![]() ![]() Stranger quickly makes short work of McGraw's outlaws, then bags McGraw after taking out his monstrous mount. The next bounty Stranger took was the one on Meagly McGraw, who has been causing trouble at the local Opple Farm. He bags Jo' Mamma and heads back for town. Stranger travels through the sewers to reach the shipwreck, before fighting Jo' Mamma and her outlaws head on. Next, Stranger takes on Jo' Mamma, who is hiding out in an old shipwreck past the town's sewers. Stranger travels to a nearby Grubb temple and shows Eugene's captors who's boss. Stranger ends up at the town of Buzzarton, where he visits the local bounty office to turn in Boilz and takes on the bounty (actually a rescue mission) for Eugene Ius, a local Clakker who was kidnapped by outlaws. Thus, Stranger moves on towards the next town to gain more Moolah. However, Gizzard Gulch has been severely damaged by Boilz and his gang throughout the battle. Stranger and Boilz duke it out against one another, with Boilz eventually being bagged in the end. At this time, Stranger learns that Boilz Booty is coming to town to rescue his brother Blisterz. The Doc tells Stranger that his operation will cost a total of 20,000 Moolah, due to the extreme complexity of the surgery. Stranger enters his office to ask about the surgery. When Stranger gets back to town, he learns that the Doc is back in his office. He fights his way into the facility and takes the Duke down, before collecting the bounty. After bagging Floyd, Stranger takes on the Looten Duke, who is hiding out in the town's water facility. Stranger beats down Floyd's outlaw henchmen and bags Floyd himself. His first bounty is Filthy Hands Floyd, an Outlaw who was ambushing the convoys which brought supplies into town. Stranger decides to take up some bounties to pass the time. However, he find out that Doc isn't in town. Stranger, who is desperately in need of a mysterious operation (which is later revealed to be surgery for the removal of his back legs), goes to the local doc's office. ![]() Stranger brings him back to the Clakker town of Gizzard Gulch after fighting his men to cash in on the bounty. Blisterz continues to chase him through the forest, eventually getting bountied after falling into a fuzzle trap Stranger set up earlier. They sniff the air, picking up a familiar scent, when Blisterz Booty bursts through and shoots at the Stranger as he passes by them. They are disappointed, having only caught a small fish for food. The Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter, is taking some animals to use for live ammo whilst some of the local Grubbs are fishing nearby. Granted, we didn’t spend weeks trying to figure it out, so if you find a way, let us know.The game begins by showing an opening scene set within the Grubb Graveyard. Any attempt forced the game out of fullscreen and into windowed mode, where only a tiny portion of the screen was visible. ![]() We had no luck with downsampling using GeDoSaTo or by editing the game’s configuration files. The only way we were able to achieve this was by playing the game on an actual 4K monitor. If your monitor’s resolution isn’t available, try editing the config.txt file the game creates in Documents/Oddworld/Stranger’s Wrath HD. On a 4K monitor, all we had to do was select our monitor’s native resolution. Granted, we didn’t spend weeks trying to figure it out, so if you find a way, let us know. We had no luck with downsampling using GeDoSaTo (opens in new tab) or by editing the game’s configuration files. Unfortunately, the environments’ low res textures look terrible in 4K, but are easy enough to ignore thanks to the game’s overwhelming charm. The fidelity of the animation on these buggers shows well at this resolution, but those eyes will haunt me for a long time yet. Also of note are the haunting glass eyeballs on the critter ammo. In 4K, the Stranger character’s detail comes to the fore. The game was unique for its character design and animation, which both remain in tact. So, as a way to cope with our own wrath, we played some of the PC version in 4K resolution. That’s ten years without a new Oddworld game. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath came out in 2005. Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.
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