Sniper: Path of Vengeance

To do: English title screen as the bobscreen. More details on its prerelease exist on the non-English speaking Internet and PC Zone Magazine apparently.

Sniper: Path of Vengeance is a barebones single-player FPS game. It was originally supposed to be a different game called Rathunt, but was rushed into something else at the last minute.

Unused Strings#

According to InstallationDirectory\scripts\text_keys.txt the game was supposed to come out on Xbox, and since this never happened these strings never get used. The following is present in the Xicat 1.01 and Cenega 2.40 Polish releases of the game, however an Xbox release is not mentioned at all.

Hungarian:

// these dialogues are present only in XBoX version!!!

// you do not have to record them! for PC


>China24T   Egy ember: Szeretem a kínaiakat. Valaha én is kung-fuztam, de az idõ gyaorsan száll...
>China24S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

>China25T   Egy ember: Reméltem, hogy vehetek valamit a feleségemnek, de semmi sincs nyitva.
>China25S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

>China26T   Egy ember: Szeretnék inni egy teát, de azt hiszem, várnom kell egy kicsit.
>China26S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

>China27T   Egy ember: Ugye milyen szép az idõ?
>China27S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

>China28T   Egy ember: Sétálok még egy kicsit, aztán haza megyek.
>China28S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

>China29T   Egy ember: Borért jöttem, de ez zárva van.
>China29S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

>China30T   Egy ember: Kár.... elvesztettek egy vásárlót.
>China30S   sounds/speech/empty.wav

//end of unused phrases - record these below!

English:

>China24T     A man: I love Chinese. Used to practice kung-fu, but you know how time passes by....
>China24S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

>China25T     A man: I was hoping to buy something for my wife, but nothing's open.
>China25S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

>China26T     A man: I'd love to have some tea, I think I'll have to wait.
>China26S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

>China27T     A man: Lovely weather, isn't it?
>China27S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

>China28T     A man: I'll stick around for a while, and then go back home.
>China28S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

>China29T     A man: I've come to buy some wine, but they've locked it up.
>China29S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

>China30T     A man: Too bad.... they have lost a customer.
>China30S     sounds\speech\empty.wav

Some internal files contain the following or similar text in the first 4 lines:

// RatHunt pickable item description file
// Corwin 2001, Mirage Interactive.

// Hands off! Don't mess with this file!

Outro Text#

Hungarian#

Due to some oversights in file formatting during translation, the following strings do not appear during the game's outro sequence:

>Outro34 Csak egyvalaki ismeri az igazságot...

Transl.: Only one person knows the truth...

>Outro34 is not being shown due to the string never being referred to in InstallDir\scripts\locale\outro3.txt

>Outro41 Köszönjük, hogy 'A Mesterlövész: A bosszú ösvényén'-t választottad

Transl.: Thank you for choosing The Sniper: Path of Vengeance.

>Outro41 does not get displayed because the title was enclosed in apostrophes.

Unused Audio#

To do: Add more unused audio.

The game contains unused audio, coming from early development. Possibly from the RatHunt era when the game was supposed to be entirely different. A lot of leftover placeholder voice clips from the game's developers are also left in the game.

Unused Struggling/Running Sounds#

The original audio files can be found at InstallationDirectory\sounds.

Early Development Audio#

The original audio file can be found at InstallationDirectory\sounds\speech\dziwkakibel\.

Revisional Differences#

Developer Console#

Version 1.01 has an accessible developer console, while in version 2.33 it is not accessible.

Unused Map#

The unused map file can be found in all versions as InstallDir\world\chinatown.dat. Retail Chinatown is present as InstallDir\world\chinatown2.dat. On version 2.33, this map does not load properly and causes mouse input to be ignored.

Save File#

The format of the save file has changed between versions 1.01 and 2.33. Both formats contain the string RatHunt save game.

Version 1.01	Version 2.33

Regional Differences#

DRM / Copy Protection#

Title#

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Depending on the region the game was sold in, the title may have been translated.

Censorship#

Only the German release comes with censorship.¹

• Civilians no longer react to gunfire and are invincible now.
• Blood was removed completely.

References#