New details on the Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build

[Kinsie]

There are about as many histories of DNF's development as there were people who worked on it, so if this manages to reach public hands without getting crash-tackled by a dozen lawyer/linebackers from Embracer and/or Epic, than it'll be great to witness an actual objective, factual piece of the game's development instead of another ten years of Rashomon-ass he-said/he-said nonsense.

 

And if it doesn't? Well, at least these new screenshots and clips provide a bit of fresh insight, and I'd love to see someone take some cues from them and build something new from their inspiration.

[Rudolph]

If the leak does get released and gets finished and polished by fans (much like the original STALKER was with Lost Alpha), then hopefully it gets retitled to "DUKE NUKEM NEVER". :P

Edited May 9, 2022 by Rudolph

[Dexiaz]

2 hours ago, Rudolph said:

retitled to "DUKE NUKEM NEVER". :P

 

Duke Nukem Eternal :>

[Eligos]

Well, this DNF situation escalated quickly. 

 

We just keep getting more and more information.

 

 

 

This guy's keeping a good catalog of all the stuff we're finding: https://twitter.com/juanlurve

Edited May 9, 2022 by Eligos

[Rudolph]

28 minutes ago, Dexiaz said:

Duke Nukem Eternal :>

Well, Duke Nukem Forever did come out, it just was not the version that we were expecting. :P

 

Hence the "Never" part, as the 2001 build never got a commercial release.

[SiFi270]

Duke Nukem Eventually

[BGreener]

Well this is a surprise!

 

Those weapons look absolutely delicious, with their textures and especially their animations.

 

I’m very curious how this will unravel but I’m being very wary. I don’t want my hopes getting too high here…!

[SplinkWizard]

I hope there are no more complications. I'm pretty excited to see where this goes.

[Rudolph]

I wonder what was the reason for Duke to go around killing American soldiers. The Duke Nukem Forever 2013 mod had them mind-controlled by recolored Protozoid Slimers, but in the leaked clip, they look and speak like normal human beings.

 

I also wonder if it is there just because Half-Life featured hostile US Marines as enemies.

Edited May 9, 2022 by Rudolph

[DannyMan]

I never knew a huge leak would come by.

[Mr. Freeze]

52 minutes ago, Rudolph said:

I also wonder if it is there just because Half-Life featured hostile US Marines as enemies.

 

Broussard is so hacky that I will bet my entire IRA on this being the reason. 

[Rudolph]

Not going to lie, the leaked clips and pics remind me a lot of Blood II: The Chosen.

[Redneckerz]

@Dexiaz And then there is Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded:

 

[The BMFG]

i cant wait

[Spooner5020]

They’d better not be shitting us!!!

[Murdoch]

3 hours ago, Rudolph said:

Not going to lie, the leaked clips and pics remind me a lot of Blood II: The Chosen.

 

That's it. I was thinking it felt oddly familiar but could not quite place it. It has that same "slightly janky early full 3D and we do not quite know how to do it right" vibe.

[Doomkid]

Maybe I'm just blinded by my nostalgia for that era of games in general, but these small handful of clips look 10x more fun and 10x less... bizarre and cringey (for lack of a better word) than what DNF turned out to be.

 

Would be awesome for a talented modding team to use all these assets and tools to "fill in the blanks" and make a kinda-sorta-mostly playable and complete experience. I'd play it for sure, been wondering what it would have been like for so long after all.

[Murdoch]

36 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

Would be awesome for a talented modding team to use all these assets and tools to "fill in the blanks" and make a kinda-sorta-mostly playable and complete experience. I'd play it for sure, been wondering what it would have been like for so long after all.

 

If this release does come to pass, I would say that's an inevitability.

[Death_Ripper666]

After reading about the details of Duke Nukem Forever (2001), I thought i would never see the light of the day with all the years of development hell, but because of the leaks from 4chan, looks like it has been finally surfaced after 20+ years of never being in the public eyes. Looks like 2022 isn't that bad!

[Dexiaz]

You know, the whole situation for me is very similar as Resident Evil 1.5 leak (first alpha version of RE2 with different storyline and characters).

 

There was also announcement that someone does have this build and will release it, and after some time it actually happened. After that people who are modding Resident Evil 1/2/3 also reworked this leaked build and made a huge bugfix patch + filled the gaps so the game became kind of finished.

 

I'm pretty sure this is going to happen again with DNF (if they really release it in June).

 

P.S.: it's cool to see that editor is also will be included. Time to learn/remember how to mod UE1 :>

Edited May 10, 2022 by Dexiaz

[Gibbon]

If the leak contains not just source code for the game but also for its build of the Unreal Engine, that could go a long way to also recreating Unreal.

 

Of course since it’s a licensed engine (stalker’s xray was not) it can also mean a fan completion would legally be very challenging as Epic could simply sue for illegal use of a paid for engine.

[Mr. Freeze]

Couldn't you just reverse engineer the code line by line and technically have your own product?

[Gibbon]

Only if it is a clean room reverse engineer.  Once you’ve seen the code, you’re no longer considered able to do that.

[Doom64hunter]

19 hours ago, Kinsie said:

There are about as many histories of DNF's development as there were people who worked on it, so if this manages to reach public hands without getting crash-tackled by a dozen lawyer/linebackers from Embracer and/or Epic, than it'll be great to witness an actual objective, factual piece of the game's development instead of another ten years of Rashomon-ass he-said/he-said nonsense.

 

And if it doesn't? Well, at least these new screenshots and clips provide a bit of fresh insight, and I'd love to see someone take some cues from them and build something new from their inspiration.

Well today's your lucky day because the files were uploaded a few hours ago.

Edited May 10, 2022 by Doom64hunter
Nevermind the last sentence

[Scrabbs]

unreal

[Dark Pulse]

*Sees the release is planned for June*

 

*Sees the current date is May 10th*

 

*Calculates there's still at least several weeks for a C&D*

 

 

Edited May 10, 2022 by Dark Pulse

[Doom64hunter]

1 hour ago, Dark Pulse said:

*Sees the release is planned for June*

 

*Sees the current date is May 10th*

 

*Calculates there's still at least several weeks for a C&D*

 

The June release was a joke.

 

The game was uploaded to archive.org, check the RAR file: https://archive.org/details/1652058670472

[Gibbon]

2 hours ago, Doom64hunter said:

Well today's your lucky day because the files were uploaded a few hours ago.

I have not seen it and am absolutely not working on it

 

;)

[Dexiaz]

Oh...f*&k me...

[ReaperAA]

I was gone for two days due to my cousin's marriage and I come back to see THIS!!!!

 

... I should attend more ceremonies.