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On FAKK2 Patch

by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 15, 2000 3:25am PDT

As reflected in some of the comments last night, the recently released 1.01 patch for FAKK2 hasn't resolved problems for anyone. Since Ritual is having problems recreating these problems on their own machines, Ritual programmer Mark Dochtermann sent along the following

We released a patch for Heavy Metal FAKK 2 tonight and honestly thought we had fixed the vast majority of remaining issues with the product, apparently we were wrong. The truth is since we shipped the product 2 weeks ago we have been unable to reproduce the crash bug that everyone seems to experience. We have access to over 30 different machines (at the office and at home) running 98, 2k, and NT, running A3D, EAX and software and we have not gotten one machine to reliably crash time and again. Often when we did find a machine that did crash, we were able to cure it by upgrading to the latest sound or video driver or it miraculously cured itself after minimal cajoling. I am writing this, to ask if there is anyone in the DFW area that is experiencing this problem and would like to help us solve it, please contact me directly at markd@ritual.com. Ritual Entertainment is dedicated to shipping products that are bug free, and we thought Heavy Metal FAKK 2 was bug free. I ask that people have a bit more patience with us so that we can do the right thing by our customers. We shipped a product that had no known major issues at launch time (according to our testing), the fact that it has exhibited these problems in wide release is very distressing to me and the rest of the FAKK 2 team.




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  • I take back everything I said about Ritual. I was pissed at their sIn buttfucking they game me. $50.00 bucks and 4 minute load times do not mix. I had more money than I had sense back then (plus I didnt know wtf warez was)

    However, I reinstalled it the other day, applied 3 different patches.. 1.00 to 1.01, then 1.01 to 1.06, then 1.06 to 1.10 and it runs and looks great. (note to Ritual.. for us gullable tards that have version 1.00, how about a 1.00 to 1.10 patch?)

    They definitely beat Half-Life to the shelf but paid a BIG big price.