Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings - eviltoast
  • elgordio@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s known performance will be poor, but if it was that bad the ton of YouTubers doing their preview coverage would have been reporting it.

    • Z4rK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No, there was a performance embargo for reviewers that wasn’t lifted until after the developers had made their statement a few days ago.

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        1 year ago

        It was pretty funny seeing stuttery footage on 60fps YouTube videos without any acknowledgement from the player lol

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        1 year ago

        And they thought that just ignoring such clear issue was a good approach to take? Wow that’s fucking scummy on both sides

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          1 year ago

          There is a reason for them to not report on it. They were still working on the game (and they still are even). They don’t know how the performance will end up at release until it’s there. Reporting on it too early just misinforms people.

          • Baku@aussie.zone
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            1 year ago

            Well, surely if they’re playing it 2 weeks before it’s due to launch and it runs like garbage, they’d think “hmm, maybe this won’t be ready in time. I should probably tell people about it” rather than just being greedy and sweeping it under the rug. Also, you can be honest about issues you experience with the people watching your content. If it gets better before it’s released, you just make an update video stating you’ve seen an improvement over time. No need to hide it

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              1 year ago

              I’ve watched a good bit of the game so far. I don’t think anyone hasn’t discussed performance. It’s not something being hidden, it just isn’t where it should be or where they want it to be, and they’ve been clear they’re going to continue working on it to get it where it should be. They just can’t hit that target for launch. Delaying it wouldn’t be great either because plenty of people will be able to run it, just not as well as it could be. That’s OK in my opinion.

        • Z4rK@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I think they did well tbh. They of course hoped they would be able to resolve it before release, so it shouldn’t be the focus on reviewers.

          At least reviewers made it clear that there still was something to be said about performance, but it would have to wait.

          And Colossus then made a clear statement on performance themselves up front of the launch date.

    • PrinzMegahertz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They do. Look at city planer plays video. According to this, I can hope to get a bit more then 30fps at 1080p with medium details with my 4070 ti and 7600x. Beyond that, I‘ll get a slideshow. For most PC owners out there, the game will be unplayable in it‘s current state.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Most YouTubers have beefy rigs. Also, the preview build could have some kind of limitation which was never intended for the final release but which improves performance