Starship Troopers v5.24 Patch

[RainOfTerror]

Empire has released a new patch for Strangelite's FPS Starship Troopers, bringing any Euro/US retail game to v5.24 and adds 4 new deathmatch maps (Bait, Duel, Hill, Offensive), three new coop maps (Bait, Psiops, Stronghold), the usual crash and bug fixes, but also new shader option and several new features.

Get the Starship Troopers v5.24 patch (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=30738) (220mb) over at WorthPlaying.

[Adam Blue]

It's amazing how many bugs can be on screen at once....my computer had a stroke. I had to lower the resolution. I hope this patch optimizes performance...because I've played much more graphically intense games...so it can't be my computer. Right?

[Dirty Harry]

It's amazing how many bugs can be on screen at once....my computer had a stroke. I had to lower the resolution. I hope this patch optimizes performance...because I've played much more graphically intense games...so it can't be my computer. Right?
this game is very cpu and gpu intensive, it helps to have over two gigs of ram and possibly a crossfire/sli combo running to get this game at its max. Unfortunally games like these arent optimized and they just go nuts on resourses.

[Adam Blue]

I'd love to get this game running at max..... It gets effing nuts with a tanker bug and 100+ warrior bugs running around. Not to mention the flying ones overhead.

[easi]

5.24? Can anyone clue me in as to how long this was in development for? Also, I noticed the patch for CoD2 brings that up to 2.something, did they start from scratch at one point or what?

[Adam Blue]

Well, this is a small time dev, with a somewhat small time publisher. Yes, this has been in development for a long time, but these guys did a fantastic job. It's nice to know that you're good with numbers.

[alienchild]

I really hope this game is better than the demo was, cause I dont think there was any aspect from the demo that I liked. Weapons looked amateurish like some kind of old HL mod, engine ran ok but a little sluggish at times, the little story I could get from the demo didnt make me want to know more, as it all seemed cut n' paste from the movie + some additional voices added... not to mention that the weapons felt useless and when you shot a bug the green goo didnt spray about like I always thought it would :(

[Adam Blue]

Basically, if you really liked the movie, you will like the game. If not, you need not apply.

[The_Darr]

starship troopers is one of my favorite movies and i was absolutely disgusted with the demo. it was utter trash--even after yu got the hang of it.

[Bushido]

Why couldnt they have taken the high road?


starship Troopers is a controversial science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein first published in October and November 1959 as a serial called Starship Soldier in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and as a book by G.P. Putnam's Sons in December.[1] It received a Hugo Award in 1960 and is the only science fiction novel on the reading list of all four United States military academies,[2] as well as the official reading lists of the United States Army[3] and the United States Marine Corps.[4] [5][6] Starship Troopers has been made into several films and computer games, most famously the 1997 film of the same name by Paul Verhoeven.


Now if they had made a game that has more in common with the story. Shooting it up with skinnies at your back...I think a FPS version of Starcraft er Starship troopers would rock.

[F3nyx]

Now if they had made a game that has more in common with the story. Shooting it up with skinnies at your back...I think a FPS version of Starcraft er Starship troopers would rock.Yep. Jetpacks alone would've made this game about five times better. I've never understood why they drew on the movie rather than the book.

[Adam Blue]

Why couldnt they have taken the high road?


starship Troopers is a controversial science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein first published in October and November 1959 as a serial called Starship Soldier in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and as a book by G.P. Putnam's Sons in December.[1] It received a Hugo Award in 1960 and is the only science fiction novel on the reading list of all four United States military academies,[2] as well as the official reading lists of the United States Army[3] and the United States Marine Corps.[4] [5][6] Starship Troopers has been made into several films and computer games, most famously the 1997 film of the same name by Paul Verhoeven.


Now if they had made a game that has more in common with the story. Shooting it up with skinnies at your back...I think a FPS version of Starcraft er Starship troopers would rock.

OMG WILL IT EVER END.

[Bushido]

OMG WILL IT EVER END.

The massacre of great intellectual properties will never end.

[vornskr]

I think Blue meant the debate over why the movie and not the book.

Short answer: The movie is fun, and a lot easier to implement. It's more efficient.

[easi]

The game is a steaming pile, I don't think jetpacks or even PIRATES could have saved it.

[Malovech]

The massacre of great intellectual properties will never end.

Fuck that, his book is a wank fest to facism and some right-wingers' wet-dream of a military-dominated society. The movie is far more interesting, making some very tongue-in-cheek points about our perception of violence in pop-culture and the disposability of beauty and low-end celebrity.

[Alexious]

Fuck that, his book is a wank fest to facism and some right-wingers' wet-dream of a military-dominated society. The movie is far more interesting, making some very tongue-in-cheek points about our perception of violence in pop-culture and the disposability of beauty and low-end celebrity.
Hear hear!

BTW, must I insert the obligitory "is this the patch that adds the fun" comment?

[F3nyx]

Fuck that, his book is a wank fest to facism and some right-wingers' wet-dream of a military-dominated society. The movie is far more interesting, making some very tongue-in-cheek points about our perception of violence in pop-culture and the disposability of beauty and low-end celebrity.As far as action and technology go, the book is incredibly more sophisticated and realistic and would make the gameplay immensely more rewarding and thoughtful. And saying that you'd hate a game based on a book, in which characters praise a military-dominated society, is no different than saying you hate Warhammer: Dawn of War because of the Space Marines' military religion. It's a realistic aspect of a possible future, plus nobody gives a flying fuck about politics in action games anyway.

[Nerv]

I always had the impression that heinlien was writing satire, and the true problem is with those who took it as an irony-free shining light of society.

[F3nyx]

I always had the impression that heinlien was writing satire, and the true problem is with those who took it as an irony-free shining light of society.I was never quite sure what Heinlein intended, but I've never thought it could be interpreted as simplistically as Malovech claims. And, regardless of one's interpretation of the book's political message, the book makes infinitely better game material than the movie.

[Nerv]

Oh totally, we're talking about the five golden words of game esign: "BIG FUCKING STOMPY ROBOT SUITS"