A New Beginning
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| Daedalic Entertainment | |
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| Visionaire | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | October 8, 2010 |
| macOS (OS X) | December 11, 2012 |
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| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Perspectives | Side view |
| Controls | Point and select |
| Genres | Adventure, Puzzle |
| Themes | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi |
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A New Beginning is a singleplayer side view adventure and puzzle game.
The game was updated and re-branded as A New Beginning: Final Cut on December 11, 2012, which added additional language support, bugfixes and an OS X port. The retail release can not be upgraded to this version.
General information
- Official website technical support forum - mostly in German and English language.
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
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ProtectDISC Software v10 DRM in German release, v8 in French release. | |
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English release. | |
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Essential improvements
Patches (pre-Final Cut)
- The latest official patches for the retail (pre-Final Cut) releases is 1.2.1, available from Patches-Scrolls.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment\A New Beginning\config.ini %LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment\A New Beginning - Final Cut\config.ini |
| macOS (OS X) | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/105000/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment\A New Beginning\Savegames\ %LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment\A New Beginning - Final Cut\Savegames\ |
| macOS (OS X) | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/105000/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
General settings.
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | 4:3 aspect ratio only. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Borderless fullscreen windowed. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed can be partially achieved by first setting the game to windowed mode and then using Borderless Gaming. This will give the game a borderless windowed effect, however the game locks the mouse inside the game windows, and therefore not a very viable option.
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
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| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
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| Controller support |
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Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Speech volume, sound volume, music volume. | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Czech | Fan translation - #1 | |||
| Dutch | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | As of the Final Cut update, the cutscene speech bubbles are no longer localized; use this patch to revert to the original German video files. | |||
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| Polish | ||||
| Russian | ||||
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Issues fixed
OS X cursor problems
- Actions get 'stuck'.[1]
| Switch to windowed mode[1] |
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Other information
API
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista, 7, 8 | |
| Processor (CPU) | 2 GHz Single-core 1.8 GHz Dual-core | |
| System memory (RAM) | 1.5 GB | 2 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.0 compatible | ATI Radeon Nvidia GeForce |
| macOS (OS X) | ||
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| Minimum | ||
| Operating system (OS) | 10.7 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Dual-core 2 GHz | |
| System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 GB | |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/105000/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (105000) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.