Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, the standalone expansion to Serious Sam 4, received a crucial patch today. Update 1.03c makes a lot of changes, such as improved performance and several squashed bugs. Dragon Gates also went through multiple tweaks.
The patch reduced the performance hit caused by T.A.C.T. explosions. In the Endless Wave, Dragon Gates +100 HP/armor has been changed to +50 HP/armor. The music setup of Dragon Gates has been modified once again.
- Fixed the game sometimes stuttering with Nvidia GPUs on some systems.
- Fixed frequent crashes on Roadside Picnic level.
- Reduced performance impact from T.A.C.T. explosions.
- Custom controller layout will now have standard bindings by default, so the player can adjust the config rather than recreate it from scratch.
- Fixed a bug when Hoverboard charge indicator sometimes would not disappear after player already dismounted Hoverboard.
- Fixed a bug with minefield pre-explosion sounds missing on clients in Cooperative mode.
- Fixed a bug when a client in Cooperative mode could not teleport from classic secrets or Alpha and Omega sidequest while riding an enemy or the Hoverboard.
- Fixed a bug with cliff disappearing under certain view angles on Crime and Punishment level.
- Fixed a certain way of getting out of playable area on A Smell of Petroleum Prevails level.
- Dragon Gates: Fixed a bug with "choose one" pickups not working on clients in Cooperative mode.
- Horus Sanctuary: Fixed some trees appear flying when viewing from spectator cameras.
- The Snowrider: Player and its vehicle health are now synced, so a player in Cooperative mode can view other players health in Tab menu.
- Slightly increased enemy spawn rate in Cooperative on multiple Survival maps.
Modding:
- Included WesternEurope biome file from Serious Sam 4 into the game archives, so you can once again recreate that Windows wallpaper.
- Included some missing ammo/weapon items for Serious Sam 4 weapons.
You can read the complete patch notes via Steam.
So what do you think? Are you interested in any of these changes? Have you been playing Serious Sam recently? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
