Blood: Fresh Supply

Blood
Blood	1997
Blood II: The Chosen	1998
Blood: Fresh Supply	2019

Key points

Enhanced version of Blood, ported to the Kex Engine.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website
GOG.com		Includes Blood with Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage DLC.
Humble Store
Steam		Includes Blood with Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage DLC.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Instructions^[1]

Go to <path-to-game>\movie
Rename, move or delete these files:

ATARI.ogv
GTI.ogv
Kex.ogv
MONOLITH.ogv
NightDive.ogv

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\Blood EX\kexengine.cfg
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1010750/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\Blood EX\saves\save_**.sav
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1010750/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Video settings

Display settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		74-140° vertical via slider.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Anisotropic filtering is always enabled.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, SMAA, or up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Optional cap to 30, 60, 120, 144, 240 FPS or MAX. MAX framerate is capped to 1920 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input settings[edit]

Bindings settings

Mouse settings

Gamepad settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Requires keyboard for manual saving (needed for typing in the save file name). Another workaround would be to bind a button (preferrably not the A, B, or any of the dpad buttons) to quicksave. The use of an Xbox One controller with a chatpad attached solves this issue.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		Not shown during gameplay, but only in controller rebinding screen.
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		Touchpad button cannot be bound to any in-game function.
DualShock button prompts		Controller rebinding screen only shows Xbox button labels.
Light bar support
Connection modes	unknown

Tracked motion controllers

Generic/other controllers

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

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and Sound effects
Surround sound		7.0
Subtitles		No subtitles for pre-rendered movie sequences.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	8	Co-op, Versus Split-screen
LAN play	8	Host must use spawnipserver command, Direct IP Connect only
Online play	8	Co-op, Versus

Issues fixed[edit]

Muffled audio fix[edit]

Add alsof.ini file^[2]

Download the alsof.ini file from here
Copy it to <path-to-game>.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
OpenGL	3.2
Vulkan	1.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL Soft, FluidSynth
Input	SDL2	Version 2.0.9

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz Dual Core	Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM OpenGL 3.2 compatible DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 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>/1010750/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1010750) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Tested by Nessy
↑ How to fix the muffled audio in Blood Fresh Supply

[Proton_path_note-2] 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>/1010750/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1010750) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Tested by Nessy

[3] How to fix the muffled audio in Blood Fresh Supply

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[Note 1]

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Developers

Original game, Plasma Pak	Monolith Productions
Cryptic Passage	Sunstorm Interactive
Fresh Supply	Night Dive Studios
Publishers
	Night Dive Studios
	Atari
Engines
	Kex Engine
Release dates
Windows	May 9, 2019