We know that Valentine's Day can be a glorious and happy occasion filled with love and memories - or a lonely and sad day filled with internet porn and regret. :D:

But worry not! Everyone's favorite HUNT agent is here to shower you with ever lasting love, affection, blood and LUDICROUS GIBS :Gib:

And better yet - thanks to GIjz - she now even has her own game INSIDE ROTT. That's right - Flappy Lorelei (The Flappy Bird Clone you never knew you wanted) is playable NOW inside ROTT thanks to the Ludicrous Steam Workshop :Ankh:

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=622108609
Have fun kids, try not to dank out on all the memes - and Happy Valentine's Day :Gib:

Or maybe Deadly Gentlewoman? Deadly Gentledoge? NO MATTER. As long as you're feeling DEADLY - we've got some good news for you today. :D:

(We would have done this yesterday but Steam was having some... issues)

ANYWAY...

In honor of the fine tradition of LUDICHRISTMAS - we're giving away a free copy of the 2015 version of Andrew Hulshult's version of "Deadly Gentlemen" - originally performed by the Legendary Lee Jackson. For free. Right here. Right now. No really. Click this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/170462pkmzgm5oi/Deadly%20Gentlemen%202015.rar?dl=0

Like that? Want MORE? Well don't forget that the Rise of the Triad OST is currently 50% OFF so you can get ALL 30 TRACKS in .mp3, .Wav and .FLAC for just $3.49.

Your Pumpkin Spice Latte costs more than that - and there's literally no guitar solos in your latte. None. :claugh:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/389240/

"But El Oshcuro - I spent all my money on Steam Winter Sale games that I'll never play - I can't afford the ROTT OST!"

Alright fine - I will give a FREE COPY of the Rise of the Triad Soundtrack to ANYONE who beats me and comes in first place during Saturday Night ROTT tonight. But that means you need the LATEST and GREATEST SNR maps downloaded and ready to go:

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=320949530
Think you can beat me?! Think you are WORTHY of a free OST?!

Probably not... but this is just an elaborate scheme to get more people to buy copies of the soundtrack anyway... ːsteamfacepalmː

30 tracks. FULLY remastered. COMPLETELY Ludicrous :Ankh:

The OST is also available on...

iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rise-triad-original-game-soundtrack/id1028472361

Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Andrew_Hulshult_Lee_Jackson_Bobby_Prince_Rise_of_t?id=Bscaoofjjrmka7chonh44bdkgme

Spotify
https://play.spotify.com/album/7JVKuGMUUCP4YgaqTQRAt8

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013LC1VY2/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_1e6Yvb1V73SRC

http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/238050/

You thought it was a myth. You thought SOON™ would never come. YOU THOUGHT WRONG.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/389240/

SOON™ is NOW and Andrew Hulshult's LUDICROUS Rise of the Triad Soundtrack is finally here! Today on Steam and later this week everywhere else! (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, etc)

30 tracks. FULLY remastered. COMPLETELY Ludicrous :Ankh:

Also available on:

iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rise-triad-original-game-soundtrack/id1028472361

Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Andrew_Hulshult_Lee_Jackson_Bobby_Prince_Rise_of_t?id=Bscaoofjjrmka7chonh44bdkgme

Spotify
https://play.spotify.com/album/7JVKuGMUUCP4YgaqTQRAt8

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013LC1VY2/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_1e6Yvb1V73SRC

• 1 - Apogee Fanfare - 0:11
  
• 2 - Shards - 3:20
  
• 3 - Goin' Down the Fastway - 2:46
  
• 4 - Run Like Smeg - 2:22
  
• 5 - Suck This - 1:52
  
• 6 - Mistache - 3:28
  
• 7 - Havana Smooth - 3:31
  
• 8 - Workday - 3:13
  
• 9 - Smoke and Mirrors - 3:40
  
• 10 - Taskforce - 4:27
  
• 11 - Loading - 0:50
  
• 12 - Cccool - 3:02
  
• 13 - Howdidido - 0:53
  
• 14 - Rise - 2:48
  
• 15 - Deadly Gentlemen - 2:16
  
• 16 - I Choose the Stairs - 3:53
  
• 17 - Excalibur - 5:24
  
• 18 - Spray - 2:45
  
• 19 - Elevator - 0:16
  
• 20 - Adagio - 2:50
  
• 21 - Kiss Off - 4:03
  
• 22 - M-M-M-Menu - 0:33
  
• 23 -Chant - 4:43
  
• 24 - Funeral for Queen Mary - 3:16
  
• 25 - OWW - 2:30
  
• 26 - Gazz - 1:20
  
• 27 - Watz Next - 3:26
  
• 28 - Where izit - 2:00
  
• 29 - Hellero - 3:45
  
• 30 - This is the End - 3:41

Are we going to be putting all of these tracks into the actual game? OH YES WE ARE :D:

Are we done updating ROTT 2013? OH NO WE'RE NOT :Gib:

Stay SOONed™ :Triad:

https://youtu.be/XMXuvvj2E0g
http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140/

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

http://i.imgur.com/5ktZBKF.jpg

ROTT v1.5.5 is finally here and with it comes proper Steam Workshop + GOG Galaxy crossplay.

https://www.gog.com/game/rise_of_the_triad

ROTT is the first game in history ever to do this - and it wasn't easy.

Don't ask us how we did it - WE JUST DID :Ankh:

The update also includes a 64 bit .exe (32 bit is default), an improved dedicated server tool and a bunch of other changes. See the full changelog at the link below! :Porridge:

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/217140/discussions/0/613958868364565751/

GOG players! Please read the thread below!

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/217140/discussions/0/613958868364765042/

And be sure to ask the community here if you have any questions about modding, maps or MAYHEM.

*Yes! every single Steam Workshop map will work with your GOG version of the game!
*Yes! You can join in on Saturday Night ROTT from your GOG Galaxy client.
*Yes! You will still be killed by Nore anyway :Gib:

Some things never change :Koin:

On a personal note - it's been almost TWO YEARS since we launched ROTT 2013 and it's hard to believe we're still here, still blowing shit up and still kicking it old school with you weirdos. Our team is small but our balls are large - and know that we could not (and would not) continue to do any of this without you. :UT2004adrenaline:

Getting this update out was no small feat! So please give a special thanks and a bowl of porridge for v1.5.5 to our coder Aleksandr, our two based lead community testers, Hackman and Avain, our human dedicated server, Lain, our newest QA punching bag Katixxia, LDK map god El-Jefe, our resident madman Gijz, and of course ME - because I fucking rule. :claugh:

:Triad: See you for v1.666... SOON™ :Triad:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140/

As many of you Oscuridos know, last week marked the 20th Anniversary of the full, registered and LUDICROUS version of ROTT '95. An occassion we are celebrating this week by taking 75% OFF both the original 1995 cult classic and the shiny new 2013 version of ROTT :Gib:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/238050/
20 years sounds like a long time, but as El Oscuro said himself...
"Time flies when you're making games!" :Ankh:

So here's to BIG sales, BIG guns, LUDICROUS gibs and 20 more years of ROTT! :Triad: :D:

BEHOLD! :Gib:

ROTT v1.5 is finally upon us, Oscuridos! And with it comes the Steam Workshop. NO MORE shall you have to download foolish MAP PACKS and MOVE FILES into FOLDERS. HAH! Now you just press buttons and the maps are automagically transported into your game! We're just like Skyrim now! But without all the hentai mods. We're still kawaii AF however. :D:http://youtu.be/VTpUVyTzwIs
ANYWAY - to celebrate this blessed occasion the game is FREE all weekend on Steam! You should already have it in your library! If you're not already a member of the community and you're reading this then we hope you enjoy your stay amongst our special brand of WEIRD. If you do - know that the game is ALSO 75% OFF UNTIL MONDAY MORNING! :Ankh:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140
So grab yourself a bowl of priest porridge (hot) and stay awhile. We'll be here all weekend just for you. Get weird. Get wild...

GET LUDICROUS :Triad:

Hey everyone. Strap yourselves in, because this is going to be a LONG one. Or maybe not. Who knows, I'm making it up as I go along AS USUAL.

NOW, before I get all nostalgic on you, know a few things. SteamWorks and Workshop testing are pretty much done! It's coming SOON. So are NEW updates with NEW content and tweaks and fixes and changes and THE SOUNDTRACK with NEW SONGS. We're even prepping a whole NEW EDITION of the game. It's all in the works. GET HYPE. But now, back to the nostalgia...

One year ago we put out this here reboot of Rise of the Triad. We wanted to make a game that was insanely faithful to the original ROTT, specificlly for fans of the original ROTT and old school FPS fans in general. We thought we were making a small game for a small audience.

WE WERE WRONG.

Since revealing this thing back at Quake Con 2012, old school shooter fans, Apogee/3DRealms fans and ROTT fans have been coming out of the woodwork, and somehow you all seemed to end up right here. With us. Playing our crazy culty reboot of a crazy culty game - week in and week out - for over a year since release. Crazy, innit? :Koin:

And it's done a lot for all of us involved. Interceptor Entertainment, once a mod team, is now a fully realized game development studio in Denmark. Fresch and the guys are busy working on a new game called Bombshell (and still working on ROTT of course). And if you hadn't heard, they also acquired 3DRealms. No really. Interceptor owns 3DRealms now. Wild. Almost as wild as Fred's hair. :claugh:

The team members who didn't stay with IE after ROTT have mostly gone on to work at bigger studios such as IO Interactive, Cryptic, Wargaming, The Creative Assembly and more. It's pretty wild. Have I said that enough yet? Well, this whole thing has been pretty wild, MAN.

I even started my own small company with some friends (hi Aaron) called New Blood Interactive. We're making games, art, music, all sorts of nonsense. We also just helped put out The Red Solstice on Steam. GO CHECK IT OUT.

And Apogee? They're BACK IN ACTION. Hard at work publishing more ROTT content, re-releasing old gems from the back catalog - and even working on some super top secret projects you're probably going to love. I think we can all agree the world is a better place with the Apogee logo in it. YEAH IT IS.
http://youtu.be/F1ZO7Qxvpc8
But we couldn't of gotten here without YOU. Everyone who has been here with us since day one. Everyone who bought the game. Everyone who loved the game. Hell, even everyone who hated the game. You have all helped us to become better game developers, artists, coders, animators, marketers, admins, musicians, sound engineers, forum mods, community managers, PR people, and just better people in general.

Your feedback, your involvement, your countless hours of playing over the past year have shaped us all into better people - and for that we are eternally thankful. Have some porridge. It's on the house. :Porridge:

BUT SOME OF YOU DESERVE MORE THANKS THAN OTHERS.

After ROTT '13 came out we were a small team faced with a bigger game launch than we ever could have anticipated. The game still needed work, and we needed help. Some of you stepped up in a BIG way. And still do to this day.

So to the ROTT community mod/testing/whatever team: Shadow, Hackman, Andy, Gingy, Lain, Jefe, Earth, Avain, Callahan, Cannibal, Tempus, Riet and even Lotica. Not to forget our actual factual QA lead James, Terry from Apogee, herr Fresch, Level Lord Leon, Art God Chris (topher from England), Shredmaster Andrew and of course our based polski programmer: Grzegorz (and the new guy Aleksandr). THANK YOU. For keeping ROTT alive. For keeping the community involved. And for continuing to make the game better every day. :Triad:

Our community may be small, but everyone knows we're insanely active, and just pretty insane in general. You only have to show up to Saturday Night ROTT once to figure that out. :Gib:

And speaking of SNR. To that Gijz guy - thanks for making all these dumb videos. We love them. Never stop. Ever. No really. DON'T EVER STOP: https://www.youtube.com/user/Gijzzzzzzz

http://youtu.be/U5wgrC8CyNY
http://youtu.be/h7WBVmvs-hM
http://youtu.be/kjRlDLB8w8Y
http://youtu.be/grJIMM-U9Ek
http://youtu.be/R7Gmr4ci8dQ
http://youtu.be/s4fHH128XN0
http://youtu.be/MtVxkBnt-t0
http://youtu.be/-oKa_HJJvn0
http://youtu.be/DgYXXiEp_cg
Ahh, such memories...

You know, I was hanging out drinking with Tom Hall one time and he said something to me that I've come to realize is very, very true.

I was telling him about Rise of the Triad fans. I was trying to describe you guys. But I couldn't quite put it into words. I said, "You know, ROTT fans... they're... they're..."

But before I could think of the word he stopped me there and said... "Kinda weird about it?!"

YEAH. KINDA WEIRD ABOUT IT.

So here's to you!
Here's to us!
To the werid ones!

And to ROTT.

May the gibs always be plentiful and may they always be LUDICROUS

:Ankh:

It's almost THAT time of year again. The BEST time of year. QUAKE CON. :Gib:

Where real men go to play real games. And drink real drinks. And be real fat. And get real naked. YEAH! O_o :Triad:

ANYWAY: To celebrate we've taken 80% off of ROTT this weekend (Bethesda takes over Steam next weekend :-p) and are having the biggest Saturday Night ROTT in months! GET IN THERE :Koin:

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/217140/discussions/0/648811852225996946/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140

In other news which you've been waiting nearly A YEAR for. Steamworks & Workshop are finally coming to ROTT and we're beta testing it NOW.

SO, if you're a mapper or modder who isn't already part of our inner circle - contact me or one of the other devs and we'll see about getting you in the beta group to help make sure that the next ROTT '13 update is the best yet. Why? BECAUSE VIDEO GAMES... and porridge. :Porridge:

Until next time. Oshcuro out. :Ankh:

So how about that Steam Summer Sale?! Wasn't that great? OH, you already had all the games that were on sale? WELL WHATEVER. You already own ROTT too and we're here making dumbass videos for you unlike those other jive turkeys. ENJOY :Porridge:
http://youtu.be/s4fHH128XN0 Oh... 4 new maps for SNR this weekend and Steam Workshop is in beta testing. GET HYPE. :Ankh: