"We appreciate the patience of our PlayStation 3 and PC fans worldwide, and we look forward to putting the games in your hands this March. "It's been a long time coming, but we are proud to finally deliver Episodes From Liberty City for the PC and PlayStation 3," said Sam Houser. In addition, Games for Windows - Live players can enjoy 32-player multiplayer matches and an advanced video editor, and all fans will experience new songs on the updated soundtrack as featured across Liberty City's 13 diverse radio stations, alongside in-game television and Liberty City's own internet. The two standalone episodes, which retail for $20, are Lost and Damned ("a dark trip through Liberty City's seedy underbelly as outlaw biker, Johnny Klebitz, fights to keep his gang together") and The Ballad of Gay Tony (in which "players explore Liberty City's high-end nightlife as Luis Lopez, struggling to balance the temptations of money and vice against loyalties to family and friends.")īoth episodes, which were previously timed exclusives for the Xbox 360, feature a number of new vehicles and weapons, and each episode adds new activities including cage fighting, gang wars and BASE jumping.
The company has announced the retail Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City $40 two-game compilation for both PS3 and Windows, noting: "For the first time, PS3 and Games for Windows - Live players will have the opportunity to experience the last two thrilling chapters of the Grand Theft Auto IV saga." In The Lost and Damned, experience Liberty City as Johnny, a veteran member of The Lost, a notorious biker gang. Bowling alley ‘invisible pins’ are now fixed.
The update includes the following fixes and changes: The upwards velocity of parachutes is now capped.
What I'm saying is, this update is a crappy DIY job based on an ancient xLiveless mod that manages to remove even more content from the game because Rockstar can't be asked to do this properly.īut of course I'm just being negative because it seems to be my pre-disposition for everything anyone does at the moment.Take-Two division Rockstar has announced that the previously Xbox 360-exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV episodes will debut on PlayStation 3 and PC - as both standalone digital downloads and the retail compilation - on March 30. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play. A title update for the Xbox 360 versions of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City and Grand Theft Auto IV is now available via Xbox LIVE. AS this method requires xLiveless, obviously mulitplayer and leaderboards don't work. This is because the base game, GTA IV, does not have these radio stations (these stations replaced other radio stations in EFLC). However, this method comes with a slight caveat: RamJam FM, Self-Actualization FM and Vice City FM do not work. First released over a decade ago in 2008, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV provided fans of their crime-ridden series with a more nuanced, dramatic. In short, this guide lets you run the DLC (TLAD and TBOGT) as DLC in GTA IV, and merges the radio stations as though you downloaded the DLC from the GFWL marketplace for the retail/GFWL digital version. Anyone still playing Grand Theft Auto IV and its Episodes From Liberty City expansions on Steam are due for a change-up, as Rockstar has announced major new updates for both titles moving forward. The new Complete Edition remake, aside from still probably lacking the parts of the soundtrack Rockstar patched out 2 years ago, seems to based on this public message, based on this guide:
I came on here solely to vent about this bloody mess of a PC port. Patch 2 - v1.1.2.0 für Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City -Fixed a bug causing tree leaves to look transparent-Fixed a bug that prevented uploading of rendered videos to Social Club. Note: Because Japanese is a supported language for Grand Theft Auto IV, but is not supported for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, players will continue to be able to play Grand Theft Auto IV with Japanese sub-titles but will need to select another language in order to play Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. RamJam FM, Self-Actualization FM, and Vice City FM (previously available in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City) The following Radio Stations will be temporarily unavailable in Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition
Current game save files will be compatible with Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition.Īs a result of this update the following services will no longer be available in Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition: Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition will as also be available via the Rockstar Games Launcher. Starting, Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition will replace both Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City wherever it is currently digitally available.