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skunk3:

--- Quote from: TheKomodo on September 14, 2019, 07:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: skunk3 on September 13, 2019, 08:27 PM ---I'd rather the game be on Steam but I didn't want to wait

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If more people had the patience and discipline to boycott Epic Games Store, this sort of thing might not happen.

I was incredibly excited about Borderlands 3 as Borderlands 2 is literally one of my all time favourite games, I felt heartbroken after finding out it was a Epic exclusive, and the same thing happened this morning after catching up on the progress of Mechwarrior 5 and discovered Epic have f**king bought that out as an exclusive as well!

It's only been a few days since BL3s release and already the onslaught of complaints and evidence showing bad things is overwhelming...

From IPs associated with Tencent, to weird upload speeds, people who bought the game on EGS not being able to access the game, game bugs, crashes, and failure to launchs, amongst other problems, it's f**king ridiculous, and I am f**king baffled as to why anybody is stupid enough to even support Epic Games at all.

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The only experience that I have with Epic is when Fortnite first came out. I played it for maybe a month and got bored with it. Aside from that I have no experience with them and know nothing about the company or any games on its platform.

I tried running BL3 and for some reason it worked. I got a different splash screen, an intro animation that I never saw before, and sound. I was also able to create a character and start a game. Unfortunately, the in-game performance is so bad that it is essentially unplayable on my system. Even with the resolution set as low as it can go and with ALL graphical options turned to 'low' or even off, I get horrible frame rates and constant stuttering, lagginess, etc. I got killed a few times by level 1 peons simply because I couldn't shoot properly. I am hoping for some patch(es) to come out soon so I can actually enjoy the game.

Sensei:

--- Quote from: skunk3 on September 16, 2019, 02:08 AM ---Unfortunately, the in-game performance is so bad that it is essentially unplayable on my system. Even with the resolution set as low as it can go and with ALL graphical options turned to 'low' or even off

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I'm all about those low settings and getting the highest frame rates for competitiveness..
But you don't buy AAA titles to run it on 1024x768 and with everything off. Even if it worked, what would be the point? You're not crazy to play this game under that circumstances.

What's your rig btw, cpu/gpu/ram?

TheKomodo:

--- Quote from: skunk3 on September 16, 2019, 02:08 AM ---The only experience that I have with Epic is when Fortnite first came out. I played it for maybe a month and got bored with it. Aside from that I have no experience with them and know nothing about the company or any games on its platform.
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Not to mention EGS having a lack of basic/standard features...

This will get you started - https://www.reddit.com/r/f@#!epic/comments/bs4kh6/rf@#!epic_for_dummies_a_quick_breakdown/

I'd also do more research into security concerns, spying, plagiarism, manipulation and anything else you can think of.

Steam is not perfect, but they don't pull anywhere even close to the amount of shady sh*t Epic does.

Anubis:
Not to mention you have to swap language with a command prompt like it's 2000 again.
--- Quote ---https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035330994-Borderlands-3-Changing-the-Language-on-Epic-
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Fanboys said 2K did this on purpose, yeah buddy, that's why there are so many games on Steam where you have to use a command prompt instead of a drop-down menu to change language. Sure... LOL

Epic game store is a disease and it's a paid early access launch, the real release will be April 2020 on Steam with major bugs removed and optimizations to make it run smoothly. Also yeah Komo, I was SO excited for MW5, more than BL3. It is literally the franchise I got my nickname from
--- Quote ---https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Anubis
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for W:A. But oh well, looking at BL3 I suppose it's fine impatient people pay for the development of the game and get to experience a buggy and beta version of the game. I will enjoy it once it comes out for real on Steam. My backlog is gigantic anyway, currently playing Witcher 3 with all DLC. :D

TheKomodo:
Oh wow, I thought your name was simply from the god of death :o

Indeed, I was looking forward to the release of MW5 so much, and then this  :'(

The biggest part of me really hopes it comes out on Steam or somewhere else after 6-12 months of being a lame EGS exclusive as well.

I don't mind patiently waiting while the epig shills give epic their money to be game testers for a while.

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