The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series

The Walking Dead (The Telltale Series)
Subseries of The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Season One	2012
The Walking Dead: Season Two	2013
The Walking Dead: Michonne	2016
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier	2016
The Walking Dead: The Final Season	2018
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series	2019

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is a remaster collection of all four The Walking Dead (video game) seasons, Michonne, and the 400 Days DLC with some graphical enhancements, gameplay improvements, and exclusive behind-the-scenes content.^[1] It is meant to replace the The Telltale Series release which was poorly received by the community for doing changes to visuals and soundtrack and not being overall faithful.^{[citation needed]} This release attempts to be more faithful in general, although some effects like Graphic Black being present in seasons that didn't originally have it was seen as a negative by some.

The game was released on September 10, 2019 on Epic Games Store as a timed exclusive, and later re-released on Steam and GOG on October 29, 2020.

The game received some minor patches on release fixing some visual issues, however, some issues remained. The quality of the Graphic Black filter present in the games that didn't have it (Season One, Season Two, A New Frontier, Michonne) is poor due to being auto-generated^[2] and the games not being made with the effect in mind in general - it is optional in those games, however. Although each of the five original games has individual settings, the Definitive Menu can be used to quickly adjust certain settings for all games at once.

General information

Telltale Community for game series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when launched directly from executable.^[3]
GamersGate

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead The Telltale Definitive Series\prefs.prop
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1449690/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\TWDTTDS\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1449690/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

Definitive Menu graphics settings.

The option for Graphic Black defaults to enabled on every startup.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		16:9 static aspect.^[4]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		16:9 static aspect. See Ultra-widescreen for Hor+ scaling.^[5]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Used in place of exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		On/off toggle.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Framerate is capped at display refresh rate.^[6]
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Season One
Season Two
A New Frontier
The Final Season
Michonne

Ultra-widescreen

Download and run the Telltale Widescreen Patcher^[5]^[7]

Run the game and select the desired resolution in the Definitive Menu audio/display settings.
Exit the game.
Download and run the latest release of TellTaleWidescreenPatcher.exe.
Click Browse, then navigate to <path-to-game>\WDC.exe and select it.
Choose the desired Resolution from the dropdown menu.
Click Patch. The patcher will automatically make a backup of WDC.exe.
Exit the patcher and start the game normally.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Only available in Season One and The Final Season.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Only available in A New Frontier, The Final Season, and Michonne.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Only available in A New Frontier, The Final Season, and Michonne.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		See DualShock 4 or DualSense.
PlayStation button prompts		Use this mod for Season One. Use this mod for Season Two. Use this mod for A New Frontier. Use this mod for The Final Season. Use this mod for Michonne.
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Gameplay settings

Season One
Season Two
A New Frontier
The Final Season
Michonne

Keyboard and mouse controls

Season One
Season Two
A New Frontier
The Final Season
Michonne

Gamepad controls

Season One
Season Two
A New Frontier
The Final Season
Michonne

Audio

Definitive Menu audio/display settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Voice, Music, Sound (Season One only). Other seasons have Master and Music sliders.
Surround sound		Season One has 3.0 stereo sound. Season Two, A New Frontier, and The Final Season have 7.1 surround sound. Michonne has 2.0 stereo sound.^[8]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Season One
Season Two
A New Frontier
The Final Season
Michonne

Localizations

Definitive Menu language settings.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French				Audio is only available for The Final Season.
German				Audio is only available for The Final Season.
Italian				The game ships with official translations for Season 1 and The Final Season. A patch that integrates previous fan translations for the rest of the seasons is available here.
Polish				Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese				Audio is only available for Episodes 1 and 2 of The Final Season.
Russian				The official translation is a very low quality machine translation with poor font choices. Consider using a fan translation instead.
Russian				Fan translation by «Tolma4 Team», ported and enhanced for the Definitive Series available here.
Spanish				Audio is only available for Episodes 1 and 2 of The Final Season.

The Final Season

Issues unresolved

Graphic black results in a way too dark image on Low settings in non-Final Season seasons

Graphic Black on Low and High graphics in Season One

If you play with Graphic Black enabled in Season One, Season Two, A New Frontier or Michonne and have your graphics settings set to Low, your game may look too dark to even tell apart crucial elements sometimes.

Disable Graphic Black (on every startup)^[9]

Set Graphics Settings to High^[10]

Issues fixed

Black screen after the intro scene of the Final Season

Temporarily change the language to English^{[citation needed]}

This issue may occur when the Spanish language is selected.

Select English in the language settings before the intro scene.
After the intro scene completes, set the preferred language.

Chinese characters replaced by squares(□)

Use fix patch^{[citation needed]}

Download the fix patch.
Install until complete.

Support Simplified Chinese only, using traditional Chinese will cause change back to English.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz	Intel Core i5-2500K
System memory (RAM)	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	45 GB^{[Note 2]}
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 11 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ ^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>/1449690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1449690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ The Epic Games Store HDD requirement of 15 GB is inaccurate. GOG.com and Steam list the HDD requirement as 45 GB. The installation size of The Telltale Definitive Series is approximately 47 GB.^[11]

References

↑ Telltales The Walking Dead: The Definitive Series - Skybound Entertainment - last accessed on 2019-09-08
↑ Verified by User:Sandemc on 2024-02-19
If you look at the texture files, you can see that they're all generated with a pattern going off the base texture.
↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-10-05
↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-08
Tested at 2560x1600 resolution.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-08
Tested at 2560x1080 resolution.
↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-08
Tested at 50 Hz, 60 Hz.
↑ TellTaleWidescreenPatcher/README.md at master · PhantomGamers/TellTaleWidescreenPatcher · GitHub - last accessed on 2019-09-11
↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-10
Tested with Special K.
↑ Verified by User:Sandemc on 2024-02-19
↑ Verified by User:Sandemc on 2024-02-19
↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-12

[Proton_path_note-4] 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>/1449690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1449690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note-13] The Epic Games Store HDD requirement of 15 GB is inaccurate. GOG.com and Steam list the HDD requirement as 45 GB. The installation size of The Telltale Definitive Series is approximately 47 GB.^[11]

[skybound-1] Telltales The Walking Dead: The Definitive Series - Skybound Entertainment - last accessed on 2019-09-08

[2] Verified by User:Sandemc on 2024-02-19
If you look at the texture files, you can see that they're all generated with a pattern going off the base texture.

[3] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-10-05

[5] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-08
Tested at 2560x1600 resolution.

[baronsmoki_ultrawide-6] 5.0 ^5.1 Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-08
Tested at 2560x1080 resolution.

[7] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-08
Tested at 50 Hz, 60 Hz.

[8] TellTaleWidescreenPatcher/README.md at master · PhantomGamers/TellTaleWidescreenPatcher · GitHub - last accessed on 2019-09-11

[9] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-10
Tested with Special K.

[10] Verified by User:Sandemc on 2024-02-19

[11] Verified by User:Sandemc on 2024-02-19

[12] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-12

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Developers

	Skybound Games
Engines
	Telltale Tool
Release dates
Windows	September 10, 2019
Reception
OpenCritic	85
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Cinematic camera, Third-person
Controls	Direct control, Point and select
Genres	Adventure, Quick time events
Art styles	Comic book
Themes	North America, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies
Series	The Walking Dead (The Telltale Series)