Anyone playing Dishonored 2? This is probably the year's highlight for me. It has performance issues but the gameplay is an impressive next step compared to the original. Visuals are often stunning and the audio is smart and helps immersion, as usual for an Arkane title. It feels and plays quite similarly even with a total tech overhaul. Maybe the best effort yet at a game that you can complete with numerous approaches. You can even go entirely without the magic.
The engine is said to be only 20% idTech5. It certainly behaves differently than say Wolf New Order. No pop in. It's using D3D like Evil Within. Game is relatively smaller too at under 40GB. So the engine is a bit mysterious. Unfortunately they seem to need to improve its performance characteristics a bit. Scaling across detail settings is poor.
As of 11/21, they are on a second beta patch which adds some bug fixes and performance tweaks. They've added options for TXAA sharpness, adaptive resolution behavior, and valuable triple buffering. I've been playing on a few different machines, all with GM204 graphics. It runs generally well. I think you need more than 8GB system RAM though or you can run into swapping issues.
The engine is said to be only 20% idTech5. It certainly behaves differently than say Wolf New Order. No pop in. It's using D3D like Evil Within. Game is relatively smaller too at under 40GB. So the engine is a bit mysterious. Unfortunately they seem to need to improve its performance characteristics a bit. Scaling across detail settings is poor.
As of 11/21, they are on a second beta patch which adds some bug fixes and performance tweaks. They've added options for TXAA sharpness, adaptive resolution behavior, and valuable triple buffering. I've been playing on a few different machines, all with GM204 graphics. It runs generally well. I think you need more than 8GB system RAM though or you can run into swapping issues.
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