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Who is excited for C:S2's release? (lemmy.ca)
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The game is coming out in a few days, show of hands who is excited to play it right as it comes out, even if game performance is reportedly sluggish?

Moreover, what new feature in C:S2 are you most excited about?

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[–] TehBamski 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm expecting to have to wait up to 4 months before the game is optimized. As others in the comment section have mentioned, System Requirements are quite high. Off the Steam game page: "Recommended: Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-12600K | AMD® Ryzen™ 7 5800X -- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ RTX 3080 (10 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800 XT (16 GB)"

I have a GTX 3060 and Ryzen 5 5600, but even I am worried that it's not going to run well at medium settings across the board. The biggest leading cause of concern is how much more area there is to build on. That just means that there will be more to render. Time will tell in the end.

Now I don't think I'm alone in feeling this way, but I feel like in this industry release environment of AA and AAA games. I'm expecting to be a bit disappointed with what we get at launch. Even after day 1 patch. I hope I'm wrong of course. But I'm just trying to manage my expectations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I understand where you are coming from. I figure that by the time the game releases on console, CO will have a handle on performance so likely a few months as you say.

I will say that they are expected to deliver on the promised features at least. So many times with major studio game releases, there are fancy trailers with plenty of cinematic sequences with many promises of what will be in the game that don't pan out for a long time after release if at all. CO has been clear what CS:2 will be to begin with, and made the trailers with in-game footage which is both impressive and transparent.