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Duty Calls: The Calm Before the Storm

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Duty Calls: The Calm Before the Storm
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Developers
People Can Fly
Epic Games
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows February 2, 2011
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS
Art styles Realistic
Series Bulletstorm
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Bulletstorm
Duty Calls: The Calm Before the Storm 2011
Bulletstorm 2011
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition 2017
Bulletstorm VR 2024

Key points

Game is a free parody of Call of Duty series made to market Bulletstorm.
Game only offers key layout and invert of Y-axis, however config files are fully accessible and modifiable.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Remove Bulletstorm advertisement

Remove Bulletstorm advertisement[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\UDKGame\Movies\
  2. Delete or move Bulletstorm.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\UDKGame\config\[Note 1]
The game does not have a save feature

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
1280x720 by default. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Turned off by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS
See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit UDKEngine.ini[1]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open UDKEngine.ini.
  3. In the [SystemSettings] section find ResX= and RexY= and change them to the desired vertical and horizontal resolution.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit UDKEngine.ini[1]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open UDKEngine.ini.
  3. Change UseVsync=False to UseVsync=True

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open UDKEngine.ini.
  3. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
  4. Save file.
For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input

Pause menu telling keys and Y-axis invert. Game prompts either keyboard or controller keys depending of control method at start as well.
Pause menu telling keys and Y-axis invert. Game prompts either keyboard or controller keys depending of control method at start as well.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Modify UDKInput.ini in the configuration files location.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Modify UDKInput.ini in the configuration files location.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Disable mouse smoothing

Edit UDKInput.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open UDKInput.ini.
  3. In the [Engine.PlayerInput] section locate bEnableMouseSmoothing=true and change it to false.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Compatible with X3DAudio HRTF for binaural HRTF mixing.[2]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Single Core
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6200
ATI Radeon 9600
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) Windows supported


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