That's two games today that I was hyped for that ended up being trash. Just gonna get hyped for indie games from now on

    • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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      Runs like dogwater apparently. Recommended specs are higher than 80% of Steam gamer PCs. Also, it's missing a ton of features from CS1's DLCs, which people were hoping for (this is all just what I read, haven't played it).

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Also, it's missing a ton of features from CS1's DLCs

        A sequel missing features from DLC? In a Paradox game? And it sucks shit at launch? I'm going to need some time to process this... Please give me space to heal while I come to terms with it

        • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Absolutely beyond wild. But like, they put a 2 on this one. You're telling me this is exactly like EU4 and CK3 and HoI4 and Vicky 3? Insane.

          At least Stellaris 2 won't let me down.

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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            Stellaris in particular was a absolutely wild release even by Paradox standards. They were reworking core features up until fairly recently, after it had been out for years. It's essentially a completely different game than it was at launch lol. It also had completely dogshit performance for years and years.

            • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              They were reworking core features up until fairly recently, after it had been out for years. It's essentially a completely different game than it was at launch lol.

              this has actually kept me coming back lol. every time I fire it up it feels new

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            CK3 at least felt like a big step up from CK2. It ran well, and had some actually interesting new features in hooks and lifepaths (or whatever they were called).

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Runs like dogwater apparently. Recommended specs are higher than 80% of Steam gamer PCs.

        This is like 95% of all new release games on computer.

        Also, it's missing a ton of features from SC1's DLCs, which people were hoping for

        This is like 95% of Paradox Interactive's business model.

        I don't know what the freeze-gamers expect.

        • regul [any]
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          1 year ago

          the performance is egregious, I've read

          like you can't hit 30 fps on medium settings with a 4060 @ 1080p

          • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Is it just a gfx bottleneck or CPU? In CS1 I was hitting CPU limits sooner than gfx limits albeit with an old i5 processor

            • regul [any]
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              1 year ago

              sounds like the CPU side isn't great, but the main bottleneck is the gpu

          • envis10n [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm struggling to maintain 50 fps @ 1080p on a Ryzen 5900X and an RTX 2080 super, running at medium

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          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Quite a few indies go through some kind of early access period, which also puts them into the "runs poorly, wait 6-18+ months to buy" space TBH

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        • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yep, yet another case of [current year] gaming. freeze-gamer s will never learn.

          Like, it's better in every way to wait at least 6 months for games. Cheaper, better optimized, more features, decent guides online if you get stuck... the day-one buy is just not worth it.

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Basically the same thing that happened with Kerbal Space Program 2 - outrageous system requirements with only minor graphical improvements, stripped down gameplay vs the original game (Obviously this is Paradox so the intent is DLC).

      I haven't checked on KS2 since release so don't @ me if they fixed it.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I absolutely agree that the performance is dogcrap and the graphics aren't a big upgrade from the original (at playable framerates) but the gameplay is definitely not stripped down from the base game without DLCs; on the other hand, some things from some of the DLCs have been implemented into the new game along with stuff we haven't seen at all.

    • Cxyz@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      I looked at the reviews on Steam and most of them say that performance is terrible.

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