The Callisto Protocol

LtMatt said:
Good to know, I've not been able to test it on an AMD GPU yet.

What CPU/GPU are you using?
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12700K (stock and undervolted), RX6900XT, monitor set to 120Mhz. GPU clock set to 2200-2400.

EDit - Just to add; Days Gone runs fine for me as well ( and always has), but I was late to the party. This is both using a 3060ti and the 6900. Brilliant game as well.
 
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LtMatt said:
Good to know, I've not been able to test it on an AMD GPU yet.

What CPU/GPU are you using?
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Stuttering for me. Spec in sig. :(

I just came on here to see if there was a fix lol. I guess not. I was using DX12, so might try DX11 as it was annoying. The stutters seemed to happen at quick camera movement points or transitions. Like jumping over a crate etc. I thought it was my FPS but on running the benchmark it too had the stutters yet FPS was like 70. After quitting the game after about 10 minutes of gameplay, the AMD GUI says averaging 98 FPS.

Two other quick questions I guess.... 1. Is there a FOV toggle as I struggle with motion sickness and I like to be able to widen it. 2. For the camera shake - Do you set intensity to "0" to disable or "100"?

Cheers.
 
DX11 means no ray tracing though, so reflections are affected :(

Also no FOV toggle, in fact the advanced GFX/display options are distinctly lacking too :/
 
mrk said:
DX11 means no ray tracing though, so reflections are affected :(

Also no FOV toggle, in fact the advanced GFX/display options are distinctly lacking too :/
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I don't mind no RT. :) I never use it anyway.

That's a shame about FOV and yes you are right, I went into advanced and thought the same. Where are all the settings. And also the descriptions were pretty lacking too. I had to google what recticle parallax was. :p
 
I've refunded.
Was super excited for this having loved Dead Space but the performance is awful at 1440p for me with constant stuttering but even beyond that the gameplay is just boring. Combat is just series of loads of dodges intermixed with the occasional hitting or shooting something.

Also the sheer number of cheap jump scare quick time events is just awful which in this quantity in no way belong in a survival horror game. At least try to build up some tension, atmosphere and anxiety before lobbing one in rather than everytime you open anything.
Ah well onto the next one I guess.
 
Yes, game does need a FOV toggle, hopefully the community can come up with one. Thankfully the FOV is not stupidly narrow like one of the recent Resident Evil games, think it might be Village or the one before it.

Firegod said:
Oh good point! No I forgot. OK, I'm off to reasses this with the updated driver. How did I forget!?
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Yes check the latest AMD Driver, has optimisations in for this title. Not saying it will fix the UE4 stutters though :D.
 
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Columbo said:
Also the sheer number of cheap jump scare quick time events is just awful which in this quantity in no way belong in a survival horror game. At least try to build up some tension, atmosphere and anxiety before lobbing one in rather than everytime you open anything.
Ah well onto the next one I guess.
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This is what kills it for me. I love horror games, but I bloody hate "horror" games that are just jump scares. That isn't horror.
 
Mercurial said:
is this becaue of the performance? or the game?

Like yourself, this is the only game i've been anticapiting. It's been fine for me, in both gameplay and performance.
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A combination of both. The performance when not stuttering was fine, up to 85fps in areas dropping to 55 or so outdoors with fire and particles etc. Perfectly fine on a low latency VRR monitor. It's the rest in tandem that just strikes me as the devs only giving a casual thought to PC gamers yet charging £50 minimum. In my view in its current state of stutters, missing GFX features that are standard in most other PC games, what now seems to be repetitive and lacking gameplay mechanics and endless jump scares - I won't be buying it again until it is £25 or below and with a story expansion that adds actual content to the world.

From where I am sat, it is not a AAA game on PC because it has not been given any sort of AAA polish for our platform that we expect. I wonder who playtested it on PC for them. They need to have words.
 
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Aye latest drivers made no difference and no difference in DX12 vs DX11. Still getting the stutters. I think this may be going in the refund pile shortly... Like @mrk says there is no way they could release this and not know about the stuttering. It's literally the first thing we've all picked up on haha.
 

- bad optimization
- broken, repetitive gameplay made for a controller
- boring level design
- shallow characters
- forgettable story
- Denuvo

+ pretty to look at
 
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mrk said:
A combination of both. The performance when not stuttering was fine, up to 85fps in areas dropping to 55 or so outdoors with fire and particles etc. Perfectly fine on a low latency VRR monitor. It's the rest in tandem that just strikes me as the devs only giving a casual thought to PC gamers yet charging £50 minimum. In my view in its current state of stutters, missing GFX features that are standard in most other PC games, what now seems to be repetitive and lacking gameplay mechanics and endless jump scares - I won't be buying it again until it is £25 or below and with a story expansion that adds actual content to the world.

From where I am sat, it is not a AAA game on PC because it has not been given any sort of AAA polish for our platform that we expect. I wonder who playtested it on PC for them. They need to have words.
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That's sad to hear if you have been anticpating this. For myself; I have been enjoying it (and it is not normally something i'd be interested in (I got it as part of the AMD deal freebies).

I'd say on my present experience it would be well worth picking up at <£25 if that is your criteria.
 
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Feel like you're always going to descend into jumpscare only horror when you're pushing melee combat so heavily. Much harder to do tense horror when you're up in the monsters face all the time whacking it with a stick.

Shame as Dead Space was exceptional at combining atmospheric horror, tension and jumpscares.
 
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This is why I never buy a game without waiting. I think peoples expectations are what ruins it. I expect games/films to be crap and sometimes get a nice surprise.
 
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