Interesting!

CPL world tour!!

Posting reviews for plusses.

Gamespot 7.0: http://www.gamespot.com/painkiller-hell-and-d...w-6399002/

Destructoid 8.0: http://www.destructoid.com/review-painkiller-...7167.phtml

Eurogamer 5.0: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-30-...ion-review

None talks about multiplayer rofl. They all complain about having few sp maps (less than pk) and that it is just a remake.

It's funny that the gamespot and eurogamer reviewers have no clue about the game and is clear it was a 20 minutes gameplay review, whereas the destructoid guy shows a bit more knowledge though not specific and played it on consoles.

rofl. painkiller on xbox. what a fucking joke.

not true, the destructoid review was at least half decent and does mention multiplayer (and quake 3).

whereas the destructoid guy shows a bit more knowledge though not specific and played it on consoles.

Also this is all he wrote about mp. That's not a "review":

Painkiller was once positioned to be the Quake 3 killer in eSports. That never happened but Farm 51 has tried to make good on the game’s multiplayer legacy. In addition to deathmatch (solo, duel, and team), HD adds Capture the Flag and Survival, a lame attempt at four-player horde mode

whatever. he frequently mentions doom and quake. he mentions strafe jumping, what lower fps due to the unreal engine mean for a fast paced fps and how useless the xbox controller is for a game like that, that's cool with me.

I'd put more stock into the words of a random ESR user than in those of mainstream bullshit reviewers. IGN, Gamespot etc. have been a joke for a very long time, now.

yep. sometimes i think they even didnt play the game.

of course the big sites reviews have no clue. thats daily work, done in five minutes plus uploading boring promotion render screenshots.

but on the other hand, why should they mention the mp. is there something new and cool going on? pk was primary a singleplayer game.

[q]Harking back to a simpler era of first-person shooters, Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is far more concerned with body counts and blood spray than depth in the gameplay department

simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters
simpler era of first-person shooters

Shattering, i suppose..

I might buy this to check it out, and I never tried the first painkiller. Only saw tourneys.

bought original painkiller BE on last year's Halloween for 2 €, might be on sale again tomorrow ))

have preordered for a while now. ive never played a pk game. but tried the beta, movement seemed awesome, so will play ofc

Remake without new content? Remake of a game that came out in 2004 and still looks good? Why?

Lazy bastards, it's not like PK singleplayer map design is rocket surgergy or whatever.

so hows the multiplayer? dedicated servers? is there some games going on at all?

That's what i want to know too, spending 20 €(when i already have the old crap) on a dead game that noone plays is a nightmare scenario.

Well, they didn't release a dedicated server client yet. :\ Very shit thing to do, game is as buggy as the beta was. They fixed little to nothing from beta testing.

Way to put the final nail in the coffin nordic games. *slow claps*

Hope they didn't spend too much money on this project then.

Maybe it's time to abandon ship and shit out the last breath of life they can, before selling to bethesda or something like that.

want to know as well.. maybe try warez if there's no demo first

i'd install that to check it out before buying, but with this line in the release notes

Block the game in your firewall and mark our cracked content as secure/trusted in your antivirus program

i'm like.. fuck that. wtf Skidrow?

Ok seriously, have been watching some old PK and im getting psyched.





Btw love the dude casting with Joe, love his voice, who is he?
And whatever happened to TSN?

Warwitch.

He sounds like a NBA caster, makes you feel that esports almost is a true competitive sport. Jokes aside

Oh dear, yes... Gabriel David. Wham-bam-shazam!

Love it, his voice is so sexy

He is casting the RTCW cup that's starting soon! I think there is a newpost / forum post here with all the details! :)

downloaded it and "tried" it.
can barely setup the game, no fov etc.
can't even find a console, dafuq is this.
waiting for the guys who made PK++ to make something out of this game before i try it again

edit:
and yes, dm_sacred is there, the original version and a HD remake

Thx for taking one for the team, have a plus

also when binding weapons to different keys, you dont for instance bind rocket launcher to R, you bind weapon <number> to R
i didnt figure out which weapon is weapon 1,2,3,4 and so on, cause i just cba

Isn't it the same in Quake?
bind weapon5 R

uhm, not in options in cpma for instance, there it says ROCKETLAUNCHER <key>

or atleast something kinda like that

uhm... the game is unreal engine 3, a customizable one.

console is on f1 or ~ afaik, maybe 0, you can just edit the cfg files outside the game.

but how many players there are? any dedicated servers? games going on?

mhm.

the fuck would i know, im playing a downloaded version i had to block from internet connection so i cant see any servers :p but im guessing around 17 players have bought the game, of which 10 don't have internet, and i guess there's somewhere around 20 servers which are empty. except 2, where sk1p and some other pk legends are dueling on dm_sacredHD(NEW MAP OMG)

17 players that is incredible amount of people. Enough for next CPL season!!

Try pressing TAB for the console...
Just a hunch!

they should make a multiplayer only version and charge half the price.

NVM

I don't see any servers.. maybe it's my copy...


Overall, game feels like shit compared to the original. I never played pk much. I downloaded the mp demo the other day to get a feel for it and it's cash as fuck. feels shitty in HD, also not as many options as the original either...

How do these people fuck up re-releases like this? No hope for this, or any new 1v1 fps guys..

You should try doom 3 bfg, it will totally lower your basis of comparison and make you want to sit on a broken bottle and swivel.

I did. and youre right

This game is shit, surprise!?

So anything more on this one just leave it at that?

from what i was able to gather in the forums the developers say the safe political answer to evey question that is "possible in the future". that goes for everything from currently left out maps from original PK SP (DLCs) to dedicated servers and multiplayer support.

i have the impression they plan to invest to these things based on the success of their current sales. too bad it just doesnt works like this. personally im kinda too old to buy promises. and as for people with interest in the SP its just another bang for the buck title that fills in 30-50 hours before they migrate to the next 20€ game...

as someone who got in the beta relatively early in august, i can tell you that the game had three minor updates before its release, the last one coming out on sept 5th. that just kinda confirms their disinterest in MP, especially as they got a lot of feedback/advice and the manpower to test the MP properly if they would be up for that, but instead they dodged almost every request with their usual "on the list/possible in the future/already will be in the final relese" answer.

so yeah guess we can just call it a day. personally im not buying. its especially sad since they got steam that would have carry a lot of weight from their shoulders (anticheat, community integration etc), so basically it was a head start for them compared to other DM multiplayer titles.

It's sad, hoped for Pk to blossom again but i knew deep down inside, that due to the current game-climate it wasn't going to happen. :'/

I'm really baffled with this release. Why was this even released? What are they trying to achieve?

Unreal 3 engine probably wasn't cheap. And they used it to make bugged and incomplete remake of a game just few years old which still looks quite good and is still sold on Steam. And is half the price of this remake with shitload more SP levels and multiplayer that actually works.

Why should anyone buy this? Complete and total failure.

money, no own ideas, target is probably the console market (didnt look it up if it was released for consoles). people will buy it because of the name, and fun memories - and throw it in the digital wastebin.

im on your side, what were the developers thinking? i smell 3 dlc`s that "will be awesome" NOT.

So another failed painkiller sequel/expansion/hd remake, move on.

it's terrible for MP don't bother

why was everybody HERE thinking a reboot would be a great game and why the high hopes? right from the start it was clear it will be rubbish. i mean you could read between the lines, it was crystal clear.

even if the mp was sensational good its time is over. it had his 2 years.

I just bought the game with the alienware free coupon thing (still available btw) i launched multiplayer and the default configuration makes the game horrible to play.

But after spending a few hours tweaking and searching i found some very nice settings which make the game really, really enjoyable in multiplayer (FFA, TDM, DUEL) here they are:

-To remove bobing open C:\Users\******\Documents\My Games\Painkiller Hell and Damnation\PKHDGame\Config\PKHDGame.ini

[EvilGame.UTPawn]
Bob=0.020
bWeaponBob=false


If you're using a 120 HZ monitor or want constant 120 fps open C:\Users\******\Documents\My Games\Painkiller Hell and Damnation\PKHDGame\Config\PKHDEngine.ini

bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE
MinSmoothedFrameRate=22
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=120

-To disable mouse acceleration which is on by default, open Steam\SteamApps\common\Painkiller Hell & Damnation\EvilGame\Config\DefaultInput.ini and change:

bViewAccelerationEnabled=TRUE
to:
bViewAccelerationEnabled=FALSE

-To change the fov open the console while in game and type: fov 110 for example.

-Also put everything on very low in the video advanced settings ( this will make sure you get no bloom and no motion blur.