Fans of Team Fortress 2 have discovered a mysterious undocumented 128MB patch for the PS3 version of The Orange Box. Valve's compilation of Half-Life games was bashed by the gaming community for its lackluster transition onto the PS3: the port not only came weeks after the Xbox 360 and PC counterparts, but featured framerate issues that plagued an otherwise stellar experience.[Update: Fixes listed, after the cut.]
[Thanks, Jeff M.!]
- Fixed a graphical issue whereby a player would have the explosion effect left on the end of their Rocket Launcher when attempting to Rocket Jump.
- Fixed a memory leak to improve single-player stability.
- Fixed an issue whereby the players name would not appear on the Stats comparison screen.
- We have fixed an issue that would cause the vote tallies to disappear when you viewed the scoreboard between rounds.
- Fixed an online server issue.
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when a player that wasn't in Division 1 entered your Leaderboards.
- Fixed an issue with players not always being added to the 'Players Met' menu on the XMB.
- Fixed a bug where a player viewing a friend without an EA account would have an empty entry in the friend's Leaderboard.
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to connect to the EA servers if you had more than 30 friends.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
3-20-2008 @ 11:10AM
b2- said...
what do you mean EA?
Orange box is a Valve product
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3-20-2008 @ 12:23PM
Andrew Yoon said...
EA is responsible for the PS3 version of the game. Valve did not code the PS3 version.
3-20-2008 @ 11:26AM
The Aggie CEO said...
they prolly fixed all the glitches and exploits......
no more building sentries in the air on the dustbowl level..........lol
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3-20-2008 @ 11:27PM
namtastic said...
Unfortunately that was the first thing I saw in my first game after applying the patch. Still not fixed.
3-20-2008 @ 11:27AM
ThekonamiMan said...
I love you guys, I would have had no idea about this if I didn't come to this site everyday and since I've been neglecting The Orange Box to play Folklore as of late it would have been forever for me to find it on my own. I think I'll wait until we know what it is though.
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3-20-2008 @ 11:46AM
adolson said...
Heh, downloaded this last night when I went to play Portal.. Didn't realize it was new, though. Hope the framerate issues are sorted, that'd be nice.
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3-20-2008 @ 11:51AM
eric said...
its to fix friends list and join problems and speed issues
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3-20-2008 @ 11:52AM
Livi70590 said...
How exactly do you download it?
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3-20-2008 @ 12:23PM
Andrew Yoon said...
Simply start the game.
3-20-2008 @ 1:39PM
Livi70590 said...
Must be region locked then, because I can't seem to get it.
3-20-2008 @ 11:58AM
xFenixKnightx said...
Tell them to patch Army of Two on 360 and PS3 while your at it please. Oh and fix teh damn online LAAAAAAAG!!! Please??? =(
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3-20-2008 @ 12:17PM
Chowley said...
Surprise surprise........ Europe does'nt get the patch!
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3-20-2008 @ 1:11PM
Fraser JK said...
I was so close to getting it, but after all the bad news about frame rates and all, I changed my mind.... fix it quick or it'll drop our of my buy it list forever!
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3-20-2008 @ 3:46PM
OAKside said...
Valve @ PC > Valve @ consoles
3-22-2008 @ 8:03PM
TinyTim121 said...
I would highly reccomend you but Orange box. I noticed only one real framerate drop at the boat part but apart from that i couldn't really find any.
It is a great game, anybody who owns the PS3 version will tell you the bad press is overblown. As in really overblown
3-20-2008 @ 1:29PM
Kohath said...
The pre-patch framerate problems are minor and really only hurt gameplay in a few small areas. (Worst so far is in Episode 1 where stuff is falling down the elevator shaft.)
I hope this fixes the problems, but this game was well worth buying even if none of them are fixed.
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3-20-2008 @ 1:30PM
john paul said...
Why is this "mysterious"
i can tell that the patch is for the framerate/loading times
right?
or is there more than something here either than a patch????
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3-20-2008 @ 1:51PM
Livi70590 said...
Probably Rumble support.
3-20-2008 @ 2:07PM
ExMachina said...
There was an issue preventing players from connecting to EA Online to play TF2 if their friends list had more than 31 entries... The PS3 TF2 community really got on EA's case about this "you're too popular" glitch and it's one of the things addressed in the patch.
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3-20-2008 @ 3:09PM
Benjamin Gilbert said...
My money's on rumble support too.
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