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sean10mm posted:Interestingly, Death Stranding on the same engine as HZD runs great with just 4 core/4 threads and really only starts to choke on 2 core/4 thread (!!!), so there's really no reason HZD can't be made to run great on 4 core PCs. Can you really say that with confidence? They're pretty different games.
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eonwe posted:So I know there is a lot of talk about what *not* to know before going into this game, but is there anything I should know? Just like stuff that makes the game more enjoyable? Also plan on spending 80% of your playthrough in Photo Mode and save up HDD space accordingly.
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Rinkles posted:Can you really say that with confidence? They're pretty different games. I mean, I didn't program the things, but it's not like one of them is a turn based strategy game or something. It's the same engine made to run on the same PS4 hardware. But nobody will really know until the PC release comes out with the day 1 patch and updated drivers. And maybe not then if it needs more performance patches to reach whatever its "real" performance is supposed to be.
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Rinkles posted:Can you really say that with confidence? They're pretty different games. DS' visuals are far more desolate (for perfectly valid story reasons, it'd be weird if the world of DS was as vibrant as HZD) but I'm not sure foliage density, lighting, model complexity etc are the entire explanation. Kojima's team has squeezed every atom of performance out of their games for years so they probably just did it better.
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sean10mm posted:Maybe it's just pre day 1 patch jankiness? Death Stranding had some performance issues with certain rigs in the first days as well and they managed to sort it out quickly. It worked fine for me from the beginning but I'm running a TR1950x so that's probably not comparable to what most people are using. Hopefully it's the same here, I've been waiting to play this game for years and it would be a bummer if this ended up being a bad port.
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Didn't know this game had a cool story, with all the spoiler avoidance advice on the first page, I am definitely interested. Last game I saw with that kind of warning was Outer Wilds and that's one of the GOATs.
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I love that such a compelling, memorable scifi narrative came from the base material of "open world game with robot dinosaurs and a chick with a bow"  However, I hate that the game is literally sitting on my drive encrypted and unplayable, so it all balances out 
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Aug 5, 2020 22:15
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According to the ACG guy the game ran fine on his system at 1440p, it was only the 4k settings that had issues.
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Aug 5, 2020 22:18
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Any idea of a launch time? Wonder if we can VPN some laser raptors tomorrow.
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Aug 6, 2020 00:06
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eonwe posted:So I know there is a lot of talk about what *not* to know before going into this game, but is there anything I should know? Just like stuff that makes the game more enjoyable? The one other thing I'd add to the mix is that at one point a character says something that absolutely sounds like you must be at the point of no return and about to do the final mission. This is not the point of no return, just the initiation of a series of main plot quests that might take a couple of hours to complete.
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Aug 6, 2020 01:00
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I built my computer with this in mind so, at last.
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Aug 6, 2020 01:02
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there is probably a bunch of us who played it on PS4 watching this thread waiting for all the new folks to post their reactions to the big story beats so I for one am hoping y'all don't disappoint.
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Aug 6, 2020 03:00
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Khanstant posted:Last game I saw with that kind of warning was Outer Wilds and that's one of the GOATs. I liked the Outer Wilds a lot. This game's story is much better. (My opinion, of course.)
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Aug 6, 2020 03:08
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Reveilled posted:The one other thing I'd add to the mix is that at one point a character says something that absolutely sounds like you must be at the point of no return and about to do the final mission. This is not the point of no return, just the initiation of a series of main plot quests that might take a couple of hours to complete. sick ty
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Reveilled posted:The one other thing I'd add to the mix is that at one point a character says something that absolutely sounds like you must be at the point of no return and about to do the final mission. This is not the point of no return, just the initiation of a series of main plot quests that might take a couple of hours to complete. Yeah, seconded. If you're wondering if that's the case, the name of the quest you are on when this is said starts with the word "Deep". There IS a point of no return considerably later in the game, but it will be very obvious and presented with an on-screen prompt.
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Aug 6, 2020 03:18
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Sooo is this unlocking at midnight nz? I'm tired of waiting
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Sooo is this unlocking at midnight nz? I'm tired of waiting I had assumed we'll get it saturday, when its friday in america.
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Aug 6, 2020 08:11
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Good news everyone, Nintendo announced that BotW PC version is coming out next Monday.
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Aug 6, 2020 08:46
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The Lone Badger posted:I had assumed we'll get it saturday, when its friday in america. Nooooooooooooo I assumed the release date on Steam was localised 
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Aug 6, 2020 09:09
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Honestly why don't they just have a loving countdown to the release, do they lose money somehow by doing that? Being in the UK I never know it's gonna release NZ time or west coast US time.
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Aug 6, 2020 09:26
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I fuckin swear they used to have that on the store pages
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Aug 6, 2020 09:34
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exquisite tea posted:According to the ACG guy the game ran fine on his system at 1440p, it was only the 4k settings that had issues. Pretty choppy on my system at 1440P. Core i7-8700, RTX 2080 Super, 32 gigs of RAM and installed on a fast nVME SSD. This is before the day 1 patch and any nVidia driver updates, which weren't available earlier this week when I tried it and decided to wait for those because the experience wasn't great.
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Idk if it was a recording issue, but the ACG footage looked choppy to me.
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Ms. Chanandler Bong posted:Honestly why don't they just have a loving countdown to the release, do they lose money somehow by doing that? Being in the UK I never know it's gonna release NZ time or west coast US time. Radical 90s Wizard posted:I fuckin swear they used to have that on the store pages
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Durante did a deep dive into the game's performance for IGN. Worth a read. https://nordic.ign.com/feature/38589/horizon-zero-dawn-pc-port-analysis More cores than four definitely do make a difference, as well. Turns out the drivers I'm running (released on the 9th of July) also have the Horizon support built in so welp.
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They released some notes along with the update that the pre-load is available. FYI:Horizon Zero Dawn posted:Initial Shader Compilation I rarely if ever pre-order or pre-load anything, and running a straight-from-late-2017 set-up of a 1700X, 1070ti, along with a 34" 21:9 monitor, so I fully anticipate having to do a lot of settings juggling to get steady 60 FPS. Also how long does decrypting a pre-load on Steam usually take, anybody know? FAUXTON posted:there is probably a bunch of us who played it on PS4 watching this thread waiting for all the new folks to post their reactions to the big story beats so I for one am hoping y'all don't disappoint. This will be me, for once I'll be completely blind. All I know is "robot dinosaurs" and that the game is very good.
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I recorded some early gameplay so you can see the weird stuttering for yourself. Might actually be at least in part related to that "some animations are only playing at 30fps" thing, but not entirely. The HD version is still processing so it won't look pretty for a while! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XboLr9iUGWo
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This game is almost one of the all time greats for me with the exception of two elements 1. the sidequests kinda suck, particualrly the reaction choices that dont affect much 2. the mantling mechanics where Aloy misses jumps that Lara Croft could have made in 1998.
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Logan 5 posted:They released some notes along with the update that the pre-load is available. FYI: Jesus Christ that just makes them look inept. That's like "did you even test it at all?" dumb poo poo. So far this port just looks sloppy as hell, and the positive initial reviews were probably just all on 10900k/2080Ti tier systems that could just power through it.
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Der Shovel posted:I recorded some early gameplay so you can see the weird stuttering for yourself. Might actually be at least in part related to that "some animations are only playing at 30fps" thing, but not entirely.
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Qmass posted:Those facial animations are andromeda bad :O Though I was just playing death stranding which is pretty much as good as it gets.Maybe I'm being unfair. Pretty sure it was dogged for facial animation when it came out on PS4 way back when.
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sean10mm posted:Pretty sure it was dogged for facial animation when it came out on PS4 way back when.
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Der Shovel posted:Pretty choppy on my system at 1440P. Core i7-8700, RTX 2080 Super, 32 gigs of RAM and installed on a fast nVME SSD. This is before the day 1 patch and any nVidia driver updates, which weren't available earlier this week when I tried it and decided to wait for those because the experience wasn't great. Hmm this is me except I have a 3700x
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sean10mm posted:Pretty sure it was dogged for facial animation when it came out on PS4 way back when. Yeah, though they get better farther in the game, and the DLC area has much, much better facial animation than anywhere in the base game.
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sean10mm posted:Jesus Christ that just makes them look inept. That's like "did you even test it at all?" dumb poo poo. I think that's a bit harsh - the developers probably never considered a PC port to be in the running when they were creating HZD in the first place. I'm sure I'll still be quite annoyed with it when playing, but I'm willing to give a lot more day-one slack to the devs (e) I bet you're right about the initial reviews though Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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sean10mm posted:Pretty sure it was dogged for facial animation when it came out on PS4 way back when. It was. The game progression kinda tracks with the developers' aptitudes at facial animation  I remember it being way better by the back-third.
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Ciaphas posted:It was. The game progression kinda tracks with the developers' aptitudes at facial animation This is Exquisite Tea's image, but I'm sure a lot of people took a similar one around this point.  There are definitely some valleys in the beginning and some peaks towards the end in facial animation.
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The facial animation isn't exactly top tier but I don't think it's like egregiously bad, either. Just kind of your standard action game fare outside of the boutique mocap studios like Naughty Dog and Ninja Theory.
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Yeah it just kinda looks rough in comparison because we've had some amazingly good looking games like Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us 2 recently.
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Saint Freak posted:This is Exquisite Tea's image, but I'm sure a lot of people took a similar one around this point. lmao i forgot that bit was so good. that little flinch
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