Alright so here's my initial thoughts on playing the first section.
Technical:
The game does NOT ship with the latest DLSS and defaults to Preset E, use DLSS Swapper to manually update these:
If you do not, then you will suffer from image instability, Preset K fixes these when in DLSS Quality, whilst Performance does still have some, but less than Quality using Preset E.
There is no frame gen, no DLAA, only FSR 3.1 and TSR. TSR is good image quality but is 45-55fps on a 4090 at 4K using max settings. DLSS Quality is ~85fps in the forest or ~100fps in the villages.
Performance is largely excellent with super smooth frametimes and frame pacing. There are some initial hitches but once everything is going after that, it's smooth with the random hitch here and there. I have locked the game with RTSS to 90fps. Ingame GFX options are fairly limited, fps cap is in there but only for 30fps and 60fps, all cutscenes are 30fps and going from 90fps to 30 as soon as a cutscene tarts can feel jarring too.
Visually it looks excellent, the lighting and volumetrics in motion especially.
There is no FOV slider.
Gameplay video:
Gameplay:
Character movement is rather odd, visually looks like she is "floating" like a robot, movement coming to a stop is abrupt and seems disjointed, its' easy enough to ignore this but it's still quite jarring. Combat and targeting system seems fine to me, intuitive and responsive. DualSense haptics do feature but no sign of adaptive triggers sadly which is a shame.
The sound is excellent and overall mechanics otherwise feel good, inventory and menus are all responsive and you can even skip right past the intro screens on game load.
Technical:
The game does NOT ship with the latest DLSS and defaults to Preset E, use DLSS Swapper to manually update these:
If you do not, then you will suffer from image instability, Preset K fixes these when in DLSS Quality, whilst Performance does still have some, but less than Quality using Preset E.
There is no frame gen, no DLAA, only FSR 3.1 and TSR. TSR is good image quality but is 45-55fps on a 4090 at 4K using max settings. DLSS Quality is ~85fps in the forest or ~100fps in the villages.
Performance is largely excellent with super smooth frametimes and frame pacing. There are some initial hitches but once everything is going after that, it's smooth with the random hitch here and there. I have locked the game with RTSS to 90fps. Ingame GFX options are fairly limited, fps cap is in there but only for 30fps and 60fps, all cutscenes are 30fps and going from 90fps to 30 as soon as a cutscene tarts can feel jarring too.
Visually it looks excellent, the lighting and volumetrics in motion especially.
There is no FOV slider.
Gameplay video:
Gameplay:
Character movement is rather odd, visually looks like she is "floating" like a robot, movement coming to a stop is abrupt and seems disjointed, its' easy enough to ignore this but it's still quite jarring. Combat and targeting system seems fine to me, intuitive and responsive. DualSense haptics do feature but no sign of adaptive triggers sadly which is a shame.
The sound is excellent and overall mechanics otherwise feel good, inventory and menus are all responsive and you can even skip right past the intro screens on game load.
