Help installing Outlaws

[mindx2]

I'm trying to install Lucas Art's game Outlaws but have run into a huge problem. I can't get the installer to work because I have Win7 64-bit and it won't let the 16-bit installer work.

Anybody have a solution or a link on how I can bypass the installer or some other work around?

Thanks as always!!

 

[commie]

Look here for various solutions to Outlaws problems on modern systems:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=22280&sid=7937f66e70f0bd549cb6375ff8a50239

Get an installer that works for Windows 7 here:

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/download.php?id=8262&sid=8942b9ca62d7a91cc1e7eeb1dfcc0fff


Cheers.

 

[mindx2]

Well, I can install the darn thing and view the entire intro cinematic but when it goes to start the very 1st level it says "unable to load level" and a continue button. I press continue it puts me back to the main menu. I'm unable to get any levels to load! I have the full retail version (2 CDs) and was able to get it to install using the Vorgon link.

Any suggestions?

edit: I am able to play the historical missions with no problem just not the main game.

 

[commie]

Hmm, it's a tricky one. I'd have to find my copy of Outlaws(quicker to download it I guess) and work through it myself. Sorry dude. It's half past 1 at night so I can't do it now. If you don't find a solution in good time I'll take a look when I have the time.

Sorry.

 

[mindx2]

Got it running. I was installing all the "updates" from olmaps.com to get it to run properly. That was my mistake. I just installed a glide wrapper, used the 64 bit installer from Vorgons and it now plays cut scenes and the levels perfectly. My problem was doing too much... "keep it simple, stupid" would have been better from the start

 

[commie]

Ahh, good for you then. Glad it got sorted.

 

[octavius]

GOG version works swimmingly.

So what is the verdict on this game?
The intro took almost half an hour to play, but was done in a nice style that I liked.
But from the little I've played so far (just a test run, really) the gun play left a bit to be desired.

 

[Excidium II]

I never played but listened to the soundtrack multiple times.

Review by that guy that reviews every FPS ever:

 

[Telengard]

Gunplay doesn't change from the beginning, beyond requiring more and more verticality as you go. Long range shots, you have to aim a little above the head, too. It was pretty bog-standard era gunplay.

What was different is the fact that headshots matter, and that includes being able to down bosses in one shot if you get a clean headshot. Nothing was more satisfying than going through a long boss setup for some uber-epic battle, getting a clean headshot on the first shot, and ending the fight in one. Felt a lot like getting a hole in one. Doesn't mean as much now, since hit detection and body parts have long since become a thing. But even now, very few games are willing to allow bosses to be anything but bullet sponges.

Levels are standard Lucasarts mazes from the era, though the "keys" to unlock new places are often things like a shovel to dig down under a wall and such, and there are sometimes multiple paths to the goal. The attention to detail in the levels and the musical accompaniment were what set the levels apart from their competition, not the structural design.

 

[Rabbid]

reviews every FPS ever

Except UT2K4...

 

[octavius]

After playing the first level on Ugly difficulty I like the game. It becomes more a stealth game when one or two hits can kill you.
Only thing I don't like is the weird AI, which means that often it's best to just sit still, wait 'till the enemy calms down and then shoot him.

Oh, and what the did aliens do to that cow?

 

[Dexter]

I loved Outlaws, but never managed to finish it.

 

[Astral Rag]

FYI, Outlaw's MP is p great and it can still be played over a LAN

 

[Lemming42]

I tried re-installing this recently and after much heartache and trauma I just got the GoG version, which works near-perfectly.

Serious recommendation to anyone planning to play it, play on Ugly difficulty. As mentioned above it becomes a borderline stealth game, suddenly a ridiculously intense tactical shooter where every single moment of gameplay is completely knife-edge and you spend all your time crouching behind cover and peeking slowly around corners because one shot will insta-kill you.

One thing that pisses me off though is that the amount of hits it takes to kill enemies seems completely random at times. Apparently the game has locational damage so aiming for the head supposedly kills people faster, but it seems like sometimes people get blown the fuck away by a single pistol shot to the foot while other times the same enemy type survive about 4 rifle shots to the brain.

 

[octavius]

Loved the second level, after I found the scope.
But it's a bit annoying that the levels end after killing the "level boss", before I've explored all.
Saw a key in the hotel's kitchen, but for some reason the long arm of the law was not able to reach it.
I like the open, unlinear levels so far, very different from Quake's cramped levels. Which reminds me, it's one of John Romero's favourite games.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

FYI, Outlaw's MP is p great and it can still be played over a LAN

The only game I could stand playing online, when internet gaming zone still existed.

 

[Astral Rag]

I like the open, unlinear levels so far, very different from Quake's cramped levels. Which reminds me, it's one of John Romero's favourite games.

inb4 octavius

Spoiler

reaches the Sawmill and rage quits

Outlaws is a great FPS but it could have been better if the hitscanning was a little less extreme and less random, you often go from full health to 0 without even knowing who shot you. This sucks and it means that save scumming becomes pretty much mandatory even on normal difficulty. Oh and the game doesn't have a quick save / quick load feature and the gog re-release comes with a bug that fucks up the awesome music every time you open a menu

GOG version works swimmingly.

It works ok now but the music still doesn't work like it should and you can't erase text from any of the game's "text boxes".

I disable the music and use Winamp instead, I also prefer playing in Glide mode but with both smoothing filters disabled.

 

[octavius]

I'm about to rage quit this game since I can't find a motherfucking key on the train in the 3rd mission. I've killed a about a dozen cocksuckers, but none of the cocksuckers have a key. One of the cocksukcers slid off the open train set after being killed, though. I hope that cocksucker didn't have the motherfucking key. (Sorry, watched too much Deadwood lately).

 

[Astral Rag]

Have you checked under the motherfucking seats and stuff?

 

[octavius]

Have you checked under the motherfucking seats and stuff?

Of course. I've combed every inch of the motherfucking train. I can't see anything that looks like a secret that can be activated either.
Oh well, I think I'll just play the historical missions instead, for the time being.
EDIT: I see in the Strategy Guide that one of the cocksuckers holds the Iron Key. I guess he was the cocksucker that slid off the motherfucking flatcar, so it looks like I have to restart the level.

 

[Astral Rag]

octavius, check every door in the sixth car and you'll find the brass key. The door to next car is stuck, so start backtracking and open the doors you couldn't open before. In the second car you'll find a crowbar in that locked room. Return to the stuck door and prepare to meet

Spoiler

the conductor.

 

[octavius]

Yeah, I've already conducted some lead exchange with him.
Turned out I didn't have to restart the level, but reloading the first save did the trick.

Every time I hear one of the cocksuckers say "You are outnumbered" I want to reply "You are outsmarted".

 

[Lemming42]

WHERE ARE YA MARSHALL

 

[octavius]

WHERE ARE YA MARSHALL

Them's fightin' words!

 

[octavius]

inb4 octavius

Spoiler

reaches the Sawmill and rage quits

I hoped you were kidding, but no...fuck all those switches and levers, some of which you can't reach when being flushed downstream.