The Callisto Protocol
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Yeah it was shown at yesterdays Playstation State of Play show but yes, its on PC too
Only just woken up, havent tried mine yet. Will give it a go in about 20mins time. Really disappointing to hear these reports though as I was very much looking forward to this one. Fingers crossed it runs ok for me, wouldnt be the first time a game has run fine for me but cack for everyone else, heres to hoping.
I suspect people do it because theres nothing to lose. If it turns out rubbish just refund it, no money lost. Steams guaranteed refund policy has done more for preorders than anything.
Ah well if the issues are mostly to do with RT then I might well be fine with it. I almost never turn on RT in games anyway, its never really impressed me all that much. Trying the game out in a few mins so we'll see what happens.
Second impression - only on the starting ship at the moment but stuttering not as bad as I expected. Occassional stutter but not as bad as expected and not enough to make it unplayable. Might change when I leave the starting ship though.
Two annoyances so far though...
1) Having to hold a key down, bugs the hell out of me when I have to hold E or F or something. Ubisoft tend to do this a lot. Just let me press E or F, no need to be holding a key down.
2) Cannot play back an audio log and then carry on walking and have it continue playback...instead you have to sit in the inventory with the audio log if you want to hear it all. Bit primitive that in this day and age really.
So far though, running better than expected. Will see if it gets worse once I've finished with the starting location
Two annoyances so far though...
1) Having to hold a key down, bugs the hell out of me when I have to hold E or F or something. Ubisoft tend to do this a lot. Just let me press E or F, no need to be holding a key down.
2) Cannot play back an audio log and then carry on walking and have it continue playback...instead you have to sit in the inventory with the audio log if you want to hear it all. Bit primitive that in this day and age really.
So far though, running better than expected. Will see if it gets worse once I've finished with the starting location
3rd impression - little bit more stutter now that I have left the starting ship but much better than I thought it would be based on reports. Still playable.
As it stands currently I wont be refunding. Not seeing anything that cant be remedied with an early week 1 patch, so will continue playing and stop just before the 2 hours and then give them a week for a patch before making a refund decision
As it stands currently I wont be refunding. Not seeing anything that cant be remedied with an early week 1 patch, so will continue playing and stop just before the 2 hours and then give them a week for a patch before making a refund decision
90mins played, much better than the apocalyptic reports I've read. Does need a performance/stutter patch, when the stutter kicks in it drops to 20fps for a couple of seconds but after that its fine, actually wondering if its happening when its autosaving. Not going to refund it at the moment as in between those stutters its a really enjoyable game, will give them a week to release a patch. One thing I will say , I thought the fire effects looked pretty bad, oddly they kind of stand out as the rest of the graphics look really good which makes the fire stand out more but overall, enjoyed the 90mins I played and though there was stutter it wasnt as horrendous as I'd expected given the reviews.
What an odd graph, it dropped by 15,000 before it even released, which is odd you'd expect it to rise in the build up to release and then drop, it almost dropped as much prior to release as it did after release.
Yeah, the stutters were not anywhere near as bad as the reviews suggest. At least not for me, very noticeable but not "worse game of all time" bad like some reviews are suggesting. One review even claimed that the graphics "are last gen", so god only knows what game they are playing, either that or they have an agenda with their review. From what I've played so far I think it should be easily fixable
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I expect the Worthabuy guy will slam the game and give it a huge thumbs down. Mind you, he also slated Darktide and gave Elden Ring 0/10 so I guess we can take his thoughts with a cosmic amount of salt
I enjoyed it when it wasnt stuttering to be fair, it was pretty much what I expected from a Dead Space-alike so was happy with it overall. If they can just fix the stuttering then I wont refund it, so I will give them a little time to do that