heywood on 23/8/2016 at 18:39
So last night I was feeling down because the video card I ordered from Amazon fell off a truck. USPS tracking said it was delivered and signed for on Friday but no such thing happened. It's probably on eBay by now. But then this morning, I got an email ad from Microcenter. The MSI GTX 1060 card I originally wanted to buy just happened to come into stock TODAY at a Microcenter 30 min from work, and after a little drive at lunch time I finally now have the ability to play the game.
Now I've just got to get the kids to bed early tonight. Enjoy yourselves.
Neb on 23/8/2016 at 18:49
It's getting trashed in the Steam reviews. I seem to be playing a completely different game, because my first impressions are very good.
Renzatic on 23/8/2016 at 18:51
I guess it all worked out in the end, Hey. You had to wait an extra day, but at least you got a nice drive out of it. :D
My initial experiences with it now that I've spent a little time in Prague? It's like DX:HR, but more expansive and detailed. Unless you were one of those people expecting it to be some huge step forward in immersive sim design, changing the very definition of what we think of as a videogame forever, you won't be disappointed.
Performance seems to be pretty solid all around with my mix of high and very high settings. I wanted to set everything to ultra, but it kept throwing up warnings that you'll need a GPU with more than 4GB ram for it to run well. I decided to compromise just a little bit to keep the framerate floating around the happy 60s. Weirdly enough, the one thing that really gave me a huge performance hit was switching from temporal AA to MSAA. It looks a little mushy comparatively, but I can live with it easily enough.
Plus, the game seems to have a tailor designed setup for the Steam Controller. The interface mirrors the console version, and it'll seamlessly switch the right pad from mouselook to analog stick mode depending on what you're doing. Pretty cool stuff.
Volitions Advocate on 23/8/2016 at 18:51
Came home for lunch specifically to get it decrypted so I can play after the kids are in bed tonight. Been pre-loaded for like 4 days now.
Sulphur on 23/8/2016 at 20:57
Yeah, turn down/off the MSAA, it's a huge performance hog. Looks like the game's being trashed on the Steam reviews because people don't like how variable its frame rate is. I don't like that running it on Ultra yields a benchmark average of 34 FPS either, but it's not something I'd slam it over in a review.
Nixxes wrote an official note that us plebs with 970s should try running it on High, Very High and Ultra are for people with performance to spare. For me? It hovers around the 54-60 FPS range on Very High, which isn't optimal but eh, I'll live. Early impressions are it's a slightly more layered version of DE: HR, and that's not a bad thing at all.
Volitions Advocate on 24/8/2016 at 01:52
On Ultra at 4k with motion blur, MSAA, DOF, and "temporal" aa (buh?) turned off. It's struggling to bump above 30 with the GTX 1080.
at 1080p I have it dimed and it doesn't even hiccup. I love this video card.
Pyrian on 24/8/2016 at 03:12
Heh. I don't care much about graphics settings. Running it on High for ~50 FPS is fine for me; I maxed out the FoV, though.
I like how the tutorial starts you with a badass aug setup. "Screw the elevator, I'm jumping straight into the thick of it!"
The preorder items are one-use! You can pull them in any time, but once you do... No more. Not sure how I feel about that. Right now I'm just leaving them in storage.
I haven't figured out a back door into the first building in Prague. Gah.
samIamsad on 24/8/2016 at 03:58
In terms of requirements this looks pretty steep, seems they aren't kidding that the min requirements listed would be for 30 fps at low presets (which also seems to sport really blurry textures up close, at resolutions you wouldn't see much in Human Revolution at reasonably details). (
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2016/08/23/deus-ex-mankind-divided-benchmarked/3) That's something, also considering similar games of similar visual fidelity, but they'll likely patch some too.
This and the more recent Shock tech demo has kind of convinced me though that maybe an upgrade is due, and I'm fine with 30+ fps, finished Alien Isolation on such performances. Maybe it's good that these games are rare, but those are almost exclusively the only kind of big budget 3d games I care about nowadays, still think Arcane will do a better job on Dishonored 2 on the optimization/tech front, based on id tech all the same.
Renzatic on 24/8/2016 at 04:17
I'm not too worried about framerate. I know I'm getting over 30, though not quite reaching 60 on average. Running the benchmark with my high/very high mix gave me an average of about 44 FPS. I'm fine with that.
The important thing is that the game is good.
Sulphur on 24/8/2016 at 10:00
Awright, let's talk about the game.
So far, I'm taking my time with it because there's lots of lovely little detail to it. Dubai was a decent tutorial, but Prague is of course where the game proper opens out. Prague is riddled with vents and sewers and side-locations to discover, and I'm having a good time just taking in the detail slathered over everything. One of the joys of this generation is being able to look at, say, a random cereal box on a shelf of assorted things, and seeing the art resolve into a clear image, not a pixelated smear that suggests what you're meant to be looking at. This time around, you can indeed see that 'Klogs' makes cereal for augmented kids. That sort of detail extends to even temperature readouts on electronic panels when you walk up to them. It's quite something. There's random apartments to break into, laptops to hack, people to talk to, drama to unearth.
Also, the City 17-ness of it is a bit hilarious, especially when the first person you meet there is a woman named Alex, complete with quizzical facial expressions.
I haven't tried the combat, but the stealth is approximately as good as it was in HR, save a more obnoxious UI. Luckily, most of that can be turned off. The writing's also not terribly compelling, but it does the job of connecting the dots. So far, I'm not disappointed in the least. More HR is hardly a tragedy.
