F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R.

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5 facts you did not know about FEAR on steam
By [pg]> KaM iL! and 3 collaborators
After the great success of sales Humble WB Bundle I decided to collect some interesting facts about the version of the game intended for Steam,
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1) Version of release
Steam release is based on box F.E.A.R. Platinum Edition. and renamed to F.E.A.R. Ultimate Shooter Edition [1]

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That mean it included all released DLC:
  • Extraction Point
  • Perseus Mandate


[1] It is never called that in the store page, however, the folder containing the game files is called "FEAR Ultimate Shooter Edition", and is located in "\Steam\steamapps\common\"
2) Hidden video materials and how to play it
Yup.
There is tons of content included in this version.
  • A "Making Of" documentary.
  • A "Director's Commentary" video with five of the game's lead designers at Monolith Productions commenting on a playthough of the game's original demo.
  • A short live-action prequel called Alma Interviews[fear.wikia.com].
  • Episode 0 of a machinima, P.A.N.I.C.S.[fear.wikia.com].

You can find it in steam folder. Just get in and follow this path
steamapps\common\FEAR Ultimate Shooter Edition\movies

The easiest way to play it is just drag the file right onto binkplay.exe
and pause it with space.

After watching You can delete 1.5GB additional hidden content
3) Public tools are included too
Because large part of you have played the first part right after the release and You propably recall interesting multiplayer and community that has formed around him.
In time, Monolith has released a package that allows developer to modify the game to the needs of server mods, maps, and more.
To everyone's surprise, the installer is included by default in folder extras.
Without minor amendments, however, you will not be able to install it.

To fix this issue run regedit and find this location

For 32bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Monolith Productions\FEAR\1.00.0000

For 64bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Monolith Productions\FEAR\1.00.0000

Next change the value of
patch
DWORD to
8

After this you should successfully install public tools

For people who don't want to mess with game files its safe to delete whole folder. You can save 1GB.

Note1
Installation require unpack of all game content so prepare 10GB free space

Note2
On 64 bit Windows 8 some of tools aren't working. It's propably cause of incompatibile libraries with 64 bit systems.
4) Multiplayer isn't dead...
...well almost

Originally posted by http://fear-community.org/about/:
With the release of FEAR 3 Project Origin, The game and CD-Keys are no longer available. This meant that new players could not play and led to a decline in the game.

In 2012, several players from the FEAR Community got together and developed a new unofficial server patch which they called appropriately SEC2, which addressed several issues in the original SEC WenisShieldBeta patch but more Importantly it offers new FEAR CD Keys, these keys enable new players to play on all servers running the SEC2 patch.

Instruction howto is here
5) HD players, we almost supported!
In fact we still need to few upgrade to play well on hd resolutions
First look at this article and do as inmate66 wrote
Second find and modify file for Extraction Point, cause it's not support hd resolution by default

For xp go to
C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/Monolith Productions/FEAR << Original F.E.A.R C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/TimeGate Studios/FEARXP << Extraction Point C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/TimeGate Studios/FEARXP2 << Perseus Mandate

And for vista/7/8 to
C:/Users/Public/Documents/Monolith Productions/FEAR << Original F.E.A.R C:/Users/Public/Documents/TimeGate Studios/FEARXP << Extraction Point C:/Users/Public/Documents/TimeGate Studios/FEARXP2 << Perseus Mandate

and edit settings.cfg file your way
61 Comments
ImperiusDamian 7 Apr @ 9:28pm 
fact #7 @crete can teabag deez nutz
BUTTERDOGESTARWARS 14 May, 2024 @ 3:25pm 
Looks like the tools aren't included in the GOG Version :(
Wehzy 19 Nov, 2023 @ 5:29pm 
@HostileEnvironment its good tho.
HostileEnvironment 4 Nov, 2023 @ 8:13pm 
Fear 3 looks shiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,

Probably will emulate 1-2 all the way >:DDD
Pralaya👤 21 Sep, 2023 @ 10:54am 
You should mention the 4gb patch, its pretty much essential.
Crestfall 30 Jun, 2023 @ 5:31am 
@Unseen It can be argued that FEAR 2 is worse than FEAR 3, since at least FEAR 3 has fun (coop) gameplay.
Unseen 19 Mar, 2023 @ 3:09pm 
FEAR1 is a great game and a lot of dlc content as well. Also interested in fear2 and gonna keep an open mind about fear3 from what I seen of fear3s gameplay footage it don't look as bad as people say.
shade00 21 Dec, 2022 @ 8:31pm 
bah who cares what they say, look at there profile :BL3Thinking:
there not one you really should take seriously, as there profile is not that serious
Kraeze 21 Dec, 2022 @ 7:13pm 
@crete 2400 hours in duck dynasty....
the?.. 😈 21 Dec, 2022 @ 2:27pm 
@crete you purchased a game that's 17 years old, scrolled throw the guides, and put in enough effort to say this game sucks, over a post that's not even related to the games quality. Your the equivalent to a YB fan on twitter