RealRTCW 5.44 - New hands, Campaign Menu Overhaul, SDL3 and more!
Hello everyone!
We have another RealRTCW update ready! This one is smaller in scale, but still brings a bunch of gameplay, technical and quality of life improvements.
Let's go over the most notable changes!
Hands and sleeves overhaul
All first-person hands and sleeves skins were completely redone from scratch.
This time they are based on real US and UK WW2 camouflage patterns, making them more authentic while still fitting the original RTCW visual style.
Campaign menu overhaul
Campaign menu received long-requested overhaul.
You can now start from any level of the vanilla campaign, instead of being limited to chapter starting points. Should be especially useful if you just want to replay a specific mission!
Be aware - to get achievements for completing a chapter or for killing a boss - you need to start chapter from the very beginning!
SDL3 upgrade
Probably the biggest technical change of this update - RealRTCW has been upgraded from SDL2 to SDL3.
There is one small side effect: changing brightness now requires vid_restart, since SDL3 no longer supports gamma ramp. For the OpenGL renderer this is the cleanest solution we have for now.
On the other hand SDL3 finally allows you to properly capture RealRTCW with screenshots and videos - it will no longer be darkened in the output files as it was before!
Gameplay improvements
Weapon wheel now slows the game down while being used, including proper sound handling with OpenAL.
Partial health regeneration was added alongside the existing full regeneration system, and you can now choose between Classic and Modern overheal mechanics.
Throwing knives also received some improvements - you can no longer throw your last knife and thrown knives can now be automatically picked up.
Venom gun also finally has its pre-spin when you press alt-fire!
Agency Weapon Pack Update
De Lisle Scoped was added to the Agency Weapon Pack DLC.
De Lisle is now always bundled with its scope, so there is no separate unscoped version anymore.
Cursed Sands DLC Updates
Cursed Sands DLC also received a lot of content and QOL updates featuring ability to switch between Xbox and PS2 versions of the maps. Check out the trailer below!
More quality of life improvements
• Quicksave and Quickload with RB/LB while using controller in the pause menu
• HUD style can now be switched on the fly while in-game
• Steam Stats Reset command added to the main menu
• Improved crash handler and logging
RealRTCW is finally available in Germany!
And one more important piece of news!
After the original Return to Castle Wolfenstein was finally unblocked in Germany, RealRTCW has been unblocked in German Steam as well!
German players can now finally access RealRTCW directly through Steam without the old regional restriction.
It took quite a while, but better late than never! Congratulations to all our German fans out there!
Thats it for now!
Cya!
WolfETPlayer