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Boomer shooter dev discovers his dogs have been barking on an “unbearable” loop for yearsShaddup pup
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Image credit:Spytihněv
Image credit:Spytihněv
Sometimes dogs are hard to shut up. Over a year and half after releasingHrotfrom early access, the developer of theQuake-inspired shooter has fixed the dogs after discovering that a few of the canines have been, for some players, barking in a hideous and endless loop.
“A lot of people have complained about some barking,” said developer Spytihněv inan update post. “There are some negative reviews about it, but I’ve always thought that it’s just some people who don’t like the dog barking while [firing guns]. Today I found out that on some PC configurations there was a looping unbearable barking.”
“It’s a shame that such a bug survived there for almost 2 years,” said the developer, “levels with the ratters must have been awful, even downright unplayable, brrr.”
I haven’t played Hrot (to my shame, as a Quake-liker) but I do know that the “ratters” mentioned here refer to those same puppies thathunt rats for you in this level. They are very cute, but it wasn’t the highlight of the game for Rick, who wrote ourHrot review. He preferred the opening episode:
This makes it sound very high-brow. It is also a game in which you shoot a horse wearing a gas mask with a double-barrelled shotgun. It is a game where you fight a doppelganger of Putin riding a bear. Since finishing work on the shooter, the developer turned his sights to the strategy genre, releasing a retro RTS set on “a sandy planet with horses, tractors and techno music”. It is called - let me check… ah,Shrot.
