Red Dead II Coming November 5th

TheValeyard

ITS HAPPENING





https://www.pcgamer.com/red-dead-redemption-2-pc-announced/

TheDoc

Unbelievable news. Loved it on Ps4 but as I barely turn on the console, be picking it up for PC.

Disappointed that its going to Epic first along with Rockstars platform, so I'll be hanging on until December when it comes out on Steam

TheValeyard

TheDoc wrote: »

Unbelievable news. Loved it on Ps4 but as I barely turn on the console, be picking it up for PC.

Disappointed that its going to Epic first along with Rockstars platform, so I'll be hanging on until December when it comes out on Steam

Think it's also on Greenman Gaming, I've used them a good bit, never had an issue.

ancapailldorcha

Any chance of the original coming?

Skerries

Dcully

TheDoc wrote: »

Unbelievable news. Loved it on Ps4 but as I barely turn on the console, be picking it up for PC.

Disappointed that its going to Epic first along with Rockstars platform, so I'll be hanging on until December when it comes out on Steam

Why? Sure its only going to launch the rockstar launcher anyways.

lmimmfn

Great game, loved it on PS4, dunno if I could handle the long slog again but would be interested to see how good it looks and plays on the PC.

And yeah, for others may as wekk just get a rockstar key than an epic or steam key as will just launch their launcher anyway.

Dave_The_Sheep

Maybe when it's on at least 50% sale. They're not getting rewarded for late releases on PC with a full price purchase.

Retr0gamer

Well GTA5 was a substantial upgrade on the PS3 and 360 version so maybe we will get a version that will be the basis for the inevitable next gen release. I'll wait and see what digital foundry say.

However I'll be waiting for a heavy discount because it's not a good game.

ERG89

Retr0gamer wrote: »

However I'll be waiting for a heavy discount because it's not a good game.

PC gaming where you can never rule out buying a game even if you know it's not good :pac: :pac:

Retr0gamer

ERG89 wrote: »

PC gaming where you can never rule out buying a game even if you know it's not good :pac: :pac:

My steam library is testament to that.

But I think it will also be a good graphics benchmark game.

In other words A PC gamer and his money are easily parted, even if a game is ****e

Dcully

I was going into this blind and planned to buy the game as soon as i heard about the PC version, retr0gamer has encouraged me to atleast research a bit beforehand :P

Venom

Retr0gamer wrote: »

However I'll be waiting for a heavy discount because it's not a good game.

Can you give a non-spoiler reason for what's wrong with it?

Retr0gamer

It's just not fun at all. It's so in love with the world it's created that it forgets to be fun. The world is technically amazing and gorgeous but the game actively wastes your time. Riding for ages between missions because there's no fast travel. Having to walk in your camp. And the missions aren't even well designed.

It's kind of like the opposite of BotW where every system in that game is useful and can be used in interesting ways. RDR2 has so much detail and attention to detail but none of it makes the game any fun and it actively makes the game worse in some respects.

It's an interesting game.... but also fails at being a fun game. Might be worth trying but don't be surprised if you find the game annoying after 10 hours. You might love it either but I didn't get on with it.

Mr Crispy

Mods might remove some of the annoyances.

I also didn't think it was great either. Nowhere near as good as RDR.

Shiminay

Yea, it's a 7/10 game at best. Far, far too much busy work to show off the (admittedly gorgeous) world they built. But it's just not fun having to go everywhere the long way on your horse (there's only fast travel from your camp and I didn't even realise that till I was halfway through the game). The story isn't bad, but it's not going to change your life. Then it's more busy work with collecting all the whatsits to complete challenges to increase your health or stamina and all that sort of nonsense which very quickly drives all the enjoyment out of it.

Skerries

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Mods might remove some of the annoyances.

this might make me get it on PC or I might see how cheap it goes on PS4 before buying it

dreamers75

Minimum specifications:

OS: Windows 7 - Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300
Memory: 8GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB HDD
Space: 150GB
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

Recommended specifications:

OS: Windows 10 - April 2018 Update (v1803)
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Memory: 12GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
HDD Space: 150GB
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

Specs

EoinHef

A list of what they say is improved for PC version:

-Increased draw distance

-"Higher quality" global illumination and ambient occlusion

-"Improved" snow trails

-"Improved" reflections and higher resolution shadows

-Tessellated tree textures

-"Improved" grass and fur textures

-HDR support

-Unlocked resolution (4K and higher)

-Ultrawide aspect ratio and multi-monitor support

-Unlocked framerate


Gee thanks for not locking the framerate and resoultion R*:pac:

dreamers75

Tbh GTA 5 still can look stunning on PC expect this to look decent.

Headshot

Guys will preloads be available on Rockstar Games Launcher?

ElNino

Headshot wrote: »

Guys will preloads be available on Rockstar Games Launcher?

Available now. 109.5GB apparently

KilOit

Seems expensive, 60€ cheapest you can get?

ElNino

KilOit wrote: »

Seems expensive, 60€ cheapest you can get?

€50.69 on CDKeys

TheValeyard

ElNino wrote: »

Available now. 109.5GB apparently

109GB!!! They downloading the actual wild west!

Homelander

That's not remotely shocking, is it, for such an open world game? Just downloaded the new Call of Duty the other day and it's 110GB.

kowloon

ARK is 150 Gigs without the expansions, pretty normal for releases to be on the heavy side now. Sucks if you're on limited data.

Shiminay

4k textures seem to be the main culprit - that and trends in software to be less concerned about making it all fit on a physical medium. But yea, no one should be shocked at 100GB+ for AAA games anymore

Headshot

Guys is this available for anyone now?

I'm on the rockstar launcher and it says the game can be played but you try it and crashes the app

Headshot

OSI wrote: »

Reddit says to disable AV and Firewall

made no difference.

Alot of people have already done that and made no difference

Retr0gamer

I'm lucky to get 200 kb/s in my place tethering through my mobile. Guess I'll have the game by Christmas 2020

Azza

Downloaded this today, played the opening hour or so.

Hard to say much about the gameplay so far because its very on rails at this point but no doubt that won't last for long. I was pulling off crack shots against fast moving wolves on horseback, so crack in fact I got suspicious and to my disgust they have an auto aim system on even with mouse and keyboard. Turned that off.

Production values are sky high. Excellent graphics overall, though I do think the snow deformation in the distance looks terrible and is rather distracting. Also noticed weird sudden screen darkening in certain indoor scenes.

Also have no idea how to enable HDR in game either. There doesn't seem to be setting for it.

Everything set to high settings except textures to max and AF to 16x. Seems to be holding a solid 60FPS at 1440p using the Vulkan API. No crashes so far.

Skerries

want to bypass the Rockstar Launcher? Just rename rdr2.exe to gtav.exe

TheValeyard

Skerries wrote: »

want to bypass the Rockstar Launcher? Just rename rdr2.exe to gtav.exe

Does that actually work?

Skerries

according to a user over on Reddit for the moment until they probably patch it

Dcully

Think ill pass on this, was initially hyped when i heard about it coming to PC but all i hear now is its too story driven with not much action or gameplay and is very slow paced?

Shiminay

When there's action to be had, it's pretty good, but it's broken up by endless hours of having to gallop every where on your horse and having to do timed button presses to get the horse to go as fast as possible. Then there's lots and lots and LOTS of busywork.

Kiith

I'm enjoying it so far, even with the busywork. I'm sure it'll get a bit annoying eventually, but it really feels immersive right now. I'm quite happy with a slower paced story right now...haven't been engrossed in one in a while.

Game runs really well, except for some serious stuttering at times, which is apparently related to me CPU maxing out. Trying a few fixes which makes it more bearable, but it's really frustrating at times.

TheValeyard

Kiith wrote: »

I'm enjoying it so far, even with the busywork. I'm sure it'll get a bit annoying eventually, but it really feels immersive right now. I'm quite happy with a slower paced story right now...haven't been engrossed in one in a while.

Game runs really well, except for some serious stuttering at times, which is apparently related to me CPU maxing out. Trying a few fixes which makes it more bearable, but it's really frustrating at times.

Try reducing V-sync to half. Fixed everything for me. Also, turn off motion blur.

Azza

The snow deformation issue I mentioned is apparently a bug on the Radeon 5700XT GPU's with the latest drivers from AMD. Rolling back to 19.9.2 drivers apparently fixes it.

Venom

This may help those having issues running the game.

Venom

Venom wrote: »

This may help those having issues running the game.

Umm Arkham Knight not worse?

dreamers75

Deleted User wrote: »

Umm Arkham Knight not worse?

"2nd worse" isnt a great title for the outrage factor etc:

Tbh I doubt its even top 10.

gizmo

dreamers75 wrote: »

"2nd worse" isnt a great title for the outrage factor etc:

Tbh I doubt its even top 10.

I believe that is what the kids call "clickbait" these days.

But he is right

DO NOT PRE-ORDER!!

TheValeyard

I'm enjoying the game. But does seem very button pressing heavy to pass the time on the way to missions.

EoinHef

There is a cinematic camera that should allow you to set a way point,engage it and the horse should follow the path laid out on the map to the waypoint automatically

It doesnt always work the best though,least on console anyway. Id say half the time it messed up but least the other half took out the button tapping nonsense.

In fairness i just held the button aswell,only used tapping when i wanted to go as fast as possible to get away from something.

Kiith

I'm loving the game to be honest. I've lowered a few graphical settings, so only get very rare stuttering now, and it still looks great. Story so far has been good, with some really interesting characters. It does take a while to do anything, but just cruising around the map looking for random things to do is (currently) just what i'm looking for.

K.O.Kiki

RDR2 Optimizations.