I´m getting tired of people always referencing SWAT 4 to this. It´s playing entirely different simply due to perspective and it being a 2 player duo team with a hollywood style story focus rather than anything dark, super serious. it´s art is also very good and noninfantile. fell in love with it minute 1. All my complaints are just: update the GOG version already since it´s outdated and pls decrease some enemies reaction times. Sometimes it´s too aimbotty.
I REFUSE TO BUY THIS GAME UNTIL YOU FIX THE SHADER COMPILATION STUTTER AND LOADING STUTTER. every unshit engine game has it, chernobylite, trek to yomi, ALL. all you need to do is let it compile like forza horizon, or horizon zero dawn in the main menu before starting the campaign. THATS. ALL. if there are people who refuse and want stutters and real time shader compilation because they are too impatient to wait a few minutes. GO TO HELL YOU MONKEY.
do i spend 20 bucks on what i experienced as an unoptimized, episode 1 - 1 hr short, shooting gallery, no, do i do it because the devs are a bunch of beginners who need it to start as game developers? yes. definitely yes. but, only once its patched. i tried the release version, elsewhere if you catch my drift and i will spend the 20 bucks on just this games atmosphere, story and premise to fund talented devs. its a nice afternoon brains off shooter sin emergence episode 1 episodic thing. but, i think the shooting feels awesome, the enemy reactions are great, rarely does one see a shooter with good gunplay against robots..... i will put this game to my archive one day, then i shall purchase it, but before that, replay it. 20 bucks are withheld until i feel like replaying. i mean, usually people just keep the repack, nah, i shall hurt myself in my own brokenass confusion, knowing very well what kinda parasite i am. that being sad, i never repack torrented a game if it was gog, i always go gog. cp2077, any game. but this one, was so janky, unoptimized etc i just had to make sure this amount of money isnt wasted. and i kinda have an innerconflict regarding paying for this, out of support, or not, because its not really a proper game, but just a 5 bucks demo. :/
It´s long as hell, part 2 is tough as hell sometimes too, exploring is organic and satisfying, its not overly confusing, it has legit RPG and immersive sim lite elements, even if rare, they make the game superfresh from other gzdoom TC´s (Total Conversions), Combat is balanced, fun aand gorey with plenty of chunky heafty feeling melee and guns for a spritebased game. characters and story are a dessert but nothing major, its all about shooting. i have nothing negative to say really except that it has the issue it´s plagued by: fetishsized ugly weird cringey nerd orc lesbians (havent seen a single man in the game that isnt an enemy or worthless hubworld NPC) its a matriarchy of muscles amazonians with the worst deviantart art you really gotta blend the fugly character designs out of your mind, i pity anyone who has that fetish, to me its disgusting and revolting. and its also why i usually dont recommend the game to others, i feel ashamed, but the game is so good in gameplay terms it would be a shame if it isnt selling well. so try it, get over the disgusting orc elven bullshit and have fun! i mean, the environmental art is awesome! atmosphere and soundtrack are great too, its really just too long to finish for most people and the story, fetish art and all puts off too many people. what a shame.
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this shouldnt be, its a PR disaster. cdprojects quality control is lacking. weapons and all items should be unlockable, elusive targets can be incorporated as offline content since this comes from the dev not some pirates its IO Interactives always online framework that makes it extrawork to turn all that into offline replayable stuff but for these few pc players they dont seem to make any effort to make that possible. why even produce stuff thats time temporary in the first place. i hate this industries market and sale and DRM ideologies and its plenty excuses more and more. GOG needs an DRM ideology check, io interactive needs to put some piratelevel coding effort to have a proper full game with 100% content unlockable when offline. i swear to god, this is such a bitter dissapointement.
1 to 1 as the steam version. setup folder in main game folder is a bit sneaky to unlock all levels but its there so no worries for all us offline installer archivists. runs like butter if you undrstand how to use the dynamic resolution scaler in combination with dlss and optimized raycounts even on a raytracing weak 3060 if you check youtube. my 3080 pushes easily 120 in 1440p min 75% dynmic scale with dlss and i think its the best and most sharp dlss implementation in any game for such a low resolution. usually dlss works best with 1440p qualitymode and upwards but quake 2 looks darn crisp even when the dynamic scaler goes internally to 1080p. pop in the dlss 2.2.11 ini file as a replacement and even the slight ghosting issues are gone which dlss 2.0 and 2.1 had. many dont understand this game isnt raytraced, its fully pathtraced, its a different league of traced lighting. it looks and runs as i remember on steam and i hate playing the weakest quake which is quake 2 without it. this really makes me forgive the vanilla games faults more and more you play. i hated quake 2, loved quake 1, but i gladly add quake 2 rtx to the true sequel pile. the graphics change a lot of your attitude for this game if you hated quake 2 previously. beiieve me, together with the soundtrack, its easier to forgive the mediocre dissapointment of the gameplay of quake 2 in comparison to what was a masterpiece with quake 1 as you toke n smoke and rock the soundtrack.
Gunplay is a bit of a joke, you can just stunlock an enemy in his own hitanimation without them shooting back much in the later stages of the game, otherwise they are all sniper with autolock lasers. it´s a hide n seek peek a boo out of cover shooter with broken stealth, meaning stealth is too OP. So OP you can just hide in a bush for 3 minutes from the black stalker when he hunts you. regarding that, you have a limited time on each mission before he comes through a wormhole and chases you, so you either hide in a bush or fight him each time or extract back to base before having looted the entire map. issues with midgame tier weapons is that even on hard difficulty they can defeat him quick n easy. no enemy variety, only 2 monster types in total, 1 enemy type with varying armor, looting becomes a game of pure attrition and repetition to grind for boring base building functions and companions needs, as if those fuckers can´t get food themselves and sit in the warehouse all day. I had to kill so many characters to not sacrifice others for the good ending, meanwhile the game reinforces me im not a killer, but you... just are. goddamn this dishonored level moral bullshit again. no thanks. little story to no story outside the ending sequences. its basically a heist game with stupid memetic dialogue and cringey character personalities. Olga was the worst together with sashko. classy retarded gopniks. difficulty was way too easy, play it on hardest or theres no challenge. UI was console optimized. decision making is often more a gamble, hence you can always self annihilate and just change your decisions, making it all meaningless in the end. all style, little substance. i liked the atmosphere and routine. expect it to be a fun at some points, repetitive, janky game and nothing more. has nothing to do with stalkers amazing atmosphere and rpg elements. more like a double AA jank release for fans of such settings. even ressource grinding became a chore too fast. not good.
I make it short and brief here: Positives: - Mythology - Story - Characters - Atmosphere - Music - Graphics - Audio most of the time Negatives: - Enemy Variety - Combat - Camera - Post processing nightmare during combat - Only mediocre binaural 3D Audio since audio mixing is half baked I aborted my playthrough since it got stale immediately. I had to force myself through slowass walking sim sections with little interesting landmarks to look at. I had to endure kindergarten "where is waldo" rune "puzzles". Combat is a frustrating and also overly simplistic nightmare. Two attacks, thats it. No combos, no depth, its literally a puddle, a few cm wide and only a few mm deep. Almost no enemy variety, only bigger dudes with stronger attacks as the game gets harder. The combat is not difficult, its just that they throw a shit ton of enemies and waves of enemies onto you and drain you of patience, while you fight the camera and evasion and parry system due to animation stalls, half baked hitboxes and having no situational awareness during fighting because of the aforementioned garbage supernarrow fov camera, whenever they circle you, you gotta rely on your innervoices to tell you to evade, which often can fail as you evade into one of the dudes you didnt see, it also forces an enemy lock on, which in itself is pretty bad in terms of switching, I wish there was none to begin with since sometimes you are stuck attacking one guy while the rest around you is having a field day annoying you, its why the game has a second chance mechanic once you are down. It´s servicable as a game, but honestly pretty badly designed and often, inbetween the bigger storyparts becomes a chore and snoozefest, senuas jogging and walking speed isnt helping either. It´s so to say an artifically dificult game and I hate those with passion. Don´t know what to say, fanboys are overhyping games from smaller studios nowadays, though this game does not deserve such praise.
Art and ... characters are fucking atrocious, looks like deviantart elven CENSORED WORD . only women and muscular ones too and orcs and wait a minute i gotta throw up..., i don´t know whats wrong nowdays in the minds of people doing this crap, i wanted to recommend this game to others but i simply can´t without being constantly embarrassed. its actually worse than all the waifu anime garbage flooding steam. BUT HEAR ME OUT. the gameplay itself is fucking amazing. good level design, little to no handholding, good gore, good visual and enemy combat feedback, nice placeholder story, good atmosphere, nice soundtrack and good ambience. i really loved the game. it´s just that one gotta get s h i t faced drunk or stoned before being able to look at the worlds "art" and characters CENSORED WORD. honestly dev, stop cramping your fetishes into your games and you will make an alltime classic one day.
