#4458966 - 01/27/19 09:41 PM
Metro Exodus
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Has anyone seen the recently revealed system requirements? I was kind of taken aback when I saw them! This the first time in a long time that, apart from "recommended" graphics card, I feel intimidated and ill equipped for a game. I know system requirements often have a lot of leeway and are sometimes not even really indicative of what is really needed but man these specs seem kind of steep. Also, I don't understand that a GeForce GTX670 AND a GeForce GTX 1050 are listed together under "Minimum" requirements. I don't get this. Why is there a lower end and higher end card listed at the same time under minimum? Are they just trying to cover all the bases and implying that you can technically get away with a lower end card be we really recommend a high end card for "Minimum Requirements". I have to say that kind of baffles me but I get the feeling that all this is to say that this game is going to be intensive. I was hoping Exodus would be released with an engine that was optimized like the "Redux" versions of the original games. I remember that, and to this day even on newer hardware than back then, that Metro 2033 runs really crappy. However Last Light ran much better and even better than that, the revamped Metro 2033 Redux runs butter smooth at max settings minus expensive AA. So I guess this is not the same engine or iteration but something vastly different? Sounds like it may be a game I have to wait and see other's experience and even then, may not get right away. Looks like a cool game though. I love the originals and these folks make a good all around game. Having Metro partly open world sounds really great to me but I may have to hold off. On a side not I tried the demo of the new Resident Evil 2 Remake and from what I can tell, that new engine of theirs is really slick, looks really good and seems to be optimized very well. I'm not sure though that my GTX 970 will handle Exodus though giving the specs they just released.
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#4458993 - 01/28/19 09:13 AM
Re: Metro Exodus
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You are comfortably above minimum spec everywhere (assuming that it is a desktop, and the GTX 970 is exactly that and not the (half GPU) GTX970M you find in laptops). (Though there are some advantages to 10xx series cards, the 9xx series are not too far behind, and again, the x70 sub type is 'high-ish' end, and the x50 sub type is only middling. In most benchmarks the 970 seems to be around the level of the 1060).
You exceed recommended in CPU (marginally) and RAM (significantly), so should see ample performance to be usable, even if you need to have slightly less than the highest resolution and graphical options. (The gen 4, 7 series, 90 model CPU is the top end consumer chip from that generation, and is about 20% faster than my gen 3, 7 series, 70 model CPU, which is still a competent chip). I might be very mildly concerned that the on-chip features of my cpu don't include something used in a very cutting edge application, reducing performance or being incompatible, but you are in the top end of the correct generation.
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#4459047 - 01/28/19 06:58 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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Same here PM. Exodus looks like a great balance between both. The backpack and weapon modding on the fly looks really cool and useful too. Still working my way through Metro Last Light. I still have Stalker SoC installed but I've never gotten too far in it. I'd pay good money for a re-release of the original Stalker with current day DX 12 graphics.
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#4459155 - 01/29/19 01:35 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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Eh I will play on 1X on my couch and not worry about PC. Game looks solid
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#4459472 - 01/31/19 08:34 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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It is rare for a FPS these days to have a great atmosphere and story, and this game was on my steam wishlist for a long time. I'll probably torrent it before I decide on buying though. With the Epic Store lacking the content that well and proven stores like Steam and GOG have and not enough experiences on the internet with refunding through Epic known, i'm not going to spend 60 bucks to try out if my 1050 Mobile reaches a minimum 720p 30fps. The exclusive thing really sucks. I'm all in favor of devs earning more money, but if that money comes from cutting basic content like cloud saving, mod support, achievements and a review system, whilst not implementing anything new that is attractive, the consumer has no reason to swap environments. By the way, i'm fully basing my opinion on this (excellent) article, so perhaps i'm not seeing the full picture: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Dav...Current_State_is_Not_Good_for_Anyone.php
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#4459582 - 02/01/19 10:09 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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..that is right folks, the limited exclusivity #%&*$# transitioned to PCs....thanks a lot consoles. This has been a thing for well over a decade. Remember when Half Life 2 forced us to exclusively use Steam? Or BF3 with Origin? Or any Ubisoft game over the past 8 or so years required Uplay? Nothing new here. It is rare for a FPS these days to have a great atmosphere and story, and this game was on my steam wishlist for a long time. I'll probably torrent it before I decide on buying though. With the Epic Store lacking the content that well and proven stores like Steam and GOG have and not enough experiences on the internet with refunding through Epic known, i'm not going to spend 60 bucks to try out if my 1050 Mobile reaches a minimum 720p 30fps. The exclusive thing really sucks. I'm all in favor of devs earning more money, but if that money comes from cutting basic content like cloud saving, mod support, achievements and a review system, whilst not implementing anything new that is attractive, the consumer has no reason to swap environments. By the way, i'm fully basing my opinion on this (excellent) article, so perhaps i'm not seeing the full picture: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Dav...Current_State_is_Not_Good_for_Anyone.php The refund policy mirrors Valves (which they only implemented after EA/Origin beat them to it). Most of your other points are irrelevant. There was no mod support in the first place. No achievements is a plus. You can't turn that off in Steam, I've been waiting for a fix for about a decade if not longer now. Review system is broken in its current form. Just check the reviews and you'll see what I mean. Whether that is good or not for customers is irrelevant sadly. Valve, EA, Ubisoft & Blizzard have set the standard for requiring a launcher/client. Customers go where the software is and Valve is loosing AAA games at a high rate.
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#4459585 - 02/01/19 10:42 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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There was no mod support in the first place. I'm talking about the Epic Store in general No achievements is a plus. And for most gamers, it isn't. There is a large crowd of gamers wanting achievements. Why do you think everybody and their grandmothers' game include achievements? You can't turn that off in Steam I've been waiting for a fix for about a decade if not longer now. Why remove something that is very succesful and desired? It's akin to complaining that FPS games are 3D instead of 2D. Review system is broken in its current form. Just check the reviews and you'll see what I mean. And I always get plenty of useful reviews out of them, if you're too lazy to scroll further than the overall score, that's on you. Whether that is good or not for customers is irrelevant sadly. Like you've said in your opening sentence, Valve implemented their refund policy after Origin beat them to it. So have a lot of other features of Steam been implemented after another company showed that that feature was something that attracted customers. Valve is loosing AAA games at a high rate. Who have they lost? So far i'm only seeing Metro and The Division 2 as AAA exclusives on Epic Store, and that isn't going to cut it. Electronic Arts pulling all their games away from Steam was a bigger blow. Also, the Origin store isn't doing so well if you look at the amount of 3rd party content there.
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#4459640 - 02/02/19 07:25 AM
Re: Metro Exodus
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There was no mod support in the first place. I'm talking about the Epic Store in general Well that isn't very relevant to the thread then...No achievements is a plus. And for most gamers, it isn't. There is a large crowd of gamers wanting achievements. Why do you think everybody and their grandmothers' game include achievements? You can't turn that off in Steam I've been waiting for a fix for about a decade if not longer now. Why remove something that is very succesful and desired? It's akin to complaining that FPS games are 3D instead of 2D. Why not have an option? Not everyone is a 13 year old that needs constant pop ups for every little thing. It is much more akin to having popups on a website. It is practically the same. 2D vs 3D FPS is a massive difference to gameplay. Having popups in your games is just as bad as those pop ups on a website. Most people run ad blockers to get rid of them. It shouldn't surprise you that we'd like similar functionality in our paid games.Review system is broken in its current form. Just check the reviews and you'll see what I mean. And I always get plenty of useful reviews out of them, if you're too lazy to scroll further than the overall score, that's on you. Most of them are garbage. Games get review bombed due to the developers ethnicity, political decisions of another country (China vs South Korea as an example) or ramble on about entirely other products. A good example is Metro 2033 getting Epic store rants for reviews which have nothing to do with the product in question. Whether that is good or not for customers is irrelevant sadly. Like you've said in your opening sentence, Valve implemented their refund policy after Origin beat them to it. So have a lot of other features of Steam been implemented after another company showed that that feature was something that attracted customers. And that is why some competition is good. Valve has been lazy for a good ~6 years. What needs to be fixed gets kicked to the side and more garbage and neglect has set it (such as review bombing and an influx of low quality "hentai games"). Valve is loosing AAA games at a high rate. Who have they lost? So far i'm only seeing Metro and The Division 2 as AAA exclusives on Epic Store, and that isn't going to cut it. Electronic Arts pulling all their games away from Steam was a bigger blow. Also, the Origin store isn't doing so well if you look at the amount of 3rd party content there. So far these past few months: Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Rage 2 The Division 2 Metro Exodus (timed only)Three of the biggest AAA games announced this year won't be on Steam. This trend is picking up steam, pardon the pun. Replies in bold.
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#4459643 - 02/02/19 08:07 AM
Re: Metro Exodus
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Well that isn't very relevant to the thread then If you don't find the "exclusive" discussion relevant to the thread, then why are you participating in it? Why not have an option? Not everyone is a 13 year old that needs constant pop ups for every little thing. It is much more akin to having popups on a website. It is practically the same. 2D vs 3D FPS is a massive difference to gameplay. Having popups in your games is just as bad as those pop ups on a website. Most people run ad blockers to get rid of them. It shouldn't surprise you that we'd like similar functionality in our paid games. There is an option to turn pop-ups off, it's called "disable Steam Overlay in-game".
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#4459734 - 02/03/19 01:19 AM
Re: Metro Exodus
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LOL the publisher Dev has threatened the pc community saying they will not release any more titles on the plataform if people boycott........lol........let the boycotting begins...pc players are not lemmings like casuals on console. dude just shot his own tight and hit an artery........ Someone translated the original interview, seems it was not cut as dry as some people in the net made it look like. "I've been looking at all the buzz. My feelings are two fold. On the one side, us leaving steam is not certain, nobody has made such a bold move as of yet (as far as I'm aware). This is all new, and this means that it will cause some people to be upset. Yes, a move like this requires folks to install the Epic launcher that can cause some inconvenience to players and this all means that there will be some push back.
On the other hand, the reaction of a certain group of players (people threatening to use torrents etc) - is hardly warranted. I get a feeling that people didn't want to play the game in the first place, but instead were just waiting for a reason to start throwing out their complaints. So we (the devs) spend years of hard work trying to make something special, but the aforementioned group of players just think our hard work isn't even worth a couple of minutes it takes to install a new launcher. Of course its their life and their right so why even bother with Metro? It seems like its a game that they have no interest in. I can only say that those people were't fans in the first place and our work isn't interesting to them, and that means that opinions of such people are of no interest to me. What is the point in me listening to their opinion?
Let us take closer look at the situation shall we? Some people think that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on Exodus as well as the previously released titles that they somehow made the world a better place. "Lets put the greedy developer in their place!" these people think. Here's my answer to this - if this goes to the extreme and PC players decide to boycott Exodus, then subsequent Metro titles, if they do come out will not come out on PC. If its for better or worse, you decide for yourself. Personally I would just feel bad for the loyal fans. This won't affect how much I value the work of my friends and work colleagues. I know for sure that all these angry people who are spewing their bile online are not capable of doing even a small fraction of what we were able to achieve and will hopefully achieve in the future. And thus, they don't have a clue as to what they are talking about.
And also, despite the fact that during development I've played and finished every single level of every game god knows how many times, I still want to play Metro. I have finished the previous games many times, even now I'm getting ready to do another full playthrough of the PC version (I'm assuming here he means Exodus), which were are now adding the finishing touches to. To me this is a tradition, I always do a full playthough of our game just before release. It lets me appreciate all the work we did. So you might be asking what is this all about? I'm remembering the Professor's words (not sure what he means here) , words that I've heard many times from him personally and from the Internet - when you make a game you have to make it for yourself first and foremost, you yourself actually have to like the game. And only now I'm starting to fully realize that no smartass is going to get to me and devalue the hard work that we have put in. There will always be those who are unsatisfied.."
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#4461496 - 02/15/19 12:07 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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BTW, I just noticed there's also a post-apocalyptic Far Cry out today? That one went completely below my radar. Yes, "New Dawn". It takes place several years after the end of Far Cry 5.
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#4461498 - 02/15/19 12:11 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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I ignored 5 because the plot and gameplay got such a bad reputation. .
I found the gameplay to be virtually the same as it was in Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 and while the geographic setting was obviously different, I found the plot/story to be no better or no worse than the story in FC 4.
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#4461500 - 02/15/19 12:22 PM
Re: Metro Exodus
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Well... From what I saw the criticism was that you get pulled repeatly into some cutscenes/psychotic episodes, and there is no "good" ending as it's either nuclear strike or you die. Didn't seem very interesting to play then.
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#4461510 - 02/15/19 01:51 PM
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Far Cry lost me after FC2. I enjoyed FC 2 for the most part but the constantly respawning enemy checkpoints were annoying.
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#4461606 - 02/15/19 10:04 PM
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Far Cry lost me after FC2. I enjoyed FC 2 for the most part but the constantly respawning enemy checkpoints were annoying. the respawn wasnt so annoying, what was annyoing was that the missions were ALWAYS on the oposite side of where you got it from, mission quest give is NE ? enjoy going SW, and vice versa, got tiring really fast, i enjoyed much more attacking camps but never finished because of this
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#4461635 - 02/16/19 04:13 AM
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FC3 and FC4 were great fun. FC5 sucked in my opinion. It's not just the story either. All the guns aee basically the same. There is no point to unlocking any new weapons. It could have been great if they did it right. So will take a hard pass on FC5.5 New Dawn.
Metro Exodus on the other hand...go get it. Stop complaining about Epic store. This is a classic game. Its one of the all time greats in my opinion. Have played about 2 hours so far but I am loving it.
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#4463224 - 02/27/19 03:04 PM
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Well, despite the stupid move with Steam/Epic I, well, got the game somehow And honestly: It's February and this might be game of the year for me. Especially if they release some nice juicy DLCs with additional large levels. They really did almost everything right here - judging at least by the first third. There's stuff in I would like to have in every other shooter.
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#4463257 - 02/27/19 06:10 PM
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Thanks for the game comments. I played the original recently when i grabbed a DL on sale. I will do the same with exodus.
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Exodus
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