Marco bartoli tomb raider 2 remake unreal engine 4

#MARCO BARTOLI TOMB RAIDER 2 REMAKE UNREAL ENGINE 4 MODS#
#MARCO BARTOLI TOMB RAIDER 2 REMAKE UNREAL ENGINE 4 PC#

So, the Offshore Rig level is a bit like Natla's Mines from the first game, in as much as you have ammo but no weapons and have to win them back. Then there's a cutscene with the main villain Marco Bartoli and his henchman flying the plane -В which badly needs subtitles 'cos I can hardly understand a word they're saying - followed by an FMV in which the plane lands at an offshore rig (its wingВ clips through the bloody door - and this is pre-rendered! ) in which Lara awakens from her meeting with a heavy spanner to find she's trapped in a room and has no weapons. I honestly don't think I've played it all the way through without using ammo/med-pack cheats.

I'll be playing through all of the game hopefully. It's pretty much an HD version of what I remember playing 20 years ago but with the 'black fog' draw distance massively increased. Original textures, filtering turned off, butВ 1080p widescreen display. Finally, I've settled on a configuration I like.

#MARCO BARTOLI TOMB RAIDER 2 REMAKE UNREAL ENGINE 4 MODS#

I must have spent a good three hours just fidding with all different mods and patches. I couldn't get controller mapping working with either, so I've set up Steam to do that, and I've replaced the FMVs with upscaled ones. It doesn't let you replace textures, though, but you can use it in conjunction with the above method. Then there's a much easier method which replaces the executable and does lots of really cool stuff.

#MARCO BARTOLI TOMB RAIDER 2 REMAKE UNREAL ENGINE 4 PC#

There's a wrapper/code-injector method that supports lots of classic PC games and lets you replace textures and do other stuff, but the program is quite tricky to use and Windows thinks it's a virus. Modding Tomb Raider 2 (PC) is a little bit trickier than the first one there are a fewВ different ways of doing it and disagreements over which is best. Lots of fog to mimic the feel of the original draw distance, stuff floating in the air to add some life, some newВ lighting to help the environmentВ pop/be framed interestingly. That way you could keep the exact same core geometry of the levels and still have it look great. Have the whole thing look like Lara Croft Go, flat shaded with interesting detail being done in geometry on the periphery,В bevelled/embossed ontoВ surfaces.

Pick-up andВ interaction trigger boxes bigger and looser. Speed up the interaction andВ climb up/down anims (See Lara Croft Go: ) Same core controls with someВ changes (strafing when carefully moving on the second stick or something). Think the game, playing exactly as it does, remade would be a joy to play today.ДЄll level layouts,В puzzles and scriptingВ identical. Got stuck and looked at a walkthrough ofВ PC version on YouTube, and played at 1.5 speed and instantly thought it would have been great if the game itself played at that speed. Literally, the speed of the entire game/animations etc. One of the things I feel that holds it back today is that the speed of everything just needs bumping a bit. Just incredibly satisfying figuring out a puzzle, and brilliantly atmospheric the whole time you're trying. Still getting through the original when I have time (just got to Egypt). I mean, I always preferred TR1 thematically due its exclusively tomby locations, but it hadn't occurred to me that it didn't go outdoors at all (even Lara's mansion is entirely indoors in the first game) until I loaded up the Return to Egypt expansion level, which features an outdoor nighttime space with a crude 'ceiling' of stars instead of a skybox and looks kinda weird! However in the sequels, this limitation was ignored and there's a stylistic mismatch where bright skyboxes and snow-covered mountains clash with the same draw distance darkening, and you get weird scenes like this: This technical limitation might have informed the very design of the game itself, perhaps even its premise. I think perhaps the game couldn't support 'sky boxes' at the time and, coupled with the engine's limited draw distance, which turned everything beyond a certain range to black, it added to the atmosphere of being inside dark environments, caves, tombs, etc. Every location has a ceiling (even Lost Valley is supposed to be underground, I think!). Another noteworthy thing about the first Tomb Raider is that it doesn't feature any outdoor environments.

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