• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The performance has been pretty shocking at launch even with the latest patch. What’s even more shocking has been the super bad takes from the steam forum commentators such as:

    • skylines 1 also launched poorly, it’s fine
    • at 100k sims in skylines 1 you only used to get 30 FPS max so why are you complaining
    • just drop your settings to low for everything it’s fine (and also it looks like shit)
    • I’ve had no issues on MY computer, it’s perfectly smooth (it’s running at 15-25FPS)
    • get better hardware (it runs poorly at 100k with a 13900k + 4090, upgrade to what, a supercomputer?)

    I get that people invested want to bootlick their favorite company, but pushing out games that are clearly not finished isn’t great

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      Yeah I’ve seen bad takes but I’ve also seen a lot of fair takes.

      Like I gave a good review because I’ve liked the game and had no performance issues at all.

      But I agree, the game should not have been released. All versions should have been delayed for QA and optimisation as is happening with the console versions. It would have been a very unpopular decisions though - in fairness to the Devs/publishers they were damned if they do and damnedol if they don’t.

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      Yeah bro just spend 2000 dollars a month to run it on Amazon’s elastic compute cloud

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      I think what sort of confusion is the frame rates really inconsistent. I dropped all my settings to low and it looked terrible and then I fiddled with them and changed some of them back to high and it looks fantastic and essentially there’s no difference in frame rate.

      I’m actually really struggling to figure out what it is that’s actually causing the frame issues. Apparently a big chunk of it is vsync, which I don’t understand.

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      skylines 1 also launched poorly, it’s fine

      I haven’t heard that one. CS1 was very popular at launch. There was a significant thirst in the market for city builders after SimCity destroyed itself and left the market.

      Where have you seen people mention that? That seems like a very bad informed opinion.

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      It’s straight up hilarious seeing some peoples get so upset not having 100 fps in a fucking city builder lmao