Technical state needs a lot of improvement

[Aggnog]

1. The scaling of the settings is very marginal, full low settings look the same as high settings in other games and are still extremely demanding. I can barely get 144FPS with everything low and dlss quality with a 4090 and 7800X3D. Meanwhile full epic settings drops to only 70-75fps. This is too small of an fps drop for 4 different setting levels. What this means is that majority of players will have to settle with console FPS levels between 30 and 60 while also being on low settings.

2. Cutscenes are capped at 30fps which looks terrible and somewhat explains the previous problems.

3. Raytracing seems to be permanently enabled judging from the denoiser shimmer on shadow edges. It looks like software lumen or something is used which probably explains the bad performance. There are no settings anywhere explaining this or allowing you to change it.

4. The game keeps rendering in the menu background which could have been used to compare settings, but instead you can't even pause the game without keeping your PC running at 100%. The main menu also does this even without being in the game yet.

5. Cinematics don't fill in widescreen monitors despite having a widescreen ratio, you get 4 black borders on all sides.

6. Whoever included french swearing in the script should have mentioned the need for voice actors that actually speak french. French swearing in an american accent is extremely cringe.

7. Majority of people on PC will enable automatic QTE, however the QTE prompt will keep showing up and reminding you that you are a plebian on every single attack in the game.

[Marzoval]

The real issue is the wokeness. There's a lgbt couple in the beginning. And if you press L3 you trans into another gender. So just a heads up for anyone looking to buy.

[Sai]

Runs perfectly smooth at 60FPS here.

6 is a subjective opinon. The VA is fine for me.

[GAVade™]

Game has some real bad textures or textures not loading in fully...

[Kontradicti0n]

Yeah visual there is something wrong, running DLAA makes the game look like your are running 1080p resolution....

[One Stoned Bastard]

"6. Whoever included french swearing in the script should have mentioned the need for voice actors that actually speak french. French swearing in an american accent is extremely cringe."

It does take me out of the experience a little bit. It's a fantasy story, there's no Great Britain and France in their history so why are they mixing putain and merde with ♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥? I get that it's a fantasy world with wild stuff happening left and right but the first language is free, the second language always raises questions like "they have the equivalent of France and UK? And if so, why are they talking English most of the time" etc. etc.

I wouldn't call them "French" fries in my fantasy game, is what I'm saying.

[OptimusGrizly]

Agreed. I have played other UE5 games that look better and perform better than this. 4k is running in the 60's (was struggling to hit 60 at the very beginning) and 1440 is around 90 (I am still at the party after the paintress paints 33). Usually a better optimized game I am running 4k around 90. I thought it was just me about the picture looking a bit "off" and glad that I am not alone. It looks very pix-elated and like it is a mix between 720P and 1080P. I don't know what the game will actually perform at once I leave the starting area (can't seem to stay playing once I start it as something keeps coming up), but I hope it doesn't get any worse. But since it was struggling for 60 at the beggining with a bit more running and such I have no faith it will.

I honestly wasn't expecting this to be on a AAA optimized level since it is a Indy dev or Indy AA. Don't really know what to call them, since they are from a AAA studio starting up their own. But, The other UE5 games I have played where running better and looking better and a few where from an indy studio just starting out.

Specs for reference: RTX 4080 Super, 9800X3D, 64 gig.

Edit; All settings where are high. Winter is over no need to run at ultra...

[NovaNexus]

My friend bought this game, and then the realization we can't pause the game nor quit during a scene doomed us (we Alt+F4 instead). Lmao, we discovered lately "F" was to skip the cutscene. I hope they will add it because, Come on, its fuqin 2025 and now were watching youtube for a few cutscene that we skip because we can't pause the demn game

[Iron Man 死ぬ]

Strong agree with you on 5, hopefully that gets fixed soon cause I want to see cinematic stuff in full on my ultrawide