the old ones who understand the hard road this game had to go through and the new ones who don't have a clue of the financial catastrophe with THQ. At SyA we've again spared no effort over the past 12 months to bring THHR back to life. Luckily we have seen how well it is when honest work is occuring and when agreements are always honored. Therefore at this point, a special thank you to Ezequiel, the new head of the development and his staff, who are now taking over...
Hello, this is Eze and I have to say that we've been working so much on the game that we are telling all the news in two parts. The first part today, the second part with the release planned for tomorrow with the DLC 2 "THE FOG"...and here we go with part one:
New DLC Map: "THE FOG"
This new map brings you to a brand new location, a big open forest. Beware of the dangerous fog.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1964570/The_Haunted_Hells_Reach_DLC_2_The_Fog/
Splitscreen implemented!
We're now able to play splitscreen on the same PC/local. Playable solo, online, and even modes that require more than 1 player like Demonizer or Versus.
To play splitscreen, connect a controller to your PC and then through Steam's Big Picture mode assign your controller to 2nd, 3rd or 4th slot and when in-game press "Start" on the controller and you're ready to go!
To remove a player go to the pause menu, select "Local Players" and click/select the player you want to remove and that's it!
*Dev note:
The game has full gamepad support despite only displaying XBOX keys on hints, this was decided because of how the game was previously programmed, we only use XBOX controller type but playstation controller is fully supported as well. You can change gamepad input by going into the game options.
Controller mapping
There are a lot of changes related to the controller keys. Lot's of gamers used to play FPS (warzone) and some third person games so we decided the old default settings were pretty bad related to that. It's changed now - so here we go:
- Cross / A Button: Jump - Fly Up
- Square / X Button: Interact - Grab
- Triange / Y Button: Use CQC-Weapon - Special Attack
- Circle / B Button: Reload Weapon - Leave Minion
- Left Trigger: Aim Weapon
- Right Trigger: Fire Weapon - Spawn/Attack
- Left Shoulder: Melee Attack - Possess/Attack
- Right Shoulder: Use Explosives
- Left Arrow: Previous Weapon - Previous Minion
- Right Arrow: Next Weapon - Next Minion
- Up Arrow: Special Weapon
- Right Stick: Player Movement
- Left Stick: Camera Movement
- R3 / Right Stick Button: Evade - Fly Down
- L3 / Left Stick Button: Sprint
New achievements:
- Salvaged Fog: beat Fog on easy or higher
- HARDCORE Beginner: beat any map on beginner or easy difficulty while HARDCORE Mode is enabled.
- HARDCORE Pro: beat any map on medium difficulty while HARDCORE Mode is enabled.
- HARDCORE Master: beat any map on hard difficulty while HARDCORE Mode is enabled.
- HARDCORE God: beat any map on Nightmare difficulty while HARDCORE Mode is enabled.
*Dev note:
If you beat a map playing on high difficulties while HARDCORE Mode is enabled, early difficulty achievements gets unlocked. Ex: beat a map on Hard (hardcore mode enabled) and you'll get "HARDCORE Master, HARDCORE Pro and HARDCORE Beginner" achievements.
Another thing to mention is that "The Devil You Know" achievement does NOT require DLC maps to be completed.
Keyboard mapping:
As you might have noticed we removed the "suicide" key, the good old "Z" key that randomly killed you while you were on the last rounds its gone. It was already gone on previous update (Island update) but I wanted to mention it.
Video settings:
Fixed a bug where resolution information would not display correctly (for example, set resolution to 1080p and then when you start the game again resolution would still be 1080p but in-settings it will appear as if it was 800x600).
Added new resolution options:
- 2560 x 1440 px
- 3840 x 2160 px
Renamed "Back" button to "Back & Apply". We decided this because when we started to play the game (a long time ago) we didn't know that going "back" also applied the new settings and that might be confusing for some players.
FPS limit disabled by default, you can enable it back by going into the game instalation folder "UDKGame\Config\DefaultEngine.ini" and change line 50 from FALSE to TRUE.
*Dev note:
Removing FPS limiter causes the game to have a crazy camera effect when a player dies, this is not something that affects gameplay.
That's it for PART 1, folks, be sure to come back for PART 2 and don't forget to get your
DLC 2 "THE FOG"-experience as soon as it is released.
CHEERS, Eze
