Quantum Break - now available on Steam

[Cyberarmy]

as is the possibility of them going away if this thing fails to sell.

Hence the
I pressed "F" to pay my respects.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Remedy is one company where I don't give a flying shit about reviews. Alan had shit gameplay and reviews too and I had an absolute blast with it.

 

[typical user]

Corrirdor shooter without sandbox world (aka yet another Uncharted): Check
Some Michael Bay unique-ass mechanics to make hype about: Check
Spamming Batman-eqsue vision-ability to find collectibles and other stupid crap: Check
Popamole: Check

Summary: Would not buy.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

http://www.gamewatcher.com/news/2016-05-04-quantum-break-pc-where-s-our-review-bad-port

Spoiler

Quantum Break PC – Where's our review & Bad Port?
an hour ago | By Jamie Davey



Quantum Break is an action-adventure third-person shooter that's releasing for the PC later on today. At the moment we haven't been given access to review code, and it doesn't look like any many other publications have either, although some of you may have seen the Xbox One reviews. Could it be that we've got a bad port on our hands? It certainly seems likely according to early reports.

Joseph Bradford claims to be using a GTX 980, which is within the system requirements for the high settings, and he's experiencing poor frame rates in what he says is an "unstable" port.


Other users on Twitter seem to be unhappy with the lack of reviews and are unable to find the game on the Microsoft store, which is the only place you'll be able to buy it online digitally, although it should be out sometime later on today.


This isn't a good start for the PC version of Quantum Break and Microsoft's recent commitment to PC gaming, but hopefully it'll improve with patches over the coming days. If we get our hands on review code we'll give you our own report on how stable the PC version is. Please let us know in the comments area if you've been playing the PC version and what you make of it.

PC launch seems to be proceeding as expected.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I'm sure it got nothing to do with this shitty UWP.

Damn I'd have actually bought it if it were on Steam. Stupid stupid Microsoft.

 

[Baron Dupek]

That Bradford...

what are you talking about man? It can't be...

did the devs working on the PC version just get used to alt-F4ing out of the game and figured it'd be no big deal? Really?

move mouse to the top of the screen. Wait 1 second.. press red X.

So you play shooter on PC and have urge to grab controller?
absolutelydisgusting.bmp

 

[Carrion]

Max Payne was initially a PC-only third-person shooter, which stood out from other games because it allowed you to manipulate time and was visually influenced by 80's and 90's action movies. They never attempted to make an interactive movie, though, and even resented the term when they were asked about it in various interviews. This was for a good reason, as they had obviously put a ton of work into making the gameplay as enjoyable and smooth as possible, to a point where it was damn near flawless, with very responsive controls and satisfying gunplay — they knew that they were making an action game, so they made sure the action was as good as possible. The game was also (mostly) gorgeous without requiring a monster computer to run properly.

Quantum Break is similiarly a third-person shooter with time manipulation as its gimmick. However, instead of just being stylistically influenced by movies and TV series, it actually makes you watch one, so that the term "interactive TV series" is kind of correct. As if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a multiplatform game with an apparenty shitty PC port that runs like crap and barely knows how to make use of mouse and keyboard. And of course it also has a cover system.

It sucks that it has come to this with Remedy.

 

[tormund]

Another quality Win Store release. I have a feeling that we won't see many more of them from MS.

This explains why PC version was barely mentioned despite its parallel release, and why even their friendly journos didn't see anything of it nor received their review codes.

 

[Baron Dupek]

their friendly journos didn't see anything of it nor received their review codes

"Thanks lord athe, and glorious anita sarkesian, that we don't need to test another product, of our masters, on these devilish machines called pee-cees."

 

[Cyberarmy]

But we really want to get in PC gaming again!!
Next time

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Inb4 10GB Day 1 patch fixing ~1000 bugs and doubling performance. Sorry guize, the journos received an outdated review copy.

 

[Silly Rabbit]

MS delivers again!
What a fucking shitshow:

From the results we're getting it can be assumed that the game is using the same resolution reconstruction technique as on XBO.
Thus when you select 1080p in game's settings what you're really getting is 720p SAA4x reconstructed into 1080p by a shader program.
If you select 1440p you're getting something akin to 1707x960 SAA4x reconstructed into 2560x1440 and if you're selecting 4K you're getting 2560x1440 SAA4x reconstructed into 3840x2160.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Quantum-Break-Spiel-15745/Specials/Technik-Test-1191358/

 

[tormund]

http://archive.is/cwLU2

Of course, if you don’t have Windows 10 you can’t even buy the thing in the first place. Not that you’re guaranteed to be able to even if you do have Windows 10 – our reviewer is currently locked out by miscellaneous Windows Store error messages.

Also, only funny thing about that eye-patch "punishment" for pirates is that, since this game isn't cracked yet, only people who are getting eyepatches are legit buyers who are playing their game without being logged in.:D

 

[Spectacle]

Another quality Win Store release. I have a feeling that we won't see many more of them from MS.

I have a feeling they will keep pushing turds like this out from the windows store for a long time before they give up...

 

[vortex]

Which engine is running the game ?

 

[Astral Rag]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-what-went-wrong-with-quantum-break-pc

Note: If you want to run Quantum Break above 50fps, you'll need a monitor with a refresh rate higher than 60Hz - but you'll still get a jerky presentation as frames are never delivered consistently.

 

[Durandal]

Originally I was going to buy QB just because CIA was in it, but not even Winbotnet 10 and pure popamole can make me submit to the memes.

 

[GrainWetski]

So not only does the game suck, Remedy managed to make one of the worst ports ever?

Hope they go under after this, like they deserve to.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Which engine is running the game ?

Remedy's own Northlight engine.

 

[Riskbreaker]

Hope they go under after this, like they deserve to.

To be fair here, MS probably holds significant share of responsibility for this port's shittyness. Remedy probably couldn't allocate enough resources and manpower for PC port, and I doubt that MS provided much funds or assistance for its development, but they were still expected to ship it alongside the Xbox version.

 

[Cassidy]

Still hoping the two excremental walled garden platforms this likewise excremental game was made for shall bomb horribly.

 

[typical user]

It takes a huge talent to fuck up a PC version of game on your own fucking system especially when you are biggest company in IT and diverging resources for that port shouldn't be a problem at all.

 

[vortex]

It's not that bad. It's playable but it can be better. I'm sure Remedy will cook up something.

 

[sullynathan]

and ms wonders why people aren't taking their pc stuff seriously

 

[Declinator]

Hope they go under after this, like they deserve to.

To be fair here, MS probably holds significant share of responsibility for this port's shittyness. Remedy probably couldn't allocate enough resources and manpower for PC port, and I doubt that MS provided much funds or assistance for its development, but they were still expected to ship it alongside the Xbox version.

Maybe don't hire celebrity actors if you don't have enough resources for even basic requirements.