Posted on: July 9, 2023
Specterk
Verified ownerGames: 381 Reviews: 3
Has gone downhill in the last 2/3 years.
In recent years, the once technically-proficient devs have majorly misstepped by overloading the engine with (literally) useless performance-consuming gimmicks that actually REDUCE overall image fidelity, and it has generally ruined the Ux. Only a few years ago, this game ran flawlessly at maxed graphical fidelity on correctly/expertly-configured mid-to-high-end systems; now, it runs like garbage AND looks objectively worse, even on current-gen systems. (I wouldn't be upset about performance if there had actually been any quality improvement... and I do mean ANY, AT ALL, ANYWHERE - but there hasn't). When the devs hopped on the attention-deficit-latest-model-Apple-ideology bandwagon and started regularly downgrading the game by "adding" these "features" to "improve" the "graphical fidelity and performance," the entire game became unplayable soon after (well, for those accustomed to PROPER performance; if you're used to consoles, maybe you won't be able to tell the difference). Compared to how the game looked and played in 2019 or 2020, right now everything *looks* WORSE, *runs* WORSE, and just generally PLAYS WORSE. But hey, now they can tell everyone that they have [insert literally useless backwards FOTM feature here]! Admittedly, a bigger problem is the host of brainwashed ignoramuses who don't understand any aspect of computer and/or gaming technology yet simply must have "the latest model" of everything, even—especially?—when objectively worse than what came before it in literally every way... but the devs have apparently decided to appease them at the expense of those of us who know better - and the game is now worse across the board because of it. Shame, too, because along with the absurdly stupid mistakes, they've also been adding a lot of potentially-interesting content - but not enough to justify the pain of dealing with the former. Sadly, when a game both runs AND looks this bad on correctly/expertly-configured modern hardware, it's time to move on.
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