An actual review please?

[GRZMICHUJ_PLUGAWY]

So, after reading the reviews on the store page, people bought a game which is clearly advertised as:
>using a next-gen graphics engine
>being story and lore focused
>being from the POV of the clans and using exclusively OmniMechs

And their primary complaints are:
>next-gen graphics engine is not running well on their budget hardware from 2 GPU generations ago
>there is only story mode and no career
>The customization is only swapping omni-mech pods

Can I please get an actual review from someone with above room-temperature IQ and running a 3090/4080/4090 GPU + 32GB of DDR5?

Thanks in advance.

[starwhore]

You can check the metacritic articles.
But "above room temperature IQ" AND "4090" doesn't exist, mate.

[pRaX]

Publicado originalmente por starwhore:

You can check the metacritic articles.
But "above room temperature IQ" AND "4090" doesn't exist, mate.

Yeah. That was the funniest thing I've read in a while.

[Zardoz]

I'm running the game on a 7800xt at 4k and it's been mostly fine, a few frame drops but honestly for a game released in current year its running better than expected day 1.

I've played about 6 hours so far and i'd say it's worth playing. The actual gameplay is great, very similar to mechwarrior 5 mercs but it feels a lot smoother to me, some of the missions have been pretty challenging on the hard difficulty.

The only real issues i have with the game is the lack of proper tutorial (not a big issue for me but i can imagine new players would be a bit confused) and the voice acting is a little bit mediocre in places.

Can't say my IQ is above room temperature but hopefully this helped

[Halfalfasleep]

I don't think I'll ever understand why some devs chose a time when a lot of people are struggling financially, to push games with bleeding-edge hardware requirements and poor optimization.

[marhaulte]

I only have a 3060 and it's ran perfectly. I even upped some of the settings. Dunno why people are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about performance. Probably mooks that haven't updated drivers in years and have no idea how to tweak settings.

The game is great and exactly as advertised. You're a member of Smoke Jaguar on a mission to kick some freebirth ass. It's a new game, not Mercenaries with clan mechs.

[Lars]

the game is TERRIBLY unoptimized almost not optimized at all. there is NO reason that a RX 7900XT runs at 100% when all it does is displaying the mechbay in WQHD capped at 60 FPS. there are tons of examples like that. I have seen no drastic framedrops in the game it just seems to use an insane amount of GPU for no reason at all. CPU and RAM can be neglected it has used 10 GB of RAM at most so far ( out of my 128 ) and the CPU seems to be locked to 8 cores that run anything between 20 and 100% ( 5950X )

[Last Seraph]

Publicado originalmente por Halfalfasleep:

I don't think I'll ever understand why some devs chose a time when a lot of people are struggling financially, to push games with bleeding-edge hardware requirements and poor optimization.

If you listened to them, it doesn't require cutting edge hardware. The minimum sysreqs on steam are below 20 series cards. The recommended is a 20 series card.

The fact that people are acting like the sysreqs call for 30 series minimum when the recommended is 20 series is kind of telling with regard to how poorly optimized this game is.

[Wrayday]

The game looks ok.... animations are MW5 levels of broken (Helicopters rotors not spinning).
AI is DERP - Expect your team to not do anything useful and get in your way.
Sound is fine - Voice actors suck... maybe they should have taken a bump of coke to get some energy in their words.
UI - Is cumbersome as fk trying to equip mechs and just move around menus suck.

Game play is big stompie stompie..... there are repair bays but I had to IGN a level due to my AI team getting killed and no repair bay's.... made the final boss impossible.

Story is alright so far... but voice actors really really really hurt it.

I just had a crash to desktop post mission... so I don't know if I have to redo it.

If you are a hardcore mech fan you already own this.... if you really aren't .... wait for a sale

We are coming up on the winter sale.

[Halfalfasleep]

Publicado originalmente por Last Seraph:

Publicado originalmente por Halfalfasleep:

I don't think I'll ever understand why some devs chose a time when a lot of people are struggling financially, to push games with bleeding-edge hardware requirements and poor optimization.

If you listened to them, it doesn't require cutting edge hardware. The minimum sysreqs on steam are below 20 series cards. The recommended is a 20 series card.

The fact that people are acting like the sysreqs call for 30 series minimum when the recommended is 20 series is kind of telling with regard to how poorly optimized this game is.

I appreciate the info., it's just PGI's standard fare then. I just assumed it was worse because OP mentioned a 4090.

Edit: I just checked the minimum specs and they're lower than even I assumed, OP's blowing smoke.

[Last Seraph]

Publicado originalmente por Halfalfasleep:

I appreciate the info., it's just PGI's standard fare then. I just assumed it was worse because OP mentioned a 4090.

Edit: I just checked the minimum specs and they're lower than even I assumed, OP's blowing smoke.

I mean, they kind of have a point. The only people that seem to be able to run this game consistently above 60 fps are people with GPUs that cost over a grand. Everyone else is having serious issues with the game right now.

[Halfalfasleep]

Publicado originalmente por Last Seraph:

Publicado originalmente por Halfalfasleep:

I appreciate the info., it's just PGI's standard fare then. I just assumed it was worse because OP mentioned a 4090.

Edit: I just checked the minimum specs and they're lower than even I assumed, OP's blowing smoke.

I mean, they kind of have a point. The only people that seem to be able to run this game consistently above 60 fps are people with GPUs that cost over a grand. Everyone else is having serious issues with the game right now.

The problems people are having are what I expected from a Pirahna release, my original reply assumed OP was being honest and not trolling. I don't have the game yet so I wasn't sure.

[Oonue]

Min Specs are:
Processor: Intel i5 8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: 6GBs VRAM | NVIDIA GTX-1060 | AMD Radeon RX 590

Recommended Specs are:
Processor: Intel i7 8700 | AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 | AMD Radeon RX 6700

My Specs are:
Processor: 5800x3d
Memory: 64 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super FE

Performance issues experienced:
Stutters when quickly turning
Sudden large changes in framerate when enemies spawn in
Frequent pop in mid mission and during custscenes where it would show a low poly low texture model to suddenly replace with the high detailed model accompanied by a frame drop.

Sound issues:
Audio sounds crunchy at times like it's low bitrate
Audio becomes slightly muted whenever someone is talking, which is most of the time
Audio is generally quiet, with an almost negative amount of bass.

Voice acting issues:
Everyone appears to be doing straight line reads with no context or coaching. Lines come out slow and flat at a single volume.

Animation issues:
Face movement is almost as ridiculous as world of warcraft.

General complains:
It's a story campaign with no skirmish or alternative modes. You are paying 50 for something you would probably play through once, maybe twice with friends,
Compared to MW5 Mercs you are getting a lot less game for the price.
Also might just be me but convergence also felt a bit wonky with the summoner's arm mounts feeling quite a bit lower than I'm used to.

[ZuluX]

Publicado originalmente por Last Seraph:

Publicado originalmente por Halfalfasleep:

I appreciate the info., it's just PGI's standard fare then. I just assumed it was worse because OP mentioned a 4090.

Edit: I just checked the minimum specs and they're lower than even I assumed, OP's blowing smoke.

I mean, they kind of have a point. The only people that seem to be able to run this game consistently above 60 fps are people with GPUs that cost over a grand. Everyone else is having serious issues with the game right now.

I'm running a 1660S and run on average 90-120FPS on medium graphics with FSR set to quality. I don't exactly understand how it's effecting other people so differently, outside of the poor optimisation.

[Halfalfasleep]

Publicado originalmente por Oonue:

It's a story campaign with no skirmish or alternative modes.

That's disappointing, they added Instant Action to MW5 Mercs so I expected at least THAT much from them. Even MW4 Vengeance had it.

[King Fossil]

Publicado originalmente por Last Seraph:

If you listened to them, it doesn't require cutting edge hardware. The minimum sysreqs on steam are below 20 series cards. The recommended is a 20 series card.

The minimum is for 720p low, and doesn't mention framerate. A lot of people would say 720p low fps is effectively unplayable. I know that was standard in the Xbox 360/Playstation 3 days, but those were a long time ago.