Bethesda’s highly anticipated stealth action title Dishonored 2 is now available on PC, PS4 and XBONE, and it brings with it an important question. How does it stack up next to Bethesda’s new review policy? Is it a bad game, and a shoddy port? Or were the worries unwarranted? Well, the answer is a mixed bag of both.
Most players, including us are rather enjoying the story and gameplay immensely. However, on the PC, the game has major issues, specially so in AMD cards. Major stuttering and frame drops are the biggest complaint. It gets as annoying at getting 60+FPS while facing one direction and dropping to low 20s when turning to another. It’s erratic, and disrupts the flow of gameplay when engaging in the action. This might be indicative of why Bethesda was hesitant to have day one reviews, and while most of these issues can be fixed with patches and driver updates, this is not an acceptable way to launch a game.
It’s not even the case of the GPU not being able to handle the graphics, which are good but nothing spectacular. Even on low setting the same stuttering and frame drops ensued. This is clearly a lack of optimization, and consequently a bad port.
In all fairness, the game seems to be very satisfying, and a worth successor to it’s prequel, but as of right now we cannot recommend buying the game on PC before a few patches are released to fix these issues.
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