venomhed wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 18:08:
Terrible game! What a waste of a Torrent download.... hahaa.

Seriously, it sucks! Aside from static background graphics that are truly beautiful, as a game it is a JOKE!

Don't bother.

Mad Max RW wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 17:40:
I feel like one of the few people in the world playing Rage without a single problem. No annoying texture pop-in, screen tearing, crashing, long load times, or generally any technical issues whatsoever all with a constant 60 fps. Using all the tweaks, config files, and a command line the length of a small novel, I must have hit the sweet spot.

Now that I'm pretty well into the game I can say I'm really enjoying it. Guns feel great, environments are nice, AI is good, controls are perfect, characters look amazing, and overall it's fun. Rage is just a straight up id software shooter with a dash of Borderlands.

Dmitri_M wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 17:26:

Elessar wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 16:52:
Thankfully indies are still putting out fun titles, but corporatism has completely fucked this industry.

Urg. I wish people would stop bringing indies up as the salvation of PC gaming. PC gamers are complaining about a lack of "serious" high budget PC titles. A two man indie title cannot return us to 2000. Most indie titles are designed to sell well on XBLA as cheap purchases. I have no idea what that has to do with wishing that mid to large size studios were producing "proper" PC titles uncorrupted by all the cookie cutter console influenced titles. Is it that indies are somehow "cool" and apart from the studios? Ok great, but they're still not the sorts of games we wish were produced today.

Fion wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 16:08:
I'm using the fix on a card with 1.25gb of vram and have no issue with it (GTX 570 to be specific). Updated textures are 'much' improved but there are still some textures that are very very limited. Even without this Rage's graphics are astounding on the whole. With this fix, they are breath taking.

Prez wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 21:44:
This is all very disappointing. I got the impression that the reviewer was being overly critical in places, seeing as how a lot of the complaints he has could apply equally to other games, including Borderlands, which he praises in his review. Still, there is quite a bit of his review that touch on what sound to be genuine problems with the game. I expect things will only get worse when he reviews the PC version, as by many accounts it's a very lazy port.

Still, the game isn't off my wishlist - I'm just not paying 60 bucks for it. I got DNF for 10 bucks; I expect it might not be too long before I see a sale for Rage.

Verno wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 15:07:
You can just add them to the launch options in Steam as well. There is base.cfg in the games directory too but I haven't tested it yet.

^Drag0n^ wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 11:05:

Verno wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 10:24:

As for Texture poping, Ive had none of that, so the AMD\ATI might be the issue.

Nah that's everyone, I'm seeing tons of complaints from people with 570s and 580s as well on other forums. Turn quickly and look in the corners of the screen. The game isn't caching them properly or something. It's related to how id is using texture streams or something along those lines, most likely just a setting that needs to be changed for the PC version. The mouse thing is acceleration apparently and its turned on for everyone. There's some videos showing both on Youtube now. AMD users are having a whole set of other issues too apparently, flickering hud elements, poor framerates and etc.

Doesn't sound like a big deal but they should definitely fix it up.

edit: just for kicks I loaded it up briefly on my 560 Ti (wow that was a long decryption) and I noticed the texture thing immediately once you leave the ark, it's very apparent in the outdoor areas.

Yeah, it's very apparent, and I agree with your assessment: it probably is a caching/streaming problem. I have an i7 / SLI rig, so I know it's not for lack of power or memory. Nonetheless, that was the one blemish I saw straight off. Hopefully they fix it quickly.

The dynamic scaling does work pretty well to keep the framerate at 60, no hiccups/stutters/glitching at all.

Default mouse acceleration: definitely felt wrong for an id game; it really made aiming feel clumsy and imprecise, something id normally is spot on with.

The game itself is pretty awesome, although I will admit, I HATE all the "invisible walls" that prevent me from going places/falling. To me, that was a bigger distration than any of the normal technical issues we're seeing out of the gate.

Technical merit: Definite 10. The glitches will parse out soon enough.

Game itself? After 1-1/2 hubs, I'd definitely say it's the deepest id game yet, but it does lose points for not having DM because, well, it is an id game. But the single player experience is stunning, jaw dropping graphics, and has a good pace with reasonable branching for sidequests. It's almost like someone shook an id engine in with Borderlands and a little Fallout3.

Orly wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 03:51:
Hey Darks how did you get 16x FSAA and what do you mean by everything turned up all the way? Have you looked at the textures up close? There are hundreds of users complaining of the terrible low-res textures on high-end rigs. My textures SUCK!!

But I agree the game is awesome.

Anyone figure out how to get better textures???

WyldKat wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 02:23:
Not regretting deciding to wait on this one right about now.

Oh well, 1 more week for Forza 4.

MrRadicalEd wrote on Oct 1, 2011, 09:17:
"hells yeah" ?

Well I am starting to be turned off the more I see this. I love the visuals and many other elements, but the pacing is off for my taste. Not every encounter has to be a batch of aliens after you.

So far from what I've seen, it is a roller coaster ride filled with aliens being tossed at you. As I recall from the original movie, the space marines seem to be thwarted with just as many situational problems as alien encounters.

Prez wrote on Oct 1, 2011, 04:54:
I am a HUGE Aliens universe fan. I pretty much eat up anything released that is based in that universe, so I'm gonna be all over this. The video has a really nice "Aliens" atmosphere and the signature dread build-up prior to encountering the aliens is definitely there, so that's good. Here's hoping that it turns out to be a good game.

^Drag0n^ wrote on Sep 30, 2011, 22:16:
Yay! it's just like the good old days!

"Not enough FTP connections to grant your request. Please try again later."

(only now, it's the Steam equivalent).

Stolk wrote on Sep 30, 2011, 00:52:

Creston wrote on Sep 30, 2011, 00:03:

Dr. D. Schreber wrote on Sep 29, 2011, 23:31:
A shotgun blast to the chest, close-range or otherwise (close range would actually lessen the chance of it hitting the heart, since it hasn't spread as much yet) can still leave someone mortally wounded but alive long enough to keep going on adrenaline, shock and willpower,

I think FPS Russia would probably very much disagree with you.


There's a four weapon limit? WTF? Yeah, that'll be modded out in a heartbeat. Even if I have to do it myself.

Creston

4 weapon limit? I remember reading Tim Willits specifically say there would be no limits of the kind, giving a dig at DNF at the same time even.

Rossafur wrote on Sep 29, 2011, 13:49:
Gah, why do they insist on continuing to make every MechWarrior from the perspective of the Inner Sphere? Clans > Inner Sphere. And in every way: mech designs look better, their technology is better, their pilots are better, and their lore is far more interesting. But nooo, they've decided that the Inner Sphere is "more relatable" I guess, and the Clans are the evil warrior clones. Though here it looks like House Kurita are painted as the evil-doers, attacking the home of this Adrian Khol dude who just wanted to party and take advantage of being a nobleman, man! That plot has totally never been done before!
Grumble grumble. (haters gonna hate, though I *have* been waiting for another MW game for a long long time now, but a *good* one for even longer, ha)

Verno wrote on Sep 29, 2011, 11:16:
You kid but it's probably not far from the truth

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Sep 24, 2011, 20:45:

Darks wrote on Sep 24, 2011, 20:11:
They said in Oct we would see that patch, If it doesnt come out Im gettimg my money back. That was the whole reason I bought this game was for the Coop.

I'm not trying to be funny but if you only wanted the title for co-op then wouldn't it make sense to buy if AFTER it included that feature, not before. Afterall, history has shown us many developers that promise features but cannot or do not deliver. If it underperforms then there is an obvious incentive to abandon plans for support and move on to something that will earn them money instead of cost it, despite the bad will it generates.

Also, buying it immediately undermines your position, as if they look at the sales figures and they don't see an increase in sales after the release of co-op they may consider that it wasn't successful.