It's rather irrelevant considering there are multiple factors to player retention in singleplayer games from state of the game, to sales, to circumstances (like updates or sequels), to the most prominent being mods.
This game doesn't have a strong modding scene nor it's in a good state. It's only normal that the playerbase will slowly die out. Mentioning it every 3 posts seems odd to say the least.
First Berserker of Khazan has only 6k players online now and it was released a few weeks ago to positive reception. So what?!
How is player count in any way irrelevant? it's not.
Yes, there are many factors that plays in if a game is popular or not, so? This makes these stats very interesting and very relevant since we can follow it, if e.g mods would make it more popular, or if a newly released patch is upping the player count, etc etc etc.
First Berserker of Khazan, does it have a strong modding community, has there been a recent patch? how much did it sell on PC/steam? what's the peak count? without this it's not too interesting to see the stats, it does require you to have a little insight, but if you have that, its absolutely not irrelevant how the current player count looks.
6K doesn't seem to bad imo. but i also don't know if it sold well. positive reception is one thing, sales another thing.
The performance issues are weird. My 3070 (8 GB) is using ~60-70% of it's GPU capacity and around 4.5-5 GB VRAM while it's using between 60-85% CPU (with some spikes above 90%). Even though it should be smooth (even says 60fps) it's not. Sometimes it is, other times it's not. If I use FSR 3.1 framegen with forced normal vsync (nv control panel s2 game profile) it's smooth but with serious mouse lag. If I use "fast" vsync it causes screen tears and stuttery motion.
Since I updated to a 5070, gave Stalker 2 another shot and it works a lot better. It seems to like the newer architecture GPUs more. I also had a 3070 and it wasn't pleasant at all with FSR.
DLSS4 with Preset K and framegen is working really well.
I got it on a really good sale, for about 60% of the price for a Ti. So I said, eh what the heck.
I know it's a rather dissapointing card if you look at it incrementally and essentially a reskin of a 4070 Super, but can't get those anymore and they're actually more expensive on the used market than a new 5070.
I got it on a really good sale, for about 60% of the price for a Ti.
Jk.
I DO believe you, because:
Over here, on emag.ro store, it's exactly the same 60%:
3300 Ron - 5070 - €654
5500 Ron - 5070Ti - €1088
So that 60% approximation price is the same price almost everywhere...
BUT(!) that doesn't mean much! The only card worth buying from this new SCAM generation of nvidia cards is probably 5070Ti... It's the only card that brings a significant boost of performance vs the old cards.
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