Redfall [XBSX|S, XGP, PC]

[SmooTh]

Redfall Accessibility Guide

To ensure players can Bite Back, the team at Arkane Austin have included the following guide for maximizing your Redfall experience, related to accessibility and other gameplay customization.

bethesda.net

 

[Remij]

Wow, the reviews are brutal. 4/10 from GameSpot.. I think it's around a 65 OpenCritic currently.. Metacritic hasn't updated yet and probably wont until midnight.

Terrible performance issues on both Xbox AND PC. Traversal stuttering, pathetic GPU and CPU utilization... texture issues.

This gen has been a colossal letdown. Seems like the only platform holders that can be successful these days and release products that are quality which people want are Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft has fumbled everything this gen so far. Let's just face it, Starfield is going to come in hot as well and likely have performance issues on both devices as well. The trend will seemingly continue. Meanwhile Nintendo and Sony are breaking all sorts of records.

Zelda releases this month and will break records, and it will probably be a 97 meta... When Sony releases Spider-Man 2 later this year, and it blows everything else away graphically, and runs with no issues... it's going to just further the gap and make MS' situation look even more dire. I'm predicting it will be a 90+ meta game, probably 92..

It's just not looking good for MS, IMO.

 

[Scott_Arm]

Lol, this game looked like such a piece of shit, but I preloaded it because I have gamepass. Don't even know how to play it. I have a pile of files on my drive but the xbox app just keeps asking me to install the game again, lol. Every time I select a location it just asks me over and over again. Microsoft should just quit. The Xbox app on pc sucks and their games suck. It's wild. Gamepass is awesome for getting a lot of cool indie games, so it's still worth it, but this horrible store is almost a reason to cancel.

 

[techuse]

Did anyone ever think this would be good from all the previews?

 

[Inuhanyou]

M a n. What happened to Arkane? I know deathloop wasn't to everybodies taste but prey and dishonored were great. I am hoping this is their FUSE moment and not something much worse

 

[iroboto]

Lol, this game looked like such a piece of shit, but I preloaded it because I have gamepass. Don't even know how to play it. I have a pile of files on my drive but the xbox app just keeps asking me to install the game again, lol. Every time I select a location it just asks me over and over again. Microsoft should just quit. The Xbox app on pc sucks and their games suck. It's wild. Gamepass is awesome for getting a lot of cool indie games, so it's still worth it, but this horrible store is almost a reason to cancel.

gotta xcloud to try before you waste time downloading lol

 

[Scott_Arm]

M a n. What happened to Arkane? I know deathloop wasn't to everybodies taste but prey and dishonored were great. I am hoping this is their FUSE moment and not something much worse

Arkane has multiple teams. This one was Arkane Austin, not Arkane Lyon. It feels like a game made by a small team. Feels like an early access game from an indie studio. The combat feels really really basic. I think it's a super casual game where it's more about exploring around to find collectibles, lore and loot or something.

Edit: I'm actually shocked this is a full price game. It's $90 CAD on steam. It has all of the signs of one of those mid-priced games, like it has a bunch of these comic panel cutscenes to lay out the story, rather than in-game or pre-rendered cutscenes for the backstory etc. I think if it were a $45 game, people would still probably be unhappy with the performance, the bugs etc, but the pricing would feel more right, and the expectations would be a AA kind of experience, not a AAA one.

 

[techuse]

Arkane has multiple teams. This one was Arkane Austin, not Arkane Lyon. It feels like a game made by a small team. Feels like an early access game from an indie studio. The combat feels really really basic. I think it's a super casual game where it's more about exploring around to find collectibles, lore and loot or something.

Edit: I'm actually shocked this is a full price game. It's $90 CAD on steam. It has all of the signs of one of those mid-priced games, like it has a bunch of these comic panel cutscenes to lay out the story, rather than in-game or pre-rendered cutscenes for the backstory etc. I think if it were a $45 game, people would still probably be unhappy with the performance, the bugs etc, but the pricing would feel more right, and the expectations would be a AA kind of experience, not a AAA one.

Arkane Austin has been working on this for 6 years!

 

[mr magoo]

Did anyone ever think this would be good from all the previews?

No. But they were marketing this game as “arcane game at core”. So I was hoping that despite awful presentation it will have some moments. Disaster.

 

[Shortbread]

Disaster.

You don't say!?

 

[mr magoo]

He is clearly rollerskating

 

[Phantom88]

Poor Arkane. Makes immersive sims that nobody buys, for an entire decade. Then they finally try to pivot to what the publisher probably perceived as more desirable by the public at large, but they fail even harder with that. The answer is only one - Dark Messiah 2

 

[SmooTh]

I'll probably still have my fun with it but poor Arkane.
Bethesda that was a fail imagine they released it last year.
Let's hope Project Blacksky will be better and "back to the roots"

 

[trinibwoy]

Arkane Austin has been working on this for 6 years!

I wonder how it would’ve turned out if Arkane had stuck with their Void engine for Redfall. Did they spend a lot of that time learning UE4?

 

[SmooTh]

Arkane Lyon is using Void while Austin is working with UE (side trip to CryEngine)

 

[DavidGraham]

The Void engine is a modified idTech engine, just like the Stem engine (in Evil Within 2).

Arkane is stretched too thin on engines, Dishonored is UE3, Dishonored 2 and Deathloop are Void, Prey is CryEngine and it's DLC is UE4, and Redfall is UE4. Don't think this is healthy at all.

 

[iroboto]

He is clearly rollerskating

He’s transitioning to a vampire

 

[techuse]

I wonder how it would’ve turned out if Arkane had stuck with their Void engine for Redfall. Did they spend a lot of that time learning UE4?

Wish I knew.

 

[DavidGraham]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1653358433234550786

 

[mr magoo]

I tried it over xcloud and to my surprise i like it more than i thought i would. I like it more than Deathloop which i abandoned after 1 hour or so. Unfortunately i dont have any friends on my xbox account i can play with so no idea how it is in coop.