Game: Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear Catagory: Action Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment Download Demo (54.4 mb) Search News Archives

3D API: Direct 3D A3D Support: N EAX Support: N Force Feedback: N Multiplayer: Y System Requirements: Computer: Pentium 233 Mhz with 3D Hardware acceleration OR Pentium 266 Mhz with MMX (software rendering) Memory: 32 MB RAM Required (64 MB RAM Recommended) Operating System: Windows 95 or Windows 98 Video: Software Rendering only: 2D 16-Bit SVGA 4MB Video Card 3D hardware Support: Direct 3D compatible video card required. Supported chipsets include 3Dfx Voodoo, Nvidia Riva, Matrox G200, for a full list of supported cards visit www.redstorm.com CD-ROM: 4x or Better Sound: DirectX compatible sound card required Hard Drive: 200 MB uncompressed space DirectX: DirectX 6 (included on CD) must be installed Internet/Network Play: Properly Configured TCP/IP connection at 28.8 Kbps or faster

2.04 Fixes

• Found and eliminated some bandwidth hogs in multiplayer.
• Fixed the pink areas and bad text on Permedia 2 cards.
• Fixed the crash when playing back a replay that was recorded with AutoRun turned on.
• Fixed a potential lockup if a player jumps off a ledge while AIs are following.
• The "Invert" option on the joystick remapping screen should work correctly now.
• Fixed auto-aim being turned on when the player attempts to switch teams during the early stages of a death motion.
• Players who join while a game is ongoing no longer send their armpatches immediately but rather wait for the next game to start. This fixes the problem of players joining during the action causing a lag for everyone.
• Added a new multiplayer only map called "Bunkers".
• Fixed the short freeze that occurred when selecting "Mission Orders" from the briefing screen.
• Replaced "Ready To Continue" messages on multiplayer results screens with ready indicator in player list.
• Server can force the game to continue past the results screen after a multiplayer game instead of waiting for all players to click continue by pressing the forward arrow a second time.
• Disable the observer mode key when running a replay.
• Kick out terrorists in terrorist hunt / lone wolf farther if they are in the same room as the insertion zone / base. If they are in a different room, they can be anywhere. This reduces the incidents of terrorists starting off right in the team's face.
• Adjusted which weapon skill was used at what zooms. Full submachinegun zoom now uses full assault skill, instead of using a bit of sniper skill.
• AIs will now call "Clear!" once they have cleared a room.
• Changed the Steyr AUG to use the rifle reticule to stop confusing players.
• Removed the intermediate zoom level on the G36K.
• Changed the "if you are zoomed, you can only walk" to be "if you are zoomed more than an MP-5 can zoom, you can only walk". This is 3X.
• Loosened some of the server-side gunshot validation checks to lessen the penalties for high-ping players.
• Improvements to the camera code to eliminate some cases of the camera being outside of the world after dying.
• Added support for Creative's EAX.DLL so more players can get EAX effects.
• Improved the support for foreign keyboards in the remapping screen by detecting keys that are in a different location from a US keyboard.
• The forced time delay between trigger pulls is no longer increased if you are wounded.
• Character scaling in the X and Z directions is now capped between 0.1 and 1.0 to avoid a cheat that allowed players to run faster than they should.
• The Rommel.CXP file now goes through the mod system properly so it can be edited as part of a mod.
• Fixed some bad character models in the Train Yard Lone Wolf and Terrorist Hunt missions.
• Changed default player selection on multiplayer results screens to be local player instead of first player.
• Updated formatting and contents of multiplayer RSResults*.log files.
• Added an option to RSConfig to force fullscreen and run DXDiag. Added some system information.
• Reduced problems with flashing during loading sequences.
• Loading screens will continue to animate while waiting for others to finish their loads instead of stopping the animation and appearing to freeze the system.
• Multiplayer games will not start in cooperative multiplay until all active and observer players have finished loading.
• Disconnecting users in a multiplayer game will no longer alert terrorists with a death noise.
• Server locks the game temporarily during the countdown sequence to prevent other users from joining and halting the game start.
• Fixed a number of problems with text being truncated or cut off improperly.
• Custom armpatches no longer show up on some terrorists in multiplayer terrorist hunt missions.
• Fixed problem with some characters causing the truncation of the rest of the string (most common with higher ascii, accented characters).
• Ten lines of chat are now allowed.
• Chat will now wrap if it is longer than the width of the screen.
• Eliminated "ghost" Rogue Spear task on taskbar when you quit game.
• Fixed the body armor assigned to certain terrorists.
• Made some cosmetic adjustments to the rangefinder portion of the binocular reticule.
• This patch is for the US version only! Patches for the European versions will be upcoming.