Dishonored 2

Punt · 20 Nov 2016 at 17:27

TNA said:
Wow, that's one way of looking at it. lol!

Another way would be you just take Punt

Steam has got you covered if you don't like it anyway, so no need to suck anything

'Suck it and see' is a common idiom in my 'neck of the woods' (also common)! Perhaps you need to be of a certain age??

randal · 20 Nov 2016 at 17:32

Still not ready to take a punt given these reviews of the patch...

TNA · 20 Nov 2016 at 17:45

Punt said:
'Suck it and see' is a common idiom in my 'neck of the woods' (also common)! Perhaps you need to be of a certain age??

Yea maybe. Just sounds funny to my ears. The other one I found funky was "circle jerk"

mark43 · 20 Nov 2016 at 18:30

Punt said:
Sounds like a case of suck it and see! God bless steam refunds

Yeah steam refunds are good for a situation like this, the only problem is you'll need to pay around a tenner extra to get it direct with steam.

Punt · 20 Nov 2016 at 18:34

mark43 said:
Yeah steam refunds are good for a situation like this, the only problem is you'll need to pay around a tenner extra to get it direct with steam.

Or I could use steam to try it and refund either way, then use a key site if I decide the game was fine

mark43 · 20 Nov 2016 at 20:45

Ah yes, didn't think of that.

Daytrader · 21 Nov 2016 at 00:19

Pighardia said:
New game plus. You start a new game using a save taken from the end and you play through again keeping all the skills and items etc you had when you completed it. Enemies are tougher and might do different things... At least that is broadly how it works in most games. Not sure how it will work here, especially seeing how you lose the mark of the outsider at the start of the game if you are Corvo. Would be cool if a different scene played out where taking the mark didn't work.

Thank you for explaining to me, cheers

Teaf · 21 Nov 2016 at 07:24

Decided to pick it up yesterday as I've been really wanting to play it but the issues put me off. Only issue I've had is objects were poping in and out of view. But that one was time in 3 hours, otherwise it's been silky smooth, no sluggishness and no crashing. Must have gotten lucky. Great game so far!

Bungah · 21 Nov 2016 at 09:33

So I downloaded the updated drivers and patch and I'm done with this game. At one point, on the lowest settings, I hit 6fps and it stayed that way for over 20 seconds. I turned it off in disgust at that point. Well done Arkane, top work...

jc0 · 21 Nov 2016 at 09:55

I'm sure this has been asked before but how do these developers not have a room of PCs of all different specs that the game is tested on thoroughly prior to release. How could they not have known about the performance issues!?

DisrupTor75 · 21 Nov 2016 at 10:12

jc0 said:
I'm sure this has been asked before but how do these developers not have a room of PCs of all different specs that the game is tested on thoroughly prior to release. How could they not have known about the performance issues!?

Not really feasible considering the sheer amount of hardware combinations you can use.

D2 has ran relativly well for me. I5, 16bg ram, gtx970, ssd. Had my first crash last night on the 8th mission but plenty others with more powerfull systems than mine have had problems.

They will fix it. just a question of when

VincentHanna · 21 Nov 2016 at 10:42

Anyone with low framerate.

Have you tried switching from 'Fullscreen' to 'Borderless' and then back to 'Fullscreen'

Once or twice I've had issues with the framerate being dreadful when the game has loaded up (inc the menu) and that solved it completely

You still have to reset scaling back to 100% everytime you load the game as well.

DrToffnar · 21 Nov 2016 at 10:48

VincentHanna said:
Anyone with low framerate.

Have you tried switching from 'Fullscreen' to 'Borderless' and then back to 'Fullscreen'

Once or twice I've had issues with the framerate being dreadful when the game has loaded up (inc the menu) and that solved it completely

You still have to reset scaling back to 100% everytime you load the game as well.

Doesn't even seem to change mate. Won't let me change from borderless at all.

1.1 did nothing at all for me. Mouse lag still a big problem whilst V-Sync is on and the framerate... eughhh. Starting to get a little impatient with it now. Imma return it if there's not a patch out come Wednesday.

VincentHanna · 21 Nov 2016 at 10:53

I'd say that's your issue then as borderless is utterly awful in this game.

I have V-sync off in game and global V-sync on in the Nvidia CP ,if that makes a difference.

DrToffnar · 21 Nov 2016 at 11:04

I'll give it a ganders tonight to see if it makes a difference.

jc0 · 21 Nov 2016 at 12:05

DisrupTor75 said:
Not really feasible considering the sheer amount of hardware combinations you can use.

D2 has ran relativly well for me. I5, 16bg ram, gtx970, ssd. Had my first crash last night on the 8th mission but plenty others with more powerfull systems than mine have had problems.

They will fix it. just a question of when

I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. It's not like it's a very specific hardware configuration that is struggling to play the game properly...far from it. A room with a dozen PCs of varying specification - low to high end AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, and a mix of processors, would quickly have revealed that the game wasn't fit for release. In fact, I'd be curious to know the setup that Arkane tested it with that made them think it was!

Rezident · 21 Nov 2016 at 13:19

Sounds like there's still issues here, I'll leave it for a while.

agnes · 21 Nov 2016 at 13:40

Rezident said:
Sounds like there's still issues here, I'll leave it for a while.

Yea, same, shame but it sounds like the game it's self is worth waiting for.

phrases · 21 Nov 2016 at 20:37

jc0 said:
I'm sure this has been asked before but how do these developers not have a room of PCs of all different specs that the game is tested on thoroughly prior to release. How could they not have known about the performance issues!?

Why cant they just release a beta first and test any issues that way... Oh yeah they did at £40

phrases · 21 Nov 2016 at 20:40

jc0 said:
I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. It's not like it's a very specific hardware configuration that is struggling to play the game properly...far from it. A room with a dozen PCs of varying specification - low to high end AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, and a mix of processors, would quickly have revealed that the game wasn't fit for release. In fact, I'd be curious to know the setup that Arkane tested it with that made them think it was!

Ever seen those £3000 graphics card floating about on OCuk? Yes those mighty things

Seriously though i would have thought it possible the staff all have gaming PC's somewhere or another at home to try it out setups can differ immensely but its another thing to spec the game hardware in the description and not have it run as its supposed to.

Beta testing should be done on all games in the future i think.

BF1 was a great example of this although it needed it with such a large multiplayer.