Release Notes for Killing Time: Resurrected

Patch 2.0

Features

•  3DO TC Mod added with two full campaigns: Experience the original 3DO levels  or an enhanced, remastered campaign with more areas and secrets to find.
• Original Logicware PC-version maps added as a separate campaign.
• Some actors will randomly mirror their animations when defeated, similar to  the 3DO version of the game.
• Runtime mod-loading support
• Numerous new modding features

Fixes

• Avoid potential crash when enemies teleport.
• Reverted patch 1 change to weapon bobbing behavior which caused discontinuous  motion.
• "Use" action can now activate swinging doors and other 3D objects.
• "Turn left", "turn right", "look up", "look down", and "center view" action  bindings now function when using a keyboard.
• Player should no longer become stuck in some swinging doors.
• Text displayed on automap now immediately updates if user changes their  language setting.
• Improved remembering changes to user language setting on restart.
• Key art splash screen, credits, and "Loading" interstitial display correct background when language setting is not English.
• A smaller font is used for some languages on the automap.
• Selection of items in control boxes within the UI should be more reliable when navigating with a controller.
• Dropped items no longer display z-fighting against the actor that dropped them.
• Shooting Tess before she begins speaking will no longer skip her monologue.
• Final caption of intro movie appears on screen longer.
• Positioning of floor lamp and hanging meat decor objects improved.
• Amount of health lost by picking up red health spheres is displayed dynamically.
• Tess and Duncan can now telefrag the player if they are directly on their spawn spots, preventing softlocks.
• Use of arrow keys is more intuitively notated on the character naming screen.
• Switches retain the correct animation frame across texture quality changes.
• The minimum value for contrast is now 0.1 instead of 0.
• Initial interaction screen responds to any button press.
• Clown reloading animation only appears on loads that take longer than 100 ms.
• Most menu actions no longer auto-repeat when an input is held down.
• Gaps in many wall textures have been fixed.
• It is now possible to select "Go Back" in the achievements menu when navigating with a controller.

Patch 1.1

New Features:

• Added ability to switch between low- and hi-res weapons and actors independently
• Added bindable crouch toggle input action
• Added ability to burn enemies to cinders with fire attacks
• Dead players will now respawn if the “fire” button is pressed
• Added “Duncan Chase” mode - set the player’s name to “DUNCAN” at the beginning of a new game to activate
• Improved appearance of title screen for non-English localizations
• Separate settings are now available for linear filtering of sprites, world textures, and weapons
• Health spheres now appear with an improved perspective and fade out when close to despawning
• Improved localization
• Increased frame rate of intro and ending videos to 24 FPS
• Improved alpha channels of numerous ghost videos
• Improved appearance of 3D skybox
• More enemies now utilize 8-rotation death sprites
• High-resolution chef now uses its original death sound effect

Fixed Issues:

• Fixed issue where swinging doors could become stuck or the player could become stuck inside them
• Fixed rare issue where the sky texture could appear incorrect or non-sky surfaces could render as sky
• Fixed occasional issue of music not resuming after loading a saved game or stopping when ending a game and returning to the title screen or viewing the credits
• Fixed some teleports causing player view or enemy positions to interpolate improperly
• Fixed doors sometimes not rendering when dynamic lighting was disabled
• Fixed issue where state of levels could carry across loading of saved games
• Fixed issue where Duncan could spawn at the beginning of a new game
• Optimized line-of-sight checking algorithm
• Enhanced memory management for image resources
• Fixed incorrect offsets for right side automap inventory background
• Video subtitle spelling and grammar fixes
• OG Ending video in Vault now plays back correctly
• Duck quack animation speed more closely matches original version
• Duncan is even more resistant to teleporting outside the valid area of levels
• Outline around flamethrower sprites removed
• A graphics caching hitch could occur when the “Set Head” enemy fired its projectile
• Ankh and melee related achievements no longer count destroying Molotov cocktails for their unlock requirements
• Fixed warped and see-through wall textures with mipmapping enabled
• Fixed frame timing issue which could cause stuttering when vsync was enabled
• Improved input accumulation handling for sub-60 FPS scenarios (low-spec hardware only)
• Fixed lingering mouse cursor when using quicksave and quickload features
• Fixed mouse speed calculation issue
• Improved behavior of mouse sensitivity slider in menu
• Editing: Sky textures specified in mapinfo.json are now fully respected
• hud_scale console variable behavior corrected