Still Wakes The Deep (June 18th, UE5)

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Almost forgot about this but reading PCG's article about it prompted a reminder for a thread. I like how this looks, just right up my street for horror.

'We're on solid moral ground': If you don't like Still Wakes The Deep's use of yellow paint, then take it up with OSHA and the HSE

Avoid workplace accidents.

www.pcgamer.com

 

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Hands on review of the first 2 hours, it's good and lochs like story-building is the key focus point.

 

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Yeah think I'll grab gamepass once again

 

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Probably won't offer it this time round given it's been less than a month lol.

 

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I think any longer might be a bit of a drag, reason why Hellblade 2 felt well paced overall.

The review embargo lifts on the 17th btw, I have review code now so will be checking it out this eve! Obviously can't share any media until the 17th. This was an unexpected surprise btw

 

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Not long left

I really want to say more but can't until M0nday

For those unsure still, it's on Game Pass, so no reason not to at least give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

 

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Review is up!

Review: Still Wakes the Deep (PC) - A well optimised Unreal Engine 5 horror game

A short first-person horror set on a North Sea oil rig during a storm. Something isn't right, something has come on-board, all whilst the music score by Jason Graves fills the air with high-tension.

www.neowin.net

Edit*
PCGamer's review:

Still Wakes the Deep review

Still Wakes the Deep is more than the sum of its horror parts, thanks to one of the best stories I've played through in a very long time.

www.pcgamer.com

 

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Yeah seems to be a Game Pass/Microsoft issue. There is no XeSS/DLSS/FSR because the dev says they would need to code a specialised version for Game Pass to implement them or something along those lines. Epic store and Steam has everything though.

 

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It's not the first time that we have seen Game Pass versions of a game with technical limitations either sadly.

On the upside, you could use the UE internal upscaling at 65-85% scaling if you needed to.

 

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It seems to have been implemented decently in this so if TSR is working ok for the performance on your system then you won't really be missing out on much else it seems. There's no foliage in the game etc to see any temporal motion blurring and stuff that you'd normally get with internal/FSR/XeSS which is clean with DLSS, for example.

 

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Xbox Game Pass Subscribers Unhappy With New Day One Game

Some Xbox Game Pass subscribers are sharing their dissatisfaction with the current state of a recently released day-one title.

gamerant.com

 

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The thing which is annoying me more than the lack of DLSS, is that the damned subtitles keep turning themselves back on when I switch them off

Yes this among other bugs are known to the devs and the patch will fix them I've been told.

 

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It's 10.5GB installed

 

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I still need to play Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

 

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Interesting, I think they forgot something, I checked the directory after the patch and there's no dlssd.dll file indicating that Ray Reconstruction would not work even though the option to toggle is in the menu.

I then tested it:

Still Wakes the Deep patch // 3840x2160 @ Epic, DLSS Performance, Frame Gen OFF - Imgsli

It does nothing..... Which tracks since there's no RR dll file lol.

Verified also by the fact that the RT denoising garbling still exists which RR would have cleaned up and the fps remains exactly the same too.

Someone has messed up there.

 

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We were like 8 when watching Terminators and Robocop back in the day, it moulds you into a strong individual full of grit!

 

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I uninstalled Rapture

 

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Got to the pub, then uninstalled

 

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Was it too spicy for you??