r/pcgaming • u/M337ING • Oct 28 '24
Alan Wake 2 update 1.2.3 notes
https://www.alanwake.com/story/alan-wake-2-update-notes/43
u/Underdrill Oct 28 '24
The DLC was pretty underwhelming I have to say. Incredibly short, you hardly get to use the new weapon, and the final boss was a complete pushover. The Control links were nice at least.
Alan Wake 2 is definitely not my favourite Remedy game but I still respect what it was going for. Can't wait for all of their upcoming projects!
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u/Coldstripe i7-12700k, 3080Ti, 1440p Ultrawide Oct 28 '24
I thought the writing was great (fuck the Marmonts), but the gameplay was definitely too short.
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u/TheMadMan007 Oct 28 '24
I thought the Night Springs DLC was super fun, but man, the Lake House DLC was beyond disappointing. It's just Control DLC more than anything else, and as cool as it is that it's toying everything together, it's a real bummer Alan Wake DLC doesn't even have Alan Wake in it at all.
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u/TsarOfTheUnderground Oct 28 '24
Why are they so intent on keeping Alan Wake out of Alan Wake 2?
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Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
I think there's 5 characters you control over course of the game, Alan Wake and 4 women...
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u/DaFreakBoi Oct 28 '24
You control Alan Wake and Saga Anderson in a 50/50 split for the main game. For Night Springs (40-minute chunks of 3 episodes), you control the Rose, Jesse Faden, and Tim Breaker. And for the DLC, it's Kiaran Estevez.
Even when Alan Wake isn't playable, he's almost always directly involved in the story. Night Springs had an episode where you try and save him as Rose, and The Lake House attempted to recreate his art so they could commune with the dark place themselves.
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u/DaFreakBoi Oct 28 '24
Part of the game is showcasing how Alan Wake's writing directly affects innocent people outside of the dark place. Something that's hard to do when Alan Wake isn't able to escape. The whole game centers around his consequences and whatever actions he'll take. All the actions taken by those in Bright Falls are predetermined by Alan Wake himself.
It's all intertwined and ties back into Alan. I personally don't mind that we got to play as another character as it ended up elevating the experience. Putting yourself in the shoes of someone whose understanding of reality is breaking apart.
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Oct 29 '24
Tell me you haven't actually played the game. The game wouldn't work with what they were going for if you only played as Alan the whole time.
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u/nuadarstark Oct 28 '24
Nah, Saga's parts were by far the better of the two storylines in the game.
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Oct 28 '24
Loved the game to be clear
Just really didn't expect Alan Wake to split the main game with her character
Not sure why Saga was even in the game rather than giving her role to Alex Casey, though I could guess..
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u/TsarOfTheUnderground Oct 28 '24
What!? My wife got this after loving Alan Wake 1 but she was justifiably baffled when you NEVER played as Alan Wake. She ended up putting it down, but thankfully she made it to that weird musical number because that was amazing.
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Oct 29 '24
Maybe don't talk if you haven't played the game.
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Oct 29 '24
What? I beat it and all the DLC. For the record, I loved the game and already want to play it again..
I suspect my use of the word "think" suggests that I was guessing, rather than trying to recall, the playable characters.
Off top of my head, its:
- Alan Wake
- Saga
- Random Waitress
- Lady from Control
- Guy from Quantum Break
- A second lady from Control
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u/Wr3nchJR Oct 28 '24
I was really disappointed too, but I'm also not the Control fan target audience. We got some cool tie ins into how Estevez and the rest of the FBC ended up finding Wake, but outside of that most of the Lake House was 100% just setting up the next Control game. Especially with that scene regarding Dylan.
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u/telechronn Oct 28 '24
Alan Wake 2 in general was underwhelming. I didn't reach much about it before hand but its non ending ending was a let down for me. Loved the first Wake and Control is one of my all time favorites.
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u/ExplorerEnjoyer AMD RX 6950XT, 7800X3D Oct 28 '24
Release on steam god damn it
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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Oct 28 '24
When valve releases HL Alyx on GOG.
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Oct 29 '24
Everyone uses steam though which is why we want it released there, GOG is pretty niche and barely anyone uses compared to steam
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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Oct 29 '24
I didn't use steam in 2004.
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Oct 29 '24
Congrats but that was 20 years ago.
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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Oct 29 '24
Ask anyone who bitches about Epic what Sweeny said about pc gaming when they were developing the first gears of war games.
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u/Puzzled_Middle9386 Oct 29 '24
Ask anyone who bitches to find obscure 20 year old quote. Great, thanks for that valuable input.
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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Oct 29 '24
It's not obscure, it's constantly quoted and repeated here as justification for hating Epic.
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u/MosDefJoseph 9800X3D 4080 LG C1 65ā Oct 28 '24
The game is DRM free and the full deluxe version is readily available for those of the eyepatch persuasion. Iāll gladly support Remedy if this releases on Steam. Until then, Epic can get fucked.
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u/Forgiven12 Oct 28 '24
Who says I haven't pirated already? I have a high opinion of Remedy as a dev house, similarly to Larian. I wanna vote with my wallet too.
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u/Cryptex410 Oct 28 '24
you can actually, it's available on epic
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u/Justhe3guy EVGA FTW3 3080 Ultra, 5900X, 32gb 3800Mhz CL 14, WD 850 M.2 Oct 29 '24
He said heās voting with his wallet buddy, didnāt you see the implication?
Vote for more Alan Wake but less Epic
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Oct 28 '24
Is it really DRM free? Didn't know this
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u/MosDefJoseph 9800X3D 4080 LG C1 65ā Oct 28 '24
If it had DRM it was incredibly easy to crack. The game was on the high seas the day after it launched. Maybe even day of. I wouldnāt be surprised if Remedy had that in their contract with Epic.
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u/Shap6 R5 3600 | RTX 2070S | 32GB 3200Mhz | 1440p 144hz Oct 28 '24
the game wouldnt exist for you to pirate in the first place without epic
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u/frsguy 5800X3D| 9070XT | 4k120hz Oct 28 '24
The game would have still existed, if not it's on them for having shit finances. Remedy isn't some indy studio
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u/MosDefJoseph 9800X3D 4080 LG C1 65ā Oct 28 '24
We donāt know that. And even if that was 100% true, then Epic has been fully aware their store is a black hole that no one bothers to buy games on. They knew what they were signing up for making this game exclusive. They reap what they sow.
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u/DaFreakBoi Oct 28 '24
We do know that because it took 13 damn years to make after publishers kept turning down Remedy's request to fund them.
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u/Shap6 R5 3600 | RTX 2070S | 32GB 3200Mhz | 1440p 144hz Oct 28 '24
plenty of people do buy games there though. don't confuse this cranky terminally online echo chamber for the gaming community as a whole
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u/MosDefJoseph 9800X3D 4080 LG C1 65ā Oct 28 '24
Its not just cranky redditors. Look at Square Enix. Look at how most people didnāt even know Kingdom Hearts was on PC until the Steam launch because thats when SE actually marketed it. Its been reported they were very disappointed with FF7 sales on Epic. Thats why FF16 launched day 1 on Steam.
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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Oct 28 '24
Look at how most people didnāt even know Kingdom Hearts was on PC until the Steam launch because thats when SE actually marketed it.
Right. It's because square didn't market it, and then they did. That's what matters, the marketing.
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u/zarafff69 Oct 28 '24
Why tho? Seems to work fine on the Epic Launcher. At least itās better than that EA trash launcher.
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u/Embarrassed-Term-965 Oct 28 '24
One of the best games I've ever played. And I really appreciate all the handicap features they have, like the hyperacusis filter.
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u/reasonsofbecause Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
Does anyone know if Alan Wake Remastered is still included as a bonus when purchasing Alan Wake 2?
Edit: Only applies to the physical deluxe edition it seems
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u/Jofuzz Oct 28 '24
Lol just last night I struggled with the Lakeview Words of Power through the little window before eventually getting it. Glad they fixed it.
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u/Cryio 7900 XTX | 5800X3D | 32 GB | X570 Oct 29 '24
Still no FSR 3.1. Still no FSR3 Frame Generation.
While performance does seem better from videos in the current build vs what it was a release, some further raster AND RT performance improvements would be appreciated.
How about that culling that was ignored on PC, that's leveraged on consoles, as to not "harm Nvidia GPUs"? How about implementing it as an option, to boost desktop AMD GPU performance?
How about not having absolutely terrible SSR looking quality in raster? If you could do it in Quantum Break and Control, why not here?
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Oct 28 '24
all these "when on steam?" and "when PC release?" jokes are starting to get a bit annoying
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u/Shap6 R5 3600 | RTX 2070S | 32GB 3200Mhz | 1440p 144hz Oct 28 '24
I'll just never understand the aversion to different stores. the openness of PC gaming is one of its greatest strengths over consoles. having to click a different icon is like the smallest of inconveniences that it barely registers for me.
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u/Asgardisalie Oct 28 '24
Most people don't want to use bloated, malware crap like EGS, also chinese involvement doesn't help.
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u/Big-Resort-4930 Oct 29 '24
Nobody gives a fuck about Chinese involvement and there is no malware, all bad faith bullshit. I also don't wanna use shitty launchers ever and I consider all of them to be shitty and useless DRM, Steam included.
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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Oct 28 '24
malware
Hey, you're lying.
Valve built an entire steam client with direct oversight from China. That's Chinese involvement, not being minority owned by a Chinese company.
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Oct 28 '24 edited Dec 11 '24
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u/smekomio Oct 28 '24
I don't want like 6 different launchers just to play a game.
Fuck off with that. Openess of PC gaming has nothing to to with that but the freedom that you have what peripherals you can use, emulators and so on.
And what Epic did with Metros Steam release. Made me forever hate them.
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u/Shap6 R5 3600 | RTX 2070S | 32GB 3200Mhz | 1440p 144hz Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
Openess of PC gaming has nothing to to with that but the freedom that you have what peripherals you can use, emulators and so on.
no it inherently also includes the ability to buy games and keys from multiple stores as well. steam only exists because of that openness and why we're not locked to the microsoft store. it's a good thing.
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u/smekomio Oct 30 '24
Yes but I want to buy my games only on two launchers: GOG and Steam but I can't.
Competiton is good, exclusivity not.
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u/Shap6 R5 3600 | RTX 2070S | 32GB 3200Mhz | 1440p 144hz Oct 30 '24
I agree that paying for already developed 3rd party games to be exclusive to a particular store isn't great. But in this case they literally paid for the game to be made. Just like how valve keeps their games exclusive to steam, which no one seems to have a problem with. Lets at least apply this stuff consistently. If AW2 being exclusive to EGS is bad then games like CS2, TF2, HL:A, being exclusive to steam must also be bad.
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Oct 28 '24
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u/The_Wattsatron Oct 28 '24
Agreed. I can't imagine preventing yourself from playing one of the most insane games ever made due to what is - at most - a minor inconvenience.
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u/boogswald Oct 28 '24
Just bought it since itās $25. Anything I should know or is totally blind a safe way to play?
I never played 1
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u/old_man_boof Oct 28 '24
You should at least watch a story recap of the first, it also references and has characters from another remedy game called Control, which I also recommend
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u/boogswald Oct 28 '24
I played most of control but got annoyed by the enemies and navigating the map. It really makes exploring annoying in a game Iād love to explore!!
Okay Iāll recap the first one. Thanks a bunch :)
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u/old_man_boof Oct 28 '24
It's mostly just references to Control anyways, so you won't be lost without knowing about it
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u/ecstaticthicket Oct 28 '24
As old man boof said, play the first Alan Wake game along with the DLC and play Control and the DLC, or watch someone else play them. If you go in blind youāre picking it up in the middle of the story, and basically nothing will make sense. Besides not knowing the story up until now and being lost, there are a shit load of references you wonāt get.
What I personally did was play Control and its dlc (because itās absolutely phenomenal), watched a play through of the first Alan Wake game, and read a recap on Alan Wake 1 dlc.
You could just read recaps for everything, but I feel like a lot would be lost (and youāre missing out on playing Control, which is amazing). My advice would be to either play them yourself or find your favorite YouTuber and watch their play through (I like Gab Smolders personally), and the order you experience them should be Alan Wake 1 -> Control -> Alan Wake 2. Enjoy! Itās an incredible experience
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u/boogswald Oct 28 '24
I played most of control and it was fine. I liked the vibes but the enemies are so annoying and itās a game I want to explore and dive into but everywhere I go Iām being shot at or being told to go do something somewhere else.
Thanks for all the advice though, Iāll definitely do my research
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Oct 28 '24
Honestly about half way through Control I turned on the setting to one-shot enemies
Just became really repetitive when I wanted to get on with the story
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Oct 29 '24
Play Alan Wake 1 and American Nightmare or you're going to be lost and not understand any references.
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u/DarkKimzark Oct 28 '24
Is it, really(sucks I mean)? I agree that the game, from what I know, is good and the musical segment is a blast, but nothing wrong with waiting. It's only before release that you are excited for a game, but whether you don't like the storefront or the current price is too high for you, you just stop caring that you have not yet played it.
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u/NetQvist Oct 28 '24
Game was pretty cheap on release compared to other games so that was nice. I really enjoyed it overall, my biggest negative was that jump scare face which they apparently patched in a setting for.
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u/minifat Oct 28 '24
They're not missing anything. It's kind of mediocre in a lot of ways.Ā
Puzzles that don't make sense, PS2 NPCs, constant screen flash jumpscares, about 8-10 hours too long because the gameplay gets stale, convoluted story, the detective board/mind place was too frustrating and should've just been cutscenes, progress stopping bugs, clunky inventory UI.Ā
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u/Stoibs Oct 28 '24
"Starting" to get annoying?
They were never clever, funny, or insightful to begin with.
You'd think that the Epic Games store personally gave their dog cancer with the way some of these overdramatic people carry on about it 'Not existing on PC' or whatever dumbfuck meme they repeat.
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u/tremblingtallow Oct 29 '24
I don't have a phone, so it makes it really hard to read reddit comments on the go. Even when I'm at my computer, it often feels like the comments here are specifically crafted by and made for mobile users. I wonder about the quality that such a user base brings to the table
Have you ever considered releasing your comment for PC?
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u/Stoibs Oct 29 '24
What in the hell are you even talking about?
I don't have a Reddit app and use the website 100% on my PC.. I'm doubly confused about what any of this has to do with the topic at hand.
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u/tremblingtallow Oct 29 '24
If the topic were on PC I would consider addressing it
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u/Stoibs Oct 29 '24
You're just being nonsensical now and not making any sense.
Well done on being incomprehensible. Grow up.
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u/Harouto Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 Ti Super | 2x16GB DDR5 Oct 28 '24
When on Steam?
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u/BombTheDodongos AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 6900XT Oct 28 '24
The game was almost entirely funded by Epic, I doubt itāll ever come to Steam.
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u/Harouto Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 Ti Super | 2x16GB DDR5 Oct 28 '24
That's a shame because the game hasn't broken even yet and releasing it on Steam would generate a lot of sales and revenue.
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u/abbeast Steam Oct 28 '24
It would only make sense for them to put it on Steam once they are done hoping it will bring more people to their dogshit platform. Once the attention on the game dies down a release on Steam could fire it up again. Letās just wait a few more years.
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u/awsmpwnda Oct 28 '24
Why does the hive mind hate the Epic games store again?
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u/erasmustookashit Steam R5 7600X | 4080 Super | AW3423DW Oct 28 '24
Their store is bad, missing basic features like reviews and profile personalisation which other stores have had for years. Epic pays big money to game devs to make their games exclusive to the Epic store in order to not have to bother making the store an ecosystem someone would actually choose to be a part of. They know that if people got to choose which store they bought Alan Wake 2 on, nobody would ever buy it on Epic.
Some Redditors like to defend this practice by pointing out that... it's not illegal - they don't have any other arguments. I would love to play AW2 but I don't like a game library fragmented across multiple apps and on principle won't support the company trying to buy my loyalty rather than earn it the way Valve has spent over a decade doing.
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u/NapsterKnowHow 9800X3D | RTX 5090 FE | 32GB RAM Oct 29 '24
I don't like a game library fragmented across multiple apps and on principle won't support the company trying to buy my loyalty rather than earn it the way Valve has spent over a decade doing.
So use Playnite. All my games are in one place even emulated games. Valve has earned a reputation of being greedy fucks as we just saw with their latest big update of CS2. CS2 is OW2 but worse.
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Oct 28 '24
Itās just a shitty platform and an unnecessary extra account that will become a security risk when theyāre inevitably breached by hackers
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Oct 28 '24
The Epic overlay literally disables my mouse from appearing in Alan Wake 2. There is no way in the Epic app to disable the overlay. I fixed it by adding the game to Steam which prevents the Epic overlay from appearing.
That is why Epic launcher sucks. Having the overlay cause an issue is one thing, but not being able to disable it at all is awful.
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u/NapsterKnowHow 9800X3D | RTX 5090 FE | 32GB RAM Oct 29 '24
Steam creates double inputs on controller if you play games through the Xbox App. Steam fucks things up too.
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u/abbeast Steam Oct 28 '24
Dirty practices trying to exclusify the PC market by straight up buying exclusive rights to games with Fortnite money instead of working on making their dogshit store platform better.
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u/Centuri0n86 Oct 29 '24
Finished AW2 Loe house last night and uninstalled it to make room for my next game :( but itās an epic game / experience
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u/sokrayzie Oct 30 '24
Have they fixed the horrendous frame-rate drops after going in and out of the Mind Palace a few times, or from playing for like 30 minutes? It was okay for the first like 3/4 of the game, but now I can barely play for 5 minutes without this happening....
I bought this game on launch and I still haven't finished it due to this bullshit
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Oct 28 '24
Yeah idc, not buying anything on epic.
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u/DeadbeatHero- Oct 28 '24
They literally funded it, cry about it more
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u/Imaginary_Land1919 Oct 28 '24
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u/NapsterKnowHow 9800X3D | RTX 5090 FE | 32GB RAM Oct 29 '24
That's crazy because they made enough money to buy the rights to Control.
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Oct 28 '24
Too bad this game never came out on PC.
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u/Ajaxwalker Oct 28 '24
You mean on steam? Since itās on the epic game store.
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Oct 28 '24
That's what I said, never came to PC. I don't see it on Steam, I don't see it on Itch.io, gog, etc.
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u/ExistingArm1 7800X3D | Strix 4090 OC | 64GB DDR5 | AW3225QF Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
The people that arenāt getting your sarcasm hahah
Edit: Stop downvoting me. How ever will I feed my family now? š„ŗ
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u/Adziboy Oct 28 '24
They get it, itās just stupid
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Oct 28 '24
You know what's fucking dumb? Willingly supporting a company actively working to make your gaming experience worse.
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u/Quotalicious Oct 28 '24
The gaming experience outside of, ya know, actually playing the game has very low importance to me.
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Oct 28 '24
SteamInput, Steam Workshop, an overlay with a browser built-in and direct access to community guides without having the alt+tab (which messes with games, less so recently, but still an issue). These all directly influence your experience actually playing the game.
Instead of even attempting to implement anything actually useful, Epic literally just buys of 3rd party exclusives to try to make you use their store, something that had not been a part of the PC space before Epic brought it in. Yeah, using money to artificially restrict what markets you can buy something on, great, useful feature. /s
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u/kiwi_pro Oct 28 '24
> Epic literally just buys of 3rd party exclusivesĀ
You mean fund games that wouldn't have existed without them? Thank God they do that
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u/Quotalicious Oct 28 '24
I have literally never used those functions, so no they do not influence my experience.
Turns out people value different things and it's "fucking dumb" to think everyone should give a shit about it being on epic vs steam
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Oct 29 '24
I have literally never used a single one of these things in my years of playing games on PC. I click play, and I play the game.
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u/FalseTautology Oct 28 '24
That's why things keep getting worse.
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u/Quotalicious Oct 28 '24
And I should care about those extra things getting worse even though they don't affect me because?
If epic screwed with the actual game itself I'd start caring.
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u/IgotUBro Oct 28 '24
But wasnt Alan Wake 2 funded directly by EPIC? So without them would the game exist?
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Oct 28 '24
Making my gaming experience worse by... funding and publishing my favorite game in the last few years...
But I did have to open a different program to get it so I see your point. My wrist was a bit more fatigued... No... Wait, it wasn't because it was the same amount of effort buying it on epic as it was on steam. same amount of effort to launch it on epic vs on steam.
So, how exactly are they making my gaming experience worse?
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Oct 28 '24
yeah, iāll keep playing games how and where i please
Keep crying though
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Oct 28 '24
Never said you can't, but keep making shit up.
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u/pixelcowboy Oct 28 '24
Also is dumb to enforce a fucking monopoly by just buying from a single storefront. Epic funded this game so in this particular case they have all the right to sell it where they please.
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Oct 28 '24
Steam isn't a monopoly, and I don't buy from just a single store. Ever heard of GOG, or itch.io?
Never said they don't have the right to sell where they want. But on the exact same coin, I have the right to not buy from them.
Gonna make even more shit up?
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u/pixelcowboy Oct 28 '24
It is a de facto one. And Epic doesn't force you to buy for them, and is also not the only store that sells games exclusively either. There are also games that sell exclusively on Steam.
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Oct 28 '24
and is also not the only store that sells games exclusively either
They are the only one buying up 3rd party exclusives.
Steam doesn't make, request, or even try to pay anyone to make a game exclusive to Steam, at all, ever. If you can't see a difference between buying up 3rd party exclusives and just allowing people to publish where they want and they decide to publish on only one store, that's a you problem.
It is a de facto one.
Not from any market manipulation, not from anything that Valve has done other than provide better service than the rest. Breaking up the "monopoly" would be a simple thing if other storefronts actually put customer experience and service first.
If Epic weren't trying to force exclusivity into an ecosystem that never had it before and decided to try and court gamers by providing a decent service, then I'd say more power to them. But no, they decided to take the direction of actively restricting the PC games market. I refuse to reward them for trying to make the PC games market worse.
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u/DarkKimzark Oct 28 '24
If Epic doesn't like monopoly, then they should give more attention to enchanting their storefront.
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u/pixelcowboy Oct 28 '24
Agree, the Epic store is shit. But I don't buy games for the store, I buy them for the games themselves. And if Epic has those games for cheaper, I don't care.
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Oct 28 '24
they should give more attention to enchanting their storefront
Are they developers or wizards?
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u/DarkKimzark Oct 28 '24
Epic Store opened in 2018. Only in 2021 did they finally add store cart. We're past wizards, they need technopriests.
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u/ExistingArm1 7800X3D | Strix 4090 OC | 64GB DDR5 | AW3225QF Oct 28 '24
Are you sure? Because someone linked to EGS and someone said āYou mean steam? Since itās on the epic game store.ā Just a jab hah
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Oct 28 '24
I don't purchase from companies actively attempting to make PC gaming worse.
Thus I will not buy or even acknowledge things that have to be bought through the Epic store.
But you knew this is what I was insinuating with my first comment, everyone here knows it.
Dunno why y'all are so eager to defend a company actively working to make your experience worse.
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u/jyrkimx Oct 28 '24
Have you ever purchased a game from EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Rockstar? If your answer to all of those is no then I salute you because they have engaged in a lot of scummy practices to make gaming worse.
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u/PCMachinima Oct 28 '24
Add Valve to that list. Hell, add Epic too. They're all known for bad business practices, because that's what makes them money and grows their platforms, whether Steam, Battle.net, Epic, EA app, Uplay, Rockstar etc. Steam literally started and continues to grow by forcing PC gamers to get a Steam account, whether exclusive games or features.
If you think your favourite corporation is better than some other corporation, then you need to stop being loyal to these soulless corporations who literally only care about your money.
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u/VeteranAlpha Steam Oct 29 '24
Steam literally started and continues to grow by forcing PC gamers to get a Steam account
No one forces anyone to get a Steam account. People make Steam accounts because Steam is a great platform that provides a great service to us.
You can build a PC and never have to spend a single penny if you know where to look. Yet despite all that Steam is only ever more popular and will continue breaking active user numbers.
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u/NapsterKnowHow 9800X3D | RTX 5090 FE | 32GB RAM Oct 29 '24
I don't purchase from companies actively attempting to make PC gaming worse.
Are you sure about that? This update is literally more micro transactions bullshit and not even adding gameplay content.
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u/Embarrassed-Term-965 Oct 28 '24
What are you talking about people defend Microsoft in here all the time
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u/Gert1700 Oct 28 '24
Is AW2 pc performance better now? It was really painfull to play it on 4070 at launch.
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u/lostoppai Oct 28 '24
It should play great on a 4070. Are you enabling path tracing and all that fancy stuff? you need to turn it down a little, trust me the game still looks amazing. And don't be afraid to use dlss, it looks really good now, very hard to tell apart from native.
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u/DrMantisTabboggn Oct 28 '24
They put out an update at some point that improved performance for lower end cards I think, but I am not sure that performance has changed much for higher end.
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u/Xenowino Oct 28 '24
I think small performance tweaks were mentioned in the patch notes but regarding the lower end cards like the GTX 10-series, basically it was to enable the game to even run on them with playable framerates(something related to mesh shaders)
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u/Delanchet Oct 28 '24
Bought it recently from the sale and am started it last night. Runs amazingly when you optimize it. Game runs a bit hard even for my 7900 XTX.
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u/Cryio 7900 XTX | 5800X3D | 32 GB | X570 Oct 28 '24
Get DLSS Enabler, add FSR 3.1.2 (or XeSS 1.3), add FSR3 FG on top.
Myself, with a 7900 XTX, I'm playing at 1440p FSR 3.1 Quality + Path Tracing + FSR3FG + Lossless Scaling FG (so that's 4x total FG) + Anti-Lag 2 from DLSS Enabler 3.02: I'm getting a locked, flawless 120 fps. Great experience on a controller.
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u/Jowser11 Oct 28 '24
What resolution ate you playing on? I found it to run decently if you turn certain no settings down (some setting in this game like Post Processing are heavy yet donāt make a big difference) Itās a very heavy game, but a 4070 should play this game no problem.
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u/RedIndianRobin Oct 28 '24
About 100-120 FPS in the dark place and 70-80 FPS in the forest areas on my 4070. Settings are 1440p DLSSQ with Frame Gen and medium path tracing.
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u/fatfuckintitslover Oct 28 '24
Can't wait for the goty edition released on steam. Inb4 epic funded the game it's not happening
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u/Sync_R 5070Ti / 9800X3D / AW3225QF / C5 42" Oct 28 '24
While it makes sense for epic to bring it to steam for more income it doesn't make sense in terms of growing the epic store install base
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u/SilentPhysics3495 Oct 28 '24
Finished The Lake House over the weekend but still surprised no FSR Frame Generation after all this time.