#SS4R Italia Update

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lapis urchin
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Serious Sam 4 Italia Reworked is the final version of Reworked.
The planned France and Russia chapters have been sadly scrapped so I've settled with reworking and polishing the Italy chapter. A huge amount of time was spent on tidying up and fixing the pacing of these levels and they are very much different to the original versions. You'll see. Is good.

It includes levels Death from Above to Gates of Heck (1-5). The rest of the levels will be released in due course.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2454410831

Steam Workshop::Serious Sam 4 Italia Reworked (WIP)
tidal canopy
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Ah cool, more reason to replay SS4
what happened to those chapters?
Why they were scrapped

lapis urchin
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Just no longer have the time to commit unfortunately

pure widget
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dude this is a awesome rework hopefully one day man maybe you can have time to go back and try to fiddle with the other levels maybe even could get help on it either way great work dude

molten fossil
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Awesome

lapis urchin
latent stone
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So I am curious, is this till Machina Ex Deus?

lapis urchin
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It will be. But for now only levels Death from Above to Gates of Heck

latent stone
# lapis urchin It will be. But for now only levels Death from Above to Gates of Heck

Ah ok! It sucks that the full version of the mod got cancelled!

I do understand that the two France levels are huge and might be a nightmare to rework, but I hope someday you change your mind and atleast rework the levels after One for the Road (viva la resistance onwards) as they are more linear, but I 100% understand about commitment issues.

Loved the first builds of the mod so can't wait to play this one ❤️

lapis urchin
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Yeah it is a shame but c'est la vie i suppose babe

I was considering starting from Viva Resistance at one stage actually. But who knows, I have a rough version of Anathema made so maybe one day i'll get it finished.

And thank you! I hope you enjoy it as much as the other builds! stadialen

latent stone
lapis urchin
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Ah yes I had someone else request the same. I have it on a list of things to do whenever I have the time since it wouldn't take too much effort so we will see : )

tender leaf
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I waited until more maps were reworked to play this. And with the Italy chapter completed now I decided to play through it.

Where do I begin? I guess I'll start with what I didn't like. The main one is framerate, but thats not your fault, and it felt smoother than I remember those levels being, not sure if it's your doing. And thats about it; there's a couple of spots where you can go out of bounds but I didn't care. Also Exitus Acta Probat took me to the menu rather than to Gates of Heck.

Now, this has some of the tightest combat encounters I've seen in modern Sam. The difficulty was just right, the enemy placement was great, the enemy choice was good, the progression felt great, and it felt like all fights had a lot of thought put into them. The pacing I think is too fast for someone who hasn't played SS4 before, but as a replay it's excellent.
I loved the machete, very good against zealots and it felt great to get a bunch of enemies lined up. I loved even more that you lose all your gadgets at the end of each level, which made me use them a lot more. I liked the enemies patrolling, the floating weapons made them stand out more, and the new music of Gates of Heck slaps. I'm sure I'm missing more stuff. The highlight for me was that Khnum arena at the end of Exitus, beautiful stuff samfeelgood

lapis urchin
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Glad to hear you got around to playing!

So yeah, performance nothing to do with me lol. At least I don't think so. Serious engine magic I guess. I'm looking at fixing issues such as the one you pointed out btw so that should be good soon!

Really pleased to hear you say that! Thanks so much for the kind words. I spent a long good time on these levels so it's great to hear that it must have paid off! Thanks again : )

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Glad you liked the machete and see just how useful/fun it is. Had a few complaints about it already so you're one more reason to stick to my guns and keep it included yougotit

pure widget
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nothing wrong with the mechette wish you could change in the resource manager if you wanted to when playing it doe

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i like playing with the axe alot

lapis urchin
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Well you could also remove machete from inventory using NRM and then add axe instead perhaps?

pure widget
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I think it has to show up in the resource manager and the machete dosent for me I can recheck when I get home doe