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The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 82 points 4 weeks ago* (25 children)

This game has absolutely horrendous performance problems.

It baffles me that people are rating this higher than games like KOTOR and Republic Commando.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    I guess because it’s new? Xcom has s big fan base too

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    And wasn't xcom buggy as shit too? Lol

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Replace "wasn't" with "is" and you're correct. I still love XCOM 2, play it to this day. But it's a buggy mess and sometimes it feels it's just held together with software-ducttape and positive thoughts lmao.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Well the gameplay is very different, and maybe people like the way star wars feels when applied to XCOM type strategy games?

    People are not looking at the performance in isolation when rating games.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Because people like us in the tactics genre really are used to incredibly buggy and laggy games. XCOM, anything made by paradox - all of that suffers from performance issues and gameplay bugs. It's a bit like buying something from bethesda - you just expect those kinds of problems, which is why it doesn't really influence our rating.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago*

    Also, it isn't that big of a deal in a turn based tactics game to have all the animations be silky smooth or responsive like it is in games with real-time combat. The quality doesn't directly affect the play experience for the most part.

    A turn based game at 30 frames plays the same as it does at 60 or 120. It only doesn't look as good. Can't say the same for other genres.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I would still say it's worth buying at least from my personal experience. I'm still really enjoying the game despite the performance but it's probably heavily dependent on your system.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago

    That's not really detrimental to a game this like though. Some pop in and occasional hitching isn't going to cause a character death or a missed shot, it's just mildly annoying. It's definitely no kotor, but it's fun as hell.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    Games having dodgy performance on release is effectively normal now.

    It makes more sense to rate based on the gameplay otherwise 99% of releases would be 1 star.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    But how likely is any optimisation going to be forthcoming if there's no-one working on it?

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  • [–] -3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Now?

    The first video game I ever l played was Pong.

    Dodgy performance on release has always been the case. Would like to hear the tale of the Atari ET game?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Can't remember any particular performance problems with ET - it's no more flickery than any other 2600 game, sound plays fine, screen changes when you fall in a hole are prompt, all that kind of thing. Now, utterly bizarre and unintuitive gameplay, yes; it has that in spades. Also quite unfinished, but Howard Scott Warshaw only got five weeks to develop it so I'm prepared to point the blame at Atari for that.

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