games

but I don't care, I'll just leave it on

but DLSS off also looks bad

really bad

but DLSS on looks so blurrry

and I'm pretty sure their anti-aliasing is TAA

so if you hve DLSS off

youre stuck with blurry TAA

also these games where you can't swap RT in-game

because they all re-cache shaders in EU5 or w/e

yea you have to reboot

fucking suck

I usually am able to ignore blurry/smeared/hellishly fucked games but this game is really really bad

im 100% certain it was made for consoles only basically

i got that too

only once so far

when hitting escape in the first town

during day though they don't seem to be leveraging raytracing at all despite the 30 less fps

these look the exact same

I'm not an RT expert, but my guess is they're only using it for spawned light sources

and not global illum

i agree

but it gives me 30 less fps

which is

??

uhhhh

non-DLSS + RT

is fucked

yea

i think nights look quite nice

why is everything so smooth

shit is made out of clay

the textures dont have good pbr

so they look like clay

EU5 has been a disaster for games

is that interior rt on/off?

Shit looks like clash of clans

or

messing with global illum

genuinely yes lol

yeah you need global illum

for it tlook reasonable

at all

it reduced the fog/blur shit a bit

but yeah, it's required

is the gameplay good at all

idk look for yourself

yes, I'm 90% annoyed by the graphics and 10% little QoL stuff like not picking up letters or the menu sizing

the games not GotY or anything

idk Max, whats your take

I'm doing a mage build

i was doing a mage build

and then i found two pistols out dps everything

so ive been using two pistols.

mana is gay

I want to get to summoning

its seprate

its unique powers

(to rusp, wrong server woops)

Microsoft marketed this game wrong it's not Skyrim which is what they claimed, nor is is Dark Messiah which is what Obsidian wanted to make, nor is it a 1st/3rd person Obsidian CRPG that they said they were making

it's a Bioware RPG

It's a lot like Inquisition in fact, though the explore sections of the map are more layered, even if it's nothing absurdly impressive/complex

lore wise, I didn't realize this was literally post-deadfire, and they soft retconned the end of that game

yea the game is very much not wbhat i expected

the rpg elements are basically nonexistent

I like it more now that I realized it's not trying to be Skyrim

also

you are 1000% meant to play a wizard of some sort

well

probably a swordmage

I like that they didn't sterilize all the dialogue, you can tell people to fuck off and play your role a bit but the MC being unvoiced is a big L, and like you said earlier the skill-gated options are not special at all which is strange

I think some characters are better written than others, and some you can tell were dropped in to be walking loredumps for the world for retards who can't follow the story

I don't think it even approaches the level of Tyranny or PoE in terms of writing

but it hasn't been bad by any means

other than I think the angle they took for godlikes is dumb

and they could do with shoehorning "settlers" into every characters exposition for the Isles

I like unvoiced protagonists for roleplaying games.

This doesn't feel like one at all though

the second I saw the build/background options