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Posted May 19, 2016
The root of all evil



<span class="bold">The Original Strife: Veteran Edition</span>, the remastered FPS/RPG where you strive to rid the world of a spreading evil, is available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com with GOG Galaxy support for achievements and multiplayer, and a 50% launch discount.

Eager to unroot an evil presence, overthrow a monarchy of religious fanatics, and blast away those who stand in your way? You'll get the chance to do all this and more, as you side with The Front, a resistance movement fighting the dark cultists of The Order. Your trusty weapons will go a long way towards ending this conflict, as will the assistance of the talented Blackbird, an underground agent whose skills at obtaining information are only rivalled by her dangerous allure. This Veteran Edition sports significant visual improvements, restored features, and all the bombastic charm of a game that set the standards for all FPS/RPG hybrids to follow in its wake.



Conspire with you resistance allies to undermine the sinister Order in <span class="bold">The Original Strife: Veteran Edition</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 50% launch discount will last until May 24, 1:59 PM UTC.
Posted May 19, 2016
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IronArcturus: Looks pretty cool! Is it using a modified engine? Are there any mods for it?
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thesmashingone: Should be running on a very modified version of Chocolate Strife, No idea on mods, sorry.
older (see picture below).
Do you know if Chocolate Strife uses OpenGL or DirectX?
Posted May 19, 2016
Nice. Next FPSs, Raven Software games: Heretic and Hexen series, Quake 4, Singularity, Wolfenstein (2009), Soldier of Fortune series.
Posted May 19, 2016
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IronArcturus: Do you know if Chocolate Strife uses OpenGL or DirectX?
Should be DirectX. Chocolate Doom and related ports are intended to preserve the original graphical style of the games, so they don't use OpenGL. It sounds like Strife: Veteran Edition has OpenGL support though -- which probably means you can choose between original and OpenGL.
Post edited May 19, 2016 by NotJabba
Posted May 19, 2016
Nice release, been waiting for this to come here, and with the inclusion of the original DOS files, this is an instabuy!
Post edited May 19, 2016 by JogsterXL
Posted May 19, 2016
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omega64: In what way are they greedy bastards?
Not bringing this here sooner?
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Pupcakes: It's probably because he/she thinks they sold Turok for too much. If that's the case, all I have to say is "Boohoo."
The story: for a long time, the leading mod for SS1 was SSP (System Shock Portable), a self-contained installation that bundled the full retail version of the game with a variety of very useful community mods. When NDS acquired the rights to sell the game, they politely asked one of the main modders behind SSP to stop distributing SSP as a bundle of the mod + the full game. They didn't have an issue with the mod itself, just how it was being packaged and distributed (i.e. with the full retail version of the game being given away for free - something that the modders never had the rights or clearance to do).

The modder in question overreacted and called them greedy, and in a hissy fit took down the mod entirely.

People attacked NDS because it was thought that they actually wanted the SSP mod shut down; when in fact later on it was actually reuploaded as a mod installer to be used atop an existing game installation.

In the end, what it basically amounted to is modders thinking that they were entitled to have and distribute their favorite game for free.
Posted May 19, 2016
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JudasIscariot: tl;dr the original version is included.
@every developer out there: This should be the canon of every remastered release; include the original version too, either as a seperate (and most preferably, working out of the box) download or at the very least as a .zip file. Thanks!
Posted May 19, 2016
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JudasIscariot: tl;dr the original version is included.
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Vythonaut: @every developer out there: This should be the canon of every remastered release; include the original version too, either as a seperate (and most preferably, working out of the box) download or at the very least as a .zip file. Thanks!
+1
Agreed!
Posted May 19, 2016
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NotJabba: Should be DirectX. Chocolate Doom and related ports are intended to preserve the original graphical style of the games, so they don't use OpenGL. It sounds like Strife: Veteran Edition has OpenGL support though -- which probably means you can choose between original and OpenGL.
Sounds good! Does Chocolate Strife has a windowed mode?
Posted May 19, 2016
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JudasIscariot: tl;dr the original version is included.
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Vythonaut: @every developer out there: This should be the canon of every remastered release; include the original version too, either as a seperate (and most preferably, working out of the box) download or at the very least as a .zip file. Thanks!
+1 Absolutely agree as well!
Posted May 19, 2016
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IronArcturus: Sounds good! Does Chocolate Strife has a windowed mode?
Strife: Veteran Edition has a Windowed mode.
Post edited May 19, 2016 by Grargar
Posted May 19, 2016
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IronArcturus: Do you know if Chocolate Strife uses OpenGL or DirectX?
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NotJabba: Should be DirectX.
No, Doom has its own software renderer that predates DirectX.

Now the chocolate ports use SDL which could have a DirectX backend (I don't know if it does), but it would only be used for creating the game window and flipping frames, not for actually rendering the game's graphics.
Posted May 19, 2016
Haha nice, I learnt about this game recently while I was doing a wiki run on Doom-style shooters. I'll buy this to project some positive karma towards getting Heretic & Hexen here in the future.
Posted May 19, 2016
Ohhh <3 I LOVE Strife, thanks for bringing it to GOG! Definitely an insta-buy
Posted May 19, 2016
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rampancy: The story: for a long time, the leading mod for SS1 was SSP (System Shock Portable), a self-contained installation that bundled the full retail version of the game with a variety of very useful community mods. When NDS acquired the rights to sell the game, they politely asked one of the main modders behind SSP to stop distributing SSP as a bundle of the mod + the full game. They didn't have an issue with the mod itself, just how it was being packaged and distributed (i.e. with the full retail version of the game being given away for free - something that the modders never had the rights or clearance to do).

The modder in question overreacted and called them greedy, and in a hissy fit took down the mod entirely.

People attacked NDS because it was thought that they actually wanted the SSP mod shut down; when in fact later on it was actually reuploaded as a mod installer to be used atop an existing game installation.

In the end, what it basically amounted to is modders thinking that they were entitled to have and distribute their favorite game for free.
Ack, that's worse than my assumption. Thanks for the story. +1
Posted May 19, 2016
I absolutely adore this game, but they really took their damn time to release it here.
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