Daggerfall & Arena on Steam

[Hazak]

Thought some of you folks would like to know that Daggerfall and Arena are now on Steam, might get some more traffic your way now.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812 ... aggerfall/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812 ... lls_Arena/

[Ralzar]

And a gazillion bug reports, since apparently Bethesda uploaded the unpatched 1.0 version of Daggerfall.

[billyloist]

Great. Though I thought DFU uses its own version of ported quest data and includes engine fixes (which are by far the buggiest parts of the original I think). What else does it need original resources for, other than graphical assets, terrain data and so on?

[Hazak]

I'm pretty sure it requires the text and quest stuff.

[pango]

DFU does not accept that release (lack of .vid files, like Bethesda's)

Anyway, providing version 1.0 in 2022 is just sabotage, I can't believe it's incompetence.

[Interkarma]

Yeah, I'm really disappointed with this outcome. I expect we'll get an influx of support issues soon.

When I'm done travelling, I'll look into supporting Steam version somehow. I think it's going to be inevitable we'll need to handle this version somehow.

[Zavi]

Sorry to hear that it might end up being more work for you InterKarma. Please forgive us

[BadLuckBurt]

Yeah, I'm really disappointed with this outcome. I expect we'll get an influx of support issues soon.

When I'm done travelling, I'll look into supporting Steam version somehow. I think it's going to be inevitable we'll need to handle this version somehow.

If it's possible to detect what Daggerfall version has been installed, I'd just show a disclaimer that it's an unpatched version and that they should get the UESP version or the one you offer on the Google Drive.

I guess we'll never need to bother with awards for incompetent game studios as long as Bethesda is around, they would take home all the prizes.

[Ralzar]

Yeah, I was going to suggest the same as Burt. At this point DFU needs some kind of version or file integrity check.

The real fancy thing would be for DFU to be able to patch Daggerfall too.

[BadLuckBurt]

The real fancy thing would be for DFU to be able to patch Daggerfall too.

F that, that's completely outside the scope

If it were me, I'd just point everyone to Bethesda's support because they fucked up. I'll probably drop a review on Steam telling people to get the proper version instead, I've seen a couple already but the more the better.

IK even tweeted at them about this before it dropped and I doubt they ever responded because that would show actual competence.