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I was watching a streamer playing this game on AMD 9800X3D with RTX 5090 GPU on 1440p and was barely able to get 100 fps. All the settings were on medium with DLSS Balanced turned on. This game is definitely not optimized.
It is tiring that new games launch with such poor performance. But, good thing we have game logs to help protect us from this kind of thing. Should be able to just wait it out and pick it up later for much cheaper.
Don't buy gearbox games. Pitchford is a self important head in the sands salesman. Along with Tim Sweeny, they're a couple of the most used car salesman types in gaming
I can think of just 1 guy who is even more of a used car salesman... Chris Roberts. Literally has been selling digital spaceships like used cars. Including the actual prices of the digital ships being roughly the same as a used car.
As a diehard fan of the Wing Commander series, you take that back right now! Right now!
I bought, and still have, every single Wing Commander game released as they launched. Core experience of my early gaming days.
All kidding aside, Star Citizen is a steaming shit pile of a grift that has gone on for far too long.
Don't forget Todd Howard. He’s the ultimate example of a Tesla salesman who has a self driving car drive itself into a ditch and then he says “it just works.“
I briefly watched Jackfrags video on it. The graphics aren't even anything special, the world isn't overly populated and I can't imagine there would be any overly complex calculations running in the background and it performs like shit.
Fuck these fucks.
It's Unreal Engine 5, so the bad performance is included by default. I've played 4 UE5 titles in recent months and all of them ran terrible even though they were far from groundbreaking graphically.
Hell, I could play the gorgeous KCD2 on high settings at a buttery smooth 60FPS but apparently I need to set everything to the very lowest and down to 720p to get the same result on much worse looking Unreal games.
I could play the gorgeous KCD2
Now is a great time to play it again. The newest DLC just dropped. Henry gets his own forge. I'm liking it a lot so far.
I’ve played two games (off the top of my head) that run UE5. Remnant II and Payday 3. Both have performance problems.
Remnant II is just overall poorly optimised. Payday 3 has weird random hitches. Granted they seem like they might be server side because when I get them my friend does too, almost simultaneously, and vice-versa.
Wayfinder uses ue5 and runs just fine.
That is the only example I have.
Clair Obscur and Hellblade 2 also ran great on my Steam Deck. And I suspect Fortnite does as well.
My guess is that developers of the other games just pour in high def assets without using any of UE5's crazy LoD techniques.
Yes, that's the thing. UE5 CAN run well, if you don't use most of its fancy features. But then what's the point of that dumb engine?
Just because it can load in high quality assets doesn't mean that everything has to be 4 billion polygons. You use it sparingly for where it will make the most impact. That doesn't mean that a mountain in the background that you'll never get near has to be of the same quality.
I don't think that's really the engines fault.
Expedition 33
When listening to the dev commentary of Valve games, they talk about how much work goes into level design planning even just for the sake of optimization, like clearly delineating barriers between major regions (doorways) so the engine can unload objects from other areas.
I get the impression the “First step easy” setup from UE5 may have made it so that more people can give us unoptimized messes, but still only a few rare devs understand proper optimization at all levels of development.
Also... why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.
Or come up free on EGS.
Yeah, but then you have to install EGS.
Or you can use heroic games launcher and never have to install egs
That franchise hasn't been good since BL2
BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny..And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl's grief.
...and then they turned it into spinoff game with Wanda Sykes' voice constantly grating your brain into shredded cheese
3 was the best out of all of them from a gameplay perspective. People don't like the story but I never cared for any of the borderlands stories personally.
Don't buy fucking Gearbox games. Jesus fucking shit on a bike chrisy. I have been saying that for over a decade.
Gonna just remind everyone, or tell anyone who isn't familiar... Gearbox's Colonial Marines has a typo in an ini file that breaks the game's AI. Gearbox was made aware of it after a modder found it in 2018. They acknowledged it by making a joke, then did nothing...
That one letter typo is still there after 13 years.
Isn't this the 1 letter typo where removing it makes the game massively better?
Yeah, if I remember right, the issue is that the typo breaks the system that tells the xenos how to behave in combat. They should use vents and try and flank you, but instead they just charge right at you.
Still a ton of other issues with the game, but that was huge.
sigh... This generation of games will all suck because of Unreal Engine 5. I'm a patient gamer, I have plenty of unplayed games on my Steam library. I will not upgrade my video card because of this horrendous game engine.
Can’t play your new $80 game due to performance and crashing issues? Hey, if you’re a real fan you’ll find a way to make it happen.
One of the reasons being patent with games is worth it. In a year, they may fix the bugs, they may not. But the only thing you lose is a bit of time playing other games. And cheaper too :D
But but but IGN gave it an 8/10 and said it was the best game in the franchise! Did they lie, are they out of touch, or are they working with publishers to try to smooth over the transition into more expensive games?
It literally crashed while Conan was doing a Clueless Gamer promo for it.
And it still has the loss of focus in the inventory screen bug that's plagued the game since the first one.
Randy you didn't fucking disappoint. This is exactly the game and the results I was expecting
It's a fun game, and I'm enjoying my time with it, but the fact that I'm getting 40fps at 1080p with a 5080 is frankly ridiculous. Unreal Engine 5 is such a curse on this generation of games.
News at 11, sky still blue. The series ended with 2.
denuvo strikes again
I forgot they were even making this game. BL3 was kind of bad, the pre sequel was painful. The tiny Tina one was okay but weirdly had no ng+ and shitty dlc. Meh.