Huge Duke Nukem PC patch live

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