THQ Nordic and Phenomic have released an Anniversary Edition of SpellForce 2 on Steam. This new version of SpellForce 2 will be available for free to all existing owners of Spellforce 2 Gold Edition and comes with grass rendering and view distance improvements.
In addition, SpellForce 2 – Anniversary Edition features improved leaf rendering, improved lighting, improved shadows, and now supports only Shader Model 3.0.
Furthermore, THQ Nordic and Phenomic have re-implemented multiplayer and NAT traversal for a smooth online experience, added widescreen support, as well as support for modern operating systems.
Here is the complete changelog for SpellForce 2 – Anniversary Edition:
Anniversary Edition Features:
- Re-implemented multiplayer and NAT traversal for a smooth online experience
- Many Bugfixes
- Additions and Fixes for the Free Game Mode
- Widescreen Support
- Full compatibility with modern operating systems
Major Engine & Technical Re-Design/Re-Work:
- Grass rendering improved
- View distance improvements
- Improved trees (trunk/branch)
- Improved leaf rendering (add leaf subsurface scattering)
- Improved lighting (per pixel, basic Bidirectional reflectance distribution function specular, rim light, view dependent ambient, etc)
- Improved shadows (soft shadows, percentage-closer filtering)
- Shader Model 3.0 usage only
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THQ Nordic has been great about updating and supporting their older titles. First we had Red Faction: Guerilla, then Titan Quest and now this. Just hoping we eventually get decent sequels to some of these games.
Yet to play the first one.
One of these days!. . .. one of these days! .. . . .I’ll get to it.
Did you manage to play the first one? It is a very good game, but so insanely long! Eventually I just had to use cheats and even with those I ended up playing for nearly 170 hours. It is insane! I do not even know how I missed this game when it came out because it is an absolute gem of an RTS/RPG blend!
170 HOURS!! Wow, that is long… Guess I need to set aside a lot of time. Can’t believe it’s been 2 years since I said that and I haven’t touched it, got drowned in my backlog. Need to get to it. Need to get to it.
To be fair, it took me 170 hours to finish the first part together with its DLCs (Breath of Winter and Shadow of the Phoenix). The first part is roughly 70 hours, but the expansions are larger than the original game which is why I just used cheats since I do not have much time. I am thinking of starting the second part now, but I read that it is even bigger than the first game. It scares me. lol
Small note: Phenomic was closed in 2013. The update was probably made by Grimlore Games or some other Studio.
Great game and it’s nice to get a free update! But I have to faith for Spellforce 3…