Helldivers 2

Problem: Game runs with shit performance - even in hangar where there is like a wall to render and not much more.

Arrowhead solution: Throw GPU upscaling magic at it

Real solution: How about fixing your rendering code...

Problem: I'm getting connected to another player on the other end of the planet that uses a dial-up connection. Also I can't search or filter for nearby/specific missions that I'd like to join.

Arrowhead solution: Reduced latency with NVIDIA Reflex & Co (completely negated by GPU upscaling btw)

Real solution: How about mission filters? Or region based mission search?

Don't get me wrong I'd love to see some performance updates but these are not performance updates that's just "throwing GPU AI magic" at the game and praying that it works. And justifying the whole thing with 1-2 year old reddit posts that got like 10-20 upvotes is even more dumb.

There are other posts that have hundreds or thousands of upvotes (e.g. loadout templates - example1 example2 ) that are getting completely ignored for years now.

So I feel like they wanted to make the meat of this update up scaling, and the variable shading thing looks cool, I might check that out so I'm already undermining my own meme lol. To me it seems like upscaling was supposed to be the meat of this with the other things being a footnote, at least that's how I see it. And I don't wanna come off as "hurr durr fake frames bad". I feel like upscaling has it's place, and even tho it's slightly different but I feel it's the same conpept, is frame generation. Like I used lossless scaling on my previous 30something GPU laptop for cyberpunk to get smoother frames, but would turn it off when using the computer in game because of a weird artifact when using the stockmarket mod.

Tho the one thing i dont like is IMO upscaling and framegen should be used to elevate low/mid end hardware, hell even highend hardware if you want MORE. But I see it here as being used as a bandaid for poor performance, rather than using this tech to get a better image and stuff