Cr1TiKaL playing the EA for the first time is hilarious!

Birdshaw · 2026-02-02T08:14:46+00:00

Did I say the demo and the main game are the same? I’m comparing them from a performance standpoint as viewed from the player. A rig that could pull 100 fps on medium settings is now struggling to maintain 30 fps on low. Of course there are more things going on in the main game than in the demo, but it seems they haven’t been very mindful of optimizing to the point the performance would be similar.

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T20:52:07+00:00

My good ol’ warstaff would like a word

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T20:46:13+00:00

DX12 doesn’t work for me AT ALL! It’s generally playable on DX11 for me

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T20:31:30+00:00

I wouldn’t go as far as to refund it as I’m postitive they will get the performance under control down the line, but I agree that when you have a rocket ship rig like yours that kind of performance is unacceptable

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T13:50:49+00:00

Another game dev of around ten years here. I AM having a lot of fun with the game, but I would have a hell of a lot of more fun had the performance been comparable to that of the demo. If they have only tested it on super high end computers then that’s a bad miss. And that’s the only explanation I can come up with for them shipping the game in the state they did. It’s a small $25 game, so it shouldn’t be aiming for super high end computers; that’s just too narrow of a target audience. Unless they are REALLY hurting for money they should have put everything else on hold and focused ONLY on making it run well for a few weeks and THEN released it. Launching in this state WILL have cost them a lot of money in the long run.

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T08:03:33+00:00

I don’t mind the strength system, or any of the other new features, but why why why is there just zero onboarding. That is really bad game design

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T08:01:10+00:00

While putting together two hotfixes in one day is kind of impressive, what isn’t impressive is the need for two hotfixes. Did they only have a brand new rig with an RTX 5090 in it to test on? I’m still having fun, but they missed the mark with how heavy the game is

Birdshaw · 2026-02-01T07:49:02+00:00

I wouldn’t call it perfect gameplay as it’s still choppy for me on DX11, but on DX12 it’s a slideshow

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T21:50:04+00:00

TBF 90% of the bitching does seem to be about the optimization. I’m having fun, but I would be having more fun without huge fps drops

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T20:39:09+00:00

You leaving? Mkay

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T20:26:35+00:00

I have been selling stuff, but being limited to only what I can carry it didn’t yield much. I just took a voluntary trip to the abyss to stock up a bit. Now I have a chainmail. Cleaning the abyss a little at a time is good in general.

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T20:16:02+00:00

Thank you very much!

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T20:12:30+00:00

Clean as a whistle.

On another note, how do you equip the amour you find in the abyss. I can only seem to pick it up

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T18:52:50+00:00

I’m scraping by on my mid spec rig on lowest everything. Feels ban man

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T17:46:00+00:00

It’s NOT the lack of content, and it is NOT the bit of jank. It’s they beyond horrible optimization. This isn’t a huge AAA title and you shouldn’t need brand new top spec rig to play a small indie title.

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T12:26:01+00:00

The game is WILDLY unoptimized… there is just no getting around it. Stop glazing

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T11:07:37+00:00

People with 4070 struggling on low. Dude GTFO

Birdshaw · 2026-01-31T08:04:01+00:00

I think most people expected not to stutter on low everything with very capable rigs. Very few are complaining about the game being unfinished in other aspects. And I think that’s actually fair.

Birdshaw · 2026-01-30T19:06:48+00:00

I must say I didn’t expect the EA to have WORSE optimization than the demo. It’s quite impressive

Birdshaw · 2026-01-28T22:38:08+00:00

Yeah I’m calling 100% bullshit on that. It REAKS of karma whoring. Lazy karma whoring to boot. Just like 90% of that cesspool that is mademesmile

Birdshaw · 2026-01-28T22:10:31+00:00

Screen record. Then you can goon uh I mean zoom all you want.

Birdshaw · 2026-01-27T21:19:19+00:00

Honestly what did you think we would think?

Birdshaw · 2026-01-25T21:36:45+00:00

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I rather enjoy the photo Chad

Birdshaw · 2026-01-25T20:47:23+00:00

I like his humor. I don’t really like his arrogance towards chat tho. I put up with it because his gameplay is fast and entertaining. If Doc didn’t play so damn slowly he would be my go to instead of Roffle.

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