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Wolfenstein: Youngblood

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Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Wolfenstein: Youngblood cover
Developers
MachineGames
Arkane Studios
Publishers
Bethesda Softworks
Engines
Id Tech 6
Release dates
Windows July 25, 2019[1]
Wolfenstein: Youngblood on Wikipedia
Castle Wolfenstein 1981
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein 1984
Wolfenstein 3D 1992
Spear of Destiny 1992
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 2003
Wolfenstein 2009
Wolfram (unofficial game) 2012
Wolfenstein: The New Order 2014
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood 2015
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 2017
Wolfenstein: Youngblood 2019
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot 2019
RealRTCW (unofficial mod) 2020

Key points

Features Buddy Pass. More information on inviting a friend available here.

General information

Official Wolfenstein series site
Known issues
Wolfenstein Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Wolfenstein game made.
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Bethesda.net
Bethesda.net Launcher
Windows
GamersGate
Bethesda.net Launcher
Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
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Bethesda.net Launcher
Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
Bethesda.net Launcher
Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
Bethesda.net Launcher
Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Bethesda.net Launcher
Uses Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[2]
Windows
All versions require Bethesda.net Launcher DRM.

Essential improvements

Youngblood Tweaker

Adds additional tweaking such as options to scale player and enemy damage, adjusting the amount of head bobbing, disabling various HUD elements and more.

Skip intro videos

Use the +com_skipBootSequence 1 command line argument[3]
Alternative method for Bethesda Launcher version: Delete

<path-to-game>\base\bink\boot\boot_pc.bk2 file.

Game data

Game settings.
Game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\MachineGames\Wolfenstein Youngblood\base
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1056960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\MachineGames\Wolfenstein Youngblood\base\savegame.user\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1056960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General video settings.
General video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Lines spoken in the game utilise different languages with a subtitle available if a line is in foreign language.

Localizations

The game language is tied to the language of the Bethesda Launcher.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Latin American Spanish
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese

Network

Online settings.
Online settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op

Issues fixed

Game is not displaying properly in Windows

Set Windows DPI scaling to 100%[4]

Issues unresolved

Game does not launch on Windows 8.1 on PCs with latest AMD drivers

  • AMD no longer supports Windows 8.1 video driver updates. Only Windows 7 and 10 are supported.

Wolfenstein Youngblood Core 2 Quad Q93400 Crash at startup

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Vulkan
Will support Nvidia's RTX ray-tracing technology but was not available on launch.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 / 8.1 / 10
Processor (CPU) AMD FX-8350 / Ryzen 5 1400
Intel Core i5-3570 / i7-3770
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GTX 770 4GB
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1056960/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1056960) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. [1] - last accessed on 2019-07-23
  2. Wolfenstein: Youngblood - last accessed on 2019-07-10
  3. Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2019-07-25)
  4. Wolfenstein: Youngblood Known Issues - last accessed on 2019-07-25