Its always amazing how both people and companies seem to be caught by surprise when a game that relies heavily on servers has launch issues with everyone trying to play at once.

these Flight Sim games stream in a ton of data, so i'm not surprised one bit. MS probably knows that the vast majority of people will probably only play it for a few hours, do some training, fly over their house, and uninstall it. so maybe they are willing to weather the initial wave of problems rather than set up the server infrastructure that will only be used briefly.

but seriously. when was the last time a sever reliant game DIDN'T have launch issues? maybe Call of Duty? I find it so funny how gamers get so furious about it when its the most predictable shit ever and will probably sort itself out in a few days like always.

wonder if there is a option for Russian VO with subtitles

Sounds like a authentic Stalker game to me.

I remember running the first one in Direct X 8 mode when it came out because my PC couldn't handle it in DX9 lol.

now the question of whether I can get it running acceptably well with my RTX 3070.

dang, being stuck playing on a console with sub par performance and no ability to do anything about it would be my nightmare.

I'd hope that even if its a bit rough on PC, smart people will figure out ways to mitigate performance issues with various tweaks.

one more day until we find out... then it'll be the usual chaos of some people saying "well it runs fine on my laptop with a RTX 2050m and 7th gen i5" and then others saying "well my 4090 with a 14900k XTREME EDITION cooled by dry ice overclocked to 33ghz + 128gb of ram is getting terrible performance"

and we still won't know shit lol

I have some cousins literally on the other side of the world in New Zealand who game, otherwise, no one.

my two brothers both gamed a bit when younger but neither kept it up

yea for sure. bad optimization is the one thing that'll keep me from playing this at launch. hopefully not the case!

wouldn't be surprised if the reviews are somewhat mixed, there will probably be some jank, expecting the story/dialogue to be weak and bring it down as well.

but i'm personally very much looking forward to it, been one of the very few games I've been excited about playing for a while now

yup. if I had such limited space, why have 5 consoles when a single PC will do the job

ah yes, the awards show for 2024 that announces its nominees before some of the biggest games of the year come out.

still going through Baldurs Gate 3. think i'm about half way through or so.

otherwise, a bit of Helldivers 2/Company of Heroes 3 with some friends if the opportunity arises