Huge Duke Nukem PC patch live

By Tom Phillips Published 3 August, 2011

14 years and still not done.

A PC patch for Duke Nukem Forever has gone live. It doubles the game's single-player weapon capacity from two to four.

The poorly-recieved shooter was criticised for limiting players to two weapons in campaign mode, a decision developer 3D Realms blamed on mapping the game to console controls.

"We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs," 3D Realms boss George Broussard previously explained.

Patch plans previously promised Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC) support, push-to-talk voice chat, and the ability to adjust the game's field of view. All of these are present and correct.

In addition to the above, auto-aim has been tweaked, enhanced blood effects have been added and leaderboard cheats have been squashed.

There are no current plans to bring the patch to PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 versions of the game.

The full list of included improvements:

  • 4-weapon inventory option in single-player campaign
  • Multiplayer server favourites
  • Dedicated server overhaul
  • FOV [Field of View] 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 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

Duke Nukem's Capture the Babe.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • TheNinkyNonk #1 10 months ago

    Will it make the game not shit?

  • Lexx87 #2 10 months ago

    I've just noticed that the download for this has a cheaper price than the boxed Zavvi price, it's about time for this kind of thing!

    Even if it is Duke Nukem.

  • LFace #3 10 months ago

    I think not releasing the game would have been the only way to make this not shit

  • HL706 #4 10 months ago

    "We tried for a long time to support lots of guns but we simply could not find a nice way to map it to a controller, despite trying 4-5 designs"

    Borderlands managed it just fine with the D-Pad.

  • Sicho #5 10 months ago

    #6
    isn't the D-Pad used for activating Nightvision, Beer, Steroids etc?
    So the D-Pad is already taken.

  • mss99 #6 10 months ago

    In the original you just cycled left and right through the weapons. Sure they could have implemented that at the very least.

  • LFace #7 10 months ago

    tjtj - bored of what hating? I posted one comment about this travesty of a game (which I HAVE played so therefore do have a right to critique it rather than just jump on a bandwagon). Is that a problem ? The game is shit from top to bottom and no amount of polishing will improve it enough for me.

  • Optimaximal #8 10 months ago

    @Lexx87

    I'm assuming that's the standard Digital Download vs. the box Balls of Steel edition.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #9 10 months ago

    Glad I did not start with the game yet. Having more than just two weapons in single player will have quite an impact.

  • LHH #10 10 months ago

    They Duke3D was fine on a controller

  • username84 #11 10 months ago

    That capture the babe game looks so fu@*ing dull.

  • MakeYourself #12 10 months ago

    I'm personally with tjtj here, I only started playing this game a couple of days ago all to aware of the criticisms aimed at it since launch, but I like to make my own mind up about games by giving them a go regardless of what others have said and I've always been a fan of the Duke so I came and got some. After only a few hours in I am actually really enjoying the game. Sure, it's flawed in areas and the controls can be pretty dodgy at times which result in one or two unfair deaths, but it has made me laugh more times than it has made me cry and I'm looking forward to cracking on with it some more.

    In short, ragging on this game has become the popular thing to do. The game was never going to be perfect and trump the top modern shooters, but it can still be enjoyable and a damn good laugh. Sadly most people seem to prefer to get their laughs by making the same old tired jokes about how crap the game is.

  • Makeem95 #13 10 months ago

    @tjtj
    Because without comments, we would've all read Dan Whitehead's Dragon Age 2 review (8/10), bought it and be severely disappointed. Thank god for comments!

  • Freek #14 10 months ago

    You really can't swipe the legitimate criticsm of this game on "negative hype". The poor level design, the grimy textures, the badly written jokes, the dull weapons, the utter lack of polish, horrific technical and loading issues on all the console versions. It's all been said before in length and detail in many reviews and comments.
    I'm sure some people like it, but you can't say other people dislike it just due to hype, this is not a quality product by any standard.

    Yes I did play it, at length and all it does is remind you how good other games really are, hell even Duke3D is more fun wich you can get for super cheap on GoG and get the free high res pack while you're at it.

  • ronorra #15 10 months ago

    "DN3D has lots of slots, yeah, but it was a different game. "

    Yea, DN3D was a fun game unlike this ungodly abomination that is a mix of pretty much all that is wrong with current day FPS games.

  • Darren #16 10 months ago

    I tried this update this morning and the game definitely looks better in terms of texturing than before plus the 4-weapon inventory (which *works* with the Xbox 360 controller using Y to switch between weapons) and field of view improve things slightly. It still isn't going to make any of the haters like the game but they're welcome additions for those people, like myself, who did enjoy this admittedly dumb and dated shooter.

  • Darren #17 10 months ago

    P.S. The update is 546 MB so includes quite a few improved textures. Shadows are reported to be worst though on Ultra (cannot confirm as I didn't notice it myself). Oh and 100% CPU bug has been confirmed as fixed in this patch.

  • RedSparrows #18 10 months ago

    Wuoh, relativity black hole spotted