{"id":6139,"date":"2010-05-25T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioshock-2-dlc-and-game-update-drops-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6139-bioshock-2-dlc-and-game-update-drops-today","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock 2 DLC and game update drops today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keyboard and mouse-powered Big Daddies, listen up &ndash; 2K&rsquo;s dropping the Metro Map Pack DLC, Zigo and Blanche&rsquo;s Character Pack DLC, a freebie Kill &lsquo;Em Kindly game mode, and &ndash; perhaps mostly importantly &ndash; a massive bunch of fixes today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tagged at 800 MSP (or $10, or around R70 or so in local cash), the map pack includes six new multiplayer maps, a rank increase to 50, three new Achievements, and something called a &ldquo;Rebirth&rdquo; feature which is more or less exactly the same as the Call of Duty Veteran feature, but with a totally special commemorative mask because you&rsquo;re totally special like that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zigo and Blanche&rsquo;s Character Pack, shopping at 160 MSP, presumably includes characters. Probably one called Zigo, and one called Blanche. They don&rsquo;t pay me enough for these astonishing feats of prognostication.<\/p>\n<p>The Kill &lsquo;Em Kindly game mode, free to download, is a sort of free-for-all deathmatch, but with all the weapons swapped out for golf clubs, the way the good Andrew Ryan intended.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then, there&rsquo;s the patch. No it doesn&rsquo;t fix the stupid DRM, but it does fix all this stuff instead:<\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed MP freezing and connectivity issues&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Implemented color-blind friendly hacking UI.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed further issues related to HUD stretching.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Resolved functionality issues related to NVIDIA 3D Stereo options. Option in the Single Player Options Menu was removed and is now activated through the NVIDIA hardware.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed an issue where the User&#8217;s whole vision would become blurred while using ironsights in DirectX10.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed a problem where trying to install a patch manually through the appdata directory would not work properly.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed an exploit in Multiplayer involving Rebirth&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The &#8220;Reset All&#8221; option in the Multiplayer Controller Settings now functions properly.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed further issues related to plasmid gene bank hotkeys not taking effect in-game.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Resolved a problem where two parties consisting of five players were unable to join the same game lobby for any game mode except Survival of the Fittest.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed various localization bugs for Multiplayer&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed an issue where task switching while in a game lobby would not initiate.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Improved security for various weapon loadout files and fixed related exploits.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed issue where the title will fail to direct the user to the proper lobby when a join-able match is in session and the user accepts a game invite or attempts to join session in progress.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed issue when BioShock 2 fails to apply the title update when the files are placed in the appdata directory manually&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed text overrun on the Corpse counter from the first Little Sister&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There are 53 achievements available to the user after installing TU 047.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed issue where BioShock 2 is listed as two separate games in the Games for Windows &#8211; LIVE guide after installing the title update and earning achievements.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed Spanish language issue where text overrran the textbox provided on the multiplayer lobby&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed German language map title for Fontaine Fisheries&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Players can automatically reach rebirth rank 40 with any rank rebirth profile by viewing the epilogue within the apartment.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Changes made to customizable controls using the &#8220;Reset All&#8221; function are not saved when the game is restarted.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed issue where the title will fail to properly task switch while in a game lobby when account management is chosen on Vista x86 PCs&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fixed exploit where the user can modify the user specific .ini to acquire weapon loadouts before reaching the appropriate rank<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Map Pack, loads of fixes, new game mode&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}