Outcast 1.1 news & patch notes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/7564110/c4dbeba607b533d9505d0d976f9a1bc64e997d2d.jpg Outcast - A New Beginning: New Trailer & Pre-Order Start Vienna, Austria / Charleroi, Belgium - January 25, 2024: Prepare to embark on an epic journey to Adelpha! The latest trailer for Outcast - A New Beginning invites you to explore the planet and delve into the lives of its inhabitants, the Talans, and their captivating culture. These peaceful and charming people now face a grave threat from ruthless invaders. Will you rise to lead their fight for resistance? Check out the latest trailer here: https://youtu.be/aZAQsRRd21I The digital pre-order for Outcast - A New Beginning is now open! Take the leap through the portal to Adelpha early, and enjoy a 17% pre-order discount when you secure the game before its release on March 15th. You can pre-order here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013140/Outcast__A_New_Beginning/

Outcast - A New Beginning / Overview

Weapon upgrades, aliens and monsters (who can also be predators) - you will find all of this in Appeal Studio's and THQ Nordic's upcoming open-world action-adventure Outcast - A New Beginning! Play as Cutter Slade, ex-Navy SEAL, and gain the trust of the local Talans. Engage in guerilla warfare such as destroying enemy ammo convoys to weaken bases and freely choosing where to launch the next attack, shaping the success of the Talan uprising. Outcast - A New Beginning is being developed by Appeal Studios in Charleroi, Belgium and published by THQ Nordic. The game will be available March 15th, 2024 for PC at an SRP of € 59.99 / $ 59.99 / £ 49.99, and PlayStation5 & Xbox Series at an SRP of € 69.99 / $ 69.99 / £ 59.99. Links & Info:

• Website: https://outcastthegame.com
• Discord: https://discord.gg/outcastgame

Enjoy & stay tuned!

Dear Adelphians, After 1.5 years of hard work, the Appeal team is proud to bring you Outcast - Second Contact, the remake of Outcast available here In addition to the discount on Steam, a cumulative -30% discount will be offered to Outcast 1.1 owners as a loyalty reward, for 30 days starting from 14th November 2017 6pm CET. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7385287/fc8fceadb53c83bd414796413396f6cd9847246b.jpg

Dear Adelphians, After 1.5 years of hard work, the Appeal team is proud to bring you Outcast - Second Contact, the remake of Outcast available here In addition to the discount on Steam, a cumulative -30% discount will be offered to Outcast 1.1 owners as a loyalty reward, for 30 days starting from 14th November 2017 6pm CET. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7385287/fc8fceadb53c83bd414796413396f6cd9847246b.jpg

This hot update fixes some triggering issues with some quest's achievements and support several new missing achievements which were not exposed. This updates also fixes a potential crash when exiting the game. For those who have already completed the quests related to these achievements, normally, these achievements should unlock properly the next time you run the game with this update. Thanks again for your sustained report and feedback!

This hot update fixes some triggering issues with some quest's achievements and support several new missing achievements which were not exposed. This updates also fixes a potential crash when exiting the game. For those who have already completed the quests related to these achievements, normally, these achievements should unlock properly the next time you run the game with this update. Thanks again for your sustained report and feedback!

This hot update fixes the following gameplay/achievements issues. Many thanks for your awesome feedback and reporting : )

• Fix the Fae fruits vanishing from backpack
• In a specific context, if was not possible to give the Gorgor tooth to Martigar (this bug was in the original game)
• In Motazaar, the dialogs related to the "collapsed mines" were not properly raised (was inadvertely removed during a code refactoring)
• "Hypocondriac!" achievement was triggering at 20 instead of 100
• The achievements counter related to the weapon merchants have been resized from 10 to 9 (actually there's one weapon merchant per district). The 10th weapon merchant is a just a 1999's myth! ;)

More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history

This hot update fixes the following gameplay/achievements issues. Many thanks for your awesome feedback and reporting : )

• Fix the Fae fruits vanishing from backpack
• In a specific context, if was not possible to give the Gorgor tooth to Martigar (this bug was in the original game)
• In Motazaar, the dialogs related to the "collapsed mines" were not properly raised (was inadvertely removed during a code refactoring)
• "Hypocondriac!" achievement was triggering at 20 instead of 100
• The achievements counter related to the weapon merchants have been resized from 10 to 9 (actually there's one weapon merchant per district). The 10th weapon merchant is a just a 1999's myth! ;)

More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history

Dear Adelphians, This hot update includes several fixes related to achievement's triggering, issues with platforms in motazaar, a major internal refactoring of the backpack, stability improvement, unexpected destructions of objects...and further performance optims. May the Yods be happy! More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history

Dear Adelphians, This hot update includes several fixes related to achievement's triggering, issues with platforms in motazaar, a major internal refactoring of the backpack, stability improvement, unexpected destructions of objects...and further performance optims. May the Yods be happy! More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10609487_1076635935684985_709098563429672422_n.jpg?oh=f25bcc74f9adab7ad328ce9eb600dbd4&oe=559F3125&__gda__=1437900440_b0f6acff1c96a7e8b37e28d35d99260e Dear Adelphians, We are pleased to announce that the "so waited" achievements for Outcast 1.1 are now available. You just need to get the last update (version 1.1.6 or higher) to be able to start unlocking them :). This version also includes further optimisations improvements and few fixes (see release notes below).

+150 achievements, some are tied to the story others not.

The game comes with over 150 achievements. The achievements that are related to the original game's quest have been hidden to avoid spoiling too much about the plot of the game (for new players). They appear as squared icons with a color code associated to the different regions of Adelpha. The other achievements, whic unrelated to the story, are generally visible and identified by a green rounded icon.

Resetting achievements.

You have the ability to reset the achievements stored on the Steam server from the main menu of the game. It might be helpful if you want to restart from scratch.

Checking your quest/subquest progress

Most achievements actually reflect the completion of the current loaded game until they are fully unlocked (ex: percent of completion of the main quests and side quests). It can be also helpful to compare the different completion when reloading previous savegames.

Progress notification rate.

From the launcher, you can reduce the rate of notification of progress if you think you get too much notified. It can also be removed completly, in this case you will be notified only when a given achievement is completed.

Recovering achievements from previous saved game

The game attempt by default to recover the quest's achievements already completed in a previous savegame. However, for some reasons, there are very few achievements which cannot be recovered "a posteriori" from previous savegame which could lead with some frustration. Thus, we highly suggest to start from a new game instead of relying of an old savegames (and btw it will be more rewarding than just seeing poping the achievements while reloading an anterior savegame ^^)

Disabling achievements.

The achievements are enabled by default, but you of course can disable them completly from the launcher tab settings->Steam.

Release note of version 1.1.6.18955.

- stats and achievement support - further optimisation on the brain manager - improve consistency of the the quest manager - fix EVD XRay mode which was broken in version 1.1.5 - fix potential crash while interacting with the twon-ha - fix potential rendering crashes - fix issue while reloading a savegame saved with another language selected - fix marshes boat light platform issue - add an option to swap A and X buttons (as requested)

Hot fix version 1.1.6.18956.

- fix crash when entering Okasankaar region We hope you'll enjoy this new update and we thanks you all for the tremendous feedback you're giving us day to day. May the Yods be happy!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10609487_1076635935684985_709098563429672422_n.jpg?oh=f25bcc74f9adab7ad328ce9eb600dbd4&oe=559F3125&__gda__=1437900440_b0f6acff1c96a7e8b37e28d35d99260e Dear Adelphians, We are pleased to announce that the "so waited" achievements for Outcast 1.1 are now available. You just need to get the last update (version 1.1.6 or higher) to be able to start unlocking them :). This version also includes further optimisations improvements and few fixes (see release notes below).

+150 achievements, some are tied to the story others not.

The game comes with over 150 achievements. The achievements that are related to the original game's quest have been hidden to avoid spoiling too much about the plot of the game (for new players). They appear as squared icons with a color code associated to the different regions of Adelpha. The other achievements, whic unrelated to the story, are generally visible and identified by a green rounded icon.

Resetting achievements.

You have the ability to reset the achievements stored on the Steam server from the main menu of the game. It might be helpful if you want to restart from scratch.

Checking your quest/subquest progress

Most achievements actually reflect the completion of the current loaded game until they are fully unlocked (ex: percent of completion of the main quests and side quests). It can be also helpful to compare the different completion when reloading previous savegames.

Progress notification rate.

From the launcher, you can reduce the rate of notification of progress if you think you get too much notified. It can also be removed completly, in this case you will be notified only when a given achievement is completed.

Recovering achievements from previous saved game

The game attempt by default to recover the quest's achievements already completed in a previous savegame. However, for some reasons, there are very few achievements which cannot be recovered "a posteriori" from previous savegame which could lead with some frustration. Thus, we highly suggest to start from a new game instead of relying of an old savegames (and btw it will be more rewarding than just seeing poping the achievements while reloading an anterior savegame ^^)

Disabling achievements.

The achievements are enabled by default, but you of course can disable them completly from the launcher tab settings->Steam.

Release note of version 1.1.6.18955.

- stats and achievement support - further optimisation on the brain manager - improve consistency of the the quest manager - fix EVD XRay mode which was broken in version 1.1.5 - fix potential crash while interacting with the twon-ha - fix potential rendering crashes - fix issue while reloading a savegame saved with another language selected - fix marshes boat light platform issue - add an option to swap A and X buttons (as requested)

Hot fix version 1.1.6.18956.

- fix crash when entering Okasankaar region We hope you'll enjoy this new update and we thanks you all for the tremendous feedback you're giving us day to day. May the Yods be happy!

Dear Adelphians, Unfortunately we couldn't deliver the achievements for this weekend due to unexpected events and a massive workload. We still need few days to ensure that everything is working as expected. We're sorry for the delay but due to the nature of the game and the increasing number of achievements, it requires a lot of time to test and to check everything. Thanks for your comprehension and never believe me again the next time I'll give you a precise date :) Yann

Dear Adelphians, Unfortunately we couldn't deliver the achievements for this weekend due to unexpected events and a massive workload. We still need few days to ensure that everything is working as expected. We're sorry for the delay but due to the nature of the game and the increasing number of achievements, it requires a lot of time to test and to check everything. Thanks for your comprehension and never believe me again the next time I'll give you a precise date :) Yann

Dear Adelphians, For those who are waiting for the achievements, we are pleased to confirm that they will be available by the end of next week (28th March). We still need few days to finalize, review and validate all of them. Thanks for your patience and your support!

Dear Adelphians, For those who are waiting for the achievements, we are pleased to confirm that they will be available by the end of next week (28th March). We still need few days to finalize, review and validate all of them. Thanks for your patience and your support!

Version 1.1.5.18875

Further gameplay and stability fixes:

• fixed: potential crash in end game sequences
• fixed: potential crash and performance drop in Talanzaar (related to water cart)
• fixed: remove the ability to open the sunkun temple door without egar
• fixed: collision issues with Cutter (can now be overcomed by jumping)
• fixed: some ammo boxes were not reachable in Talanzaar

Release notes history

Version 1.1.5.18875

Further gameplay and stability fixes:

• fixed: potential crash in end game sequences
• fixed: potential crash and performance drop in Talanzaar (related to water cart)
• fixed: remove the ability to open the sunkun temple door without egar
• fixed: collision issues with Cutter (can now be overcomed by jumping)
• fixed: some ammo boxes were not reachable in Talanzaar

Release notes history

This quick patch includes the following fixes to version 1.1.5: - an issue with the brain manager allowing to finish the game without finding all the mons - a performance drop and a potential crash in Okaar and Shamazaar - a graphics issue when switching the weapon level in 1st person using the FT 74X (flame thrower) - a missing audio message when the advisor is locating HAWK MK8 ammo - some missing quest reward items (mainly the remote detonators such as THNDR-STP33 and CLAPR-T) Release notes history

This quick patch includes the following fixes to version 1.1.5: - an issue with the brain manager allowing to finish the game without finding all the mons - a performance drop and a potential crash in Okaar and Shamazaar - a graphics issue when switching the weapon level in 1st person using the FT 74X (flame thrower) - a missing audio message when the advisor is locating HAWK MK8 ammo - some missing quest reward items (mainly the remote detonators such as THNDR-STP33 and CLAPR-T) Release notes history

Dear Adelphians, We're proud to announce this major update of Outcast 1.1 featuring a boost of performance and nice improvements such as: unlocked resolution, unconstrained camera, extended visibility range, reduced poping and artefacts, new camera and fog settings as part of many other fixes in term of gameplay and stability. I hope you'll enjoy these improvements and take this opportunity to thank you all for your awesome feedback and your kind recommendations :). Yann

Version 1.1.5.18872

• fixed: an issue with the brain manager allowing to finish the game without finding all the mons
• fixed: a performance drop and a potential crash in Okaar and Shamazaar
• fixed: a graphics issue when switching the weapon level in 1st person using the FT 74X (flame thrower)
• fixed: a missing audio message when the advisor is locating HAWK MK8 ammo
• fixed: some missing quest reward items (mainly the remote detonators such as THNDR-STP33 and CLAPR-T)

Version 1.1.5.18871

Graphics Enhancements:

• new: unlock camera constraint in 1st person and 3rd person
• new: unlock resolution limitations
• new: support 21:9 resolution
• new: extend the visibility range, reduce distant view poping artefacts
• new: properly tweak the fog to comply with the mood of the original game
• new: extend the skyes according the new camera range
• new: extend the NPC visibility and activity range (together with the new camera settings and the extended view, this should let you discover some unseen aspect of the AI)
• new: tweak the 3rd person camera settings to provide a new strategic view point
• new: add the ability to pause the dialog to read the subtitle (by keeping pressed the main button)

Performance boost: To compensate the unlocking of the resolution, the camera freedom and the extended visibility range, we had to focus on various optimisations which results in a noticeable performance boost specially on multithreaded machine.

• new: multithreaded fog and water post-process
• new: multithreaded polygon rendering
• new: rewritting rasterizer to take advantage of SSE technology instead of MMX and making it thread independent
• new: improved thread affinity and dispatch

Gameplay fixes

• fixed: potential stuck in dialog (ie with zeo or zagrad)
• fixed: transmission of the 4th mon could fail
• fixed: minimap scaling was not resolution independent
• fixed: can't use E character in savegame name

Graphics fixes:

• fixed: sometimes background disappeared on specific camera angles (mainly in 1920x1080)
• fixed: highly reduce visibility popping
• fixed: remove artifacts related to zbuffer precision (ie visible on Cutter helmet in 1920x1080)

Crash fixes:

• fixed: potential crash while changing world
• fixed: potential crash while rendering shadows in 1920x1080
• fixed: potential crash when leaving the Okaar map
• fixed: steamCloud issue: the name of the savegame was discard by SteamServer since the file was empty

Release notes history

Dear Adelphians, We're proud to announce this major update of Outcast 1.1 featuring a boost of performance and nice improvements such as: unlocked resolution, unconstrained camera, extended visibility range, reduced poping and artefacts, new camera and fog settings as part of many other fixes in term of gameplay and stability. I hope you'll enjoy these improvements and take this opportunity to thank you all for your awesome feedback and your kind recommendations :). Yann

Version 1.1.5.18872

• fixed: an issue with the brain manager allowing to finish the game without finding all the mons
• fixed: a performance drop and a potential crash in Okaar and Shamazaar
• fixed: a graphics issue when switching the weapon level in 1st person using the FT 74X (flame thrower)
• fixed: a missing audio message when the advisor is locating HAWK MK8 ammo
• fixed: some missing quest reward items (mainly the remote detonators such as THNDR-STP33 and CLAPR-T)

Version 1.1.5.18871

Graphics Enhancements:

• new: unlock camera constraint in 1st person and 3rd person
• new: unlock resolution limitations
• new: support 21:9 resolution
• new: extend the visibility range, reduce distant view poping artefacts
• new: properly tweak the fog to comply with the mood of the original game
• new: extend the skyes according the new camera range
• new: extend the NPC visibility and activity range (together with the new camera settings and the extended view, this should let you discover some unseen aspect of the AI)
• new: tweak the 3rd person camera settings to provide a new strategic view point
• new: add the ability to pause the dialog to read the subtitle (by keeping pressed the main button)

Performance boost: To compensate the unlocking of the resolution, the camera freedom and the extended visibility range, we had to focus on various optimisations which results in a noticeable performance boost specially on multithreaded machine.

• new: multithreaded fog and water post-process
• new: multithreaded polygon rendering
• new: rewritting rasterizer to take advantage of SSE technology instead of MMX and making it thread independent
• new: improved thread affinity and dispatch

Gameplay fixes

• fixed: potential stuck in dialog (ie with zeo or zagrad)
• fixed: transmission of the 4th mon could fail
• fixed: minimap scaling was not resolution independent
• fixed: can't use E character in savegame name

Graphics fixes:

• fixed: sometimes background disappeared on specific camera angles (mainly in 1920x1080)
• fixed: highly reduce visibility popping
• fixed: remove artifacts related to zbuffer precision (ie visible on Cutter helmet in 1920x1080)

Crash fixes:

• fixed: potential crash while changing world
• fixed: potential crash while rendering shadows in 1920x1080
• fixed: potential crash when leaving the Okaar map
• fixed: steamCloud issue: the name of the savegame was discard by SteamServer since the file was empty

Release notes history

This hot-update fixes a crash occuring when changing world /using Daoka. Sorry for this little Zort which came up with update 18786! Release notes history

This hot-update fixes a crash occuring when changing world /using Daoka. Sorry for this little Zort which came up with update 18786! Release notes history

This update fixes several crashes and stability issues (most of them needed to be fixed before enabling achievements, which are coming very soon :)

Version 1.1.4.18786

• Fixed: potential end game crashs
• Fixed: shadow buffer overrun may cause crash and instability on some resolution settings
• Fixed: potential crash when exiting dialog prematurely
• Fixed: potential crash while exiting game
• Fixed: end combat crash
• New: SteamCloud enabled for the savegames

Release notes history

This update fixes several crashes and stability issues (most of them needed to be fixed before enabling achievements, which are coming very soon :)

Version 1.1.4.18786

• Fixed: potential end game crashs
• Fixed: shadow buffer overrun may cause crash and instability on some resolution settings
• Fixed: potential crash when exiting dialog prematurely
• Fixed: potential crash while exiting game
• Fixed: end combat crash
• New: SteamCloud enabled for the savegames

Release notes history

Version 1.1.3.18756

This update fixed a major issue related to vsync management . The native fullscreen mode is now working as expected (should be more performant than any windowed modes) From that version, to achieve the best performance and quality we recommend to select "native" fullscreen mode and enabling the vsync. You should have a noticeable performance gain toward the "windowless fullscreen mode". Release notes history

Version 1.1.3.18756

This update fixed a major issue related to vsync management . The native fullscreen mode is now working as expected (should be more performant than any windowed modes) From that version, to achieve the best performance and quality we recommend to select "native" fullscreen mode and enabling the vsync. You should have a noticeable performance gain toward the "windowless fullscreen mode". Release notes history

Dear Adelphians, We recently updated the version of Outcast 1.1 with some major improvements in term of stability, performance and bug trackings. We got a very busy week thus we couldn't include the achievements in this release, but it should come soon :) Thanks again for being there and supporting us!

Version 1.1.3.18753

• Fixed: Potential crashes due to antialiasing buffer overrun
• Fixed: Water rendering artefact due to multithreading contention
• Fixed: On some configuration (mainly Windows 8.1), the Launcher could not display the buttons at the right position.
• Fixed: In game music start offset and duration were incorrects
• Improvement: Optimisation of the post process stage resulting on an overall performance improvement
• Improvement: Integrate higher video quality (greetings to @Pseudohalogen on this one :)
• New: Option to disable Desktop Window Manager to improve performance (thanks @VoodooMan for advice :)
• New: Integration of Steam MiniDump support to provide us comprehensive feedback if the game crash.
• New: Automatic in game recovering in case of a rendering crash.
• New: Automatic saving before going through a Daoka or before playing a cinematic Release notes history

Dear Adelphians, We recently updated the version of Outcast 1.1 with some major improvements in term of stability, performance and bug trackings. We got a very busy week thus we couldn't include the achievements in this release, but it should come soon :) Thanks again for being there and supporting us!

Version 1.1.3.18753

• Fixed: Potential crashes due to antialiasing buffer overrun
• Fixed: Water rendering artefact due to multithreading contention
• Fixed: On some configuration (mainly Windows 8.1), the Launcher could not display the buttons at the right position.
• Fixed: In game music start offset and duration were incorrects
• Improvement: Optimisation of the post process stage resulting on an overall performance improvement
• Improvement: Integrate higher video quality (greetings to @Pseudohalogen on this one :)
• New: Option to disable Desktop Window Manager to improve performance (thanks @VoodooMan for advice :)
• New: Integration of Steam MiniDump support to provide us comprehensive feedback if the game crash.
• New: Automatic in game recovering in case of a rendering crash.
• New: Automatic saving before going through a Daoka or before playing a cinematic Release notes history