This is the worst optimized turd I've tried in a very long time.
Everything on the lowest and I get 32 FPS. Meanwhile, on this PC, GTA V never dropped below 60, Witcher 3 ran at 45-60 and Mad Max was locked at 60, none of them even close to the lowest settings and all of them looking at least a generation newer than this game. Good stuff.
Guess I'll put this in the backlog and try it again if they ever bother patching it further.
I finally installed the beast this morning, the first impressions are just as shocking as I imagined, maybe even worse.
It's a genuine, almost comical disaster of epic proportions, both technically speaking and in terms of design itself, the awful performance is only a small piece of the puzzle here, go figure. This game is powered by the most bizarre engine that I've ever seen, it's like nothing else out there, and definitely not in a good way.
The lighting/weather system can go from decent to utterly ridiculous in the span of one second (literally!), as if there was an invisible stalking divinity sitting up in the sky with a trollface, playing with the curtains and holding a watering can, with the heavy brown-orange palette and skyboxes that seem coming from a post-apocalyptic scenario (they remind me of Stalker's blowouts, only here they happen every minute).
There are low-res textures everywhere, fairly rudimentary models, animations that suddenly go from ok to abysmal (frames are missing and/or badly cut -> with the most hilarious outcome being the "sack of potatoes" effect when you punch NPCs xD), and the cherry on top of the shitpie, all the heavy post-processing effects with strong vaseline'd AA + a huge amount of chromatic aberration. There is no way such a game can be so demanding, it doesn't offer anything that justifies it, it bloody reminds me of Driver Parallel Lines from 2006 (and I'm not joking).
The only way to partially get rid of the massive blur is to use the 'low' AA (which I believe is FXAA only), along with Reshade's sharpen filter as already mentioned. High details are a no-go for me unless I want 30fps, so I settled for medium, which gives me 45ish fps (they both look equally as bad, so there's no problem), at 1080p...or so they say...it's a Hangar mystery really.
A 2016 game looking like this (I didn't even cherry pick them, there are even worse ones)
Spoiler:
As far as I'm concerned, if we exclude the facial animations, Mafia 2 definitely does look much better than this, especially when it comes to the image quality and lighting.
I cannot comment on the story/writing and missions' variety yet, but from the couple of missions and hours spent roaming with the car and shooting people, the gameplay is a huge sad trombone as well.
The AI is simply ridiculous. It has wrong reaction times or..no times at all, and stealth is possibly the most laughable aspect of it, which is a big achievement per se: all you have to do is press a button and the awesome takedown happens, and don't worry, nobody will see that because every single thug has the same audio-visual reactivity of a mole (I'm playing on Hard, well "Hard"). The police offers similar reactions, it's like being in a Benny Hill movie.
The driving itself is disappointing too, very drifty even on "simulation" and clearly designed to be arcade-friendly, there's no fuel management, no repair system, the damage system is forgiving. The collisions in general are very bizarre and approximative, because the game doesn't use a proper physics engine (almost like Watch Dogs), and everything feels neanderthalian if compared to GTA, or Mafia 2 itself. All these issues can't just be fixed with a patch, most of them are design decisions (wrong ones), we need an exorcist here. And of course, the invasive HUD with huge markers, a nextgen trademark.
The shooting is perhaps the only aspect that doesn't suck (along with the soundtrack), though it's impossible to salvage the game at this point. I'll keep playing and try to finish it, hoping that the story at least will be alright, but what a damn shame.
@ixigia
Ixi can you get yourself elected as a sort of a Godfather of videogames, where all these devs would have to get your approval before they could release their games?
Haha yeah, he probably thinks he's inside a Truman Show with the weird stuff happening around him:
(This is just the 1% of what I encountered xD)
vaifan1986 wrote:
@ixigia
Ixi can you get yourself elected as a sort of a Godfather of videogames, where all these devs would have to get your approval before they could release their games?
We wouldn't be seeing many games being released then (although, maybe it's for the best)
The game is total garbage on every level. Design, performance, everything is just awful. Feels like a shovelware GTA clone but it's supposed to be an AAA title.
All the cutscenes that aren't acted is just two models standing there talking to eachother. When you take out a spot and all the cars pull up and guys robotically all get out of the car at the same time. It's seriously like GTA3 level of execution.
The AI, the open world that is completely devoid of anything. None of this would have been good 15 years ago let alone today. Add to the fact that it looks like a xbox 360 launch title and runs like complete shit. There's nothing good about this game
Objective window in upper left corner and map does not scale in other resolutions, so friend is playing @1366x768 and objective window and map are almost in middle of the screen, i really really can not believe in those guys.
well the second pic is the clouds moving infront of the sun.
kinda cool idea but its done poorly
Yeah, it's a cool concept but they fucked up in two ways it looks like:
1) The clouds move far too quickly. It instead looks like someone is opening/closing a shutter instead of clouds moving around.
2) The difference in lighting is too strong. It shouldn't get so dark.
If they find a way to tweak those two things, it wouldn't be so distracting. Might even look really pretty.
Haha yeah, he probably thinks he's inside a Truman Show with the weird stuff happening around him:
Now I wanna install this and dropkick some black women too. Just to combat the "white guilt" and "political correctness" "injections" this game forces on you around every corner. That's propably where the budget went. Some ex-Bioware writers. Certainly did not went into the technical side of this game
mafia 1 was so ahead of its time, the city still holds up compared to todays game in the genre.
Wonder if any game would ever go back to the 1920's - 1930's period what with the slow clunky cars and whatnot, would be fun with a updated but faithful remake of the first game but that probably won't happen.
(Well there were some more impressive vehicles too of course but you had to work for those as they were fairly rare and not the easiest to steal as I remember it, well outside of the free-mode thing at least.)
moosenoodles wrote:
Is this game just a block by block "story" mode thing that repeats doing the same thing in each suburb of the map over and over? Seems like it is.
Pretty much, yes.
Take out small fish, do enough damage to lure out the middle man, take him out, take out guy at the top.
Repeat for every section until the end.
or do as point 1 above.
Epsilon wrote:
Meanwhile the people of that generation will call those guys relics, and not move with the times when everything is auto fucking.
Just completed it... wow, 27 hours. Most of you know how I play games, so iv been doing missions non stop without much exploring just for the fuck of it. And its one of those games you have to take over territories to progress further with main missions and so on. It kinda makes sense that you have to take out the underbosses to move up to the lieutenants, but omg it takes time. It feels a little repetitive at times, but its up to you how you do it...
Anyway, I tried to make both Cassandra, Buke and Vito happy for a long time, but that bitch Cassandra is never satisfied . So, when I took her out I just went with Vito to get max benefits. If I could do it again, I might actually have gone with Cassandra or Buke just because their special weapon is better. That ship has sailed tho
Btw, that river boat mission that have been shown so many times are actually one of the last missions.
For those of you who have completed the game, two questions
Spoiler:
Did you take the throne, or leave town. And did you take it yourself, or share it? I shared with Vito, no idea if it have some drawbacks or not, or what the point with the choice even was
Story 9.5/10
Sound 7/10 (feel like an expert on 67-68s hits now )
Gfx 7.5/10 on other peoples PCs, 3/10 on mine
It had some strange bugs at times, like all of a sudden I wasn't allowed to confront someone using "E". Don't know why, but connected the 360 controller and holding down X actually worked
And Clays jacket keeps jumping awkwardly in some sceens. Like some sort of physics bug. Seen that happen to a few other characters too.
Yeah it got alot of technical issues but the game is awesome. I love it, story is great! I didnt expect alot from this game but it delivers aside from the technical issues. Its no GTAV but its very good.
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