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The WeekEndGame: Unlucky Machines
It’s metal-turning-scrap echoing over the thirteenth WeekEndGame. Be it in, or at, my hands.
Prey: Arkane knows you’re worried about the PC version, and it wants to assure you it won’t repeat Dishonored 2’s mistakes
Following an unmitigated fiasco that was Dishonored 2 on PC – and on XBox, and on PlayStation, yep, all of ’em – Arkane are evidently willing to go scarcely precedented lengths to rejuvenate your passion for pre-order culture. That is, by talking you into it.
“We’re pretty confident,” Colantonio told Gamespot in an interview. “First of all, it’s not like we first do the game on console and then in the end we suddenly port the game to PC. It starts on PC. That’s how game development works.”
See, you ignorant worm? You’ve no idea how shit works. That’s why Dishonored 2 is still unplayable for many, six months after launch. This shit matters, man. Somehow.
“At this point the game is fully ready, but that’s what we’ve been doing for the past months–a lot of tests on different configurations and making sure it works. So we’re pretty confident. You never know. But we’re pretty confident.”
We’re so confident that we’re giving you, rich PC folk shelling out thousands on hardware just because y’all feel like it, a free fucking demo to try before you buy! Oh. Wait, we actually didn’t. But feel absolutely free to violate Steam’s T&Cs and give their refund system some good ol’ abuse.
We play games. Their makers owe us nothing but products they care about. Concluding that the original Dishonored must’ve been some freaky accident among all this dickery. Arkane, you’re out.
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3’s load times can get up to 5 minutes long
So, loading times in the new installment of majorly mediocre stealther-sniper (now in open-world, yay!) are a bloody nightmare.
Eurogamer booted up the game and discovered that – on the PS4 version at least – the load times for traveling between the four regions in the game is around five minutes.
What have CI Games have to say for themselves? Well…
They’re aware of the issue “but thanks to this decision we were able to shorten any loading times during missions, respawns, and fast travel to a minimum.”
Now, these sure don’t look like “a minimum” to me, to be honest with ya.
- fast travel 4-15s
- load last checkpoint (depend on situation) 15-30s
- Restart mission 25s
They also don’t hesitate to call that ‘fast’ travel, too. In any case, we’re giving this one a wide pass. Many happy blank stares!
Source: Sniper Ghost Warrior 3’s load times can get up to 5 minutes long
Forum Stroll: Elite Dangerous Commanders Update Ticks A Box
Following a bug-riddled grind fest called Engineers, a bug-riddled fun-to-a-point called Guardians, Frontier has recently released their third major update to Elite: Dangerous‘ Horizons season, called Commanders. Oh boy.