Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 [PS5, XBSX|S, PC]

[ZebMacahan]

I agree with this assessment. I got it on PC, with the intention of playing it with some friends. All of my friends refunded the game, one of them didn't even make it through the tutorial before he bounced off the game. I played it a bit more and I think it gets better, but I find that I hate the controls. I have it on PC and the KB/Mouse options make me use a weird claw grip to be able to dodge or parry. I tried with a controller, and it has some variation in the options available there, but for whatever reason, the game seams to lose focus at random, so I have to click within the game window with my mouse every once and a while to keep the controller active. But the game just feels like it's lacking something for me. I find myself hoping the mission is almost over by the time I get halfway though them.

The only part of your assessment I think I would disagree with is the "pretentious artsy crap" part. I find Warhammer itself to be fairly pretentious with character designs that veer towards artsy edgelord.

I dont know anything about Warhammer, I just saw big dudes in armor killing monsters with chainsaw swords. I think thats kinda like the opposite of pretentious.

 

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@Rangers It's their own custom engine called the swarm engine. The next-gen version of the engine that was used for World War Z.

Snowrunner used it as well. I really is a nice looking engine.

I dont know anything about Warhammer, I just saw big dudes in armor killing monsters with chainsaw swords. I think thats kinda like the opposite of pretentious.

Perhaps you were impressed by appearance of the implied importance of the big dudes in armor killing monsters with chainsaws. Or perhaps I know a few too many table top Warhammer fans and their pretentiousness has tainted my view of all of the related media.

 

[ZebMacahan]

Snowrunner used it as well. I really is a nice looking engine.

Perhaps you were impressed by appearance of the implied importance of the big dudes in armor killing monsters with chainsaws. Or perhaps I know a few too many table top Warhammer fans and their pretentiousness has tainted my view of all of the related media.

More like it was refreshing with a good AAA game were you´re just a dude in armor killing monsters, and thats pretty much it. I know one or two people who are into Warhammer, but I dont think I could get into it. I know basically nothing about it, and I had no idea what people was talking about during the game. The world seems a bit to gamey or too fantasyish to be really immersive for me (I love the lore and world of ME for example). But it worked good as a backdrop for some good old escapism and monster killing. So playing the game as an outsider I found it to be the opposite of pretentious.

 

[Riddlewire]

Snowrunner used it as well.

I wasn't aware of that. Interesting.
I saw speculation elsewhere that the reason PS5 was struggling with Space Marine 2 was that the game was hitting the PS5's thermal management system very hard, maxing out the CPU and GPU utilization simultaneously so that Smartshift wasn't effective (or perhaps it was working perfectly and the PS5 was simply at its maximum capability).

I have no idea if that's the culprit, but here was an analysis of Snowrunner for all systems. The PS5 power consumption stays at the top of its power range the whole time. These numbers were about the same for Matrix Awakens. The Series X numbers, on the other hand, are in the normal range for the average Xbox game. Series S actually drops down to 29W at one point.

No real conclusions to be drawn here. Just more data to throw into the discussion.

 

[trinibwoy]

More like it was refreshing with a good AAA game were you´re just a dude in armor killing monsters, and thats pretty much it. I know one or two people who are into Warhammer, but I dont think I could get into it. I know basically nothing about it, and I had no idea what people was talking about during the game. The world seems a bit to gamey or too fantasyish to be really immersive for me (I love the lore and world of ME for example). But it worked good as a backdrop for some good old escapism and monster killing. So playing the game as an outsider I found it to be the opposite of pretentious.

Yeah “pretentious” was the furthest thing from my mind playing the first game. It was an orc murderfest.

 

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Yeah “pretentious” was the furthest thing from my mind playing the first game. It was an orc murderfest.

I haven't made it that far in this game, but I haven't seen any orcs. Do they show up later in the game?

 

[trinibwoy]

I haven't made it that far in this game, but I haven't seen any orcs. Do they show up later in the game?

“First game”

 

[ZebMacahan]

I have almost finished my second run of the game. I like it ALOT more the second time. Image is quite blurry in performance mode, and framerate is not the most stable, but I bet it is awesome in 4k 60 fps glory.