You start with two characters. Mac and his Daugther*. They dissover a huge oil rig in middle of the night in a storm**. They discover that it's a Cayne Corp. vessel which makes her repeatadly say: "I hope everything is ok." in a scared voice and with a foreshadowing tone. They go on board. Mac goes first and he seems causeous (seems sensible because: night + rough sea + Cayne). You can't progress further with him so it's her turn. She says again that she hopes that everything is alright. Passes by Mac to BALANCE ON A WET STEELBEAM OVER THE BLACK SEA WITHOUT HESITATION. Mac is concerned almost furious with her (mood: dangerous, irresponsible, we can't afford an accident) but she just shruggs it off. A little later she fixes a tube with duct tape and calls it "airtight" to which Mac responds: "another big word to make you sound smarter than me" to which she replies that she does not need to use big words. ...big words... like... airtight?! And finally the straw that broke the camals back (about 30min into game): She goes into the vessel (probably right after saying how she hopes that everythings ok) and discover a bloodied body with blood around it on ritualistic runes that looks like 120% like horrible murder. The two are shocked. Mac calls it and tells her to get back immediatly. But she plays it down like this: Yeah, maybe it's bad but maybe it's nothing... Anyways it doesn't really matter because moeny and it's just like one body so big deal. Nope, I'm out! *from starting the game I thought she must be the daugter. I rewatched the trailer and I was wrong, she's the wife... this makes the issue with tone even worse :( **the dialogue implied that it was a storm but it was more like a little rain with with some small to medium waves. definetily no picknick but.
I haven't been that immersed for a while. The atmosphere and art style are superb. But there are too many issues for me to keep playing. The reasons I'm refunding the game Performance / Optimiziation: On a 1080ti with default settings at 1080p it went from 70 to 20 fps. After the game opened up, performance went steadily down. Save system (on hard): You have to find typewriters to save. These things are very scarce and at terrible places. Bugs: Weapons stop working. Now combine the three things I described and you have the last few moments of me playing this. I was already searching (for a while) for a point to save my game (1. should have been doing other things and 2. keeping a game open that heats up the house and wastes electricity aka money is not an option). When I encountered a new enemy type. My attempt to neutralize the threat failed because one after the other, my weapons stopped working. I my last save was way over 30mins ago. Screw that! *My others specs don't matter because they are overpowered.
