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Heavy Gear II

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Heavy Gear II
Heavy Gear II cover
Developers
Activision
Linux Loki Software
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Dark Side
Release dates
Windows June 18, 1999
Linux April 5, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Robot
Themes Sci-fi
Series Heavy Gear
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Heavy Gear II on Wikipedia
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Heavy Gear II is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the Heavy Gear series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Oversized DRM (lead-out area shortened and used for data, to prevent most contemporary CD-RW drives from copying the method). Can join multiplayer games without disc
Windows
Linux
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
The game manual is available here

Essential improvements

Patches

Linux patches can be found here

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Linux
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Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Linux

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Interactive Around-Sound 2.0[1]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
3D Gamer release.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus
The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down.

Connection types

Issues fixed

A list with many problems and relative workaround can be found here

Everything renders inside out

Apply the Heavy Gear II culling fix[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer MPlayer.com

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 530 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D Hardware Accelerator
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible
Other 4X CD-ROM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Kernel 2.2.x
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 1.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) OSS-compatible sound card


References