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Alex Battaglia: "Fortnite still sucks as a PC game. I wonder why Epic finds it acceptable that the first play experience on PC is an absolute disaster due to shader compilation" (bsky.app)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's not even really that bad: a new patch will force recompiling of the shaders in Fortnite, and by the time you hit the ground from the battle bus it's usually... fine?

Like, yes, it's a stuttery mess in the lobby and while landing, but who cares? That's not gameplay where it matters in the least what the pixel-peeping frametime stats say.

This kind of thing is why I've just stopped caring about product reviews. It's either pixel-peeping nonsense that nobody but the reviewer thinks is important, or it's nonsense like 'The new Gaming Blaster X 2000 Mega Pro! For $1499 it's the best thing since the last thing, you should buy it, recommended!' and you look at the benchmarks, and you see that last gen was 148 fps, and this thing is 158 fps on the minimums and like, who gives a shit.

You won't notice this if you're playing the game and not playing watch-a-stats-graph, and this has kinda become the norm for a few generations of reviews on everything.