Patient Gaming wins again.
Keeps patching. I’m looking forward to a fun $20-30 game.
Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 2 will be "chonky," with fixes for performance issues and other issues
Submitted 1 year ago by heimy@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.gamescensor.com/2023/08/baldurs-gate-3-patch-2-will-be-chonky.html
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RxBrad@lemmings.world 1 year ago
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Of all the games to comment this on, BG3 is one game that is justified at full price for the sheer density of it, and all of it interesting. From day one they were hotfixing and it’s never run badly, just not perfectly optimized.
I get gaming on a budget but this comment really sounds like hate trying to say it doesn’t deserve full price.
ono@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I get gaming on a budget but this comment really sounds like hate trying to say it doesn’t deserve full price.
Friendly reminder that some people earn full price in less than an hour of work, while others don’t earn that much in a week.
RxBrad@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Truthfully? No game is worth $60-70.
Especially when that same game costs $30 a year later.
I’ve never paid full price for any videogame.
DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am normally a budget gamer, but Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 were a huge part of my childhood, and after seeing how good the game was, I caved. And I’m glad I did! I am 8 hours into the storyline and I still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. The quality is fantastic. AC6 might break me too, but I think I can be patient on that one.
DietBajaBlast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To everyone that buys a game on day one, at full price. Thank you for your service.
Landmammals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s worth the money.
Styxie@feddit.nl 1 year ago
My entire D&D group. Thanks gang!
JohnEdwa@kbin.social 1 year ago
Also it's a Larian game, so not only will it have all the thousands of bugs fixed (literally, the first patch had over a thousand fixes), you'll probably get the Extended Enhanced Definitive Divine Edition that rewrites half the quests and adds a bunch of new ones.
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lmao, if by wins you mean loses out than yea. BG3 is an amazing experience and you’re not gonna have a bad time period in terms of playability.
This isn’t the games that day 1, week 1, week 2, etc patches because the game was released unfinished. This is them taking serious user feedback for small niche issues. That’s how you properly care for your user base.
But keep hating on things you don’t actually understand I guess
RxBrad@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I mean… I get that it’s the thing to do right now – haphazardly throwing more money than you can afford at every service, streamer, Patreon, Kickstarter, product or vague idea that you pledge your “support” to. Then five minutes later, complaining about how you don’t have enough money for food/housing/whatever; and blaming someone else for that.
I probably spend $100 or less per year on games, and I’ve got plenty to keep me busy until I’m a corpse.
BG3 looks like a good game. I’ll play it when I get around to it. And by that time, it’ll be far cheaper than $60.
Being angry at someone for saving some money on something that you paid full price on, though? That’s definitely a way to approach things.
Confucius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pay less money for more game. This is the way.
DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am absolutely fucking loving this game. The split screen coop is incredible, albeit it needs some work. Honestly one of the best game me and my SO have played in a long, long time and by far the most immersive campaign we’ve ever been able to play together.
I’m playing on Linux and there are only a few issues I’ve come across: local multiplayer is disabled by default and requires an environment variable to enable, also there seems to be a memory leak after playing for a few hours where fps drops pretty dramatically. Other than that I don’t think there’s much of a difference between windows and pc.
secret301@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There’s fuckin split screen!? I want this game even more now
ytsedude@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m one of the six or seven Mac gamers out there…
Cross-platform play currently isn’t available for me and my PC buddies until the Mac version gets the full release build next week. If the PC version is on patch 2, will that still be compatible for cross-platform play, or will we forever be playing catch up?
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ono@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It also crashes (at least for some people) if you set CPU affinity at all. That’s really strange, and problematic if you’re using certain cores for background work, or if you just want to avoid the game having to cross a CCD boundary. Here’s hoping they fix it.
7h0m4s@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ah yes, silly silly Larian studios. Why didn’t they think of this earlier!?
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You joke, but it’s curious they’re promising performance patches right after getting Microsoft’s engineering help to find issues with the engine.
There’s also the fun fact that any game being released with any sort of badly optimized PC code get absolutely hammered on Lemmy and Reddit for “rushing things out” and “not having good enough QC” and “ship now, patch later”… why aren’t you there commenting “silly developer, why didn’t they think of this earlier?”
The fact that you like the game/studio doesn’t change the fact that they’ve shipped an engine that treats modern CPUs like Core 2 Quads.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it has that bad of a cpu affinity, and barely using 4 threads, i wonder why its hitting 100% on my 4 core 4th gen i5 and it has 47 threads… :')
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago