Is this game worth it?

[feral]

I'm thinking about buying it, but i've seen several posts about unfixable errors.

[iranarmy]

the game is poor optimize but still the game is great story (read every paper you find thank me later) and great power using and physics. i love this game i can play it a lot from soundtrack to gameplay to story and etc...
but to be honest game will start to get boring and also gunplay is not fun but still if you enjoy having super ability and control time power and story you are going to love it trust me
for performance this game is really bad but still not only me but all of my friends could play start to finish without frame drops but as long as monitor is 60hertz i didnt let it go higher so in ultra setting it was fix 60fps but if you are in 2k or 4k there is diff
also there is no gamebreaking bug as long as i know you may crash a few times but thats all!
they only thing i know is that if you are in windows 11 you are going to see live action streams on 2x speed and you need to watch them online on yt

[feral]

thanks

[aUsTiN<3]

game is great! def buy it , especially on sale!

[Tsuwado]

I'm just popping in to see if those that have the video issue on windows 11 have tried compatibility mode and if that helped at all? I'm on windows 10 though, I just finished it and had no problems besides a crash or three.

[Luckram]

The only problem I found with the game aside some minor bugs, is that the gameplay consist basically in send you waves of enemies, you kill some, then they send more and more and thats it. The story is really good, it has replayability because you can take decisions that change the story. And the game is pretty cheap on sale, I don't see why someone wouldn't buy it. The game never crashed to me, I played for like 6 hours in a row and I had no problems, I saw people complaining about the movies because they couldn't see them but I saw just like 3 people complaining, so that happenens to a minory.
My PC is pretty cheap and the game works fine with all in medium and still looks and feels pretty good. The game has more good things that bad.

[Michael]

Alan Wake and control are both better games than this one. I paid full price at release and replay-ability is VERY low. Play Alan Wake and control. Watch this game via a playthrough on youtube. The girl that plays Beth in this is the lead for control.

[WatDaFrag]

had zero problems playing this wonderful game!

[Michael]

Originally posted by WatDaFrag:

had zero problems playing this wonderful game!

It played fine years AGO, but now people have reported in 2020-23 video streaming problems. The PC version does not come with an option to download the streaming parts when you try to install the game. Short of buying the xbox version there is a third party unofficial way to fix this which I can't talk about.

[iranarmy]

Originally posted by Michael:

Originally posted by WatDaFrag:

had zero problems playing this wonderful game!

It played fine years AGO, but now people have reported in 2020-23 video streaming problems. The PC version does not come with an option to download the streaming parts when you try to install the game. Short of buying the xbox version there is a third party unofficial way to fix this which I can't talk about.

the far i know video streaming problem is for windows 11 and you can still see them in youtube the only thing you miss its quantum ripples

[Michael]

Originally posted by iranarmy:

the far i know video streaming problem is for windows 11 and you can still see them in youtube the only thing you miss its quantum ripples

Using youtube is NOT a fix!! AS the video you see is dependant upon the choice you make in game. The differences are there.
**Quotes with [...] in them denotes cut content in post to make a point. Please see the original post or link for full context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsSW5WLiiF4

http://From stevivor.com

Originally posted by stevivor.com:

[...]
“You can have significant impact with a decision at a Junction,” Puha asserted. “But, there is one ending only. We’ve been very clear about that.

“There will be differences in the way you get to the ending.”
[...]

http://From destructoid.com

Originally posted by destructoid.com:

Serene is in charge of a mega-corporation called Monarch, a company that somehow specializes and profits off of time-travel technology. Monarch has a vested interest in getting its way. It’s classic “corporations are always bad, the little guy is always good” material.

Except, that’s not quite true. Quantum Break features prominent story junctions — opportunities when the player takes control of Serene, and makes a choice that strongly influences how the plot will play out. These always come directly before episodes of the television show (there are four in total), and they offer an unsettling look at how the other half lives

These decisions have an unexpected heft about them. They begin somewhat light, but by the end, their collective weight accumulates. For instance, in my second playthrough, a supporting character played a suddenly-large role in working toward the game’s conclusion; in the first playthrough, that character saw hardly any screen time. However, these are different means to the same end. Different choices alter the details, but it all eventually funnels to the same closure.

The problems for those still on Windows 10, 7, 8.1, and Linux via proton.
It should work in game like it did when I played it at LAUNCH on all platforms. There was a petition launched a MONTH after the game's PC release for the video problem to have been fixed by making them downloadable and it was ignored on the PC but on the XBOX people were allowed to download the videos


This is from September 30, 2016...

Originally posted by Blue:

I know on the Xbox this has an offline video download (since it streams cutscenes for some godawful reason), does this version have that option? If so how big is the download?

PC users should have the same option!

Originally posted by FireDrakeZ:

[...]
On Xbox you have the option of downloading the live action scenes by installing the Quantum Break Episode Pack, but this is not available on PC.

Link to the petition.

Originally posted by v00d00m4n:

[...]
Many people will refuse to even buy this game if it require allways online connection and stream gigs every time they want to watch cutscene. Also people tend to have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ internet (gladly i recently moved to gpon, but other people has issues with internet) and will have to wait or skip series or look at constant buffering, this is pain in ♥♥♥, and unacceptable, we deserve same local cache feature as xbox one users have.

Also it would be good idea if streamed videos would be cached in game folder at the same folder and under same name it woul be added as DLC, in this case installation of DLC will re-validate existing file and will skip download, and in case if use will need some space - uninstallation of dlc will remove that cached file as well.

Update:

It would be good idea to offer different types of such DLC - 720p, 1080p, 1440p. 4k


Also we have few prerendered cutscenes which looks awful like they are 720p, many people would like to see these scenes in real time mode, ot at least if it technically impossible (but preferable, since it will take less space than prerenders) we need optional DLC that will override defaul 720p (or whatever it is, still looks like upscaled 720p) prerendered cutscenes with 1080 and 4k, Seriosly - if you do prerenders, at least prerender them at 4k and at ULTRA Settings (did i mentioned that current prerendered cutscenes has Xbox one graphics settings which looks worse than PC gameplay sequences, especially shadows, and that transition does not go smooth?).

So, briefly:

Add dlc for tv series in at least 4 most popular sizes 720p, 1080p, 1440, 4k
Replaces all prerendered gameplay cutscenes with real time, or add same 3 packs of overriding DLC that will show scenes in 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4k.

[...]

Not only is there an issue of actual playback for some it plays the videos at 2.5x-4x

Originally posted by Ein6tein:

Has anyone encountered a problem of video playback speed being too fast? It's playing at, like, 2.5x speed and has very choppy audio (and video at some points).

Is there any fix for that?

Originally posted by Самсонов Акбар:

Just refunded the game because of that issue. Btw it is also overloading the CPU while playing x3 speed (Ryzen 7 5800X). I think they'll never gonna fix that.

Originally posted by Slime:

They are sadly not watchable on Windows 11 (4x speed) which when I research seems to be due to some internet explorer stuff being deprecated, seems they work fine on Windows 10.

For windows 11 this is the "fix" apparently made by microcrap NOT REMEDY.

Originally posted by jojorne:

Windows 11 just released an update (KB5022360) that fixed the video playback.

If you want to play on steam deck which uses Linux

Originally posted by billyhatcher643:

im still sticking to windows 10 but i plan to move to linux sadly theres no fix for linux users we just need to keep nagging microshaft to let us play the dumbass episodes offline i dont like going to youtube it runs the flow of the game

For some since you can't download the videos they have buffering issues

Originally posted by Kovac:

2022 and the game still has this buffering issue on the video content.
I didn't get this problem on the first few video segments.

Originally posted by V3CT0R:

Same on 2023

[iranarmy]

Originally posted by Michael:

Originally posted by iranarmy:

the far i know video streaming problem is for windows 11 and you can still see them in youtube the only thing you miss its quantum ripples

Using youtube is NOT a fix!! AS the video you see is dependant upon the choice you make in game. The differences are there.
**Quotes with [...] in them denotes cut content in post to make a point. Please see the original post or link for full context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsSW5WLiiF4

http://From stevivor.com

Originally posted by stevivor.com:

[...]
“You can have significant impact with a decision at a Junction,” Puha asserted. “But, there is one ending only. We’ve been very clear about that.

“There will be differences in the way you get to the ending.”
[...]

http://From destructoid.com

Originally posted by destructoid.com:

Serene is in charge of a mega-corporation called Monarch, a company that somehow specializes and profits off of time-travel technology. Monarch has a vested interest in getting its way. It’s classic “corporations are always bad, the little guy is always good” material.

Except, that’s not quite true. Quantum Break features prominent story junctions — opportunities when the player takes control of Serene, and makes a choice that strongly influences how the plot will play out. These always come directly before episodes of the television show (there are four in total), and they offer an unsettling look at how the other half lives

These decisions have an unexpected heft about them. They begin somewhat light, but by the end, their collective weight accumulates. For instance, in my second playthrough, a supporting character played a suddenly-large role in working toward the game’s conclusion; in the first playthrough, that character saw hardly any screen time. However, these are different means to the same end. Different choices alter the details, but it all eventually funnels to the same closure.

The problems for those still on Windows 10, 7, 8.1, and Linux via proton.
It should work in game like it did when I played it at LAUNCH on all platforms. There was a petition launched a MONTH after the game's PC release for the video problem to have been fixed by making them downloadable and it was ignored on the PC but on the XBOX people were allowed to download the videos


This is from September 30, 2016...

Originally posted by Blue:

I know on the Xbox this has an offline video download (since it streams cutscenes for some godawful reason), does this version have that option? If so how big is the download?

PC users should have the same option!

Originally posted by FireDrakeZ:

[...]
On Xbox you have the option of downloading the live action scenes by installing the Quantum Break Episode Pack, but this is not available on PC.

Link to the petition.

Originally posted by v00d00m4n:

[...]
Many people will refuse to even buy this game if it require allways online connection and stream gigs every time they want to watch cutscene. Also people tend to have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ internet (gladly i recently moved to gpon, but other people has issues with internet) and will have to wait or skip series or look at constant buffering, this is pain in ♥♥♥, and unacceptable, we deserve same local cache feature as xbox one users have.

Also it would be good idea if streamed videos would be cached in game folder at the same folder and under same name it woul be added as DLC, in this case installation of DLC will re-validate existing file and will skip download, and in case if use will need some space - uninstallation of dlc will remove that cached file as well.

Update:

It would be good idea to offer different types of such DLC - 720p, 1080p, 1440p. 4k


Also we have few prerendered cutscenes which looks awful like they are 720p, many people would like to see these scenes in real time mode, ot at least if it technically impossible (but preferable, since it will take less space than prerenders) we need optional DLC that will override defaul 720p (or whatever it is, still looks like upscaled 720p) prerendered cutscenes with 1080 and 4k, Seriosly - if you do prerenders, at least prerender them at 4k and at ULTRA Settings (did i mentioned that current prerendered cutscenes has Xbox one graphics settings which looks worse than PC gameplay sequences, especially shadows, and that transition does not go smooth?).

So, briefly:

Add dlc for tv series in at least 4 most popular sizes 720p, 1080p, 1440, 4k
Replaces all prerendered gameplay cutscenes with real time, or add same 3 packs of overriding DLC that will show scenes in 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4k.

[...]

Not only is there an issue of actual playback for some it plays the videos at 2.5x-4x

Originally posted by Ein6tein:

Has anyone encountered a problem of video playback speed being too fast? It's playing at, like, 2.5x speed and has very choppy audio (and video at some points).

Is there any fix for that?

Originally posted by Самсонов Акбар:

Just refunded the game because of that issue. Btw it is also overloading the CPU while playing x3 speed (Ryzen 7 5800X). I think they'll never gonna fix that.

Originally posted by Slime:

They are sadly not watchable on Windows 11 (4x speed) which when I research seems to be due to some internet explorer stuff being deprecated, seems they work fine on Windows 10.

For windows 11 this is the "fix" apparently made by microcrap NOT REMEDY.

Originally posted by jojorne:

Windows 11 just released an update (KB5022360) that fixed the video playback.

If you want to play on steam deck which uses Linux

Originally posted by billyhatcher643:

im still sticking to windows 10 but i plan to move to linux sadly theres no fix for linux users we just need to keep nagging microshaft to let us play the dumbass episodes offline i dont like going to youtube it runs the flow of the game

For some since you can't download the videos they have buffering issues

Originally posted by Kovac:

2022 and the game still has this buffering issue on the video content.
I didn't get this problem on the first few video segments.

Originally posted by V3CT0R:

Same on 2023

using youtube its not fix but its solution.
i live in iran and i have really bad internet my speed is 100kb and cant even watch any video online. i mean even pictures from steam guides take long to load but still i could manage to watch video streaming in game without pause or lag (i have no idea how not make scene lol!)
i tried to choose all and see what happen if for example choose a in first choose b in second choose a in third and etc
but unfortunately it doesnt matter :)) maybe a little extra scene that is still no matter because its like extended version of already boring video. if you are not die hard fan of this and dont want to know every single thing the remedy did in game you dont lose anything if you watch youtube. little note here: if you really want to know the story ignore cut scene the real thing you must watch or read is letters. there are many many details about the world of quantum break and story behind it try to find them all and read them even if you are not looking for achievements.
me and my friends playing this in pc we had some crash but we didnt have streaming problem.
and its not about what remedy should do and what remedy did.
yes there are problems in game not for everyone but there are. but after all it is worth buying special in sales.
also if you are killing your self to download video there is one way to do it. i cant say it here its not illegal.

[Hexxc]

Ofc worth it

[PaYaB]

yes it is

[Vimyro]

Live action video problem on Windows 11 is already fixed from the January 23 Windows update