Rainbow Six Vegas, Difficulty

Randell Floyd · 13 Dec 2006 at 15:52

Am I missing something or is this game wayyy overly hard from right in the beginning?

I'm as far as the train yard and I'm having to retry every mission umpteen times before progressing, and I'm a HL hard setting kind of player!

There are two settings, normal and realistic and I'm on normal.

Wonder if it's the shocking fps ( 20 ) that might be problematic too.

zytok · 13 Dec 2006 at 15:59

what rig are you playing on? Also do the graphics justify the framerate or does it just look badly coded like NWN2?

Randell Floyd · 13 Dec 2006 at 16:11

X2 4400 @ 2.5ghz
Overclocked 7800GTX
2gb RAM
Win XP SP2
Dell 2405

Screen res tested at 1600 and 1280 and no great difference, no difference in FPS turning off HDR either.

Too be honest the graphics arent too bad, but no were near 20fps good.

zytok · 13 Dec 2006 at 16:19

wow, that's a bit worrying........ :eek:

bingham67 · 13 Dec 2006 at 17:03

Randell Floyd said:
X2 4400 @ 2.5ghz
Overclocked 7800GTX
2gb RAM
Win XP SP2
Dell 2405

Screen res tested at 1600 and 1280 and no great difference, no difference in FPS turning off HDR either.

Too be honest the graphics arent too bad, but no were near 20fps good.

Oh dear i have pretty much same system. :/

RaMDOM · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:15

well apart from performance (from looking at your spec I should be fine), how does it play? It is available in two days (available now on D2D) and there has been nothing out of the regular review sites.

What is your impression so far?

ScarySquirrel · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:20

RaMDOM said:
well apart from performance (from looking at your spec I should be fine), how does it play? It is available in two days (available now on D2D) and there has been nothing out of the regular review sites.

What is your impression so far?

Only for Mexico, USA and Canada atm on D2D. (Mexico? lol)

bilston · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:42

Randell Floyd said:
.....and I'm a HL hard setting kind of player!

Half life on hard isnt really that hard. No wonder youre having to do it many times

killer_uk · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:59

Have you patched it? Apparently it improves performance quite a bit.

Randell Floyd · 13 Dec 2006 at 19:08

I purchased my copy from the local Tesco, we had it out on display last night

I patched the game and it was even worse in the perforamce ranks, I had too do a XP roll back to be able to play, thats left me with some missing visuals on the screen for the weapon status.

http://www.rhodribaker.entadsl.com/r6.jpg

http://www.rhodribaker.entadsl.com/r62.jpg

Couple of resized screen shots, but not the best I would admit.

Anim · 13 Dec 2006 at 19:42

its not that hard, you just have to play a bit more tactically, not sure how you'd cope online

bakes0310 · 13 Dec 2006 at 19:51

Anim said:
its not that hard, you just have to play a bit more tactically, not sure how you'd cope online

i would stuff u like the xmas turkey

Randell Floyd · 13 Dec 2006 at 19:55

Then i'd load up Steam and teach you a CS lesson :eek:

bakes0310 · 13 Dec 2006 at 19:58

Randell Floyd said:
Then i'd load up Steam and teach you a CS lesson

sure u would, any time any where

ive ordered the game and i cant wait it looks amazing

MoNkEyMiKeY · 13 Dec 2006 at 20:28

Oh dear looks like the ghost recon engine to me. That has to be one of the porrest engines. It looks poor yet runs as if its the best looking thing ever.

killer_uk · 13 Dec 2006 at 20:40

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Oh dear looks like the ghost recon engine to me. That has to be one of the porrest engines. It looks poor yet runs as if its the best looking thing ever.

Unreal Engine 3......I would expect poor game coding on Ubisofts part rather than the engine itself.

HAz · 13 Dec 2006 at 20:49

Good to see the console style Interface, i predict great things for this game.
Hell it might even be better than the last classic they brought out.
oh and 20fps on that rig?

must be something to do with their excellent porting tecnique.

ah sigh :rolleyes:

philbf2 · 14 Dec 2006 at 21:44

Minute I saw this thread.....I thought, nothing wrong with the game, this bloke is getting pwned!

Please keep playing. You're good for my stats

Dev2 · 14 Dec 2006 at 21:47

Does anybody have benchmarks of this game? I mean links to benchmarks to back up what people are saying so I can see for myself how much of a pig it is. Thanks

-Dev

LeeMc · 14 Dec 2006 at 22:38

I have R6 and I can definitely tell you it runs like sh*te even on an 8800 , the framerate goes from 20-60fps(1900x1200 , everything on high) up n down like a yoyo and tbh the graphics are also sh*te , they look great over distance but up close the textures are washed out and blurry , it almost looks like unreal engine 1 at 16bit up close to walls and objects.
The game itself is pretty good , don't really find it difficult at all but you can't just run around trying to be a smartass and shoot everybody by bursting into a room , you have to be tactical and move slowly and think what your doing , like using the snake cam to every door , use your teamates thoughtfully and tag enemies before going in the room , the AI of teamates is good so they will shoot as many as you when storming a room , also use the silencers as much as possible.
Overall a reasonable game let down by poor graphics and really poor coding imo.