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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Thu, 2nd Nov 2023 18:39    Post subject:
I found the first to be a bit... soulless. Is this better in its presentation?
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MirkoOdora




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PostPosted: Sat, 4th Nov 2023 15:11    Post subject:
Some effort seems to have been made, yeah. It's about the puzzles anyway, the story stuff this time around, hope it doesn't get in the way too much.

Having loading issues here, long pauses, missing geometry, blurry textures. The game warned me of being installed on HDD while it's on a fast nvme2.


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me7




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PostPosted: Sat, 4th Nov 2023 16:46    Post subject:
Stormwolf wrote:
I found the first to be a bit... soulless. Is this better in its presentation?


The first game was meant to feele like a computer simulation in a repurosed game engine. This time it's supposed to take place in a natural world. Just try the demo and you'll know.
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PostPosted: Sat, 4th Nov 2023 17:33    Post subject:
me7 wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:
I found the first to be a bit... soulless. Is this better in its presentation?


The first game was meant to feele like a computer simulation in a repurosed game engine. This time it's supposed to take place in a natural world. Just try the demo and you'll know.


Maybe not the intention, but this reminds me of some debates about some shitty movies that were made to be crap.

Forum guy 1: Omg this movie absolutely sucks.

Forum guy 2: Way to miss the point bro! It's made to be bad so it's actually good!

Forum guy 1: Yeah no. A bad movie is a bad movie even if it's made to be bad on purpose

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Again, you might not have intended it that way, but going through sameish puzzles over and over and over and over and over and over again in a very "level" ish manner is absolute definition of boring.
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MirkoOdora




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PostPosted: Thu, 9th Nov 2023 19:43    Post subject:
I'm loving this. About 9 levels in, getting everything in every level so far. Great puzzler, good writing, really enjoying it.

Global illumination is the most taxing setting.


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PostPosted: Tue, 21st Nov 2023 09:43    Post subject:
I love it too and for the same reasons.

I really enjoy the beautiful level design in this engine too. I don't have any loading issues, just the opposite, there is no loading time even between levels. The game runs well on my 5800X3D/6900XT Combo @ 3440x1440 with TSR on quality.


Some of the puzzles are maybe a bit too easy, but a few harder ones make up for it. I'm almost done with the last quarter, and funnily I'm doing it for the story too.


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PostPosted: Thu, 7th Dec 2023 02:25    Post subject:


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MirkoOdora




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PostPosted: Thu, 7th Dec 2023 17:36    Post subject:
Loading issues seem to have been due to shader compilation. Noticed it again after new driver installation.


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PostPosted: Thu, 18th Jan 2024 13:42    Post subject:
And finished... this didn't live up to my expectations sadly. It has some decent puzzles here and there, but almost none had the magic of the first game. Most were quite dull and easy, and never really got more difficult as the game progressed. And most new parts were never used further on anymore. So much more could've been done to incorporate them here and there. The star puzzles were very meh, all pretty much the same shit, going from one end of the map to the other Mad The story was lackluster as well. It looked great, but the performance was abysmal


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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Jun 2024 13:26    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Jun 2024 22:29    Post subject:


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