Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

martos123 · 30 Sep 2014 at 10:50

MOOGLEYS said:
Is this any good worth a purchase ?

Only played 30 mins, but seems poretty good. It looks good and runs well too. It plays a bit like the Batman games, so if you liked them you will probably enjoy this.

dangel · 30 Sep 2014 at 10:55

He seemed ok - bunch of students apparently making a little beer money.. Quite the salesman as well

martos123 · 30 Sep 2014 at 10:55

Matson said:
I got crossfire working by the way. Some guy on the steam forums posted an SLI workaround and it works.
Just make a separate profile in the CCC for shadowofmordor.exe and change crossfire mode to AFR friendly and its working for me! gone from 30-50 fps to nearly a constant 60.

I'm using a 290 with no overclock. I was getting 30-50 fps on that and now with crossfire constant 60 as I said.

Cheers, seems to work quite well. Getting frame rates ~100fps now. Menus flicker like mad though.

dangel · 30 Sep 2014 at 10:56

James J said:
Aye, which is really annoying as its peak time so the unlocking will take ages no doubt -.-

Put it on an SSD

Dicehunter · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:00

Entertaining game, Haven't run the benchmark yet but with everything at max including textures at ultra it seems smooth so far at 1080P.

Wonder why they say *6GB Recommended* even at 1080P :confused:

Destination · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:01

How do I save progress to exit?

ThundyCat · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:07

abnewton said:
based on being asked a stupid question, I gave a stupid answer.

I suggest you calm down. Perfectly reasonable question to ask.

Josh · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:08

It isn't my sort of game, LOTR was meh imo but the game looks stunning.

Think I may make a purchase end of next month.

MOOGLEYS · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:10

martos123 said:
Only played 30 mins, but seems poretty good. It looks good and runs well too. It plays a bit like the Batman games, so if you liked them you will probably enjoy this.

Really enjoyed Batman so will give this a go.

Cheers

Uncle_Gravy · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:21

Seems to have good response, might give it a go.

Destination · 30 Sep 2014 at 11:23

It is very batmanesque, interesting the orc and uruk level up and increase power when they kill you, nice touch.
Stealth is good.

How do I save progress, can't find any sort of quick save etc.

Matson · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:20

I posted some pics in the screenshot thread if you want an idea what it looks like maxed out with ultra textures. Bear in mind Those are taken at 3440x1440 though and resized down.
I don't think you can save manually lol I just wait till I finished and mission and then quit the game and it seemed to save.

Kainz · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:33

Absolutely loving the game so far. Yet to do the first mission because I'm too busy slaughtering hundreds of orcs running the human prison camps where you start out in. The combat is very batman like but imo a lot less button mashy. Climbing is very AC like if you're a fan of the games.

Not sure how saving works yet either...

Streaming the game on and off for the next hour or so at http://www.hitbox.tv/Kainzy

^JP^ · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:43

Anyone do any testing yet with the Ultra settings?

Interested to know if that 6GB VRAM requirement is true!

Heisenberg · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:46

^JP^ said:
Anyone do any testing yet with the Ultra settings?

Interested to know if that 6GB VRAM requirement is true!

Matson is running the game maxed at 1440p with ultra textures on a single 290 and getting around 30-50fps. Seems decent for a single card and it also looks like the 6GB for ultra textures was a complete over estimate by the devs.

^JP^ · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:47

Is that with the 3.7GB HD Content pack?

MOOGLEYS · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:48

^JP^ said:
Anyone do any testing yet with the Ultra settings?

Interested to know if that 6GB VRAM requirement is true!

Runs fine on a single 980 @ 1440p ultra for me.

abnewton · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:48

ThundyCat said:
I suggest you calm down. Perfectly reasonable question to ask.

I'm very calm thanks, touched by your concern

martos123 · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:53

^JP^ said:
Anyone do any testing yet with the Ultra settings?

Interested to know if that 6GB VRAM requirement is true!

Getting 90-110fps in the benchmark tool at 1440p with everything maxed including Ultra textures on my CF7970 setup.

Mockingbird · 30 Sep 2014 at 12:58

abnewton said:
I'm very calm thanks, touched by your concern

We're a big cuddly family here, we take care of our own.

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Anyone who's played it a bit - is the story a pointless tacked-on justification for "assassin's batman creed goes to LOTR" or is it actually any good?

(either way I'm giving this a go, it looks silly fun, but if the lore side is good too I may get the Mrs playing.)