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does it run better!?!
(...)we are atm looking into how to deploy it and find out how this happened in the first place.
//Zyddie.
Initial loading time increase is to compiling shaders. It's the same beta they uploaded a few months ago, happened by accident they say.I see the first features of the new patch already. Initial loading of a game went from 2s to 3min. Oh, and it broke the textures used during hacking. Good job.
From THQ-PR:
"Hey.
The version that went live is not the 100% accurate version, a mishap happened and we are working on fixing it.
The version that was supposed to go live have quite a few DX12 fixes, more information to come soon!"
Ahaha, what idiots. Seriously.
I have a different theory about Piranha Bytes - that they're not really a "professional" studio anymore and are functioning more like an indie outfit. A bunch of folks working on games in their own time in between doing other things.
Well...
Elex II is officially the first PB game that I didn't finish.
It's just all-around boring and a downgrade of Elex I in every regard.
I did feel similar about Risen 2, but at least that had a setting going for it that I liked and a story that didn't leave me completely cold so I finished it.
Setting and story are the weakest parts of Elex, however, so...
I wonder if this has anything to do with having played Chronicles Of Myrtana a few months prior and that has just raised the bar to a level not reachable anymore by PB.
Because Elex 2 is more Gothic 2 than Risen 2
Bro it aged like the Bogdanoff twinsBecause Elex 2 is more Gothic 2 than Risen 2
This aged like milk...
In case you are wondering, this is midnight.
I'm reading all the complaints about facials, VO, jank, combat, balance, difficulty curve and and technical issues I go.....BUT ALL THAT WAS E1 IN A NUTSHELL!
Piranha Bytes acquired by THQ Nordic
Piranha Bytes will become a 100% subsidiary of THQ Nordic GmbH in Vienna, Austria
All Piranha Bytes Masterpieces – Gothic®, Risen® and ELEX® - are now part of the THQ Nordic Group Portfolio.
I'm reading all the complaints about facials, VO, jank, combat, balance, difficulty curve and and technical issues I go.....BUT ALL THAT WAS E1 IN A NUTSHELL! And people loved E1!
Not quite sure what to call it, but the platform in the southwest, you can climb all the way up it but there's.... nothing. They just imported it from Elex and left it completely empty. When you get to the top you get the standard toxic damage/out of bounds shit. Entire platform just has nothing.However, the greatest issue that puts this game in the trash tier is the exploration. It looks fine for the first 10 or so hours, but then you start noticing that the loot placement is total shit, going anywhere results in finding the same supply crate (but with a different texture) holding a cabbage, a teddy bear and three cigs, some places from E1 that should be fucking interesting hold absolutely nothing (and this is not an exaggeration - there are two derelict converters that you can revisit, but they can't even be entered), while all the time you have to struggle with the simply unbearable combat and shitty performance that only makes it worse.