising your rig goes, the brutal, fast, savage gameplay of Doom, humour that is actually funny, and it just feels right.
This may or may not mean much to any of you, but I unashamedly miss the glory days of 1990's PC gaming - easily tied with the 8-bit era in Europe and Britain as gaming's vintage years. This takes me right back there. If that's something you care about, you'll go apeshit for this. If you just want more CoD - stay far, far away.
This game is fucking great. I loved the original Serious Sam games when they were new and, like all gamers of a certain age I'd imagine, I was obsessed with Wolf3D/Doom/Quake/UT for over a decade. This is the modern iteration that we've been wanting.
Also, it is a true PC game. It has an absolutely insane amount of customisation options as far as optimising your rig goes, the brutal, fast, savage gameplay of Doom, humour that is actually funny, and it just feels right.
This may or may not mean much to any of you, but I unashamedly miss the glory days of 1990's PC gaming - easily tied with the 8-bit era in Europe and Britain as gaming's vintage years. This takes me right back there. If that's something you care about, you'll go apeshit for this. If you just want more CoD - stay far, far away.
Agreed.
Playing on hard and it's hard. lol.
Edit:
I'm not liking the melee kills. They're too effective and make the hammer (which on the contrary is well balanced) useless.
I love how blood gets all over the pistol. This game is very, very gory compared to the first 3 games which were cartoonish.
I love the nod to First Encounter when those suicide AAaaaaaaaaaaah guys are coming over the embankment and you get the same voice over skit. Later on, while in the museum, he snaps at one of the AAaaaaaaaaahhh guys: "Oh, SHUT UP!"
I love the nod to First Encounter when those suicide AAaaaaaaaaaaah guys are coming over the embankment and you get the same voice over skit. Later on, while in the museum, he snaps at one of the AAaaaaaaaaahhh guys: "Oh, SHUT UP!"
I agree that the balance on the melee/hammer stuff might be a little off. Too strong? Cooldown too short? Both? At least it feels that way with the weaker enemies. The shotgun feels kind of pointless in comparison since it uses ammo while melee/hammer is infinite.
Otherwise, I'm really enjoying it so far!
Otherwise, I'm really enjoying it so far!
TyrantGuardian
Member
Oh my, pressing mid mouse to access NETRISCA and watch the intel on enemies and weapons is fantastic. If you let it sit on an entry for a while, it'll start showing you detailed info about each thing. The Sledgehammer one made me chuckle.
Also: *dramatic sound effect* "You mean the one you just called?", hahaha.
This game gives both Doom 1/2 and Doom 3 a run for their money... you'll see what I'm talking about once you get into the
Stage 1 clear... Secret: 5/17. Yep, I'm playing a Serious Sam game alright.
Also: *dramatic sound effect* "You mean the one you just called?", hahaha.
This game gives both Doom 1/2 and Doom 3 a run for their money... you'll see what I'm talking about once you get into the
dark parts of the museum.
Stage 1 clear... Secret: 5/17. Yep, I'm playing a Serious Sam game alright.
Trust me, by level four you'll find that melee is not unbalanced at all. Keep in mind, when you're executing a melee, it takes time, and you're exposed to taking damage. It's more of a "clean up the last few" thing or "jump around a corner and snap a neck then jump back" thing to conserve ammo.
The hammer is mainly used to smash through wooden barricades to get to secret locations.
And as for my analogy towards CoD/HL2, I meant more in the gunplay. It's super tight, and when you're fighting the shotgun/machinegun guys they'll flank and use cover... something SS1+2 didn't have.
Also, the pistol is a beast for taking out guys at long range when using iron sights.
Yeah. I'm too early in the game but the "bouncing from an enemy to another, "E"ing them all" playstyle.. I hope it doesn't stay as exploitable as it is.
Against ten or so weak melee enemies: just ran backward around a column, and keep pressing "e", and you are done (what's the hammer there for then?). I don't think this is exactly how the developers imagined this game was meant to be played.
Of course a multitude of varied enemies (with area ranged attacks) will likely make things different, but..
I don't know. For the little time I've played, they just felt off the general balance of the gameplay.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
I love it.
A few levels in, I think I officially love the smoke effects. It's really something else to be forced to fire into a cloud of smoke not really sure if you're hitting anything because you can't afford to let the mob catch up.
I know that the melee attack already doesn't kill the shotgun guys. It just knocks them down. Can't even use it on the charging bull things.
1.25 gigs of video RAM is good enough for ultra over here. No pauses.
Yeah, melee chains are awesome when you have a long line of small creepers. They're extremely risky later in the game through, as it moves you forward at a very fast rate. You more often than not end up in the middle of a shotgun/missile/acid mob by the time you're done. It's pretty much impossible to get a melee chain going on larger enemies, though.
And, as I said, hammer is mainly used to smash barriers that hide secrets. It's basically the crowbar from HL.