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The Callisto Protocol |OT| Galaxy of Terror
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MidGenRefresh
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apowhungo
Member
Just beat the first chapter, yeah my impression right now is that it's a slightly shittier Dead Space (they steal WAY TOO MUCH from it - the score, the stomping, japanese letters that have no relevance here) but with great visuals.
7.5/10 still glad I bought deluxe edish to support the devs even trying something like this.
TrebleShot
Member
Hearing it runs great on PS5 and not so great on PC.
This along with other PC release issues has me feeling like it’s the PS3 / 360 era for PC games again.
This along with other PC release issues has me feeling like it’s the PS3 / 360 era for PC games again.
tommib
Gold Member
Can confirm about PS5. No stuttering, smooth and minimal loadings.
tommib
Gold Member
Keep pressing the stick to either side. You can’t just flick it.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Reviews aside I got my copy for £40 so I'm more than happy to play.
As long as it arrives today with the postage strikes.
As long as it arrives today with the postage strikes.
tommib
Gold Member
PC unreal engine curse.
Bragr
Banned
Why? what's the difference?
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
That's why there was a review embargo.
You had a choice friend, you didn't need to pre-order this (or any game for that matter)
MrTroubleMaker
Member
denuvo drm
Nickolaidas
Member
It's the Elden Ring release all over again.
The PC version issues will be all fixed within a week but that won't stop the pc audience from shitting on the game for half a year.
The PC version issues will be all fixed within a week but that won't stop the pc audience from shitting on the game for half a year.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Oh well. Here is to 2023's games.
xrnzaaas
Member
The game runs great on PS5. I'm playing in the performance mode and for the majority of the time it's super smooth and it still looks very good & very sharp (not a blurry mess you can expect from some other games played in PF mode). Sure, there are some occasional small stutters when turning or entering a brand new location, but they're not major and they don't ruin the experience.
GymWolf
Member
It is not that, it's just the stick requiring the full movement and not half assed movements for some reasons.
The framerate was hardly locked in both mode on ps5 with the patch 1.4 but on reee someone said that 1.5 make framerate better.
I played 3 hours of the 1.4 and it was choppy in both modes.
Hopefully the new one really solved the problem.
GymWolf
Member
Don't halfass the stick movement, push to end run and keep it for like half a second, it is pretty annoying yeah.
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GymWolf
Member
Yeah, enemy design always looked way worse than dead space, zombies with some yellow pimples do nothing for me, hopefully they get better later.
TrebleShot
Member
Hearing on twitter its best to play on Easy Mode?
Much better experience, especially as really we are here for the atmosphere.
Much better experience, especially as really we are here for the atmosphere.
lh032
I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
does the directional matters? like if they hit you with right arm, i dodge with left? seems to be working randomly...
skit_data
Member
Are there any combat mechanic ”gimmicks” similar to the dismemberment system in Dead Space in this? Feels like I’ve been waiting for them to reveal combat is based around something similar but it just never happened? Is it all just ”blast em til they’re dead”?
It was a pretty strong and unique system so I’m a little let down if it’s missing those aspects
It was a pretty strong and unique system so I’m a little let down if it’s missing those aspects
BigbyTheSheriff
Member
Man, I'm so fucking bummed out. Can't support it if PC version is such a hot mess.
fran.fernandez
Member
Looks good, wait until 20 us or “free”
Con_Z_ǝdʇ
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Been playing in fidelity or better said with performance mode off. Not a rock solid and locked 30fps but better than expected. I can live with this, it's stable.I had a patch coming in before I started to play my digital copy. 0 frame rate problems.Con_Z_ǝdʇ how was your experience?
tommib
Gold Member
DualSense support is the least of your problems on PC, apparently.
Mister Wolf
Member
This could have been avoided if they just gave an option to precompile the shaders. Even the latest Star Ocean on PC gave us an option to do that in the graphics menu. People can shit on Tri-Ace games but at least they are competent enough as a developer to address a widely known problem for PC gaming when shipping their PC port.
SLB1904
Banned
Yeah I'm hearing. Fuckjng hell dude. We can't have nice things.
MidGenRefresh
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Game is getting roasted on Steam. I've never seen anything like this for a game that I was interested in. It's bloodbath.
Knightime_X
Member
This game is kinda dog shit
Refunded it.
Didn't find it fun at all.
It's a shame too, because I was really looking forward to this. Oh well.
Refunded it.
Didn't find it fun at all.
It's a shame too, because I was really looking forward to this. Oh well.
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Con_Z_ǝdʇ
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I'm still pretty early on in the game but it seem you have to use all the tools you have to your advantage. It's not just: "blast em til they’re dead". Ammo is very limited and guns are something that will help you, not something you can rely on. One enemy was spitting something at me and kept it's distance. Shooting off his head with one bullet changed that. Also you gain more melee attacks. Again, pretty early on in the game. The upgrades just started to come in.
Con_Z_ǝdʇ
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Hell no!
The dread of dying in an instant of being not careful really fuels the tension in the game and adds to the atmosphere. If, then you up the difficulty.
MasterCornholio
Member
I haven't seen the videos of it. But hopefully its good. All I've seen are the few rough spots in the PS5 version but I'm not sure if it's game breaking.
Comparison sites will definitely reveal everything.
That definitely shouldn't happen.
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GymWolf
Member
The direction only count when enemies do combos, never evade in the same direction twice.
For single hits direction should not matter.
You just need to push the stick with force and end his run and keep it there for like half a second, just play like you are trying to break your controller.
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tommib
Gold Member
Damn it. I don’t know what went wrong this morning. I took some cool screens. Are you using photo mode?
Con_Z_ǝdʇ
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Yes, but i upload them myself. Really happy it's there to align the shots better.
saintjules
Gold Member
Edit: broken link.
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tommib
Gold Member
I would like to have a clear analysis between modes. I played in quality and it looked fantastic. I’m afraid to lose too much of those yummy visuals in performance mode.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I actually think that it looks crisp, suck that you cannot switch those modes on the fly. I didn't like those "halos" when you very spinning camera around the player character.
Arachnid
Member
I started on the hardest difficulty and I've been having a fun time. Main points of contention:
My audio bugged out hard in the intro. The main character sounded like a robot all the way up until I exited and fixed it by messing with audio settings (around when he got to the planet). This was annoying since I could barely hear him and it took me out of the argument with his co-piolet (he sounded like wall-e on low sound).
Insane frame rate drops in the intro. I'm not one to care about stuff like this usually, but the intro was a bit egregious to the point where I just restarted (and then it happened again).
After that, no problems. I'm a few chapters in. Another (somewhat) complaint is that the dodge mechanic makes this too easy (even on hard). I don't get people ITT struggling. It feels like Dark Souls in that once you remember a specific enemy's combo, you can dodge it and punish perfectly every time. I think I've shot my weapon a total of 5 times so far, and I'm three chapters in. Definitely don't understand people saying the dodge is inconsistent. As long as you time it well and understand the pattern, it works every time (at least with the three enemy types I've encountered so far; haven't dodged the ranged sac/crawling enemies yet).
tl;dr: I'm loving the experience, but some technical difficulty and not much actual game difficulty so far. Dead Space is (at this point) superior. Still worth the buy for me, and I'm loving it.
My audio bugged out hard in the intro. The main character sounded like a robot all the way up until I exited and fixed it by messing with audio settings (around when he got to the planet). This was annoying since I could barely hear him and it took me out of the argument with his co-piolet (he sounded like wall-e on low sound).
Insane frame rate drops in the intro. I'm not one to care about stuff like this usually, but the intro was a bit egregious to the point where I just restarted (and then it happened again).
After that, no problems. I'm a few chapters in. Another (somewhat) complaint is that the dodge mechanic makes this too easy (even on hard). I don't get people ITT struggling. It feels like Dark Souls in that once you remember a specific enemy's combo, you can dodge it and punish perfectly every time. I think I've shot my weapon a total of 5 times so far, and I'm three chapters in. Definitely don't understand people saying the dodge is inconsistent. As long as you time it well and understand the pattern, it works every time (at least with the three enemy types I've encountered so far; haven't dodged the ranged sac/crawling enemies yet).
tl;dr: I'm loving the experience, but some technical difficulty and not much actual game difficulty so far. Dead Space is (at this point) superior. Still worth the buy for me, and I'm loving it.
Fools idol
Banned
holy hell this runs like absolute shit on my 4090, what is going on here.
Fools idol
Banned
Love mort's channel, guy is a fucking gem in the cRPG community. Nice to see him venturing out into other genres