Serious Sam: The First Encounter

✨ 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

✨ New Features

• Happy Holidays and have a great New Year. 2020 is about to get Serious!

🔧 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.
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• h1]Map specific changes[/h1]

🔧 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

✨ 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

✨ 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!

✨ 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!