-- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil --

title.......... turok_2_seeds_of_evil
genre.......... Shooter
game id........ 1410768011
url............ https://www.gog.com/en/game/turok_2_seeds_of_evil
user rating.... 8%
release date... March 16, 2017

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changelog......:

<h4>Patch 3.0.1334</h4><ul><li>Fixed an issue where the weapon placement goes out of the player field of view at the Palace Entrance section of the River of Souls.</li><li>Fixed an issue where the Primagen would get stuck, preventing the fight from progressing.</li></ul><hr><h4>Patch 3.0.1330</h4><ul><li>Fixed a destructible wall that had a different texture from the rest of the wall in the River of Souls stage.</li><li>Fixed an issue where a placeholder was displayed in session’s chat instead of the actual username.</li><li>Fixed an issue where improperly displayed team colors were displayed when the player dies in multiplayer matches.</li><li>Fixed an issue where opponent Team Chats could be seen while playing inside a Playfab session in Multiplayer.</li><li>Fixed an issue where players were unable to navigate on scoreboard as long as the scoreboard is open by only one user in splitscreen.</li><li>Fixed an issue where holding 'Display Scoreboard' opens and closes the scoreboard repeatedly.</li><li>Fixed an issue where the player was unable to create a Playfab session on multiplayer games.</li><li>Fixed an issue where the weapon in hand can disappear in certain parts of the game.</li><li>Fixed flickering issues in the death spot after respawning and not moving in (PC) City5, (N64) Bullseye, Caverns and Lair of Oblivion maps.</li><li>Fixed flickering issues when players are jumping or standing still in multiplayer matches.</li><li>Fixed issues where string text is displayed on the Scoreboard on Last Turok Standing game mode in Multiplayer.</li><li>Fixed an issue where users are unable to see each other in lobbies when one user is on PC and the other user is on a console.</li><li>Fixed an issue where corrupted texture was briefly displayed after selecting a difficulty for the first time after launching the game.</li><li>Fixed an issue where the weapons are clipping through walls and objects on multiple locations.</li><li>Fixed an issue where the HUD presents corruption when specific settings are selected.</li><li>Fixed an issue where teams were not shown properly in multiplayer matches.</li><li>Fixed an issue where the Cerebral Bore fails to automatically switch to the next weapon when the weapon runs out of ammunition in multiplayer. </li><li>Fixed an issue where ping could return negative values in LAN lobbies. </li><li>Fixed an issue where the scoreboard displayed players kill number in ascending order instead of descending order.</li><li>Fixed an issue where flickering shadows are present near the first Warp Portal in Port of Adia: The Village.</li><li>Other graphical and general multiplayer problems have been addressed. </li></ul><hr><h4>Patch 3.0.1279</h4><ul><li>Updated KEX Engine.</li><li>High refresh rates and 4k resolutions for consoles that support these features.</li><li>Smoother shadows, optimized light scattering, and improved ambient occlusion.</li><li>Added subtitles for all cinematics.</li><li>Improved localization.</li><li>Extended singleplayer weapon models for ultrawide resolutions.</li><li>Online cross-platform multiplayer with local split-screen up to 8 players.</li></ul><p>Changes:</p><ul><li>Replace controller disconnect message with platform-specific prompts.</li><li>Added the option to assign the first controller to the second player.</li><li>Allow for windowed, borderless window, and fullscreen configurations</li></ul><p>Fixes:</p><ul><li>Fixed misspelled achievement.</li></ul><hr><h4>Update 1.5.9 (05 October 2017)</h4><h5>Renderer / Graphics</h5>
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<ul>
<li>Motion blur fixed in DirectX 11</li>
</ul>
<h5>Local and Network Multiplayer</h5>
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<ul>
<li>Made network retransmission vastly less agressive</li>
<li>Netspeed no longer necessary and has been removed</li>
<li>Reduced memory footprint of delta tables</li>
</ul>
<h5>User Interface</h5>
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<ul>
<li>Added Crouch Toggle option</li>
</ul>
<h5>Misc</h5>
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<ul>
<li>Fix for crash when deleting corrupted saves</li>
</ul><hr><h4>Update 1.5.5 (28 June 2017)</h4><h5>Renderer / Graphics</h5>
<ul>
<li>Instanced rendering for particles (Direct X optimization)</li>
<li>Shadow map optimizations (batched actor shadow casters)</li>
<li>Uniform buffer optimizations (Direct X)</li>
<li>Fixed cloaking effect not rendering</li>
<li>Fixed explosions changing color when making contact with 'alien flesh' surface types</li>
<li>Particles and trails can now be occluded by geometry (optimizations)</li>
</ul>
<h5>Single-Player Gameplay</h5>
<ul>
<li>Destructibles now flash red when shot</li>
<li>Fix turrets in River of Souls not firing at player</li>
<li>Some components of the AI is now multi-threaded (optimizations)</li>
</ul>
<h5>Local and Network Multiplayer</h5>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated server support (self hosted with included binary, server list browser built in)</li>
<li>New InstaRok (&quot;Instagib&quot;) game mode</li>
<li>New Raptor-Fest (survival co-op/competitive) game mode</li>
<li>Improved handling of large amounts of object synchronization</li>
<li>Restored 3 N64 maps; Escheria, Endangered species and Moonlit Mayhem</li>
<li>Stability updates</li>
<li>Added 'playername' cvar to act as the local player name incase no social service (Steam/GOG Galaxy) is avalible</li>
</ul>
<h5>User Interface</h5>
<ul>
<li>New quick weapon select feature</li>
</ul>
<h5>Misc</h5>
<ul>
<li>Optimized collision detection with static meshes</li>
<li>Fixed floating blood splats from shotgun bullets</li>
</ul><hr><h4>Update 1.5.4 (22 May 2017)</h4><h4>Renderer / Graphics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fix darkcity and rainbow cheat crash,</li>
<li>Improved render resource management,</li>
<li>Fix random DX11 crash on application startup,</li>
<li>Fixed viewport/scissor issues for UI elements,</li>
<li>Uniform buffers for OpenGL is now disabled by default for new users,</li>
<li>DirectX is now the default graphics API for new users,</li>
<li>Tranclucent surfaces in superrok mode are no longer affected.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Single-Player Gameplay</h4>
<ul>
<li>Cerebral Bore sound now loops properly,</li>
<li>Correct music is now played for the first Oblivion cinematic,</li>
<li>All cinema camera models are now hidden,</li>
<li>Failsafe check for final stage for Blind Boss,</li>
<li>Turning while riding is now faster/responsive,</li>
<li>PFM death animations now works,</li>
<li>Can no longer mantle into water regions.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Local and Network Multiplayer</h4>
<ul>
<li>Any tracking cerebral bores are destroyed when the targeted player respawns.</li>
</ul><hr><h4>Update 1.5.2 (11 April 2017)</h4><h5>Single-Player Gameplay</h5>
<ul>
<li>Show both ammo types in the HUD for weapons with alternate ammo types</li>
<li>Bug fixes for particle splash damage (non-explosive) setting off event link triggers</li>
<li>All generators that should spawn random ammo now work</li>
<li>Minor collision fixes in first Death Marsh level</li>
<li>Fixed situation where player could become trapped in the spider-health trap chamber in River of Souls</li>
<li>Fixed a crash when switching levels while enemies are being triggered by an event</li>
<li>Charge dart now consumes 2 to 3 ammo based on charge level</li>
<li>Wasp enemies are now more aggressive and will become responsive after being spawned</li>
<li>Added fog effects to graveyard levels</li>
<li>Tweaked razor wind to be more effective against enemies with metallic parts</li>
<li>Trap doors in the crystal rooms in Lair of the Bline Ones now closes instantly, preventing sequence breaks</li>
<li>Turrets will now cease firing if the target is obstructed</li>
</ul>
<h5>Renderer / Graphics</h5>
<ul>
<li>Major performance gain in the main world deferred shader</li>
<li>Addressed the 'checkerboard pattern' rendering glitch by avoiding depth buffer blitting,</li>
<li>Non-deferred blood decals now adopt the proper red or green coloration depending on their source,</li>
</ul>
<h5>Local and Network Multiplayer</h5>
<ul>
<li>Improved situations where protocol commands would become over-throttled when sending to latent nodes.</li>
<li>Multithreaded packet transmission (which is on by default)</li>
<li>New multiplayer chat message system</li>
<li>Fixed issue with connecting to lobbies from startup</li>
<li>Rebalanced damage curve of charge-dart against players</li>
<li>Added mod and version filters to the multiplayer server lists</li>
<li>Added support for changing the network transmission speed of the client/server (lower speeds reduces bandwidth requirements)</li>
<li>Added support for custom map rotations</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where team-games wouldn't clear their scores properly on map change</li>
<li>Improved the reliability of sending information such as the scoreboard when a player connects to a game</li>
<li>Numerous weapon balance and tweaks</li>
<li>Three N64 multiplayer maps added (Bullseye, Crazy Eight, Experimentata)
<h5>Audio</h5></li>
<li>Voice volume setting is now independent of sound effect volume</li>
<li>Support added for German localized voices
<h5>User Interface</h5></li>
<li>Ability to delete save games
<h5>Misc</h5></li>
<li>Fixed collision detection issue when shooting at an object that is up against a wall</li>
<li>Better detection for avoiding pickups behind walls and other obstructions</li>
</ul><hr><h4>Update 1.5.1 (23 March 2017)</h4><h5>Single-Player Gameplay</h5>
<ul>
<li>Actors scheduled to trigger when a level ends will be immediately triggered,</li>
<li>No more crash or multiple teleports when entering Adon's checkpoints,</li>
<li>A clipping error was repaired in River of Souls,</li>
<li>The Tek Bow can now snipe with normal arrows after loading a saved game,</li>
<li>Improved player clipping near bridges,</li>
<li>Sunfire Pods can now set fire to and kill Blind Ones,</li>
<li>Improved behavior when unlocking levels, may fix game-breaking glitch with missing keys,</li>
<li>The Primagen can no longer become stuck in mid-air between phases 2 and 3 of his battle,</li>
<li>An infrequent crash during the Primagen boss fight has been fixed,</li>
<li>Player skin sounds no longer carry over from multiplayer games,</li>
<li>Quicksave slot can now be loaded from the Load Game menu, including from the titlescreen,</li>
<li>Blind One and Queen boss warp cheats are no longer reversed,</li>
<li>It is no longer possible to save the game when dead or when at the game over screen,</li>
<li>Shredder is now treated with higher selection priority than the shotgun,</li>
<li>A crash when re-entering a specific area of Lair of the Blind Ones has been fixed,</li>
<li>Queen Boss mite spawning rate has been limited,</li>
<li>Improved AI leashing behavior - enemies will not return to their idle locations if they can currently see the player or their target,</li>
<li>Hidden enemy appearance particle effect will occur less often with partially hidden enemies,</li>
<li>It should no longer be possible to become stuck in the Death Marshes due to missing ammo bunker door locks,</li>
<li>Changing weapons is no longer possible while riding the Styracosaur,</li>
<li>Death animation now fully stops instead of looping. This addresses a bad looping behavior in one of the flesh eater models.</li>
</ul>
<h5>Local Multiplayer</h5>
<ul>
<li>Stability improvements,</li>
<li>Local player setup will always be fully completed for splitscreen,</li>
<li>Player radius is properly restored when becoming or ceasing to be the Monkey in Frag Tag,</li>
<li>The nuke weapon will appear more rarely in Rok Mix mode,</li>
<li>Local players in splitscreen can now independently change their ammo types,</li>
<li>A point where the player could get stuck in the Port of Adia MP map has been repaired.</li>
</ul>
<h5>Audio</h5>
<ul>
<li>Volume of ambient lava sounds reduced,</li>
<li>Adon now announces the finding of Primagen keys,</li>
<li>Tek arrow wind-up sound is no longer global, and is more consistent,</li>
<li>Unique Raptoid sound effects from the N64 version have been imported,</li>
<li>Turok now has unique pain sounds when taking damage from low oxygen while swimming,</li>
<li>Shredder and shotgun firing sound effects improved,</li>
<li>High-pitched noise eliminated from sound samples.</li>
</ul>
<h5>Renderer / Graphics</h5>
<ul>
<li>Shader language version 4.00 is now properly accepted,</li>
<li>Bloom: Opacity and intensity can now be set by the user,</li>
<li>Optimizations for masked texture rendering and deferred shadow maps,</li>
<li>AMD-specific fix for flashlight, deferred decals, and SAO,</li>
<li>Pipeline synchronization is now an end-user option and is no longer enabled by default,</li>
<li>Actor outlining effects now cooperate properly with resolution scaling.</li>
</ul>
<h5>User Interface</h5>
<ul>
<li>Video resolution setting will be saved without having to exit the game,</li>
<li>Font size increased on Bindings menu,</li>
<li>Clearer distinction between Exit to Title and Quit in English and French languages,</li>
<li>Support for AMD GPU memory queries on the graphics option menu,</li>
<li>Technical graphics options menu added,</li>
<li>Users with ISO European keyboards can now access the console, and can bind two additional language-specific keys on the keyboard to actions,</li>
<li>Options added to control all forms of player head bobbing and tilting,</li>
<li>Step values have been tweaked for all slider-type options,</li>
<li>Mouse smoothing is now available from the menus, and no longer crashes the game if set to zero.</li>
</ul>
<h5>Misc</h5>
<ul>
<li>&quot;Operation completed successfully&quot; is no longer reported as an error if GL context creation fails,</li>
<li>Lag reduced when messages are added to the console,</li>
<li>Crash in math routine repaired.</li>
<li>For advanced users, new cvars have been added:</li>
<li>jobs_concurrentThreads - Sets the number of concurrent threads to use. If set to 0 then no multithreading will be used</li>
<li>jobs_prioritize - Setting to 0 marks all threaded jobs as low priority</li>
<li>jobs_useTasks - Enables/disables job tasks </li>
<li>&quot;What's New&quot; menu has been added to display Changelog information.</li>
<li>The Queen and Mother bosses have received a health buff and now receive -50% explosion damage</li>
</ul>