This is why we still need demos
Piracy is the demo version for me. I pirated cs1 until I decided that they deserve my money.
You basically get them through Steam - 2 hours is generally enough to figure out if a game is a total ripoff or not
I haven’t touched a game below Overwhelmingly Positive in years at this point
Cities skyline 2 performance is pretty bad from the stream I was watching. HOWEVER according to this review by Wal Der Qual if you set the dynamic resolution to “constant” you will get an FPS boost. It helped the gal on the stream I was watching anyhow. I cant speak for their other suggestions as they didnt get tried on the stream.
Dynamic resolution? So it is going to bring you down to sub 1080p in order to run at a decent framerate? That doesn’t seem worth it.
Payday 3 :(
Steam reviews are worthless, it’d be better if they didn’t have it
They are suprisingly one of the most accurate reviews i saw rarely it is a Review Bomb like OW2.
Cookie Clicker has a better rating than FTL
I use them more as a general trend, a 90 vs a 95 isn’t really saying anything, but a 60 vs a 90 usually has good reasons
It may hurt right now, but trust me, there are
Is that Dungeons of Dredmore? That was a fun game.
I positively loved that game! I wish they would have made another! Here are my two proudest achievements in DoD!
Me and X: Rebirth. Looking forward to it for years and it comes out as an abomination.
5 years later I pick up the game on a deep deep sale and I try to dock and the physics gets screwy and immediately refund it. This was after 4 expansions and several patches to make it version 4.something.
Also Payday 3. Though the server issues have been fixed.
Are they fixed? Or are less people trying to log in?
There are 10 times more daily players in pd2 than in pd3, so the servers arent overstressed anymore. (Also means players don’t want to play pd3 even when it works)
Could be a bit of column A&B lol
“You get what you fuckin deserve!” -Some sad guy idk.
People would have been complaining about a delay if they had gone that way. I personally like how they handled a no win situation.
delays would disappoint people but at least keep your reputation intact. Plus, it makes crunch for devs less likely since deadlines aren’t permanent
Delaying also means that you are burning cash with zero income. You can only borrow money on worse and worse terms, and if there is an actual prime rate hike whoa boy are you pooched.
In my experience delays just means the crunch time is extended.
Anyone thinking this release was reputation destroying is just fickle and shouldn’t be taken seriously
Maybe don’t jump the hype train every time and instead choose to play proven and established games from developers who are known to deliver quality, which exist in abundance?
Paradox is known to deliver quality.
I see, then my criticism excludes Paradox and is obviously misplaced in this particular discussion, my apologies.
Have been playing all night, the performances are not great, but it’s actually playable for most people with lower settings, and the game is pretty great.
Also it’s a city builder, it’s okay to play it with 30fps in low, it’s not a FPS.
It’s CS2, not CS2.
Agreed, I’ve played strategy and builder games forever on 20fps.
I remember playing tw:rome (1) on my xp machine at a solid 12 fps and having a blast. 60fps should be the goal if you meet recommended specs I agree but it’s unreasonable to say that anything less is “unplayable” because that just isn’t true
If I was already playing CS1 with 30 fps in low, I guess this would be 10-15 fps if it even starts up, right?
Also it’s a city builder, it’s okay to play it with 30fps in low
In 2007? Sure. In 2023 why should a consumer settle for 30 fps on fucking low settings?
The need to hit FPS targets has always been blown way out of proportion by the casual gamer. But seeing people bitch about their city builder not hitting 30+ is a new low in the chase for unnecessary frames.
30 is the bare minimum for any game regardless of genre lmfao. Anything below 30 gets hard to look at because of the bad frame pacing, things below 60 can still cause eye strain if you’re not used to low fps.
It’s CS2, not CS2.
At first I tought it was mistake and you repeated the same 😅 .
He did repeat the same. Mwuahahah.
It’s
TF2TF2 all over again.I suppose we could call Cities ‘C:S2’ and Titanfall ‘T2’?
Runs fine for me. Reduced some settings. It’s a game built for the best right now, and for the future. Lot of potential.
Almost every game has potential.
This was me with mythbusters: the game. Followed it for 7 months for nothing
That sounds like Walmart bargain bin shovelware. Was it supposed to be good!?
It was supposed to be good but it ended up being too scripted
Mythbusters is a great thing that we would all love to experience again in another medium, but that just wasn’t going to happen. It’s hard to even point to an existing good game that has the mechanics that you’d want from a Mythbusters. They could have gone Factorio, or an Infinifactory, but a goal of “maximize this” or “build this intended output” still doesn’t capture the scientific intent of extracting some tiny nugget of truth from a cold unfeeling universe. Straitjacketing the whole process into something scripted, or throwing a sandbox at the player and walking away, are about the only two approaches that a game could do.
The myths all have different physics and some have some weird phenomena so coding a comprehensive physics simulation will all the scripts to trigger the mythical event when certain conditions are right would be expensive.
I heard someone on Discord claim that the depth of field dropped the performance significantly, and they could run it stable once they disabled it.
Stable at 30fps?
More than enough for a top down strategy game. Why are you so obsessed with 60 fps in a game where nothing moves fast and reaction times dont matter
Because the higher FPS look nicer and we’re talking about something done for no other reason than for enjoyment.
For me it’s smoother camera panning. I just love that 60+fps feel when you move the game camera. Silky smooth.
Absolutely. If I’m spending my money on a game and running it on an above average hardware, the bare minimum I will expect is to atleast run smoothly regardless of features or quality.
The bar is so fucking low.
Eye strain
Cap your fps if you don’t want it jumping around
It’s not about the fluctuations lmfao.
Then you aren’t going to experience eye strain
Oh sick thanks yeah i needed someone to tell me my own experiences.
Redfall 😑
I was kinda stoked for a cool looking modern vampire game… We all saw how that turned out
