Updated Munch's Oddysee PC Port
 

Oddworld Inhabitants are releasing a new port of Munch's Oddysee to PC, mainly to address the bugs and problems it still has.

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To avoid confusion. This is NOT the HD version.
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What do they mean by "fresh port"?

Another team is porting the game onto PC again from scratch. It seems the port was so bad, they just need to start from fresh.

That was my first assumption too, but in the tweet they said it's a "port update" which kind of contradicts that

Yeah, "port update" isn't the most accurate phrase for it. Hope this new team does a good job at it because the MO port was pretty atrocious.

If they managed to make a decent port of it, I'd gladly forgive them the sad memories of buying and using the current one (and a few funny memories too)

Ha, that's great. I wasn't even able to make it that far. My game would crash after about half an hour of playing.

It was definitely completable on my side, but achievements (and many other things!) were totally broken

According to 'Oddworld Admin' on the Steam forums, they are essentially porting over the mobile version of MO that they recently made to PC.

So "fresh port" is newspeak.

It's still fresh compared to current port. Sad it's not the HD version they promised.

Who did the original PC port?

I hope this isn't stopping their Exoddus production

Another Team is doing the Port.

Not sure, I know JAW did part of the fixing up effort after it was released in an even worse shape than it is now, though.

Cool. I can't wait for Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus HD Twice the amount of Flavour 2018

Will you stop being negative? They are working their ass off right now.

I'm Joking..

It'll be probably out around 2017. It's not a joke. Game development just takes a long time.

I remember crashing after exiting the first cave. It was like it for months.

Oh, yes. Now that you mention it, I remember it happening to me too, but I managed to fix it. I remember they gave a small update with a launcher. Maybe that fixed it.

Hmm I would have just done this silently. Marketing "the port was so bad we've had to re do it so it actually works" isn't exactly great.

It's a common knowledge. Also, I think publicly admitting mistakes (if they were made) is a good sign of a company in the eyes of customers.

I wonder how this will play with save files, do you think it’ll break existing saves?

Without a doubt.

Wait. What?

He meant that you should stop being such a negative nancy, OANST, and start appreciate their hard work on the game.

I'd like to change my vote for Most Accomplished Troll to vlam.

I think it's very likely that it will use the same save format.

You do? But it's a different port made by different people apparently from scratch

does anyone know when it'll be out? I kinda really wanna play it proper.

Soon.
Valve Time.

2017 only if you're optimistic. Probably mid-late 2018.

We don't really know when they started and if the dev team changed mid-production

You can now opt-in to the beta of the new port on Steam. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073277469

Also of note: some of the assets in the beta are from the HD version, and they’re planning on adding Steam trading cards/badges etc.

They should be paying me to play that shit.

it's a joke

It's working.

With an abundance of small issues with menus, graphics and sound, but it's working.
It also lacks resolution options (at least for now), the older port had those.

I'll gather all the info about problems and post in in the bug reports. Wondering if they'll do anything about that.

I tried it and it actually works on my 7+ years old laptop. It runs smoothly, plays great and looks good.

What resolution does it play at, then?

I should really try it out at some point, maybe later today.