ELEX ELEX II - Jax is back

[rusty_shackleford]

Elex 2's map is smaller, this isn't even debatable. You'd have to include the out of bounds areas containing nothing for it to come close.

Actually, it's not. It's slightly larger.

https://game-maps.com/ELEX2/ELEX1vsELEX2-maps-comparision.asp

So much for not being debatable huh?

goodjob admitting you haven't played the game

This is the actually traversable terrain in the game, spoilered because it's a map of teleporters as I couldn't find an unmarked map

 

[JDR13]

goodjob admitting you haven't played the game

You're right, I haven't actually played it at all.

Just curious, but do you enjoy making yourself look foolish, or do you not care as long as you get your 40-50 posts a day here?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

goodjob admitting you haven't played the game

You're right, I haven't actually played it at all.

Just curious, but do you enjoy making yourself look foolish, or do you not care as long as you get your 40-50 posts a day here?

So why are you blatantly lying by posting a map that is judging elex 2 by using out of bounds areas?

 

[JDR13]

So why are you blatantly lying by posting a map that is judging elex 2 by using out of bounds areas?

Nice projection there, Cuckelford.

First, not all of the map in Elex 1 was traversible.

Second, you claimed it "wasn't even debatable" when it obviously is.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

So why are you blatantly lying by posting a map that is judging elex 2 by using out of bounds areas?

Nice projection there, Cuckelford.

First, not all of the map in Elex 1 was traversible.

Second, you claimed it "wasn't even debatable" when it obviously is.

It's not debatable.

 

[Darth Roxor]

It's definitely not even debatable and that map shows it clearly.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

I've put off finishing the game for over a month, because I thought it would be a better experience with a performance patch.

Hurry the F up, Piranha "Lazy" Bytes. I want to zoom across the map with an unlimited jet pack in absolute glory.

 

[Nikanuur]

None of you have 7200+ cigarettes in your inventory, so I deem you all non-debatable!

 

[HoboForEternity]

i hoard toilet paper / don't sell them to create artificial scarcity of toilet paper in magalan.

 

[1451]

Speaking about performance, I had to tweak the ini file and reduce the resolution scale to 80% to gain an acceptable performance.
This of course after lowering everything on low.
Now the game's appearance matches the gameplay, they are both terrible.
But I'm still playing.
I love it when the early game quests send me to kill end game monsters.
The virtues of open world design.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The only setting I found to affect performance whatsoever was reducing the resolution. Everything else just had minor benefits.

 

[JDR13]

Speaking about performance, I had to tweak the ini file and reduce the resolution scale to 80% to gain an acceptable performance.
This of course after lowering everything on low.
Now the game's appearance matches the gameplay, they are both terrible.
But I'm still playing.
I love it when the early game quests send me to kill end game monsters.
The virtues of open world design.

What kind of potato are you playing it on? I'm running it on max settings @1920x1200 and getting acceptable performance on my aging i7-4790K and GTX 1080.

 

[Nikanuur]

Speaking about performance, I had to tweak the ini file and reduce the resolution scale to 80% to gain an acceptable performance.
This of course after lowering everything on low.
Now the game's appearance matches the gameplay, they are both terrible.
But I'm still playing.
I love it when the early game quests send me to kill end game monsters.
The virtues of open world design.

What kind of potato are you playing it on? I'm running it on max settings @1920x1200 and getting acceptable performance on my aging i7-4790K and GTX 1080.

Friendly Funfacts no. 42: It seems Elex 2 usually works the better the worse one's computer is <insert smirkface towards rich boiis here>.

 

[JBro]

What kind of potato are you playing it on? I'm running it on max settings @1920x1200 and getting acceptable performance on my aging i7-4790K and GTX 1080.

DEFINE ACCEPTABLE

I HAVE A 3080

 

[JDR13]

What kind of potato are you playing it on? I'm running it on max settings @1920x1200 and getting acceptable performance on my aging i7-4790K and GTX 1080.

DEFINE ACCEPTABLE

I HAVE A 3080

Completely smooth everywhere except larger settlements like the Fort and the Grotto. I can tell the framerate is lower in those places, but it's not to the point where it actually impacts gameplay.

 

[soulburner]

Completely smooth everywhere except larger settlements like the Fort and the Grotto. I can tell the framerate is lower in those places, but it's not to the point where it actually impacts gameplay.

That's exactly the problem. Imagine upgrading to an i9-12900K and something like an RTX 3080 and get pretty much the same performance, with huge framerate drops in settlements. If you were still able to call 40 fps "smooth" then I envy you

 

[JDR13]

Completely smooth everywhere except larger settlements like the Fort and the Grotto. I can tell the framerate is lower in those places, but it's not to the point where it actually impacts gameplay.

That's exactly the problem. Imagine upgrading to an i9-12900K and something like an RTX 3080 and get pretty much the same performance, with huge framerate drops in settlements. If you were still able to call 40 fps "smooth" then I envy you

I'd be fine with it because I'm fine with the way it is now.

 

[soulburner]

Good for you then

Generally, there are three kinds of people. Those who refuse to play anything without adaptive sync high refresh rate. Then there are people who are fine with vsynced and rock stable 60 fps. And the ones who accept any framerate as long as the game remains responsive. There is nothing wrong with being in either camp.

However, the fact remains - Elex 2 has terrible and unjustified performance.

 

[JDR13]

I definitely don't accept just any framerate.

As far as Elex 2 is concerned, no one is claiming it's well optimized.

However, it's still odd that some people are reporting much worse performance than others. I have a feeling it's more than just the game in those cases.

 

[coldcrow]

^
AMD-GPUs got shafted. Their driver doesn't support deferred_renderer and can't run the game properly at all.

 

[1451]

It's weird because Elex 2 is a multiplatform game and as we know consoles run on amd's hardware.

 

[thesheeep]

AMD-GPUs got shafted. Their driver doesn't support deferred_renderer and can't run the game properly at all.

That's not true.
Of course AMD GPUs support deferred rendering. I have an AMD GPU and play plenty of games that use deferred rendering.
That's a rendering technique that is decades old by now and has always been supported across the board because it doesn't require anything specific to a GPU. You can do it on mobile, too.

 

[deama]

So what's the consensus for the game so far? Any better than 1st one overall?

 

[Star Citizen]

So what's the consensus for the game so far? Any better than 1st one overall?

I feel that it's weaker than the first in errything that mattered as well as with the writing n mood, which took a massive dive from the first game's (writing wasn't great in ELEX but it had a sort of charm to it) but the world is still a joy to explore and very much worth playing if you enjoyed the first game.

 

[Konjad]

So what's the consensus for the game so far? Any better than 1st one overall?

It's better overall, but combat is still bad. But at least Elex 2 isn't as bland as the original and has *some* *somewhat* memorable characters. The story is crap though and full of idiocies. The exploration is fun and quests vary a lot, but are mostly enjoyable. Factions (even boring ones) are more interesting and less one-dimensional as before.

At least I can see myself replaying Elex 2 one day when I'm bored, which I can't say about Elex.

Gothic > NotR > Archolos > G2 vanilla > Risen 2 > Risen > Elex 2 >>>>> Elex >>>>> Risen 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gothic 3/Arcanias/FG

 

[Darth Roxor]

It's better overall

would it hurt you to be right at least once

 

[Konjad]

It's better overall

would it hurt you to be right at least once

The fact that you disagree proves me right.