Does this still game still need mods? Best experience in 2023?

[ProfessorElz]

Played this a few years ago with special K and hd texture pack. Great times. Thinking about replaying. Noticed there was a patch. What do you guys recommend for best experience in 2023?

[TheSeek]

If you already played the game with SK and HD textures, then basically nothing changed.
You can see the full details of the patch here, but essentially, what it did was fix the very same issue SK was primarily needed for, being the wrong resolution/aspect ratio when playing in fullscreen(and in fact, the SK version that featured specific fixes for this game was called FAR, Fix Automata Resolution), as well as adding Global Illumination setting(which was another thing SK/FAR gave control to), and adding borderless setting.
Everything other thing the patch did is very minimal, as the texture update was only to UI textures to support 4K resolution(essentially, to make them more sharp at higher display resolutions), and the 60fps cutscene change didn't really change them in practice, as while they're now technically 60fps instead of 30, all they did was doubling each frame while halving its duration, so if before they were A_B_C_D_etc(where each letter is a frame and _ is the time it passes before moving onto the next frame), now it's AABBCCDD etc, so they still very much look identical to 30fps.

So...the best experience in 2023 is the same as before, HD textures, and Special K cause it's needed to inject the HD textures, nothing changed.

[Kax]

FAR mod messed up the game for me, it wasn't even able to launch ,so I disabled it. I am doing whole playthrough wihtout any performance mods, just vanilla game, so far near end of the B route and the game doesn't feel horrible at all, there was some texture popping from time to time, that's all. all these HD textures people are tripping hard it's literally no big deal

[⁞VolcanoQuake⁞EATTHERICH]

Any mods to skip the ship intro? I keep getting killed on the easiest difficulty. The main reason I refunded it years ago. Tried 5 times and boom always killed.

[Sir Prometeus]

No need for any mod

Just make sure you use a controller (only if you use a PS controller you need the mod that changes the icons for the buttons)

To get a better performance, use SMAA antialiasing, not MSAA

[Orbister]

Originally posted by ❦ʋőļčåņòʠůáķέ❦:

Any mods to skip the ship intro? I keep getting killed on the easiest difficulty. The main reason I refunded it years ago. Tried 5 times and boom always killed.

What games do you usually play?

[GET TO DA CHOPPA!]

Originally posted by Sir Prometeus:

To get a better performance, use SMAA antialiasing, not SMAA

[Sir Prometeus]

Originally posted by GET TO DA CHOPPA!:

Originally posted by Sir Prometeus:

To get a better performance, use SMAA antialiasing, not SMAA

:Miller:

Sorry, I meant not MSAA. I'll edit