Played it for 2 weeks almost every day prior to next-gen (4.0) release. Have Ryzen 9 5900x and 3070, no overclocks and other stuff. On max graphics settings it run really, really well, easy 144+@1080. Capped it off at 144 after some time. As expected of 2015. game on this hardware. After update landed, max settings from before are now somewhere in the middle. Max settings without RTX on, that is. And DLSS/FSR2 being off as well. Still "High" in settings but there are now Ultra+ settings. And game looks a lot (to me) better at those. Dropped FPS from stable 144+ to 75+ (no 72fps cap unfortunately, I have 144Hz monitor and if I can't have 144, 72 is next stop) but honestly, gameplay-wise, same stuff. It's not the type of game where this is too noticable. With RTX enabled for all 4 thingies, it looks even better. I didn't think it'll make that much of a difference but I'm glad I was wrong. FPS drops to 20s-30s. Turning DLSS on and setting it to any setting, it boosts it to some 60fps at best (in the village for example) and 40s in the forest. It looks like shit on Performance and Ultra performance modes and there is minute difference in fps for Quality and Balanced modes so I kept Quality mode on. After a dozen hours of playing like that (RTX max, other gfx settings max and DLSS in Quality mode), Afterburner graph show relatively stable 40fps. Entering dense(r) forests during the day will drop fps to high 20s and being wherever there is no shitton of leaves and grass will bump it to 60s. Playable, imo. Focused on technical aspects because I saw a lot of different takes on this, after the next-gen update and wanted to add my 2 cents to it. On Steam, it seems to have a Launcher added, which is a really dick move if you ask me and it not being in GOG version makes GOG version twice as good. That Launcher breaks Steam Overlay for the game as well. Really dick move. No crashes so far, had 2 before update, 0 after but I have but a few hours after the update. Game great.
Played it for 2 weeks almost every day prior to next-gen (4.0) release. Have Ryzen 9 5900x and 3070, no overclocks and other stuff. On max graphics settings it run really, really well, easy 144+@1080. Capped it off at 144 after some time. As expected of 2015. game on this hardware. After update landed, max settings from before are now somewhere in the middle. Max settings without RTX on, that is. And DLSS/FSR2 being off as well. Still "High" in settings but there are now Ultra+ settings. And game looks a lot (to me) better at those. Dropped FPS from stable 144+ to 75+ (no 72fps cap unfortunately, I have 144Hz monitor and if I can't have 144, 72 is next stop) but honestly, gameplay-wise, same stuff. It's not the type of game where this is too noticable. With RTX enabled for all 4 thingies, it looks even better. I didn't think it'll make that much of a difference but I'm glad I was wrong. FPS drops to 20s-30s. Turning DLSS on and setting it to any setting, it boosts it to some 60fps at best (in the village for example) and 40s in the forest. It looks like shit on Performance and Ultra performance modes and there is minute difference in fps for Quality and Balanced modes so I kept Quality mode on. After a dozen hours of playing like that (RTX max, other gfx settings max and DLSS in Quality mode), Afterburner graph show relatively stable 40fps. Entering dense(r) forests during the day will drop fps to high 20s and being wherever there is no shitton of leaves and grass will bump it to 60s. Playable, imo. Focused on technical aspects because I saw a lot of different takes on this, after the next-gen update and wanted to add my 2 cents to it. On Steam, it seems to have a Launcher added, which is a really dick move if you ask me and it not being in GOG version makes GOG version twice as good. That Launcher breaks Steam Overlay for the game as well. Really dick move. No crashes so far, had 2 before update, 0 after but I have but a few hours after the update. Game great.
Bioware who?
So I got this game on Steam in some bundle while game was in alpha phase. I din't know which bundle but I suspect it was 20 games for 5€. Honestly, I still have no idea which 19 games I got with Lichdom Battlemage. This one might be but I really don't know. Anyway, I'm 100% I got in some bundle like this. Some way or another I saw it, checked it out and downloaded it. IIRC, I installed it on my Linux machine because this one is one of few that run on Linux back then. AND I LOVED IT. I don't rack 60h on a game which resets your progress after every patch (it was alpha). I replayed same same sections of a game a dozen times and I liked it every time. After I saw it on GOG I decided to buy it. It was on discount at the time so I thought a second and went with waiting for it to be off the discount to buy it full-price, that's how much I like the game. Now, or at least after I'm done with final assignment, I'm going to replay it again on Steam to get all the achievements there are which were off when I played it in alpha. Then I'm going to replay the game on GOG just because why not. IIRC it'll get NewGame+ (or it already has it) so I'll play it some more because I f****** like it. It's a shitty opinionated review of a fanboi (as fanboish as Wervyn) but what's there to write from technical standpoint and what isn't already said in other reviews? Game works, is fun, I suck at reviewing, I love the game. Now, if I only had free time. A lot of free time. I'd dump all of it on this.
