ELEX ELEX II - Jax is back

[Lord_Potato]

Yes, the middleware that PB uses is fantastic, they just need to tweak face models for their next game (which is hopefully Gothic 5).

Gothic 4. The series ended with 3.

 

[thesheeep]

Yes, the middleware that PB uses is fantastic, they just need to tweak face models for their next game (which is hopefully Gothic 5).

Gothic 4. The series ended with 3.

I'm sure he was talking about Chronicles Of Myrtana, which is kinda like the Gothic 4 we never got.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Yes, the middleware that PB uses is fantastic, they just need to tweak face models for their next game (which is hopefully Gothic 5).

Gothic 4. The series ended with 3.

I'm sure he was talking about Chronicles Of Myrtana, which is kinda like the Gothic 4 we never got.

It's technically gothic 0. Like yakuza 0

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Yes, the middleware that PB uses is fantastic, they just need to tweak face models for their next game (which is hopefully Gothic 5).

Gothic 4. The series ended with 3.

We already have Gothic 4 tho

 

[Dodo1610]

You guys should appreciate Gothic 4 Arcania more because it was so bad and sold so poorly that it bankrupted both the developer and the publisher. Which spared us from Gothic: Battle Royales, Card games or MMOs for the last decade. We need more complete fuck-ups like Arcania so that the "suits" lose interest in ruining our favourite franchises.

I finally tested this with my new PC and it's literally the worst-performing game I possess. With a Ryzen 5700X and an RTX 3060, I get FPS drops down to 45FPS have never even seen Cyberpunk on the highest setting with full Rayttracing drop so low. Either PB has become utterly incompetent or they just don't care anymore. Given the shitty kill 30 robots companion quest I genuinely fear that PB has lost all passion for game dev and merely continues it to get paid.

 

[thesheeep]

I finally tested this with my new PC and it's literally the worst-performing game I possess. With a Ryzen 5700X and an RTX 3060, I get FPS drops down to 45FPS have never even seen Cyberpunk on the highest setting with full Rayttracing drop so low. Either PB has become utterly incompetent or they just don't care anymore. Given the shitty kill 30 robots companion quest I genuinely fear that PB has lost all passion for game dev and merely continues it to get paid.

Similar here. My PC can run absolutely anything on highest details, but this game... I mean, it's still 50+ fps across the board, but man does it make the rig work for it.

And it really doesn't look that good. Honestly, I found Elex 1 looked better, just more atmosphere all around.

In Elex II, everything looks like it was just "put there".
For example, the Berserker town in Elex really did look unique. In Elex II the Berserker town looks like someone just placed a bunch of random buildings and a few plants.
It's really weird - as if the level designer was replaced by an intern or something.

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

Yes, the middleware that PB uses is fantastic, they just need to tweak face models for their next game (which is hopefully Gothic 5).

Gothic 3. The series ended with 2.

I'm sure he was talking about Chronicles Of Myrtana, which is kinda like the Gothic 3 we never got.

ftfy

 

[HoboForEternity]

So as promised some news this week.

I can now finally confirm that before November is over DX12 will be rolled out on Steam, GOG and Epic.

Updated the original posts across the board!

//Zyddie

well that took half a year

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

The original ELEX was the best release of 2017. ELEX 2 will be the best release of 2022, in a year where both Elden Ring and Skyrim in Space are a thing.

Well this aged poorly...

 

[Ryzer]

Any news about a possible new IP for a change?

 

[Raghar]

I finally tested this with my new PC and it's literally the worst-performing game I possess. With a Ryzen 5700X and an RTX 3060, I get FPS drops down to 45FPS have never even seen Cyberpunk on the highest setting with full Rayttracing drop so low. Either PB has become utterly incompetent or they just don't care anymore. Given the shitty kill 30 robots companion quest I genuinely fear that PB has lost all passion for game dev and merely continues it to get paid.

Similar here. My PC can run absolutely anything on highest details, but this game... I mean, it's still 50+ fps across the board, but man does it make the rig work for it.

And it really doesn't look that good. Honestly, I found Elex 1 looked better, just more atmosphere all around.

In Elex II, everything looks like it was just "put there".
For example, the Berserker town in Elex really did look unique. In Elex II the Berserker town looks like someone just placed a bunch of random buildings and a few plants.
It's really weird - as if the level designer was replaced by an intern or something.

ELEX was a game of passion. ELEX II is sequel for money.

I'm actually wondering if they didn't get scolded for that racist story.

 

[GhostCow]

I can't find an announcement or patch notes, but I'm currently downloading a 24gb patch, so it's probably safe to assume the DX12 patch is finally out.

 

[razvedchiki]

does it run better!?!

 

[coldcrow]

It's the same beta released a few months ago. Same bugs, no AA. Game is now double-size on SSD, because they kept a full dx11 game alongside the dx12 version. You can delete the dx11 folder, though.
It took them months to figure out how to release it on all 3 platforms, I guess.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

embracer should just fire the entire staff and replace them with the guys who made archolos

 

[coldcrow]

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.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Remarkable

 

[soulburner]

From Steam community:

(...)we are atm looking into how to deploy it and find out how this happened in the first place.

//Zyddie.

Well, I guess this is going to take the same amount of time Zyddie said the last time they looked into how to deploy a patch.

 

[lukaszek]

few more patches and roxor will try reviewing again

 

[cruel]

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.

 

[thesheeep]

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.

 

[coldcrow]

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.

Initial loading time increase is to compiling shaders. It's the same beta they uploaded a few months ago, happened by accident they say.

 

[Infinitron]

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.

More evidence:

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.

 

[Cyberarmy]

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.

Feeling the same. I have been playing it this week and hugely dissapointed. I don't feel like playing a PB game for real and that's a first I think.
I had more fun playing Gothic 3....

Edit: Also fucking huge patch out of nowhere and without any real info, classy.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Because Elex 2 is more Gothic 2 than Risen 2

This aged like milk...