General Gaming Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition - update: Nightdive Studios discusses the botched launch and what it's doing to fix it (PCGamesN)

[Brian]

Classic ‘Blade Runner’ Video Game to Be Restored For Consoles, Steam (Exclusive)

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Nightdive Studios, known for restoring classic video games such as System Shock and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, has partnered with production company Alcon Entertainment to restore the 1997 point-and-c…

 

[stepee]

oh i might actually grab that on switch

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Releasing on Thursday:

 

Nightdive’s ‘Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition’ Arriving on PC and Consoles June 23

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After being delayed from its 2020 release, Nightdive has announced that 'Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition' will be released this week.

 

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After previously running into delays with development, Nightdive Studios finally has a release date for their upcoming Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition. In fact, the game will be arriving later this week!

 

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition will release June 23rd digitally across PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. For those physical media enthusiasts, Limited Run Games will have orders up for Switch and PS4 physical editions beginning this Friday.

 

 

[Bloodporne]

Oh damn...

I've always been really curious about this game, this is cool. 

[Phaseknox]

I was recently thinking that this should have been out by now, so it’s good to know that it’s finally coming out this week because I’ve been waiting for it.

[skillzdadirecta]

What kind of game is it?

[Bloodporne]

Just now, skillzdadirecta said:

What kind of game is it?

Pretty sure it's a Point & Click Adventure from what I've read at least. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

What kind of game is it?

 

Just now, Bloodporne said:

Pretty sure it's a Point & Click Adventure from what I've read at least. 

 

@Bloodporne is correct - it's a point n' click adventure.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Being released now for $9.99

[Bloodporne]

Not sure just how much I care since I never played the original but alas, it's apparently not looking too great and has sound issues and crashes:

 

The Blade Runner game's new remaster looks worse

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A remastered re-release of Westwood's excellent Blade Runner video game is out today, though it looks worse than the recent GOG release.

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

A Nightdive developer who posts on ResetERA said the first patch should be deployed soon.  This is the changelog so far:

 

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Added missing audio and text localization (video localization to come in a later patch)
Added missing subtitle credits
Added GOG achievements
Fixed possible deadlocks and memory leaks
Fixed various menus not responding to resolution changes
Fixed menu sliders sound loop when dragged with the mouse
Fixed Borderless Window setting on PC not sticking
Added setting to disable widescreen borders
Added setting to change ingame brightness
Fixed McCoy not being able to walk freely in certain rooms (eg. Runciter's)
Fixed subtitles not displaying during outtakes
Fixed outtakes not playing at 60fps
Fixed fog not rendering correctly in certain rooms (eg. Chinatown)
Fixed McCoy clipping into vehicles in certain rooms (eg. Runciter's)
Fixed green flicker during transitions
Fixed items not displaying after loading a savegame

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Why Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition was a mess when it launched | PCGamesN

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Nightdive Studios talks about the mistakes that led to the botched launch of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, and what it's doing to fix it

 

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“The responsibility for the ship date and, in retrospect, the failure to change the ship date resides 100% with me,” Kuperman tells us flatly. “The ship date was picked because it aligned with the 40th anniversary of the movie – that seemed that it would be something that would be a really cool thing to do for the fans.”

 

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“I think it was more of a death by a thousand cuts,” Giannakis says. “We had a lot of small things that were kind of upsetting people or bothering people about the game. I wouldn’t say there was any one major showstopper – we heard feedback about things like, ‘we don’t like the border that you have, can we turn that off?’ Or ‘there’s no brightness settings in the game, can we have that?'”

 

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The quality assurance team also faced unique challenges with Blade Runner due to its use of RNG to determine certain events players encounter – playing the game the same way will produce different outcomes, compounding the amount of time required to test the game.

 

To add to this, Kuperman explains, several members of the QA team were taking time off to recuperate from COVID-19, and Giannakis, the lead producer, was in the middle of a cross-country move.

 

“Anyone who knows me knows I have a strong personality,” Kuperman adds. “Maybe Dimitris [Giannakis], if he’d been on board, would have been the one that said, ‘hey, we’re not ready.’ Maybe it was because of my personality, because of who I am, that nobody told us we weren’t ready.”