AAA game? Performance issues and crashing on release? Why I never.

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[–] 131 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 90 points 1 year ago* (28 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Wayfinder uses ue5 and runs just fine.

    That is the only example I have.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (28 children)

    That franchise hasn't been good since BL2

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 54 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Also... why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Don't buy fucking Gearbox games. Jesus fucking shit on a bike chrisy. I have been saying that for over a decade.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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?

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    And it still has the loss of focus in the inventory screen bug that's plagued the game since the first one.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Randy you didn't fucking disappoint. This is exactly the game and the results I was expecting

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    News at 11, sky still blue. The series ended with 2.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    denuvo strikes again

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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