I've been playing the game for a while now, and I'm having fun now that I've figured out you can configure the game's graphics to "potato-ass graphics" in the game files lower your resolution, lower your aspect ratio to the lowest, and combine it with lossless scaling. I'm running a minimum of 70–144 fps. I wish I'd known this from the start, since I played the game for 10 hours straight before figuring it out, and it was a crappy experience.
I'm still wondering how the hell this game is laggy as hell on default settings with low in-game graphics settings. I was only running 20–40 fps on objective maps and 30–40 fps on survival maps, with a decent mid-range laptop. Here's what I was getting before I configured anything:
• Objective Maps •
Power Plant | stable 30–40 fps
Pottsville | stable 30–40 fps
Lewiston | stable 30–40 fps
Broadway | stable 30–40 fps
Beaulieu Hospital | stable 10–20 fps (1st WORST ONE), especially in the middle part of the map, in the garden area
Raven Rock | 10–30 fps (2nd WORST ONE)
• Survival Maps •
Flooded | stable 30–40 fps
Lighthouse | stable 30–40 fps
Night of the Living Dead (NOTLD) | stable 30–40 fps
Okay, the graphics part is done let's talk about the perks that have been retired (removed) from the game. Since I started playing late, I never got to experience those perks, and I wish there was a way to still use them. My suggestion: don't remove them completely instead, make them harder to obtain, through achievements, higher level requirements, or something along those lines.
And lastly, the matchmaking in Nightmare mode is like Russian roulette. You'll either get left behind and killed by zombies because of speedrunners, or paired with the "I'm level 1 and I can beat this game on Nightmare" type who actually just wants to get carried. My suggestion: only allow accounts level 10+ to play Nightmare mode, so players actually experience the game first before jumping into the hardest difficulty currently available in this patch.
Overall, the game is fun to play, and it's the type of game I've been looking for since 2017. The extraction game mode concept has always been solid, but its biggest drawback used to be the PvP aspect. This game changes that by focusing solely on PvE instead of PvP, which is what I like. 67
