Turok 2: Seeds of Evil news & patch notes

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil has been updated

Improvements:

• Fixed a destructible wall that had a different texture from the rest of the wall in the River of Souls stage.

• (Steam Deck) Fixed an issue where the Chat Message function worked improperly.

• Fixed an issue where a placeholder was displayed in session’s chat instead of the actual username.

• Fixed an issue where improperly displayed team colors were displayed when the player dies in multiplayer matches.

• Fixed an issue where opponent Team Chats could be seen while playing inside a Playfab session in Multiplayer.

• (Nintendo Switch) Fixed an issue where the option menu failed to be displayed under certain circumstances.

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to navigate on scoreboard as long as the scoreboard is open by only one user in splitscreen.

• Fixed an issue where holding 'Display Scoreboard' opens and closes the scoreboard repeatedly.

• (GOG) Fixed an issue where the player was unable to create a Playfab session on multiplayer games.

• Fixed an issue where the weapon in hand can disappear in certain parts of the game.

• Fixed flickering issues in the death spot after respawning and not moving in (PC) City5, (N64) Bullseye, Caverns and Lair of Oblivion maps.

• Fixed flickering issues when players are jumping or standing still in multiplayer matches.

• Fixed issues where string text is displayed on the Scoreboard on Last Turok Standing game mode in Multiplayer.

• (Cross-Platform) Fixed an issue where users are unable to see each other in lobbies when one user is on Steam and the other user is on a console.

• (Nintendo Switch) Fixed an issue where a yellow border was displayed before the opening Iguana Entertainment cutscene begins to play.

• Fixed an issue where corrupted texture was briefly displayed after selecting a difficulty for the first time after launching the game.

• (Nintendo Switch) Fixed an issue where the title resumes even if the user is still in Pause menu when docking/undocking the Nintendo Switch. 

• (Nintendo Switch) Fixed an issue where a corrupted texture is briefly displayed after selecting a save for the first time after launching the title.

• Fixed an issue where the weapons are clipping through walls and objects on multiple locations.

• (PC) Fixed an issue where the HUD presents corruption when specific settings are selected.

• Fixed an issue where teams were not shown properly in multiplayer matches.

• (PlayStation 4) Fixed an issue where the game randomly crashed when using the Firestorm Cannon in the Raptor Fest game mode.

• Fixed an issue where the Cerebral Bore fails to automatically switch to the next weapon when the weapon runs out of ammunition in multiplayer. 

• Fixed an issue where ping could return negative values in LAN lobbies. 

• Fixed an issue where the scoreboard displayed players kill number in ascending order instead of descending order.

• Fixed an issue where flickering shadows are present near the first Warp Portal in Port of Adia: The Village.

• Other graphical and general multiplayer problems have been addressed. 

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil has been updated on all platforms!

Improvements:

• Updated KEX engine version for latest support and features.

• Updated rendering defaults.

• Smoother shadows, optimized light scattering, and improved ambient occlusion.

• Extended singleplayer weapon models for ultrawide resolutions.

• Improved localization across the game.

• Added subtitles for all cinematics.

• Cross-play multiplayer is now functional.

Current Issues:

We are currently aware that some players are encountering graphical and visual glitches in the Turok 2: Seeds of Evil “Next-Gen” update. We are currently working on these issues and will be addressing them in a future update slated for release before the end of the year.

We want to ensure that this release is simultaneous on all platforms, so we ask to please wait a little longer for these updates to go live. Thank you for understanding.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil is now optimized for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5! The game has also been updated on all platforms, with the full patch notes listed below.

Turok 2 | Next-Gen Update | Patch Notes

• Updated KEX Engine.

• High refresh rates and 4k resolutions for platforms that support these features.

• Smoother shadows, optimized light scattering, and improved ambient occlusion.

• Added subtitles for all cinematics.

• Improved localization.

• Extended singleplayer weapon models for ultrawide resolutions.

• Online cross-platform multiplayer with local split-screen.

Changes:

• (PC only) Added the option to assign the first controller to the second player.

• (PC only) Allow for windowed, borderless window, and fullscreen configurations.

Turok 2 | Day One Patch | Patch Notes

Download for owners of the “Turok Trilogy Bundle” physical edition for PS5.

Improvements:

• Updated rendering defaults.

• Updated localization in many locations (option, save files, multiplayer, etc.)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed unsupported localized characters in several text boxes.

• Fixed some screen space reflections sampling incorrectly.

• Fixed multiplayer death camera player control.

• Fixed multiplayer kill feed player colors.

• Fixed multiplayer scoreboard controls.

• Fixed monkey scoring points on death.

• Fixed incorrect ping display in multiplayer.

• Fixed resetting default binding for scoreboard.

Turok 2 | Day One Patch | Patch Notes

PlayStation 5

Download for owners of the “Turok Trilogy Bundle” physical edition for PS5.

Changes:

• Replace controller disconnect message with platform prompt.

Fixes:

• Fixed more missed localization.

• Fixed broken rendering for special characters in non-English languages.

• Fixed several text overflows in non-English languages.

• Fixes for text alignment in several menu UIs.

• Fixed weapons clipping into geometry.

• Fixed backing out of confirm dialogs.

• Fixed several sliders not smoothly incrementing values.

• Fixed some issues with the HUD's aspect ratio.

• Fixes for multiplayer in-game scoreboard overlapping with timer.

• Fixed several issues with multiplayer death camera.

Current Issues Regarding Multiplayer:

Our team is aware of issues with cross-play multiplayer for Turok 2: Seeds of Evil and are working to address these. Players may encounter issues with starting games or matches between console generations. (ie: PS4 and PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch). Please stay tuned for an update and fix for this in a future announcement.

• Instanced rendering for particles (Direct X optimization)
• Shadow map optimizations (batched actor shadow casters)
• Uniform buffer optimizations (Direct X)
• Fixed cloaking effect not rendering
• Fixed explosions changing color when making contact with 'alien flesh' surface types
• Particles and trails can now be occluded by geometry (optimizations)

• Destructibles now flash red when shot
• Fix turrets in River of Souls not firing at player
• Some components of the AI is now multi-threaded (optimizations)

• Dedicated server support (self hosted with included binary, server list browser built in)
• New InstaRok ("Instagib") game mode
• New Raptor-Fest (survival co-op/competitive) game mode
• Improved handling of large amounts of object synchronization
• Restored 3 N64 maps; Escheria, Endangered species and Moonlit Mayhem
• Stability updates
• Added 'playername' cvar to act as the local player name incase no social service (Steam/GOG Galaxy) is avalible

• New quick weapon select feature

• Optimized collision detection with static meshes
• Fixed floating blood splats from shotgun bullets

• Instanced rendering for particles (Direct X optimization)
• Shadow map optimizations (batched actor shadow casters)
• Uniform buffer optimizations (Direct X)
• Fixed cloaking effect not rendering
• Fixed explosions changing color when making contact with 'alien flesh' surface types
• Particles and trails can now be occluded by geometry (optimizations)

• Destructibles now flash red when shot
• Fix turrets in River of Souls not firing at player
• Some components of the AI is now multi-threaded (optimizations)

• Dedicated server support (self hosted with included binary, server list browser built in)
• New InstaRok ("Instagib") game mode
• New Raptor-Fest (survival co-op/competitive) game mode
• Improved handling of large amounts of object synchronization
• Restored 3 N64 maps; Escheria, Endangered species and Moonlit Mayhem
• Stability updates
• Added 'playername' cvar to act as the local player name incase no social service (Steam/GOG Galaxy) is avalible

• New quick weapon select feature

• Optimized collision detection with static meshes
• Fixed floating blood splats from shotgun bullets

• Fix darkcity and rainbow cheat crash,
• Improved render resource management,
• Fix random DX11 crash on application startup,
• Fixed viewport/scissor issues for UI elements,
• Uniform buffers for OpenGL is now disabled by default for new users,
• DirectX is now the default graphics API for new users,
• Tranclucent surfaces in superrok mode are no longer affected.

• Cerebral Bore sound now loops properly,
• Correct music is now played for the first Oblivion cinematic,
• All cinema camera models are now hidden,
• Failsafe check for final stage for Blind Boss,
• Turning while riding is now faster/responsive,
• PFM death animations now works,
• Can no longer mantle into water regions.

• Any tracking cerebral bores are destroyed when the targeted player respawns.

• DirectX support (can be set in graphics option menu),
• Animating models can now have vertex color buffers: this fixes the lighting on the queen pods in the queen boss level,
• Deferred lighting and decals now display correctly in splitscreen,
• New option to set anisotropic filtering quality,
• Reworked how the credits screen is rendered. This should resolve rendering artefacts for some users.

• Players on the same team as the local player have their name highlighted green,
• Players on the same team can no longer trigger each others PFMs,
• Players on the same team can now spawn next to each other,
• Crossbow should now damage in water,
• Balance tweaks to Firestorm Cannon: minor damage reduction and increased ammo consumption.

• Fix darkcity and rainbow cheat crash,
• Improved render resource management,
• Fix random DX11 crash on application startup,
• Fixed viewport/scissor issues for UI elements,
• Uniform buffers for OpenGL is now disabled by default for new users,
• DirectX is now the default graphics API for new users,
• Tranclucent surfaces in superrok mode are no longer affected.

• Cerebral Bore sound now loops properly,
• Correct music is now played for the first Oblivion cinematic,
• All cinema camera models are now hidden,
• Failsafe check for final stage for Blind Boss,
• Turning while riding is now faster/responsive,
• PFM death animations now works,
• Can no longer mantle into water regions.

• Any tracking cerebral bores are destroyed when the targeted player respawns.

• DirectX support (can be set in graphics option menu),
• Animating models can now have vertex color buffers: this fixes the lighting on the queen pods in the queen boss level,
• Deferred lighting and decals now display correctly in splitscreen,
• New option to set anisotropic filtering quality,
• Reworked how the credits screen is rendered. This should resolve rendering artefacts for some users.

• Players on the same team as the local player have their name highlighted green,
• Players on the same team can no longer trigger each others PFMs,
• Players on the same team can now spawn next to each other,
• Crossbow should now damage in water,
• Balance tweaks to Firestorm Cannon: minor damage reduction and increased ammo consumption.

• Show both ammo types in the HUD for weapons with alternate ammo types
• Bug fixes for particle splash damage (non-explosive) setting off event link triggers
• All generators that should spawn random ammo now work
• Minor collision fixes in first Death Marsh level
• Fixed situation where player could become trapped in the spider-health trap chamber in River of Souls
• Fixed a crash when switching levels while enemies are being triggered by an event
• Charge dart now consumes 2 to 3 ammo based on charge level
• Wasp enemies are now more aggressive and will become responsive after being spawned
• Added fog effects to graveyard levels
• Tweaked razor wind to be more effective against enemies with metallic parts
• Trap doors in the crystal rooms in Lair of the Bline Ones now closes instantly, preventing sequence breaks
• Turrets will now cease firing if the target is obstructed

• Major performance gain in the main world deferred shader
• Addressed the 'checkerboard pattern' rendering glitch by avoiding depth buffer blitting,
• Non-deferred blood decals now adopt the proper red or green coloration depending on their source,

• Improved situations where protocol commands would become over-throttled when sending to latent nodes.
• Multithreaded packet transmission (which is on by default)
• New multiplayer chat message system
• Fixed issue with connecting to lobbies from startup
• Rebalanced damage curve of charge-dart against players
• Added mod and version filters to the multiplayer server lists
• Added support for changing the network transmission speed of the client/server (lower speeds reduces bandwidth requirements)
• Added support for custom map rotations
• Fixed an issue where team-games wouldn't clear their scores properly on map change
• Improved the reliability of sending information such as the scoreboard when a player connects to a game
• Numerous weapon balance and tweaks
• Three N64 multiplayer maps added (Bullseye, Crazy Eight, Experimentata)

• Voice volume setting is now independent of sound effect volume
• Support added for German localized voices

• Ability to delete save games

• Fixed collision detection issue when shooting at an object that is up against a wall
• Better detection for avoiding pickups behind walls and other obstructions

• Show both ammo types in the HUD for weapons with alternate ammo types
• Bug fixes for particle splash damage (non-explosive) setting off event link triggers
• All generators that should spawn random ammo now work
• Minor collision fixes in first Death Marsh level
• Fixed situation where player could become trapped in the spider-health trap chamber in River of Souls
• Fixed a crash when switching levels while enemies are being triggered by an event
• Charge dart now consumes 2 to 3 ammo based on charge level
• Wasp enemies are now more aggressive and will become responsive after being spawned
• Added fog effects to graveyard levels
• Tweaked razor wind to be more effective against enemies with metallic parts
• Trap doors in the crystal rooms in Lair of the Bline Ones now closes instantly, preventing sequence breaks
• Turrets will now cease firing if the target is obstructed

• Major performance gain in the main world deferred shader
• Addressed the 'checkerboard pattern' rendering glitch by avoiding depth buffer blitting,
• Non-deferred blood decals now adopt the proper red or green coloration depending on their source,

• Improved situations where protocol commands would become over-throttled when sending to latent nodes.
• Multithreaded packet transmission (which is on by default)
• New multiplayer chat message system
• Fixed issue with connecting to lobbies from startup
• Rebalanced damage curve of charge-dart against players
• Added mod and version filters to the multiplayer server lists
• Added support for changing the network transmission speed of the client/server (lower speeds reduces bandwidth requirements)
• Added support for custom map rotations
• Fixed an issue where team-games wouldn't clear their scores properly on map change
• Improved the reliability of sending information such as the scoreboard when a player connects to a game
• Numerous weapon balance and tweaks
• Three N64 multiplayer maps added (Bullseye, Crazy Eight, Experimentata)

• Voice volume setting is now independent of sound effect volume
• Support added for German localized voices

• Ability to delete save games

• Fixed collision detection issue when shooting at an object that is up against a wall
• Better detection for avoiding pickups behind walls and other obstructions

• Actors scheduled to trigger when a level ends will be immediately triggered,
• No more crash or multiple teleports when entering Adon's checkpoints,
• A clipping error was repaired in River of Souls,
• The Tek Bow can now snipe with normal arrows after loading a saved game,
• Improved player clipping near bridges,
• Sunfire Pods can now set fire to and kill Blind Ones,
• Improved behavior when unlocking levels, may fix game-breaking glitch with missing keys,
• The Primagen can no longer become stuck in mid-air between phases 2 and 3 of his battle,
• An infrequent crash during the Primagen boss fight has been fixed,
• Player skin sounds no longer carry over from multiplayer games,
• Quicksave slot can now be loaded from the Load Game menu, including from the titlescreen,
• Blind One and Queen boss warp cheats are no longer reversed,
• It is no longer possible to save the game when dead or when at the game over screen,
• Shredder is now treated with higher selection priority than the shotgun,
• A crash when re-entering a specific area of Lair of the Blind Ones has been fixed,
• Queen Boss mite spawning rate has been limited,
• Improved AI leashing behavior - enemies will not return to their idle locations if they can currently see the player or their target,
• Hidden enemy appearance particle effect will occur less often with partially hidden enemies,
• It should no longer be possible to become stuck in the Death Marshes due to missing ammo bunker door locks,
• Changing weapons is no longer possible while riding the Styracosaur,
• Death animation now fully stops instead of looping. This addresses a bad looping behavior in one of the flesh eater models.

• Stability improvements,
• Bandwidth usage improvements,
• Local player setup will always be fully completed for splitscreen,
• Private lobbies now function properly,
• Player radius is properly restored when becoming or ceasing to be the Monkey in Frag Tag,
• The nuke weapon will appear more rarely in Rok Mix mode,
• Local players in splitscreen can now independently change their ammo types,
• A point where the player could get stuck in the Port of Adia MP map has been repaired.

• Volume of ambient lava sounds reduced,
• Adon now announces the finding of Primagen keys,
• Tek arrow wind-up sound is no longer global, and is more consistent,
• Unique Raptoid sound effects from the N64 version have been imported,
• Turok now has unique pain sounds when taking damage from low oxygen while swimming,
• Shredder and shotgun firing sound effects improved,
• High-pitched noise eliminated from sound samples.

• Shader language version 4.00 is now properly accepted,
• Bloom: Opacity and intensity can now be set by the user,
• Optimizations for masked texture rendering and deferred shadow maps,
• AMD-specific fix for flashlight, deferred decals, and SAO,
• Pipeline synchronization is now an end-user option and is no longer enabled by default,
• Actor outlining effects now cooperate properly with resolution scaling.

• Video resolution setting will be saved without having to exit the game,
• Font size increased on Bindings menu,
• Clearer distinction between Exit to Title and Quit in English and French languages,
• Support for AMD GPU memory queries on the graphics option menu,
• Technical graphics options menu added,
• Users with ISO European keyboards can now access the console, and can bind two additional language-specific keys on the keyboard to actions,
• Options added to control all forms of player head bobbing and tilting,
• Step values have been tweaked for all slider-type options,
• Mouse smoothing is now available from the menus, and no longer crashes the game if set to zero.

• "Operation completed successfully" is no longer reported as an error if GL context creation fails,
• Lag reduced when messages are added to the console,
• Crash in math routine repaired. For advanced users, new cvars have been added:
• jobs_concurrentThreads - Sets the number of concurrent threads to use. If set to 0 then no multithreading will be used
• jobs_prioritize - Setting to 0 marks all threaded jobs as low priority
• jobs_useTasks - Enables/disables job tasks
• "What's New" menu has been added to display Changelog information.
• The Queen and Mother bosses have received a health buff and now receive -50% explosion damage

• Actors scheduled to trigger when a level ends will be immediately triggered,
• No more crash or multiple teleports when entering Adon's checkpoints,
• A clipping error was repaired in River of Souls,
• The Tek Bow can now snipe with normal arrows after loading a saved game,
• Improved player clipping near bridges,
• Sunfire Pods can now set fire to and kill Blind Ones,
• Improved behavior when unlocking levels, may fix game-breaking glitch with missing keys,
• The Primagen can no longer become stuck in mid-air between phases 2 and 3 of his battle,
• An infrequent crash during the Primagen boss fight has been fixed,
• Player skin sounds no longer carry over from multiplayer games,
• Quicksave slot can now be loaded from the Load Game menu, including from the titlescreen,
• Blind One and Queen boss warp cheats are no longer reversed,
• It is no longer possible to save the game when dead or when at the game over screen,
• Shredder is now treated with higher selection priority than the shotgun,
• A crash when re-entering a specific area of Lair of the Blind Ones has been fixed,
• Queen Boss mite spawning rate has been limited,
• Improved AI leashing behavior - enemies will not return to their idle locations if they can currently see the player or their target,
• Hidden enemy appearance particle effect will occur less often with partially hidden enemies,
• It should no longer be possible to become stuck in the Death Marshes due to missing ammo bunker door locks,
• Changing weapons is no longer possible while riding the Styracosaur,
• Death animation now fully stops instead of looping. This addresses a bad looping behavior in one of the flesh eater models.

• Stability improvements,
• Bandwidth usage improvements,
• Local player setup will always be fully completed for splitscreen,
• Private lobbies now function properly,
• Player radius is properly restored when becoming or ceasing to be the Monkey in Frag Tag,
• The nuke weapon will appear more rarely in Rok Mix mode,
• Local players in splitscreen can now independently change their ammo types,
• A point where the player could get stuck in the Port of Adia MP map has been repaired.

• Volume of ambient lava sounds reduced,
• Adon now announces the finding of Primagen keys,
• Tek arrow wind-up sound is no longer global, and is more consistent,
• Unique Raptoid sound effects from the N64 version have been imported,
• Turok now has unique pain sounds when taking damage from low oxygen while swimming,
• Shredder and shotgun firing sound effects improved,
• High-pitched noise eliminated from sound samples.

• Shader language version 4.00 is now properly accepted,
• Bloom: Opacity and intensity can now be set by the user,
• Optimizations for masked texture rendering and deferred shadow maps,
• AMD-specific fix for flashlight, deferred decals, and SAO,
• Pipeline synchronization is now an end-user option and is no longer enabled by default,
• Actor outlining effects now cooperate properly with resolution scaling.

• Video resolution setting will be saved without having to exit the game,
• Font size increased on Bindings menu,
• Clearer distinction between Exit to Title and Quit in English and French languages,
• Support for AMD GPU memory queries on the graphics option menu,
• Technical graphics options menu added,
• Users with ISO European keyboards can now access the console, and can bind two additional language-specific keys on the keyboard to actions,
• Options added to control all forms of player head bobbing and tilting,
• Step values have been tweaked for all slider-type options,
• Mouse smoothing is now available from the menus, and no longer crashes the game if set to zero.

• "Operation completed successfully" is no longer reported as an error if GL context creation fails,
• Lag reduced when messages are added to the console,
• Crash in math routine repaired. For advanced users, new cvars have been added:
• jobs_concurrentThreads - Sets the number of concurrent threads to use. If set to 0 then no multithreading will be used
• jobs_prioritize - Setting to 0 marks all threaded jobs as low priority
• jobs_useTasks - Enables/disables job tasks
• "What's New" menu has been added to display Changelog information.
• The Queen and Mother bosses have received a health buff and now receive -50% explosion damage