Dear Lord.
I just entered New Atlantis. It's almost unbelievably bad. I was thinking I should make a video because it would get lots of laughs, but I just felt like seeing how ridiculous the engine still is and so forth by running around in this pool of water, jumping up and down in it and instantly changing direction mid-air, etc. You can sprint full-speed against the smallest barrier and go nowhere but run out of o2 (bro I'm in breathable air right now).
I also walked up to a random group of black citizens talking to one another and the sclera show thing is real. It's fucking creepy. And everyone in the group was taller than my character for some reason, like significantly taller. But the guards in the city are all my height. What the fuck.
And the performance, ffs. My 40-fucking-90 is struggling to maintain 70fps in an area that isn't graphically impressive in any way. Even cheating in DLSS with a mod isn't helping, it actually loses performance that way.
This game is an absolute trainwreck. It may get marginally better after I leave New Atlantis but it almost doesn't seem like it matters. If you can't blow your best wad on the first city the player reaches then I just can't see it ever being worth a full playthrough.
Utter disaster. It's clear that Todd is ready to be wheeled out onto the scrap heap. His time is done.
P.S. Say what you will about Cyberpunk 2077 but Starfield can't even dream of pulling off a believable city like CDPR did.
I just entered New Atlantis. It's almost unbelievably bad. I was thinking I should make a video because it would get lots of laughs, but I just felt like seeing how ridiculous the engine still is and so forth by running around in this pool of water, jumping up and down in it and instantly changing direction mid-air, etc. You can sprint full-speed against the smallest barrier and go nowhere but run out of o2 (bro I'm in breathable air right now).
I also walked up to a random group of black citizens talking to one another and the sclera show thing is real. It's fucking creepy. And everyone in the group was taller than my character for some reason, like significantly taller. But the guards in the city are all my height. What the fuck.
And the performance, ffs. My 40-fucking-90 is struggling to maintain 70fps in an area that isn't graphically impressive in any way. Even cheating in DLSS with a mod isn't helping, it actually loses performance that way.
This game is an absolute trainwreck. It may get marginally better after I leave New Atlantis but it almost doesn't seem like it matters. If you can't blow your best wad on the first city the player reaches then I just can't see it ever being worth a full playthrough.
Utter disaster. It's clear that Todd is ready to be wheeled out onto the scrap heap. His time is done.
P.S. Say what you will about Cyberpunk 2077 but Starfield can't even dream of pulling off a believable city like CDPR did.
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