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OS Neutral Painkiller Hell & Damnation released for Mac & 80% Off

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N19h7m4r3

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Another great day for Mac gamers everywhere! Especially if you’re a fan of old school
first person shooters that don’t go easy on you, and certainly bring the pain!

Out of no where Painkiller Hell & Damnation suddenly appeared on the Steam news pop-up, not only is it now on the Mac, but it’s also currently 80% off. A phenomenal price of only €3.99.

In the game you are essentially Heaven's hitman, charged with cleansing the world of hell’s filthy denizens.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/214870/

Gameplay First Impressions
 
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Note that Painkiller HD for OS X is currently in beta. I was able to get it to run on my 2011 Mac mini with a dedicated graphics card by forcing the game into a window. If I didn't do so, the game tried to run in my monitor's native resolution, despite the game's resolution settings. It runs fine on medium settings, too.
 
anybody know how to get up the fps counter that is supposedly in the game?
writing "showfps 1" in the console does nothing.
 
How do I get the DLC, choose at the Game start menu but nothing happens ?
 
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N19h7m4r3 said:
It's a separate purchase on steam, although not sure if it's implemented for the Mac client yet.
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Thanks, great game if you have had a bad day, brings back big memories of Doom.

Runs superb in fullscreen and with a controller which is my weapon of choice :)

Edit: Since posting this I am now getting laggy loading, cannot get into full screen, and random crashes at start up which also brings down steam, but then it is a beta I suppose.
 
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Washac said:
Thanks, great game if you have had day, brings back big memories of Doom.

Runs superb in fullscreen and with a controller which is my weapon of choice :)
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It really is, it's super fun! It does need some work, especially extra optimisations, but all that's coming I'm sure. :)
 
I actually tried it last night and it works. I also discovered why many FPS players prefer the mouse and keyboard combination.
 
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N19h7m4r3 said:
It really is, it's super fun! It does need some work, especially extra optimisations, but all that's coming I'm sure. :)
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Yeah, the swamp area leading up to the orphanage was especially a killer on my system. But I'm sure they will fix it and once it comes out of beta it'll be just fine.

BTW, I watched your video and I've seen the textures looking better than I see there. You should check your options because I'm pretty damned sure I've seen better on my own system. Painkiller H&D defaulted to medium to me. On the other hand the grim reaper doesn't seem to get much better... :p

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28944/Painkiller/Screen Shot 2014-05-30 at 4.25.03 AM.png

On the other hand I have noticed some textures actually looking better on the original version of the game Painkiller Black. :p (that grim reaper guy wasn't one of those things though he's brand new here)

H&D: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28944/Painkiller/PKHD_01.png

original: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28944/Painkiller/PKB_58.jpg

(I loved effects the original had such as refraction in the glass which H&D lacks)

I tried to enable antialiasing at least by the .ini file here but it doesn't seem to be a thing for this game. The engine .ini file has references to temporal antialiasing and MLAA though. When I played it in parallels it of course didn't have it there either but I blamed that on the fact that parallels doesn't have multisample support and even post process antialiasing like MLAA or FXAA hinges on that support being available.

In the original painkiller games I could turn up to 6xMSAA which looks really smooth espeically at 2560x1440. :)

Also, I hope they update the sound to support multichannel as that's one thing I miss on it compared to playing it in parallels. The sound panning in stereo mode seems pretty bad too.

However, even at this state it plays better than it did there (on parallels).. on there I had more stuttering going on because parallels for example only lets me use about half of my VRAM at any given time.

By the way for the people who mentioned gamepads.. I have a wireless x360 pad here too (mine's a custom one with custom faceplate and evil controller backplate, and custom colored buttons) and use it for many games. Particularly ones that are third person, or side scrolling. But I still insist on using keyboard and mouse for FPS games. :)
 
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smoketetsu said:
BTW, I watched your video and I've seen the textures looking better than I see there. You should check your options because I'm pretty damned sure I've seen better on my own system. Painkiller H&D defaulted to medium to me. On the other hand the grim reaper doesn't seem to get much better... :p
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I actually do have it maxed, how odd.

Although its amazing how good the original can look when tweaked.
I'll have to mess around a tad more when I get to play it again.
 
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