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gemeaux333, on 29 September 2025 - 02:58 PM, said:

the concrete difference here is that this new port have been made from scratch using the original source code of the game

you can get Blood Refleshed Supply with a 66% discount if you already own Fresh Supply, unless you have no problem with the flaws of Fresh Supply and then would make it redundant

Which makes zero difference to anyone that already bought "fresh supply" and likely a DOS version of the game before that. Like I said, nightdive's business model preys on nostalgia so they can resell the same games users have already purchased in the past. As far as I'm concerned nightdive should provide the game for free to users that already bought fresh supply, refund 50% of their prior purchase and then make a public apology and commitment to go back to finish the unfinished ports they have abandoned that screwed the user out of their money due to false advertising.

System Shock 2 was probably the laziest port they have done. Literally 80% of the improvements they took from comnunity mods and simply finished upscaling the rest of the texture assets that weren't already done which was maybe 20%. Then they remade the cutscenes in only 1080p while breaking compatibility with most of the other mods they didn't use.

[Hendricks266]

gemeaux333, on 29 September 2025 - 02:58 PM, said:

the concrete difference here is that this new port have been made from scratch using the original source code of the game

I believe it is true that they now have access to the source code. However, I do not believe that they are rebuilding the port on top of it despite claiming this on social media. My prediction is that Blood: Refreshed Supply will be found to be a further papered-over version of Fresh Supply, still with inaccuracies, and still not a true port.

Along with Turok, Forsaken, Doom 64, and PowerSlave, Blood: FS is a by-sight recreation of the original game and not a true port. This resulted in the product's many errors and inaccuracies.

Nightdive has source code for Turok and Forsaken but still elected to make facsimile reproductions of them, only sprinkling in small bits of the actual source when they have no other choice. I have no faith Blood: RS will be any different. The developers have already stated they will be keeping Fresh Supply's collision code rather than the original game's, and it will still use AngelScript.

[NightFright]

Wait... Is this why there hasn't been any official progress on Death Wish in the last few years? Have they been holding back due to a secret deal for a Nightdive exclusive or what?

Either way: Whatever this is, it won't beat NBlood or BloodGDX. As before.

[MrFlibble]

It almost looks like Atari/WB decided to ride their own Doom + Doom II/Heretic + HeXen wave, except that (a) the "new" episodes are actually not something made for the project and (b) they never bothered to release the source code for no apparent reason (and to no benefit for whoever owns it ATM), also they just offered a discount for Fresh Supply owners (for what should have been a free patch?), while I got the new stuff from the id releases for free just for having purchased the original DOS versions. The comparison is clearly not in Atari/WB's favour.