A first person exploration game for VR (and desktop)
Set on a research station on Jupiter's moon Titan
Multiplayer: NO
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Nice to have more slow paced 1st person adventure games.
I actually played an early version of this a while ago.
I didn't get to proper gameplay yet but it looks like it'll be a fun old-scifi style thing, like 2001 or Moon.
Looks very nice, but what is the gameplay about?
Are you the bee and must pollinate some space chicks or what
I don't know exactly.
But i think there's some timetravel or interdimensional stuff going on.
It's an adventure game so i expect they'll have some story going on in there.
Tried it, ran like ass when you face certain directions, finally staggered through one area, a storm hit, shattered my helmet, eventually fogged up so I couldn't see or do anything. Got bored. Gave up. Uninstalled
gordonash wrote:
I been watching you guys bad mouthing unity for months on here and thought it was a bit unfair. After playing Pollen i can see what you mean now tho
Honestly, I was a huge fan of Unity at first but as time has gone on, the engine has show itself to be progressively worthless. It's PRETTY, sure, but it simply isn't capable of supporting its own visuals
Hell, I was ready to give it a new chance with their latest version, but that also ran like arse... What's worse is that it doesn't even utilize all of the fricking hardware!
So yup, got massively disappointed that this was a unity game. I should really pay attention when I hear about a game xD
terrain quality seems to be the fps killer in the game.
1920x1200 everything else maxed, terrain quality one notch down, and my 970 does constant 60 fps.
if I max out terrain quality, i get the same experience sabin is mentioning. runs like ass facing certain directions, literally drops to 30-40fps.
edit: yeah, that's short lived. unity strikes again as soon as you go indoors
just facing this amazingly realistic fire particle effect fps halves
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the game is also a RAM hog, so if you have 8gb RAM and a bloated win install, you will have a bad time. overall system ram usage while in game was 7.1gb for me.
as for the stuttering some people mention. setting prerendered frames to 1 in nvinspector solved that for me.
Hahah, Unity always acts in mysterious ways!
Finding the sweet performance spot is often a game inside the game, where the poor user is doomed from the start
I was tempted to give it a yarr also, since the setting is neat, but then I realized that after seeing the awful ghosts of the Rapture, my allergy to walking simulators is growing stronger, and pollen would probably make it worse xD
This is more interactive than rapture. it's an adventure game really. feels closer to SOMA, because the puzzles seem to be just manipulation of objects, but it is more challenging. I disabled all the hints, and last night before bed, I was stuck in a room not much further from the areas Sabin described.
But it definitely feels like early access. the devs made 1 single loading screen and they say it takes 4 minutes on a mechanical drive (took 15-20 seconds on an SSD)
and no game should be using 5.5gb RAM, fill the whole 4gb VRAM, and use 80% of each cpu core on a 4.6ghz Haswell while you are standing in a 5x5 room, while still not having 60 fps due to mysterious gpu usage stuck at 80% like there's a bottleneck somewhere.
every time you load the game, there's a few seconds of a solid color blue screen after the load screen, which also happens when you die. vsync gets randomly turned on and off as you go through the menu. graphics settings change between main menu and the game after the load screen randomly as well.
Definitely worth waiting till some patches happen, but the potential is there. sci fi goodness in a retro futuristic setting is quite glorious once you start chanting LALALA in the part of the brain that notices all of the above issues
Just completed it. Fantastic experience, despite the technical hiccups that come with unity.
Next to Alien Isolation and SOMA, the best sci-fi experience i've had in a while. If you like those games and movies like the Moon, you have to play this.
The retro futuristic lore and art direction are brilliant. The attention to detail and interactivity of the environment was impressive. And the ending scene.. wow. I had goosebumps the whole time, and it's actually the first time I regret not having a VR set.
Just thinking about the end scene now I get goosebumps
I'd say it's probably the best VR experience a sci-fi enthusiast can have at this point in time. I think the devs know this because once you finish the game, you can experience the end scene all over again at the push of a button.
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