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March! Offworld Recon

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March! Offworld Recon
March! Offworld Recon cover
Developers
HBM Ltd.
Publishers
Buka Entertainment
Engines
LithTech
Release dates
Windows 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person, First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
March! Offworld Recon on MobyGames

Key Points

Game freezes for a moment each time when the music repeats itself, requiring the music to be disabled completely.

General information

MobyGames page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential Improvements

Skip Intro Videos

Hit 'Disable Video' that is located in the launcher's 'Options' tab.
You can also delete 'bukalogo.wmv' and 'hbmlogo.wmv' from the video folder in the game's root folder, if you wish.
The copyright screen will still be shown.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
The user interface is perfectly aligned to widescreen while the other things are stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Game will appear at the lower center side of the screen.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Capped at 60 fps.
120+ FPS

Windowed

Changing an integer from where the game's config files are stored from 0 to 1.
  1. Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor, for example Wordpad or Notepad++.
  2. Find WINDOWED.
  3. Change 0 to 1.
After launching it, the game will appear at the lower-center part of the screen, requiring it to be pulled upwards manually.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound FX and Music volumes can be changed separately.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Losing focus seems causing a bug during cutscenes. For instance, in the beginning, before the spaceship is seen to be approaching the space station, the captions are gone when returned to the game but the camera isn't moved at all, forcing the player to wait until the appearance of the spaceship.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
The commands given to bots are sounded in English, but they can be heard making strange sounds in the first level while some are talking to each other.

Issues fixed

Game freezes for a moment when the music repeats itself

Hit 'Disable music' from the launcher's 'Options' menu.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Windows 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerator with 16 MB VRAM


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References