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[friskykillface]

Halo 2 1.1

Was that the patch that stopped stand by? I really hated that shit and almost made me quit halo 2.

Really was happy when it got patched/limited

 

[Defuser]

The non existant ps3 clock fix.

 

[Derrick01]

I`m sorry, but this thread makes me laugh.

steam sale's over man, we need something to talk about.

 

[MisterAnderson]

Star Wars Galaxies: The New Experience update.

....oh wait.

 

[feel]

Halo: Reach

Spoiler

please

 

[nephilimdj]

Battlefield 2 1.3

Wake Island

 

[rekameohs]

Wii OS 4.0

Made it possible to play off the S.D. card. No more "cleaning the fridge".

 

[HarryDemeanor]

How is having to collecting thousand upon thousand of random items fantastic? it was pretty much a korean style grind for the entire server.

Well aside from that, the opening event was really cool. Even if servers crashed left and right it was a blast.

 

[A Black Falcon]

I think I have to go with the patch for Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor that makes it so that it doesn't delete your system files when you uninstall the game...

 

[Trickster]

Well aside from that, the opening event was really cool. Even if servers crashed left and right it was a blast.

So if we ignore all the server crashes, the opening event AQ was great, except 99% of the event?

 

[Scrow]

The one that isn't needed?

herp derp

that mind set is old fashion and out of touch with reality

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

The Ascendency patch that added AI.

 

[viewtifulsub]

Team Fortress 2.

The sheer amount of updates and patches the game receives still to this day is amazing.

Shame about the actual quality of those updates though.

 

[MisterAnderson]

Shame about the actual quality of those updates though.

 

[(._.)]

He is actually right ^^^

 

[B-Dex]

The most infamous patch ever: Star Wars Galaxies NGE.

 

[Popstar]

.

 

[Concept17]

Asheron's Call... any patch. The game had a content patch every month that gave players something new to do. It was like christmas twelve times a year.

 

[larvi]

Since the OP didn't limit it to game patches I have to say Win95 OSR2. Win95 had tons of bugs when it first came out. OSR2 fixed a bunch of these but it also added some great new features.

One was USB support which meant a PC could finally have decent joystick support. Prior to USB you had to use a gameport which limited you to only 4 buttons, and if you had dual joysticks, it was only 2 buttons each. Also there were always speed calibration problems with the gameport as it was originally spec'ed for the 4.77Mhz 8086 bus speed.

The other great feature it added was FAT32 which meant you could finally have partition sizes > 2GB. In addition it also fixed the problem that FAT16 had with cluster sizes. If you created a 2GB partition on FAT16 each file, no matter how small would take up a minimum of 32K since that was the cluster size needed for a 2GB partition. So games with a bunch of small files would take up way more space on a drive then they should. Because of this you would never use more than 512mb partitions. So I would end up making 8 logical drives on a 4GB hard drive. At one point I think I had hard drives with letters C through R and trying to manage space and find your games across all of those partitions was a nightmare.

 

[Karram]

Crysis 2: DX11 ,higher res textures and mod support.

Burnout Paradise: almost a game changer.

Gears 2: social matches, dedicated servers and improved balancing.

 

[ConradCervantes]

Gears 2 has dedicated servers now? How the hell did I miss that?

 

[IcyBlueStrawberry]

Gears 2 has dedicated servers now? How the hell did I miss that?

It doesn't

They did some testing with the technology, but it's still hosted by other players.

 

[bhlaab]

Boiling Point Road to Hell v2.0

- fixed: crash while loading some save files;
- fixed: camera control when firing from the Pirania;
- fixed: rendering error in landscape while flying a plane;
- fixed: some situations where the user car would disapear;
- fixed: sometimes in the vehicle list NPC names are displayed;
- fixed: list of vehicles, now the last car you were using is N1;
- fixed: when FPS are low you could fall through the map while driving a car;
- fixed: the snake wasn't able to bite you while you were crawling;
- fixed: car kills NPC's from slight touch;
- fixed: car map indicators remained even after it was destroyed;
- fixed: when you fire the RPG and quickly switch to a different weapon the remaining ammo does not decrease;
- fixed: size of the moon;
- fixed: corrupted frames beetween AVI movies were visible;
- fixed: windows appear as dark squares while it's raining;
- fixed: some open doors dissapear at certain view angles on indoor levels;
- fixed: flickering triangles on bus (3rd person view);
- fixed: boat appears to be filled with water;
- fixed: boat trace can dissapear and flicker under some viewing angles;
- fixed: flickering carpets in federal base;
- fixed: posters in bar vanish as you turn away from them;
- fixed: dog does not cast shadows;
- fixed: water and landswell are not animated in 6th cutscene;
- fixed: white square from car lights are visible on GeForce cards(1th person view);
- fixed: on some occasions a white square is clearly visible around the moon;
- fixed: savegame icon does not contain horizon and fog when saved in plane;
- fixed: slight screen borders darkening on GeForce cards with Bloom effect on;
- fixed: fog from car lights casts shadow;
- fixed: portals on airport and city;
- fixed: sports car's wheel are not clipping by the ground
- fixed: grenades get stuck in the doorways and windows;
- fixed: NPC standing in chairs;
- fixed: missions "The Intimate drama - 1 and 2";
- fixed: a metal clanking sound plays, if the user's character stabs the curtains;
- fixed: user character stands in the air inside don pedro's island house;
- fixed: passer-by's in Pueblo Faro walk in air near the bar;
- fixed: the dead body lies in incorrect positions;
- fixed: money obtained from the bus drive missions is not consistent;
- fixed: if the music settings is set to min (any %), and the user rests in game, then suddenly the music blasts to 100%;
- fixed: characters speach is too quiet;
- fixed: wrong message when paying for a vodka shot at the Puerto Sombra bar;
- fixed: change a tire icon does not update correctly;
- fixed: no driver in the taxi in pueblo-faro;
- fixed: PSS is not available in the Trade Menu;
- fixed: jaguar floats across screen at treetop level;
- fixed: character fails to stop running if objectives window is open;
- fixed: hint appears if the user is on the other side of wall;
- fixed: soldiers do not hold Shotguns properly;
- fixed: the two Policemen appear to stare at the ground;
- fixed: npc die on contact with grenades, and not from the actual explosion;
- fixed: prison A.I. gets stuck in doorways;
- fixed: remove voice "A-a-a" when passer-by's are running away from player.
- fixed: problem with invisible NPC


- improved: car dynamics;
- improved: NPC & Combat AI;
- improved: weapon's balance;
- improved: helicopter dynamics, you can now turn on the spot;
- improved: barrel physics;

- added: cans to refuel different kinds of vehicles;
- added: Weapon repair upgrades;
- added: support of non-4:3 video modes;
- added: the Nissan(Melarud) car now has it's own gfx-interface (cockpit);
- added: NPC reacts on car horn;
- added: steering Wheel Sensitivity lacks Plus and Minus signs;
- added: informative messages appear while upgrading;

- optimized: grass rendeing and fixed flickering on hilltops;
- optimized: Bodies of Drivers accumulate over time;

 

[gabbo]

Mafia 1.2 Depending on your stance on the difficulty spike, this patch actually allowed the game to exist past the race.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

The Enhanced Edition patch for Witcher, easily. New animations, much improved performance and load times and every single line is re-recorded.

Since this is already posted I'll +1 it and put a vote in for the mega patch for TW2 which made all the DLC free and added hair styles for Geralt along with about 50 other things.

 

[pieatorium]

Mafia 1.2 Depending on your stance on the difficulty spike, this patch actually allowed the game to exist past the race.

I passed the race before that patch, took about 6 hours but eventually made it.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Oh my GAF really does get it in 1.

Seriously, this patch (mostly by accident) turned Halo 2 from an average game into the deepest, most competitive console FPS there has ever been.

Go on, I don't know the story.

 

[gabbo]

I passed the race before that patch, took about 6 hours but eventually made it.

I was not so lucky. I feel like I cheated when I installed it just for that race.

 

[MiniDitka]

Backbreaker Greathouse patch.

 

[CadetMahoney]

surely it must the PSN patch that fixed the piracy loophole or whatever.

I remember ppl saying that Sony can't do anything cos they have the keys to sign games and stuff. . . then Sony shut down their whole operation with a patch.

 

[Relax.MX]

The Enhanced Edition patch for Witcher, easily. New animations, much improved performance and load times and every single line is re-recorded.

Yep, this

 

[whitehawk]

Oh. Not sure if it was mentioned but.

Keys To The City, bitch.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

while I can't vouch for it, but I remember the patch for Hydrophobia being pretty impressive as far as things it changed

TRUE, it's just a shame that they needed two attempts. Hydrophobia Pure was the first patched release, then they released HP Prophecy. You can't polish a turd guys!

 

[Das-J]

MAG 2.0 was a pretty big deal in terms of content for a console game, but I has the bias...

 

[Forkball]

The patch that turned The Witcher into The Witcher: EE is pretty amazing. CDPR basically remade the game, and it cost over $1 million.

 

[Sinatar]

Circle of 8 community patch for Temple of Elemental Evil. Makes what was an utter mess of a game into a near masterpiece, fixes scores of bugs, adds new features and tweaks, restores cut content. It's awesome.

 

[woolley]

MAG 2.0 was a pretty big deal in terms of content for a console game, but I has the bias...

If it didn't make the game worse I would've agreed with you...

 

[JaskoX1]

Socom Confrontation Patch 1.6

basically made the game playable - it also went live if I can remember with the Cold Front expansion pack. Added a lot really; changed the control system, fixed issues with guns, nades etc.

interface got an overhaul. Issues with map glitches. Ironic because it was a year later, and they already lost so much people.

 

[Hasemo]

Aside from mentioned above?

I'd say Bayonetta.

 

[Dinosaur Tamer]

Some of the World of Warcraft patches mentioned and the Witcher Enhanced Edition patch seem like a good fit.

I would like to add the patch that added Darkness Falls to Dark Age of Camelot. It was a new dungeon shared by all three factions and a good mixture of PvE and PvP. While it got less and less important over time, it was an important part of DAoC endgame for years.

 

[FyreWulff]

In terms of impact, Halo 2 1.1 was significant, as it was basically the game finally being finished for multiplayer. Halo 2 1.5 finally killed most of the cheating though. Too bad it came out all the way in 2007.


In terms of an actual features and improvement that I looked forward to, the final Timesplitters 3 patch for the Xbox. It completely changed out Live sign-in worked - it went from only signing in for multiplayer (and signing back out as soon as you left it) to let you sign in at the main menu and be persistently connected in campaign, challenges, etc, just like Halo 2. It also added clan support, game options like "Ban Short Characters", etc.

In terms of support long after launch, Bungie updating Halo 1 PC to fix an exploit that someone was running around with.. in 2010 (or late 2009?). They also finally removed the CD check in this patch, I think. Here's the Bungie.net thread with the final release.

 

[SolidusDave]

I won't count mmorpgs, but as far as free content+tweaks+support etc. via update is concerned (overall, no single patch and I will stick to this generation):
Note that for me free content&features > necessary tweaks for online mp.

- Burnout Paradise (PS3&360)
- MAG
- Heavy Rain (let's take this as a representative for Move patches)
- LittleBigPlanet, LBP2 seems to get bigger patches soon as well
- MotorStorm Pacific Rift and so far Apocalypse as well
- Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3&PC)
- echochrome
- Gran Turismo 5
- PAIN
- Noby Noby Boy

bold ones are highlighted games that don't have paid DLC at all, so the free updates are not even done to promote new DLC.


Some of these games almost need to get reviewed again as the vanilla 1.0 version is nothing like the latest one.