Sin Episodes Updates

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The following page contains a list of all the large important updates Sin Episodes, releases of the game and its tools have received through their lifetime in descending order by their date of release.
==Updates and Releases==
August 18, 2006
* The SiN Episodes: Emergence Original Soundtrack CD album is released.
July 27, 2006
* SiN Episodes: Emergence SDK has been released.
* Ritual Editing Community Wiki Now Online.
* Level transition crash fixed. 
* End-of-arena crash fixed. 
* Firing an assault rifle grenade into teleporters crash fixed.
July 20, 2006
* SiN Episodes: Emergence now available in retail stores across Germany and on the german version of steam.
July 18, 2006, 03:15 pm
* Added three new Arena Mode maps (The Pit, Behind Zee Beaker, Vertigo)
* Added confirmation prompt when deleting Arena Mode scores
* Added opt-out stats collection for the regular campaign on the main menu
* Added foreign translations for Arena Mode dialogs
* Fixed issue where all secrets could not be collected in final map
* Fixed issue where context look triggers could get "stuck" and the context look icon would appear for the remainder of the level
* Fixed issue where Arena Mode rounds would end approximately 2 seconds too early
* Fixed issue where players could be killed after the "Game Over" screen in Arena Mode
* Fixed issue where stats exported to HTML from an Arena Mode game were incorrect
* Fixed issue where players would get stats credited for the actions of NPC's
* Fixed issue where subtitles would not appear during all of the "Next Episode" preview
* Fixed issue where mutagenic gas would cause screen to black out on Radeon 9000, 9200 and 9250 series cards
* Fixed issue where player could not turn left or right using the keyboard without disabling the mouse
June 26, 2006, 03:28 pm
* Added Arena Mode
* Added 4 Arena Mode Maps (Highrise Lobby, The Office, Turbine, U4 Processing Station)
* Exposed some additional statistics from the Personal Challenge System
* Updated manual with additional troubleshooting information, Arena Mode documentation
* Minor asset rearrangement required for upcoming SDK release
* Fixed issue where "Pipes & Crates, Inc." phone message would not play
* Fixed visual issue with Elexis hologram on some DirectX 7 cards
* Fixed issue where security bots could not be damaged from certain locations in Highrise
* Fixed some closed captions
* Fixed minor issues with U4 Lab 02
* Miscellaneous bug fixes
May 26, 2006
* SiN Episodes: Emergence is now available in retail stores throughout the European territories, excluding Germany.
May 17, 2006, 11:28 am
* Fixed a bug sometimes causing the challenge to never ease up on the player, making it unforgiving.
* Fixed a bug that may have been causing sound-stuttering issues for some players.
* Fixed a bug where changing the fov made you a cheater.
* Fixed player stats not always reporting while you are in the car or otherwise locked in place.
* Fixed the instantaneous challenge rating sometimes reporting 0.
* Fixed a texture problem that was causing a lock-up on some video cards when loading in U4Labs.
* Fixed a texture problem that was causing a crash on some video cards when fighting the Quadralex.
* Fixed a texture problem that was causing a crash on some video cards when inside of green poison gas.
* Fixed a path-finding issue preventing the game from progressing after talking with Radek at his headquarters.
* Reduced point-size on some fonts to fix some close captioning to not fit for some languages.
* Fixed a path-finding issue with one map.
* Fixed sound-stuttering issues for some players
May 10, 2006
* SiN Episodes: Emergence has been released on steam at $19.95.
April 05, 2006
* SiN Episodes: Emergence Pre-loading available on steam, save 10% on base price.
==Sources==
* Steam News #695 (archived).
* Steam News #663 (archived).
* Steam News #626 (archived).
* SiNEpisodes.com (archived)
* Ritualistic News Article (archived)
* SiNEpisodes.com News (archived)
* SiN Episodes (wikipedia).
* Valvetime.net Forums (archived)
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