Alan Wake 2

TriedandTested · 27 Oct 2023 at 17:39

Khem1st said:
Is this via epic store?

Yep.

Removed User 345456 · 27 Oct 2023 at 18:05

Tombstone said:
Maintaining 60fps in 1440, DLSS on quality , all settings on High, motion blur and film grain off of course. Frame Generation on, raytracing on medium. That'll do.

What hardware please dear, don't play hard to get without it displayed in your sig :cry:

McManicMan · 27 Oct 2023 at 18:08

Game is good, music track at end of chapter one was nice. Running really well at max settings.

ryu · 27 Oct 2023 at 18:22

Anybody got a RTX card to give me?

Tombstone · 27 Oct 2023 at 18:35

keef247 said:
What hardware please dear, don't play hard to get without it displayed in your sig

Lol, sigs are for movie quotes !

Specs are 32gb ram, ryzen 7 5800x and nvidia 4070

bakes0310 · 27 Oct 2023 at 18:37

Would be good to hear from anyone with a 7900xtx as I don't know how they compare to a 4070.

Removed User 345456 · 27 Oct 2023 at 18:56

Tombstone said:
Lol, sigs are for movie quotes !

Specs are 32gb ram, ryzen 7 5800x and nvidia 4070

Ah sweet, 5700x/4070. I'll have no issue then, just like I thought!
Will be playing it shortly, mint, nice one! I said last night I wouldn't have an issue

VincentHanna · 27 Oct 2023 at 19:05

Grim5 · 27 Oct 2023 at 19:08

Two expansions coming

Expansion 1 is called Night Springs, and is currently due out Spring 2024, Expansion 2 is called The Lakehouse, which is due out end of 2024.

Here’s the official blurb on Night Springs:

“Visions and dreams. Fiction is written and coming true. Fiction collapses and remains just words on a page. These are those stories... in Night Springs. Play as several familiar characters from the world of Alan Wake and experience the unexplainable in multiple self-contained episodes of Night Springs, a fictional TV-show set in the world of Alan Wake.”

So the first expansion is basically playing through 3 episodes of night springs, which is basically like the twilight zone tv show. Sounds great

Removed User 345456 · 27 Oct 2023 at 19:28

Grim5 said:
Two expansions coming

Expansion 1 is called Night Springs, and is currently due out Spring 2024, Expansion 2 is called The Lakehouse, which is due out end of 2024.

Here’s the official blurb on Night Springs:

“Visions and dreams. Fiction is written and coming true. Fiction collapses and remains just words on a page. These are those stories... in Night Springs. Play as several familiar characters from the world of Alan Wake and experience the unexplainable in multiple self-contained episodes of Night Springs, a fictional TV-show set in the world of Alan Wake.”

So the first expansion is basically playing through 3 episodes of night springs, which is basically like the twilight zone tv show. Sounds great

Let's hope they're better than AW1's shockingly bad 2 DLC's where they just reused set pieces with a random crappy sub plot for a quick cash in!

Noxia · 27 Oct 2023 at 19:31

keef247 said:
Let's hope they're better than AW1's shockingly bad 2 DLC's where they just reused set pieces with a random crappy sub plot for a quick cash in!

No they didn't, my uncle works at Nintendo, the plot was nothing to do with drugs.

Removed User 345456 · 27 Oct 2023 at 19:35

Noxia said:
No they didn't, my uncle works at Nintendo, the plot was nothing to do with drugs.

Hahaha I do love you!
That did do my nut in though where it was like lets run through the same set pieces making out it's 'new gameplay' but with some complete BS paper thin dialogue and then his VERY annoying 'bessie m8' tagging along rambling - that guys voice acting is shockingly bad, as is the 'script' he reads...
Then we end up AGAIN at that house on the lane but now the mates evil and blah blah blah in the 2nd DLC, I mean it was lame blowing up a tornado with buses in it, in the first DLC, but c'mon.

On another note though where the flip is @mrk ??? He must be frantically creating AW2 GIF's in a dark room somewhere by now?

AWPC · 27 Oct 2023 at 20:36

Runs okish on an ancient GTX1080 for me.

Looks okish nothing special I suspect you need a high end RTX for it to look much different...but the big problem so far is the clunky gameplay around the case stuff...its so slow & plodding I hope Remedy put in some way to skip those its a really tedious join the dots sub game they only put in to extend gameplay. I think its shockingly poor how clunky it is & really lowers the overall gameplay experience.

AWPC · 27 Oct 2023 at 20:37

Poneros said:
The game is gorgeous, even on lower settings. Runs well on my RX 6800. Can do 60 fps at 4K with FSR2 Performance (but mix of settings levels) or just max it out with Ultra Performance. Ofc, no RT, tested it for a bit but seemed somewhat borked for me (didn't get the driver for AW2 though). The atmosphere is on point but not really my thing, and unfortunately as I suspected there's not much of an actual game to it. More of an experience (or walking simulator, if I were less charitable), which is fine.

Not sure I'd necessarily recommend playing it, let alone upgrading for it.

Yep agree for sure its a walking simulator so far the case stuff is so poorly implemented hope they can patch it out somehow!

Grim5 · 27 Oct 2023 at 20:48

AWPC said:
Runs okish on an ancient GTX1080 for me.

Looks okish nothing special I suspect you need a high end RTX for it to look much different...but the big problem so far is the clunky gameplay around the case stuff...its so slow & plodding I hope Remedy put in some way to skip those its a really tedious join the dots sub game they only put in to extend gameplay. I think its shockingly poor how clunky it is & really lowers the overall gameplay experience.

Of course it's going to look like ass on a 1080. To run the settings that look like the trailers you'll get 0.1 fps on that old geriatric. So I'm assuming you're actually running settings and resolution that's even lower than what the consoles use so it's going to look quite rough sadly

Kelt · 27 Oct 2023 at 20:48

AWPC said:
Yep agree for sure its a walking simulator so far the case stuff is so poorly implemented hope they can patch it out somehow!

Yeh, from what I've seen, I think Control is a superior game, in terms of gameplay.

Removed User 345456 · 27 Oct 2023 at 20:56

Can confirm 5700x/4070 is more than happy.
I've chosen everything at the highest setting 1440p dlss/fg with path tracing set to medium with dlss ray reconstruction on, just no nasty motion blur or film grain!

Using between 9.2-10.2gb vram so far

I must be the only one wishing I could play as Saga Or Max Payne (sorry 'Casey') in this VS Alan...

Def still prefer Control though!

Tombstone · 27 Oct 2023 at 21:03

Kelt said:
Yeh, from what I've seen, I think Control is a superior game, in terms of gameplay.

I like them all, Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2 are somewhat of a different genre to Control though, the two AW games are more of the Adventure game genre whereas Control is much closer to an Action game. All 3 are great though imo

AWPC · 27 Oct 2023 at 21:11

Grim5 said:
Of course it's going to look like ass on a 1080. To run the settings that look like the trailers you'll get 0.1 fps on that old geriatric. So I'm assuming you're actually running settings and resolution that's even lower than what the consoles use so it's going to look quite rough sadly

it looks ok thats not the problem the gameplay is so clunky those case file scenes are really boring no way to skip them...they add nothing its just a join the dots sub game to extend gameplay time....hope they get patched out for many they will get bored & drop this game fast!

Noxia · 27 Oct 2023 at 21:58

AWPC said:
it looks ok thats not the problem the gameplay is so clunky those case file scenes are really boring no way to skip them...they add nothing its just a join the dots sub game to extend gameplay time....hope they get patched out for many they will get bored & drop this game fast!

TBF it's a single player game. If people drop it the devs still get paid. Ok they may not sell DLC but still.