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Red Dead Redemption 2 - Game Discussion

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Just worked for me right out of the game, thankfully. No fussing needed. Helps that I got in to play in evening, instead of on release time, so maybe there was some interim fiffaff that worked out the kinks. Great pacing so far. Nobody makes a world that you 'inhabit' rather than just 'play' like Rockstar, which is why I think their games are so popular.

At 1080p, I'm maintaining 55-65 with a mixture of ultra/high, so it's not quite kicked the crap out of my 1080 just yet - but supposedly things will nosedive once I make it out of the snowy first area. We'll see. Thanks to merchant idiocy, managed to get a sizeable discount stacked too. Essentially got Monster Hunter World Iceborne as a freebie with this pre-order. Really want to try online soon, too; never could get into GTAV since it's so immersion breaking, but the wild west setting suits the chaos a lot more (plus no rocket launchers). Outer Worlds has just taken a back seat. Real cowboys before space cowboys.
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The reports of launcher issues and bad optimization took all the wind out of this release for me and I'm so glad I didn't preorder or buy on launch day. Might as well have just played it on PS4 it seems. I'll just stick to Game Pass games for now and revisit this in a few months
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There is a bit too many crashes that's keeping me from enjoying the game right now. It's like if the mission goes a bit too long and it'll crash before it ends.

But still amazing looking.

EDIT: Might be patched up now. No crash at all today for 3 hours.
EDIT2: Ok, spoke too soon lol.
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LKane1 wrote: EDIT: Might be patched up now. No crash at all today for 3 hours.
EDIT2: Ok, spoke too soon lol.
Most recent patch actually broke the game for me. Angry Face Was working fine before but now it tells me I'm not signed in to social club (even when, at the top of the screen, it says signed in to social club). Couldn't get it working again until I turned off the windows anti-virus. It's really not so much the game as it is their new launcher that seems to be on the fritz all the time.

Good note though, switching to vulkan apparently shoots your fps through the roof. Constant, steady 60fps now on ultra/high.
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BYan wrote: Most recent patch actually broke the game for me. Angry Face Was working fine before but now it tells me I'm not signed in to social club (even when, at the top of the screen, it says signed in to social club). Couldn't get it working again until I turned off the windows anti-virus. It's really not so much the game as it is their new launcher that seems to be on the fritz all the time.

Good note though, switching to vulkan apparently shoots your fps through the roof. Constant, steady 60fps now on ultra/high.
That's weird. For me, dx12 was faster (by like 0.5 fps), just like some of the performance review from other websites.
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LKane1 wrote: That's weird. For me, dx12 was faster (by like 0.5 fps), just like some of the performance review from other websites.
Still fine tuning but I only changed one other setting in addition to dx12 to vulkan, and I highly doubt pushing grass one notch lower had such a profound effect. Mostly going by this pretty informative thread on what matters and what's barely noticeable, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got so far. Now, if only that stupid launcher can start playing reliably. Only have maybe an hour and change at night to play, and spent most of it last night trying to fix the log in/logged in nonsense.
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Any deals for Steam release?

Does is play better now? I know original launch on PC was a disaster.
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RDR2 on sale on Steam right now, matching Epic and R* 20% off prices.
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I have a GTX 1050Ti, is it good enough to play with decent setting or do I have to upgrade? If upgrade, which card you guys can recommend? not looking to break the bank either, thanks!
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metallica86 wrote: I have a GTX 1050Ti, is it good enough to play with decent setting or do I have to upgrade? If upgrade, which card you guys can recommend? not looking to break the bank either, thanks!
Hate to break it to ya, but I'm on a GTX 1080 and on 1080p have to tone some stuff down to get a solid 60fps. It's a pretty demanding game, so on a 1050Ti I think you're looking at med-low settings for anything workable. Maybe, if it's not too much, try to upgrade to a 1070 or 1070Ti? With the 20x series out already, the 1070 shouldn't be too expensive anymore, and a 1070Ti will give you comparable power to a 1080.
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BYan wrote: Hate to break it to ya, but I'm on a GTX 1080 and on 1080p have to tone some stuff down to get a solid 60fps. It's a pretty demanding game, so on a 1050Ti I think you're looking at med-low settings for anything workable. Maybe, if it's not too much, try to upgrade to a 1070 or 1070Ti? With the 20x series out already, the 1070 shouldn't be too expensive anymore, and a 1070Ti will give you comparable power to a 1080.
Thanks man, I might buy a copy on PS4 instead then! still prefer play all the game on Desktop but the card alone cost me 300+ easily
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metallica86 wrote: Thanks man, I might buy a copy on PS4 instead then! still prefer play all the game on Desktop but the card alone cost me 300+ easily
Np. The PS4 version can probably be gotten for cheaper these days too, and it's still a very beautiful game no matter where you play it. But, *mandatory PC gaming plug* if you're at all considering it, PC gaming is very viable these days too. There's an upfront cost (which, on boxing day, you can probably get a deal from), but you save a lot and more from the huge sales the games get - and you usually get the best version of said games too. The lion's share of a rig is the videocard, so if a 1070 is a little iffy, maybe it's odd but spending a few dollars more for the rest of the bundle will be preferable instead? Bigger library, bigger discounts and forever backwards compatibility. Think about it Winking Face
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metallica86 wrote: Thanks man, I might buy a copy on PS4 instead then! still prefer play all the game on Desktop but the card alone cost me 300+ easily
If you're content playing it with how it performs on PS4 you can easily match if not exceed that experience with your 1050ti build. The PS4 runs at the equivalent of low-med detail at 30fps with drops into the 20s which your GPU can still easily match if not do better while you still enjoy freedom of input, free online, mods, etc. I'd still get it on PC if I were you
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Just wondering if the online mode for PC is worth it or not. I've already put in 100+ hours in single player on the PS4 and got all the offline trophies before selling my PS4 copy.
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appleb wrote: Just wondering if the online mode for PC is worth it or not.
For what it's worth, I say yes. But it's a weird kind of worth-it that imo, doesn't really lend itself well if you're into min-maxing and grinding for levels. Especially if you've done everything in SP because you're still doing the same thing in online. That way leads to burn-out or buying tons of whatever RDO's equivalent of shark cards are, since everything is preposterously expensive.

But...

As a virtual cowboy simulator it is a very, very chill game to relax to. Run a job, earn a few bucks, go to the saloon and gamble it all away in poker. When you lose, flip the table and shoot up the town. Then get lassoed, kicked to death by random posses and wake-up poorer than you were that morning, with nothing to show for it but the experience. In that regard, it has more in common with Elite Dangerous than something like Destiny where you don't want to get more powerful. You just kinda live in that world for a bit, and that's very cool.

What sold it for me:

#1 I just start, in the swamp as does everyone. Get into the free roam and figure might as well pick up that bounty hunter license. Mosey into town, get the license, followed it to the bounty spot and hide to wait. There's a blue dot near me so it's another player doing whatever. Suddenly the bounty arrives down the very same road I travelled, right behind me so he sees me immediately (there goes my hiding spot) and bolts. His friends start shooting and the blue dot blazes past me as I'm trying to gallop after the bounty. I thought he was stepping in to help (and he has a far better horse) but it turns out he wasn't looking and when the shooting started he didn't know wth was happening so just decided to nope the f out of there. Maybe I interrupted him picking flowers or something. Was funny.

#2 I log in, end up in Rhodes. I'm thinking I hate Lemoyne so I'm already packing up camp to move somewhere sunnier when abruptly, gunfire just rings out all around me. Mindful of #1 I do the same thing as the other guy and just kinda stay away from it all. Then, as it sorta dies down I ride over to see what it was all about. Somebody is standing in front of a barn, surrounded by dead bodies. Dude also has a mic and proximity chat kicks in. Starts yelling at me about why I didn't help him out with the firefight then ended with pointing a gun at me and saying next time I'll shoot you too, before riding off. His rural American accent really sold the scene, and I waited until he was gone to loot all the bodies before getting on my way.

#3 Was delivering for my trading co. in a small wagon. Local only cause I'm alone and I don't wanna be robbed. Halfway to my destination at night I honestly see a huge red dot surrounded by smaller red dots coming down a perpendicular road. I still don't know wth they were doing but red means hostile players, and I'm in a frickin' wagon and probably can't even run for it even if I tried. We meet at the intersection, and I see probably 4-5 heavily armed riders escorting what looked like a big wagon - all red on my map. Both sides freeze as we cross paths for a bit. Nobody had mics or nobody was talking. Everybody had lanterns out so with how beautiful the game is I'm looking at bobbing cones of light and long shadows of riders just wavering in front of me. I'm basically hovering over the draw button at this point, thinking if this turns sour might as well shoot first. A couple of riders slow down as well, and you get the feeling everyone is measuring each other up. I stay put, they ride very, very slowly past me. Eventually, as they cross the intersection, I breathe a sigh of relief and like to imagine somebody over there did, too. We all go our separate ways.
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