Serious Sam Engine

[Sledge]

Interview with Khaeon, makers of ABZ

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by Mike89
Yeah the game is a fraggers delight, that's for sure. In most games you may shoot a couple of hundred enemies. In this game it's like over 5000. Heh heh.

To be able to do all that while maintaining high frame rates (even on low-end machines) for only US$20 is truly an accomplishment. I wish Croteam nothing but the best for their future products; I can't wait to see what they come up with next.

[Sledge]

Sam was loads of fun. The weapons are sweet (I love the double barrel coach gun and the portable cannon). The enemies are completely over the top (Ugh Zan - probably first end boss in gaming history over 100ft tall). Coop mode just plain rocks. Serious Sam 2 is in development right now, so I'll see if I can preorder

[Riptide]

Ugh Zan was a serious pain in the posterior. It took me a while before I was able to fry him w/the teleporter. Hell, I must've pounded on him with the cannon for an hour before I gave up trying to kill him that way.

[Sledge]

You mean the four brightly lit basketball hoops and the eight jump pads didn't give you a hint

[druga runda]

Originally posted by Sledge
You mean the four brightly lit basketball hoops and the eight jump pads didn't give you a hint

Neither have they given me a hint ... I actually jumped and hopped trough them till I got bored
so I never killed the monster

I guess logic abandoned me at the end... But he was fun to see anyway.

Actually I was playing co op with the friend and he had to go after a while so we never finished as it were... next time westarted SS:SE up

[Riptide]

Originally posted by Sledge
You mean the four brightly lit basketball hoops and the eight jump pads didn't give you a hint

No, I didn't even know they were there at first. I stayed outside the pyramid and kept pounding at him w/the cannon. It wasn't until I triggered that big wave of kleer skeletons that usher forth from the door to the pyramid that it opened up and I realized I could get in there. Once I was inside the pyramid it all became clear.

[Sledge]

Originally posted by Riptide
No, I didn't even know they were there at first. I stayed outside the pyramid and kept pounding at him w/the cannon. It wasn't until I triggered that big wave of kleer skeletons that usher forth from the door to the pyramid that it opened up and I realized I could get in there. Once I was inside the pyramid it all became clear.

Ah, now I see. You didn't know you had to run inside the pyramid. Makes sense now

[Tesco]

I couldnt agree more, this is a sweet looking game. They would be daft not to bring out any games with this engine before its old hat.

[ragejg]

http://files.seriouszone.com/download.php?fileid=577

Second Encounter BETA Patch 1.50
Filename:
secondencounterpatch150publicbeta.exe

File Size:
23.22Mb

Date:
December 18, 2002, 3:25 pm

Author:
Croteam

Downloads:
29,005

Average User Rating:
No user ratings



Summary:



A public BETA of the upcoming 1.50 patch for Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Do not use this patch for gaming, map creation, or mod making.
Full Description:



WARNING: This patch is not supported by Croteam or Seriously and is only available for testing & documentation purposes. Do not use this patch for gaming, map creation, or mod making.

This is the public BETA release of the upcoming 1.50 patch for Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. All previous versions can be upgraded directly to 1.50. Note that this is a BETA patch, and therefore will inevitably have some bugs in it. It is being released for you to try out the new features and revised netcode, as well as for bugs to be found and worked out. Please submit bug reports! Bug reports should be sent to bugs@croteam.com and should include a detailed description of the problem, your operating system, video card and driver revision, sound card and driver revision, and processor.

The new features in this patch are:



full hardware 3D sound (with EAX) with support for dolby surround 5.1
optimized rendering (5-20% faster)
support for occlusion culling
major improvements to skeletal animations (seen in updated tech-test level)
support for hardware vertex & pixel shaders (seen in updated tech-test level)
Parhelia triple-head support (support for three monitors)
detection of newer graphic cards (ATI Radeon 9700/pro, ATI Radeon 9500/pro, ATI Radeon 9000/pro, NV GeForceFX, Matorx Parhelia, SiS Xabre 600/400/200)
no more syncbads in multiplay
recoded demo rec/playback (no sync problems) and more...


The delay was mainly caused by problems in Internet multiplay, and that is the reason for this version still carying the 'Beta' mark. Single play is all green, better than ever, and lan multiplay is doing fine too. You can download the file from the mirrors below. Please feel free to mirror this file and report any mirrors to files@seriouszone.com so we can add them to the list.


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Changelog:
1.50 is not net-game compatible with older versions. everyone need to upgrade - both servers and clients.
Save games and demos are NOT retained from older versions to 1.50
NOTE: Installing this patch will reset your video, audio, network and game settings. This is needed to reapply new fixed settings for some configurations. Player settings and any scripts that you wrote will remain. (I.e., PersistentSymbols.ini is reset to all defaults.). Demos and saved games will NOT be retained.

+ network switched from lockstep action processing to proper server-client
+ new demo recording and playback
+ synchronisation checks removed, they are no longer neccessary
+ hardware 3D sound
+ 5.1 surround support implemented
+ vertex and pixel shaders implemented for SKA
+ occlusion culling implemented
+ triple-head support implemented
+ 'Makefont.exe' - new font creator



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I wonder why this has remained BETA for so long?? Heh, I hadn't known of any updates past 1.07!!

Hopefully it is because Croteam is busy working on Serious Sam2!

[ragejg]

I upped to the 1.5 beta, and now the freakin demos don't work!!! GRRRR....

First Benchemall, now this... (Benchemall won't run SSSE 1.07 on my machines properly... Windows shuts SSSE down when Benchemall loads it up...



ehh, I'll be all right....