I noticed a lot of the modern titles coming out these days run like absolute dog shit even on pretty capable hardware. Unless you have the top of the line, most newest GPU you cannot run these games smoothly and it’s almost as if game companies are relying so much on frame generation and upscaling technology to hide the fact that their games are horribly optimized.
Upscaling is becoming the norm just to get a playable framerate that matches your refresh rate. The games coming out these days don’t even particularly look that much better than some of the better performing games out there. As good as unreal engine 5 looks, some games using it don’t really look that much impressive but they sure do run like ass with low fps even at low settings, constant microstuttering, graphical bugs, insane amounts of power draw and a crazy amount of VRAM pull from the GPU where I’m just there scratching my head, why? I’m almost always constantly forced to use upscalers if …
Happy Friday! We are an indie team and releasing our first roguelike survival game Ocean Keeper
Ocean Keeper will be released on 19 July on PC! To celebrate the reveal of our release date. We are giving away up to a $100 Steam Gift Card + 6 Ocean Keeper Steam keys!
How to Enter:
1.) Simply leave a comment below this post. That’s it!
Ten winners ($10 Steam Gift cards) will be determined via redditraffler on Monday, July 10, 12:00 (GMT+3)
PS: If you’re interested, feel free to check out our game Steam page
You might find our game intriguing! We also have our own subreddit
I had a policy of not buying Early Access games, but back in 2021 my friend was hounding me to get it, and I played the jank ass tutorial and called it wierd and quit. In 2022 he convinced another friend to get it, and to get him to shut up we played a trail campaign. It didn’t last long and halfway through the campaign we abandoned that save cause the game had it’s 1.0 release but godammit if it wasn’t one of the greatest gaming memories I’ve ever had, and I’ve been gaming since I was 4.
To those who don’t know, Barotrauma is a co-op multiplayer game about being a submarine crew on the Moon of Europa, heavily inspired by the ancient jankfest known as “Space Station 13” ( click here for that insanity)
You can play as one of 5 classes of crew member: Captain, who drives the submarine; Security Officer, man with the guns and turrets; Electrical Engineer, the man who deals with the absolutely insane electrical engineering system in the …