A bit of a downgrade. Lots more technical issues than the original.
On my machine the sound subsystem is malfunctioning, so half the effects don’t play or play out of time. Cutscenes play locked to 22fps with no vsync, and if you force the issue with an external tool you get 60fps cutscenes with tearing all over the place. It sounds like this isn’t an issue on consoles, so I don’t understand why it’s fucked up on PC?
The extra shiny graphics are nice but also make it way harder to actually perceive the shape of your player character as you futz with the sliders. You’re just way too shiny. The “farmer tan” option just makes your skin even more reflective for some reason. The supporting cast all have higher detail textures and models and they look pretty good, but this just contrasts further with the player character as there isn’t much more detail to your facial features. There’s an even shinier HDR mode but it’s just broken.
They added some creamy depth of field effects but the engine clearly doesn’t care so when aiming it’s based on the single pixel your reticle is on, which makes aiming at a distance a very blurry affair.
You also get all the DLC (except for the absolutely awful TF2 hats) which means you start the game with a bunch of overpowered vehicles and the stores are all littered with the boring costumes from those packs.
IDK, for $0 it’s workable but if you’re paying for it with money the original release (thankfully still available on steam for ¼ the price) feels like better value lmao
On my machine the sound subsystem is malfunctioning, so half the effects don’t play or play out of time. Cutscenes play locked to 22fps with no vsync, and if you force the issue with an external tool you get 60fps cutscenes with tearing all over the place. It sounds like this isn’t an issue on consoles, so I don’t understand why it’s fucked up on PC?
The extra shiny graphics are nice but also make it way harder to actually perceive the shape of your player character as you futz with the sliders. You’re just way too shiny. The “farmer tan” option just makes your skin even more reflective for some reason. The supporting cast all have higher detail textures and models and they look pretty good, but this just contrasts further with the player character as there isn’t much more detail to your facial features. There’s an even shinier HDR mode but it’s just broken.
They added some creamy depth of field effects but the engine clearly doesn’t care so when aiming it’s based on the single pixel your reticle is on, which makes aiming at a distance a very blurry affair.
You also get all the DLC (except for the absolutely awful TF2 hats) which means you start the game with a bunch of overpowered vehicles and the stores are all littered with the boring costumes from those packs.
IDK, for $0 it’s workable but if you’re paying for it with money the original release (thankfully still available on steam for ¼ the price) feels like better value lmao