I tried to play the game originally on the Steam Deck but no matter how low I turned the settings down the game, ran and looked horrible.
I got the Steam machine and played through the entire entirety of the game on that and for the most part, it worked well on all high settings though they were occasional dips in heavy fighting areas
Additionally, I used the steam controller that just came out and that worked perfectly fine
As for how felt about the game, I had mixed feelings about it. The gunplay was fine and fun even at times though not really challenging.
Graphic wise, the game looks really nice, but man the game is just horribly, absolutely horribly optimized and even turning down the settings to low there would be still weird glitches and at times freezes, even a couple crashes. The game also would at times have characters glitch in and out or even multiply characters.
They’re just a ton of bugs that should not be in the game. I get that they’re using the unreal engine five which is not always the best, but this game has a lot of issues when it comes to the performance and bugs. It’s not the steam machine’s fault.
Gameplay wise it’s fine.
There needs to be a way to run fast faster for crying out loud walk-ing is abysmally slow. And run basically doesn’t speed you up anymore either, feels like the developers were just padding the game to make it longer.
There was really no reason for the game to need experience points and a skill tree but it has it.
Having numerous quest seemed fun at first, but they got to be tiring towards the end (50 some quests) with many of them being simply go here and there and find this object for me. Someone wants you to get their bath towel for example and one question. It really does feel like filler and trying to pad the game.
I wish you could automatically pick up ammo as you have to individually pick up the weapons for more ammo and due to the fact that the game has this weird way of not displaying the interact prompt at times it means that sometimes in the thick battle, you’re desperately trying to just get the button prompt pick to appear to be able to pick up a gun for more ammo if that makes sense,
This button prompt issue is everywhere in the game. There’s a apartment that you’re supposed to go to and you’re supposed to leave out a door, but that prompt for example, won’t appear unless you move your character to the very far left of the door and look in the corner of the door for some reason for it to appear. It’s just all over the place.
Voice acting, and music is fine, but nothing groundbreaking
Boss fights are lackluster, and the final boss fight is also very lackluster in my opinion and very easy, really anti-climatic.
The game has you run from one end of the map to the other end of the map way too much and with how slow you walk and run, it gets to be extremely tedious, having to go back-and-forth constantly.
Many times it will make you run all the way to the end of the map to just talk to a character that tells you have to go back to where you already just were because they can’t help you or something like that.
There’s a part in the game, where you have to defuse a bomb and the instructions they give you is wrong, ended up having a look up online how to do it as the game developers apparently don’t know wattage numbers.
I guess it’s a fine game. I got my moneys worth as I only spent like four dollars on it but it’s not worth the full price by any means and there is a lot of just minor little game play choices that just don’t make a whole lot of sense and add up more and more as the game progresses. The game becomes more tedious than fun, especially the more you get into the game
2/5
