Stranger HD now on Steam!
 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/15750

Those with existing copies of Stranger should note that it appears not to update automatically - Launching the game triggers the update process.

But this is good news! Been waiting for this for a long time. :) Awesome work, OWI and JAW - I knew you'd get there eventually. :P

Have you downloaded it yet? Last beta wasn't working for me anymore

Downloading now with my snails-pace connection, I'll get back to you on that later. I'm sure they'll patch it though if there are any teething issues again.

Currently installing :D

May aswell get it while there is 30% off, will play and discuss tomorrow with everyone im sure.

IT WORKS!

Hooray!

Is that one broken achievement finally fixed? :P It's still 'hidden'

Yay! I know what I'll be doing while waiting for freshers!

All the achievements should work since their triggers are the same as from the PS3 version. It may take a while for Steam to accurately reflect the data changes. I'll check tomorrow morning.

The game works (and looks) pretty awesome. Brings back good memories. The addition of achievements is pretty nice as well. 100% here I come!

I also noted you can unlock artwork. Pretty cool, but how is that unlocked exactly?

If that one isn't fixed that may be hard to accomplish : D

Hi, I have a problem with the game. In language I choose French and in audio I choose English but ingame the audio is in French. Do you have an idea of how to fix this problem ? Thanks.

Oh, the game look really great, congrats to JAW and OWI ! :)

Edit: I have tried the german voices and it work but the only way to play with the english voices is to play the game with everything in english (audio, subtitles, menu...)

Edit 2: When I choose Italian in language and English in audio, everything work normally... The problem is only when I want to play in english with french subtitles...

I'm not a big fan of Stranger but still i have to admit they did an amazing work; it look completly differen and way more beautiful.
Hope they will put the same kind of effort in AO2.

You mean Abe HD? And since it's a completely new game, I'm pretty sure they are putting much more effect into it.

How big is the download for the game?

3.3GB I believe.

Took me the entire day to download it just to get an error saying "Game Application has stopped working".

Does anyone know what wrong with it? Because it's slowly pissing me off.

Might buy this so I can finally play through this damn game. I have it on xbox but it doesn't seem to work for 360, which is a piss-off. Plus shooters are just plain better on PC.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

@Hulaa, have you tried re-verifying files and all the normal work-arounds? Does your computer have the needed specs to run the game?

EDIT: I left it to download overnight - Not only does it work a hell of a lot better than it used to, it also looks absolutely stunning. Thanks so much, people of JAW! :)

My only criticism is that you can't customise graphical settings as much as you can in normal PC games (texture quality, shadows, draw distance, shaders on or off, etc) which may give problems for people with slower PCs (Magicka gave me this problem when I had my old graphics card), but I suppose setting v-sync, resolution and anti-aliasing is enough.

@Hulaabeo, SWHD requires that you have .Net Framework and Visual C++ 2008 libraries installed, try looking after them if you don't have/you're not sure you have

Crysis and other games automatically check that you have those set on installation. Maybe in a future patch, Stranger HD could do the same if it requires them? Or do you need special permission from Microsoft to distribute them?

That's pretty standard for games ported from consoles. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any non-strictly-PC games that provide those options.

@Nate - I suppose most other console games which have PC ports have the advantage that the developers planned for that early in production. Stranger wasn't originally intended to ever be ported, I guess.

BTW there's a minor bug: Stranger now stays open in the task manager after quitting without showing on the task bar. It's easily fixed by closing it through task manager, but perhaps something JAW should be aware of if I'm not the only one to get this bug.

Confirmed. Thanks for letting us know. We'll include it in the inevitable patch.

Your game creates a log file in its installation directory. Could you find it and send it to me?

Possible. We're finding a few things like that, for instance Steam reporting that someone is playing the game when they've shut it down. We're looking into it.

Metal Gear Solid 2.

I'm not affected by that, if somebody asks


And it still hangs randomly for 3-5 seconds. Frequently. It's very annoying... I mean I *can* complete game with that, but it's frustrating and takes much of the joy of playing

I can imagine that's highly annoying. Try turning GPU sync on.

It's already on. I haven't tried turning if off yet, though

I'll note that GPU sync was on by default and made my framerate really slow, so I turned it off and my framerate skyrocketed. Not sure why that was, but SW worked flawlessly after that so I stopped caring. :P

Well my PC is shite so I can't run SWHD very well at all, but I must say it looks so much better. despite my frame-rate issues (which are my own) the game looks very nice indeed. Well done J.A.W.!

I'm existed to see MOHD soon :)

Turning GPU Sync OFF has made things even worse. There are no 5second-hangs anymore, but there are normal lags (with input lags) - a LOT of them :(

I don't think I can get past the first boss on Hard like that - -'

I don't think I could get hard like that either.

I'm existed aswell.

Played a little bit today and it sure does look pretty. Did you guys add more wildflowers?


I'm also experiencing the not-closing bug. The menu disappears, but the background picture remains until I Ctrl-Alt-Delete and close it with the task manager.

One minor bug is that in some menus (Options, Quit, and the Bounty Store), there isn't an option auto-selected so that I can just quickly press Okay and continue. I have to arrow down before any option is selected.

I'm also finding that the run-bounding is a lot more finicky than I remember. If I turn even slightly whilst running, Stranger won't switch to the bound. And if I turn whilst bounding, Stranger goes back to a run. That's really annoying, as I tended to use the bound a lot to get from place to place quickly.

Also, in the control configuration dialog, which option serves as menu 'back'?

Yes, they did, because they couldn't (or didn't have time) change the level geometry, and the normal design didn't look alive enough

I'd have to check with Glitcher who did all the environment updates, but I don't think much was added by way of vegetation. The existing models and textures were updated, though.

Not a bug. Apparently if you want to have a menu that responds to both keyboard and mouse, you can't have an auto-selected option. This may be a limitation of the middleware Stranger uses for menus. Again, you'd need to ask Glitcher to be sure.

Known problem. It's because many, many things in the game are hard coded to run at 30 FPS. If your framerate goes much above or below this, Stranger will stop moving properly. I have no idea what we can do about this that wouldn't take weeks of extra work.

Without being bothered to check, I'd guess pause. Unless Esc is hard-coded.

Loads of geometry was changed in Stranger HD. In fact, adding decorators counts as changing geometry. You're thinking of Munch HD, where the oldness and brokeness of the tools meant we couldn't do anything except upgrade textures and repair UVs.

Oh, my bad

But other menus do have auto-selected options. The main pause menu, for instance.


That sucks. Can you maybe give an option to restrict the game to 30 FPS?

The one of SWHD purposes is to get it run at 60 FPS.