Hi all!

This Thursday we will be releasing a small update to Revolution.
With this update, players should no longer have issues with unlocking achievements, and the game will be getting full Russian localization.

The update is currently available in Open Beta. You can download it by right-clicking on Revolution in your library, going to the "betas" tab, and selecting "publicbeta" from the drop-down menu.

Please keep in mind that updating the game will override your saved progress, and you will have to start fresh. This is an unfortunate limitation of the old engine and is unavoidable in situations like this.

If you are not keen on starting over, you can choose to stick with the current version of the game for good. To do that, please right-click on Revolution in your library, go to the "betas" tab, and select "revo-1.02" from the drop-down menu. This will also stop the game from updating automatically in the future, so keep that in mind.

You will need to do this for the Dedicated Server and Revo Toolkit as well, if you are using them.

Much love from Croteam.
Danny

Hi everyone!

I can’t believe it’s been a month already, but we’ve been hard at it, trying to make Revolution into what it was meant to be at first. We were all over your reports and feedback, fixing, readjusting, rebalancing and expanding in the meantime.

Our main focus was fixing game-breaking issues as well as the Workshop issue that came up, as we love seeing your mods shine. This was sorted out, so please make magic happen, we can’t wait to check all your custom stuff out.

This update also takes care of the leaderboard issues with survival levels, as well as many smaller issues with Netricsa, collision, textures and such. More detailed update notes can be found below.

Stay Serious!
- Danny, on behalf of Croteam.

General changes

• Workshop items will now show up properly in the custom level menu.
  
• Sniper zoom has been adjusted to be more in-line with the classics.
  
• Fixed an issue where inverting vertical look would only work on a mouse and not on a gamepad.
  
• Fixed erroneous time estimates on Bright Island.
  
• Added updated model for the final boss of Bright Island.
  
• Leaderboards for Survival levels should now work as intended.
  
• Fixed smaller issues with wording in Netricsa.
  
• Fixed several collision issues across the board.
  
• Fixed several issues with textures on multiple levels.
  
• Fixed visibility issues across South American levels related to the faulty rendering of several pyramid models.
  
• Several smaller balance and gameplay changes on the Bright Island levels, based on community feedback.

Map specific changes

• BrKeen Chevap Xbox - Fixed an issue where the wrong music would play during matches.
  
• Crystal Cove - The secret laser will no longer clip through the floor.
  
• Forlorn Ruins - Rebalanced the last arena to align the difficulty with previous areas.
  
• Forlorn Ruins - Added additional platforms for bridges to make passing them easier.
  
• Forlorn Ruins - Changed Arachnoid Adult spawn positions and movement patterns.
  
• Forlorn Ruins - Rebalanced the Kleer fight to keep it in-line with other encounters.
  
• Forlorn Ruins - Players should now be able to progress through Tree Village arenas on lower difficulties.
  
• Forlorn Ruins - Overhauled the final arena.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Lava golems in the fire elemental area should spawn more consistently now.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Readjusted the position of the coop portal to better fit intended gameplay.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Increased the sensing range of elemental enemies.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Rebalanced several fights.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Platforms will no longer wound the player in the water element room.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Enemies will no longer be able to see the player when it’s not expected.
  
• Ruins of the Abyss - Mud golem no longer floats when awake.
  
• Sunken Pyramid - Redesigned the gravity room to provide players with a more balanced experience.
  
• Sunken Pyramid - Slowed down spinning platforms on the 3rd floor of the pyramid.
  
• Sunken Pyramid - Players should now be able to progress through some arenas on lower difficulties.

NOTE: This update will once again render your saves useless. Unfortunately, this is due to some limitations of the old engine, and there are no workarounds at this point in time. That’s also one of the reasons we are trying to provide you with substantial updates less frequently, rather than smaller updates that would break saves constantly. Sorry about that.

In the future, we will be keeping one older build live even after updates, so you can continue with your progress in case you don’t feel like you’d benefit from the update. We use a similar thing in our other games as well.

Player Feedback
We value your input, and we want you to reach out to us with all feedback. For general thoughts and ideas, please use the General section of the Revo forums on Steam. Should you encounter any issues or bugs, please report them on the Tech & Support subforum, along with your game log (located in the game installation folder) and a detailed description of the issue.

For all things Serious Sam hit Mr. Stone up on Twitter and Facebook[facebook.com]. Follow Croteam on Twitter and Instagram[instagram.com], like us on Facebook[facebook.com], and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Oh, and don’t forget to join our ever-growing Croteam family on Discord[www.discord.gg] and Reddit.

Hey folks,
thank you to everyone who jumped back in Revolution over the past couple of days and thanks for all the feedback you have shared across our channels. We've just updated the game with additional changes, looking to balance the game further.

Here's a rough changelog:
- fixed missing spawns on several levels throughout the game
- fixed several issues that prevented progression in some cases on Bright Island
- various tweaks and rebalances to fights across all difficulties based on community feedback
- many smaller bug and glitch fixes across the board

We'll be making patches like this in the weeks to come, so please share all your additional feedback and concerns here on Steam forums. We're watching in a totally non-creepy way.

Cheers,
Danny on behalf of Croteam.

Happy days!
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution is out in the wild as a fully released game, and we're celebrating with a huge discount!

You saw this coming, let's be honest, as we have recently announced Croteam will help to get this project through the door.

Serious Sam Classics: Revolution is now THE best way to enjoy Classic old-school Serious Sam games, improved and expanded upon with many often requested changes, tweaks, and fixes, as well as a brand new original campaign - Bright Island. The game features 8 new maps, on top of those available in the originals, and some brand new achievements. We mustn't forget the workshop support, so get in and showcase your modding skills. We can't wait to see what your imagination will spawn.

Huge thanks and congrats to everyone Alligator Pit and everyone else involved with this project over the past couple of years.

Big cheers from Croteam!

https://steamproxy.com/steamstore/app/227780/Serious_Sam_Classics_Revolution/?beta=1

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Hi Everyone!

We bet this comes as kind of a shocker to some of you, but we’ve been lurking from the shadows for some time, looking to revive Revolution properly. That’s right, the project hasn’t been abandoned. Instead, it was “on ice” for a while due to life happening to Alligator Pit dev team. This is, after all, a fan project that was developed on top of the original Serious Sam Classics.

With that being said, we have always been eager to get Serious Sam Classics: Revolution through the EA door, and the time is almost right. The development has been kickstarted recently and we have made some huge steps forward. Anyhow, we’re almost ready to wrap it up and will do so by the end of the week. Before we do, however, we have decided to test the waters with an open beta available to everyone.

To play it, simply right click on the game in your Steam library > properties > betas > and select “publicbeta” from the drop-down menu.

Since the last time the game was updated, we have helped with an original singleplayer campaign including 8 additional levels and a boss you can fight against. There were, of course, tons of fixes made as well, so Revolution is now in a pretty good state.

P.S. A few of you noticed a certain achievement has recently been removed. We have listened to your feedback and we realized that the “Developer Rage” achievement can be frustrating to those looking for 100% completion. We have removed that one and will be replacing it with four other achievements, so be ready to start hunting!

First of all, Happy Holidays from all of us at Alligator Pit! From today until the 31st, everyone will have Santa hats on their player characters. Have fun!

• Now using the new SteamUGC API for Steam Workshop. This should speed up the Workshop process a lot. The downloading of workshop items is now handled by Steam instead of the game, which means you don't need to wait for the game to download all of your subscribed items, and you're no longer required to restart the game. (NOTE: In our testing, when starting this version for the first time, you will have to restart the game at least once for your existing subscribed workshop items to "convert" to Steam's new format. This is only required once!)
  
• Added a scrapped map from The First Encounter: Classic Hole!
  
• Added new Classic First Encounter and Classic Warped HUD themes, including an additional uncolored classic theme.
  
• Fixed minor HUD issue with Serious Bomb icon.
  
• Fixed a couple minor issues with Ughzy enemy customization.
  
• Fixed a couple minor issues with Headman enemy customization.
  
• Fixed Ghostbuster not being affected by Serious Damage powerup.
  
• Fixed Twisters in The Pit launching you way too high.
  
• Fixed error 3 when saving statistics. (For real this time. Promise.)
  
• Fixed some issues in Sankta Nokto.
  
• Fixed some issues in Sand Canyon.
  
• Fixed missing survival medals in Faster Faster.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback and reports, here are the latest changes:

• Added a new survival map: Dimensions Neon!
  
• Added a few new versus maps: Memphis Almarkazia, Sankta Nokto, and Metalic Station!
  
• Added a unique random seed to every match, this adds a little bit more randomization to some levels.
  
• Added blue and yellow blood types.
  
• Added a bunch of level backgrounds and updated a bunch of level thumbnails to bigger sizes.
  
• Updated some levels to look better.
  
• Updated weapon models for Tommygun and Flamethrower to include hands in first person view.
  
• Reduced cannonball resistance for big beasts.
  
• Fixed Workshop items sometimes not downloading correctly. (Especially with a large number of mods)
  
• Fixed issue with achievements sometimes not unlocking.
  
• Fixed a problem where the Steam client was necessary to run the Dedicated Server, this is now no longer required.
  
• Fixed a few possible crashes.
  
• Fixed the classic control scheme not binding the Use key properly, this is now bound to E.
  
• Fixed models sometimes disappearing with certain graphics settings.
  
• Fixed a problem with scripts not being able to modify entity properties.
  
• Fixed some issues with the Control Zone gamemode.
  
• Fixed some interface issues.
  
• Fixed some other issues with levels and models.
  
• Fixed not being able to set a custom texture for Ugh Zan in editor.
  
• Added a BIG_ANIMATION keyword to animation scripts to allow for bigger animated textures.

As you all know, Sam has a sister. And her name is Sammy. She's decided to take a detour through Egypt this time around and visit the Revolution as a new playable model in the game!

It's summer! And you know what that means. That's right, extra protective wallets for the Steam summer sales. Revolution is on sale! Get it for yourself or your friends for 90% off!

• Added the Serious Sammy player model!
  
• Added a custom speed scalar to enemies in the editor.
  
• Added a Destroyer enemy for modding.
  
• Removed the libpng dependency, and added the ability to create textures from several more file formats.
  
• Fixed not all crosshairs showing in the options.
  
• Fixed Steam achievements and statistics not working most of the time since the last patch.
  
• Fixed missing shadows in lava caves in Land of the Damned.
  
• Fixed some issues with CCC, and added !ban command to CCC.
  
• Fixed the time needed for the gold medal in Mental's Needle.
  
• Fixed a crash when creating a new model in Serious Modeler.
  
• Fixed some (old alpha) enemies giving negative scores.
  
• Fixed Sam running around in circles in The Great Pyramid like a record baby round round round round
  
• Fixed a bunch of other minor things, including crashes and silly mistakes in levels.

It's that time again, ladies and gentlemen! Time for an update. But not just any update! An update with a lot of fixes and features.

We'd also like to tell you a little bit about ourselves. Who's Alligator Pit, really? What's changed since the last time we introduced ourselves to the community? Read more about it here[samrev.com], on our latest official blogpost!

Talking about community contributors, we'd also like to showcase our brand new achievement icons! Check them out on Steam! They were made by this guy[adrianbukowski.deviantart.com], check out his other stuff!

Also, we created a brand new documentation website for information about dedicated servers, scripting, and more! Check it out at http://docs.samrev.com/. This documentation can be contributed to on Github[github.com] as well, so feel free to submit any pull requests if you have anything to add.

• Added a new mutator: Enemies Replacer. This randomly replaces enemies in any level with random special character types.
  
• Added a Pitch property to SoundHolder entities.
  
• Added a default dedicated server controller addon: the Combative Creature Cutter, also known as CCC. You can add admins, kick people, or invoke votekicks. (More documentation about this soon!)
  
• Updated the Bromscript scripting engine.
  
• Added new (old) variants of Elementals: Earth and Wind.
  
• Added some more customization options to Grunt and Firecracker.
  
• Fixed lasergun/tommygun slowdown bug.
  
• Fixed windowed mode resolutions not always showing the right values in menu.
  
• Fixed "Stats not saved: error 3".
  
• Fixed stats for Ziggurrat never uploading to Steam leaderboards.
  
• Fixed stats shown in menus always being singleplayer. This also shows deathmatch stats now!
  
• Fixed stats not always saving correctly when playing multiplayer.
  
• Fixed the way secondary fire, Netricsa, and Use controls were conflicting with each other. They are now all separate controls. This also avoids confusion.
  
• Fixed a bunch of minor level issues.
  
• Fixed a bunch of minor networking issues.
  
• Fixed a bunch of minor graphical issues.
  
• Fixed a bunch of crashes.
  
• Fixed a few survival exploits.
  
• Lots of internal code changes that will allow us to roll out fixes even faster!

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