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Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Known issues, patches, and intelligence tracked by jaffaAi

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🐛 Known Issues 10

Deep-crawl: scsynth crashes when starting with default device
High
network trending via crawl 31 May 2026
Deep-crawl: [Bug]: HMAC does not match. Could not decrypt or decode encrypted session data
High
gameplay rising via crawl 31 May 2026
Auto-crawled: Featured Mod - Serious Sam Ray Traced
Medium
rising via crawl 27 May 2026
Auto-crawled: 25 YEARS OF SERIOUS SAM!
Medium
rising via crawl 27 May 2026
Auto-crawled: Serious Sam Classics: Revolution is out of Early Access!
Medium
rising via crawl 27 May 2026
Auto-crawled: SSVR: The Second Encounter is out? Already? Why, yes, it is!
Medium
rising via crawl 27 May 2026
Auto-crawled: SSVR: The Second Encounter is out? Already? Why, yes, it is!
Medium
rising via crawl 27 May 2026
Deep-crawl: Printer freezes or stutters when loading web interface, results in artefacts
Medium
rising via crawl 31 May 2026
Deep-crawl: Cannot copy text *into* Kate editor, copying text *from* Kate works fine.
Medium
rising via crawl 31 May 2026
Auto-crawled: Serious Sam Revolution Update 1.02
Medium
visual trending via crawl 27 May 2026

📋 Patch Notes 10

25 YEARS OF SERIOUS SAM!
21 Mar 2026
Source: steam_news
Featured Mod - Serious Sam Ray Traced
17 Sep 2021

✨ New Features

  • Hi everyone! As many of you must have found out by now, one of the craziest members of our community recently released a brand-new Serious Sam: The First Encounter mod which updates our original Serious baby with state-of-the-art technology - Ray Tracing.
  • b]⚪ Ray tracing is a relatively new graphical development. How challenging was getting this technology to compile on a nearly twenty-year-old engine? Did you have to perform significant code rewrites for it?[/b]
  • The initial compilation was quite challenging. Introducing Vulkan API wasn't hard – it was already there. But the problems were related to the fact that ray-tracing extensions require the application to be 64-bit. SE1 was initially 32-bit. So, SE1 had to be ported to 64-bit. Fortunately, there was a
  • The development of the library started in November 2020 and I started to sort out the old graphics engine of Serious Engine 1. Of course, the old graphics engine was really optimized for rasterization. And it wasn't possible to make a few changes to it to make it work with ray–tracing primitives. Mo
  • With all that, path tracing is limited with current generation GPUs -- only a very limited amount of rays can be cast per pixel, around 4-7. Offline path tracers are using thousands of rays per pixel! So because of maintaining the real-time-ness (very few rays per pixel), there's a lot of noise on r
Source: steam_news
Happy Holidays from Croteam!
24 Dec 2019

✨ New Features

  • Happy Holidays and have a great New Year. 2020 is about to get Serious!
Source: steam_news
Serious Sam Revolution Update 1.02
v1.02
3 Oct 2019

🔧 Bug Fixes

  • I can’t believe it’s been a month already, but we’ve been hard at it, trying to make Revolution into what it was meant to be at first. We were all over your reports and feedback, fixing, readjusting, rebalancing and expanding in the meantime.
  • Our main focus was fixing game-breaking issues as well as the Workshop issue that came up, as we love seeing your mods shine. This was sorted out, so please make magic happen, we can’t wait to check all your custom stuff out.
  • *] Fixed an issue where inverting vertical look would only work on a mouse and not on a gamepad.
  • *] Fixed erroneous time estimates on Bright Island.
  • *] Fixed smaller issues with wording in Netricsa.

✨ New Features

  • *] Added updated model for the final boss of Bright Island.
  • *] Forlorn Ruins - Changed Arachnoid Adult spawn positions and movement patterns.

⚖️ Balance Changes

  • *] Sniper zoom has been adjusted to be more in-line with the classics.
  • /list]
  • h1]Map specific changes[/h1]
Source: steam_news
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution is out of Early Access!
30 Aug 2019

🔧 Bug Fixes

  • Serious Sam Classics: Revolution is now THE best way to enjoy Classic old-school Serious Sam games, improved and expanded upon with many often requested changes, tweaks, and fixes, as well as a brand new original campaign - Bright Island. The game features 8 new maps, on top of those available in th
Source: steam_news
Whoah! Serious Sam is 18 years old
21 Mar 2019

✨ New Features

  • We were young, super passionate and, after a successful tech test launched in the summer of 2000, confident that Serious Sam would resonate well with the gaming community. Turns out, we were right. Serious Sam: The First Encounter caused quite a stir in the gaming community, won dozens of awards (in
Source: steam_news
SSVR: The Second Encounter is out? Already? Why, yes, it is!
4 Apr 2017

✨ New Features

  • In the immortal words of our beloved publisher: “Chaos incarnate Croteam and professional hype-people Devolver Digital have launched Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift via Steam.”
  • Visit South America, ancient Mesopotamia and Medieval Europe, and don't forget to bring your chainsaw. Actually, bring two: dual-wield your new toys to defeat Mental or use your arsenal in a deathmatch against "flat peasants"!
  • SSVR: The Second Encounter is launching with a special 25% discount (until April 11th), and there's a 25% discount for the entire Serious Sam VR budle – thank you for supporting Croteam's VR division!
Source: steam_news
SSVR: The Second Encounter is out? Already? Why, yes, it is!
4 Apr 2017

✨ New Features

  • In the immortal words of our beloved publisher: “Chaos incarnate Croteam and professional hype-people Devolver Digital have launched Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift via Steam.”
  • Visit South America, ancient Mesopotamia and Medieval Europe, and don't forget to bring your chainsaw. Actually, bring two: dual-wield your new toys to defeat Mental or use your arsenal in a deathmatch against "flat peasants"!
  • SSVR: The Second Encounter is launching with a special 25% discount (until April 11th), and there's a 25% discount for the entire Serious Sam VR budle – thank you for supporting Croteam's VR division!
Source: steam_news
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter - now a part of Serious Sam Classics: Revolution!
16 Sep 2014
Source: steam_news
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter - now a part of Serious Sam Classics: Revolution!
16 Sep 2014
Source: steam_news

🔗 Issue Clusters 20

Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
Issues: 1 active Confidence: 40% Last: 31 May 2026
Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — gameplay — May 2026
Issues: 1 active gameplay Confidence: 40% Last: 31 May 2026
Serious Sam: The First Encounter — gameplay — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — gameplay — May 2026
Issues: 1 active gameplay Confidence: 40% Last: 31 May 2026
Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
Issues: 1 active Confidence: 40% Last: 27 May 2026
Serious Sam: The First Encounter — unknown — May 2026
Issues: 1 active Confidence: 40% Last: 27 May 2026