Generic Power Ranger
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The cast in the OP pictures makes me want to play this game. I had no interest before 
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Quantum Break PC is a mess (non-native render, badly optimized, overpriced, etc)
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Shoklot Caek
Member
URGH
justgames7604
Member
Its a sad state. But I'm still going to get it on pc when its cheaper. It seems like a really good game.
Lilalaunebaer
Member
Eh, i´ll wait for the xbone emulator and play the xbone exclusives that way.
No UWAs, no windows store, and will probably perform better thanks to no UWA restrictions.
I got time.
No UWAs, no windows store, and will probably perform better thanks to no UWA restrictions.
I got time.
Xbox One version definitely looks smoother here. PC version is stuttering badly.
wapplew
Member
Not UWA problem, also mean write once publish everywhere is flawed idea.
The biggest reason make UWA is gone.
Even if this game didn't require windows 10 and everything was fixed for a perfect port i sure as hell am not supporting Microsoft or any of its games, its Vista all over again except now its OS based not service based and their in charge of the ports. History repeats itself and Microsoft has shown it's hand countless times, there is always something to play on PC I'm fine with not playing their dodgy ports.
poodaddy
Member
Yup, couldn't of put it better myself. And now I'm kinda sad....
Lilalaunebaer
Member
If it´s as good as dolphin. Sure.
Fuck, I can't even play this if I wanted to. Having a name that has non-English letters, and using that name for my MS account, that probably means my account won't work.
Funnily, Remedy are Finnish and they have several letters like that too so they must have encountered this as well.
Dictator93
Member
I counted on Remedy as well but I guess they were too time limited. At least that's what I like to think.
Hugh Swank
Member
XB1 is a beast...confirmed.
Not really. Games mean little to Microsoft beyond more eyeballs and development for the store. They want UWA for mobile like apps and to become the iTunes/ Google Play app store. Everything else is a sideshow. Games are being thrown under the bus, Microsoft don't care about becoming a Steam platform. If PC games help the app store gain traction and better adoption of UWA with mainstream app support, job done. If all those PC games are underwhelming, well tough luck, we have Instagram, Snapchat and mobile shovelware now like Apple and Google plus Windows Mobile has a heartbeat. That's Microsoft's end game, not PC games.
That 720p 30fps baby butt smoothness.
MS killed PC gaming in 2001 by releasing the Xbox. To their biggest surprise, the beast is still alive, whereas their favorite option has some problems.
By transfering all PC games to UWP and making them run bad, this is a strategy to kill the beast once more.
wapplew
Member
True.
I guess when they say write once publish everywhere they meant Candy crash and minesweeper.
Good luck on windows mobile thou.
if the xbox version doesn't have the frame timing issues then even at 30fps it'll look smoother
i have to think that this as well as gears are a result of MS's xbox -> UWP automatic conversion tools being used without much fine tuning
Exactly.
FTFY
Well, they are really goofing up the Embrace part of their evil strategy, lol.
That's like complaining about EA forcing Origin upon you. It's the publisher's right to decide how gamers play their game. Microsoft happens to want to push the Xbox Live ecosystem to PCs, so it's only logical for them to bring console exclusives to the Windows Store.
Now after Steam, Origin and Gog.com we have a fourth ecosystem. I think it's a good thing for PC gaming. Competition is good.
(LEAVE PHIL SPENCER ALONE! Sorry, but: No.)
...Which is a UWP problem. Microsoft have touted "CODE ONCE, PORT TWICE!" as a UWP function (read: "you make the game once and it can run on Windows and X-box no problem, easy peasy lemon squeezy"). The lack of UWP giving the PC version a quit button-in game is a symptom of the problem. Remedy released a console version (good), and then quickly used UWP at Microsoft's behest to release a PC version (bad, currently. Remains to be seen if MS actually will fix these problems or just throw their hands up again on their PC initiative) through the "UWP wrapper" (ugh for lack of better term) to quickly get a PC port up.
Remedy didn't put in enough time to give a proper PC port, that much is certain. But it is squarely on MS's head in regards to forcing them to do a UWP port to try to show you can do quickie console ports and have them "just work" on PC.
I posted a response in the PC performance thread but I wanted to echo it here.
I've played the game on an i7 4770k + 760GTX 2GB system on most low (set textures to medium), and its all been rather smooth..
I know there alot of people unhappy with the image quality (IQ) for the game, but like I expressed in that thread, it is a stylistic and engineering decision, not a porting issue. Its a really effects heavy game, relying less on resolution. Also, closing the app is a non-issue. Just do what you would normally do with any Win10 app.
Idk if its 'unoptimized', but I am able to play it and its a fun game.
I've played the game on an i7 4770k + 760GTX 2GB system on most low (set textures to medium), and its all been rather smooth..
I know there alot of people unhappy with the image quality (IQ) for the game, but like I expressed in that thread, it is a stylistic and engineering decision, not a porting issue. Its a really effects heavy game, relying less on resolution. Also, closing the app is a non-issue. Just do what you would normally do with any Win10 app.
Idk if its 'unoptimized', but I am able to play it and its a fun game.
Night Angel
Member
Yeah, a fourth ecosystem that eliminates most of the things that make PC gaming great. An ecosystem whose only benefit is that you can literally not buy some of its games anywhere else.
Such good competition. Surely this will improve PC gaming a hundredfold.
texhnolyze
Banned
What have you been reading about Microsoft store all these weeks/months?
Microsoft store is not just another PC store like Uplay, Origin, GOG, etc. You have no clue at all.
Have you actually tested this? I guess that's just a thing of people not knowing how to use universal apps. You should be able to close the game simply by hovering to the top right corner of the screen, where an X will appear, like it is the case for ALL universal apps.
Not really. If I was in IT, I'd always make the user accounts with basic ASCII only, precisely because there are bad apps that throw a fit from Unicode. Something as commonplace as Irfanview (image viewer) fails when path has Asian characters. When I'm installing development tools, SDKs and libraries, I tend to not even put them anywhere that has spaces in the path because I've encountered some where the build scripts can't even handle that...
Still a sign of rushed game that something so basic would fail, but it's not a mystery by any means.
I do know that the UWP is completely different. Non the less it's still yet another gaming ecosystem running on PCs.
Exactly. If you want to change some store settings, you have to dig into the OS settings. It is just a tip on how much invasive this store will be on the principles and foundations of Windows itself. Let him grow and the store will become the only source of valid applications. Not now, not tomorrow, but someday.
Yeah no this isn't competition, Microsoft is actively trying to strangle it.
dr_rus
Member
It's MS, if they can't do this with their flagship OS product you shouldn't expect them to fare any better with games made by an external developer. This was expected really as the whole UWP idea is built on a false premise and it will take some beating for MS to realize this - as usual.
"You should be able to alt-F4 out like all universal apps!"
WHOOSH. That's not the point. The point is if Remedy put in the time they would have an in-game "close this application" option in-game for controller (you know the people Microsoft is trying to court onto PC with this sort of initiative) people to not have to get up, get their mouse/keyboard and ALT+F4/X out. They shouldn't have to blindly rely on MS to provide that option under UWP for the application to throw it into the main-menu on port.
Guilty Gear: XX: The Midnight Carnival: Accent Core + R had no "quit button"/function for controllers on Steam release a year ago. You know what Arc did after people complained? They added it, quickly.
Collateral22
Member
It's basically play by our rules or not at all. Their rules suck. This is a half ass port and MS should be dogged for it.
Holy shit, there are more than three digital stores/ecosystems on PC. Microsoft has had one for years now, well before the Windows 10 store! Do you know anything about the platform?
It's perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to keep their games exclusive to their store*. That's not what people are complaining about. They are complaining about UWP in particular, because it introduces restrictions that literally no other distributor has. Restrictions that cut out the heart of what makes PC gaming so interesting.
*although after GFWL and the closure of Xbox 1.0, I don't trust MS to keep the store open indefinitely.
motorised mallard
Member
And how you do this with a 360/xbone controller?
Competition in general is good.
Microsoft's specific brand of competition is fucking garbage.
No one is pushing for less competition on PC. We just want Microsoft to stop trying to make PC gaming worse in order to exert more control on the platform and make it more like the closed Xbox system.
Exactly my feelings on the matter. Plus, it's a closed pricing model... And a bloody expensive one at that. £50 for a digital PC game? Not a chance.