Been playing the demo..

[tilarium]

... and enjoying it. I love the updated visuals for sure, the maps look so beautiful now. Not to say they didn't before, but man they just look great. I do miss the hex grid though for areas, I just prefer that over the random size and shapes. I love that berry bushes now run out and your foragers have to move to another bush. When I started, I was blown away with how many bushes there were but now I know why. But, do bushes regrow or randomly spawn around the map? Do stones also expire eventually? And speaking of bushes, aside from building over them, is there a way to remove the decorative bushes that dot around the map? I've got some in front of buildings and along paths that just make things look weird and have my citizens wandering through them. As for paths. Is there a way to set a no walk zone? They are cutting through buildings and just walking in odd paths, would love to nix that so that I can get some neater paths.

All in all though, as someone that's been playing on and off for years throughout the early access, it's been fun watching the growth and evolution of the game. It looks so clean and nice and final now, can't wait for the 31st to get here and play long and deep into the night.

[Soma]

I have had the game for years and have played on and off. Is the demo the same as the current version? Or if I already have game nistalled do I need to install demo to see the changes?

[Duck Dodges]

Originally posted by Soma:

I have had the game for years and have played on and off. Is the demo the same as the current version? Or if I already have game nistalled do I need to install demo to see the changes?

The Demo is a much more recent version of the game but its very limited with alot of stuff locked, the EA version is the same as it was a year ago so you will have to download the demo to see the changes and the game as it will be at the end of the month when the full version is releasing.

[kingofpain]

I have the EA version, but I warn you, the demo requires a lot more of system requirements.
Thats my complain to the devs.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by kingofpain:

I have the EA version, but I warn you, the demo requires a lot more of system requirements.
Thats my complain to the devs.

The latest version of the game plays on the Steam Deck. They have optimised it, it should work on just about any PC with a discreet graphics card for sure.

Most semi recent laptops (since 2019) with AMD or NVIDIA APUs should also be OK

They also said they have optimised it better for even built-in intel graphics.

So, try the latest version of the demo (version 1.10.0.8.0109)

I play on Linux via Proton (like the Steam Deck does). I am personally getting 70 FPS at 4K resolution with HDR enabled and a AMD 5800X CPU and AMD 6800XT GPU and 32 GB RAM.

The game is using 6.5 GB for Computer RAM and 3.5 GB of GPU VRAM (Both RAM usages are game only, above the requirements of the machine running normally.) The total memory, including the Operation System and the Steam Client, plus the game was 12 GB CPU RAM and 6 GB VRAM. These are all on my system while playing and monitoring. I did also have a Web Browser open, which uses lots of CPU RAM (2.6 GB for Firefox in this exact case).