Senaste recensioner av Sakujo

Hi, sorry I'm too lazy to rewrite the full review at this point.

Update 4: Asset mods + Map editor. See you in 2024.
Let's summarize. City painters are pissed off because the mods are not available and asset mods are delayed for who knows how long. Simulation and players looking for some challenge are pissed off because there are hundreds of smaller and bigger bugs, and virtually no challenge at all. Casual players are pissed off because of due to graphics performance issue the game needs top GPUs to be actually enjoyable. Console players are pissed off because they will have to wait longer (i.e. 1st half 2024 is June in corpo-language).

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Update 3: as expected multiple bugs. CO gave a statement about it and that they are working on it. Will update this review when it's fixed. Cheers!

Update2: Well, we just found the economy in C:S2 doesn't seam to work at all. As I expected, by watching the export functionality of cargo, piers and industry. There was a lack of trucks. Further people investigated and noticed how the economy currently is only fake/ghost. Won't recommend this game unless that is fixed:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/all-resource-management-in-the-game-is-a-deception.1604434/


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Updated1: After the latest Patch the performance got much better.
The 30FPS is now almost constantly there, when playing on the 100k citizen save file. That's not fantastic, but I'm willing to recommend the base game at this point. It's a fun game, despite the issues. I'll rewrite this later.
Cheers!

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
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Performance in it's current state is unacceptable. Not recommended at this price.
Small city with 100k inhabitants might run on a RTX3080+5900x+32GB Ram, playable? Expect <30FPS as soon as it got bigger. Preset high on WQHD, turned some settings to low or off (Motion Blur, DoF, Volumetrics, Vsync OFF <- it's bugged)
Pedestrian NPC will result in HUGE fps drops.

The good:
- music is nice.
- graphics has its good sides.
- road building sometimes better than in C:S1...
- good multicore CPU optimization (currently C:S2 is GPU bound)
- automatic water pipes and power under road.
- building scale feels much better than in C:S1.
- the game is still fun after all, makes the bad points feel less bad.

The bad:
- building bridges got worse, it refuses to build often, unless you figure out to build the bridge first and even then road might be "too steep" or not connect.
- pedestrian paths are glitching with roads and have no stairs, resulting in "too steep" yet again.
- lack of animation, firefighters, lack of bikes etc.
- Nvidia Geforce Now ad right in your face when you open the launcher. (conspiracy: it's because this game only runs on a RTX4080 or better once your city got bigger)
- ...road snapping is often buggy, sometimes resulting in undeletable roads, unless you hit that tiny pixel to bulldoze it.
- no undo button.
- can't put trees properly between buildings to fix still existing dead corners.
- 100k city will have sub 30FPS. Areas with a lot of NPC will give you FPS in the single digit range.
- ugly ground textures and lack of dirt on side of roads. Looks better in C:S1. No ground tall grass.
- lack of small service buildings
- building heights only in 10 meter steps is too rough/inaccurate.
- shadow issues
- vehicles sometimes acting strange and glitching.
- roundabouts losing a lot of zoning around it
- buildings still have trouble with uneven grounds, resulting in strong deformation
- connecting cable and water underground, can result in frustration as the snapping is awful. Why does this even have multiple depth layer and unprecise snapping?
-... the graphics suffer fast once you drop down the settings.

That said:
- I'll keep playing
- I trust in CO to fix this bad performance and polish smaller issues, as they did with C:S1
- I'll update this review once things improved
- I don't regret my purchase but I can't recommend the game for new players unless they own the best GPU/CPU you can currently purchase (probably around 3000€ setup)

After platinum I can say that this game is amazing. Yeah it can be really hard, like harder than probably most souls games and if you still feel like being underwhelmed, you can play hardcore mode with perma death. But there's also an easy mode and with all the synergies, you can have your fun, even if you're not that good. So overall the devs paid attention to make the game fun for everyone.

The devs also listen to their community, which is amazing, for example they added toggle sprint after request.

I also think the DLC is totally worth it for some extra hours.

Other facts:
- Amazing graphics and lighting.
- Amazing gunplay with lots of varriety.
- Really nice sounddesign
- A lot of hidden stuff, like so much stuff, you'll want to look at the wiki at some point. That's amazing! Even after you've platinumed the game you'll still have not got all items and played all archetype to level 10 (for the final skill of each and to unlock traits to be used outside of the archetype)
- Improved uppon Remnant from the Ashes in every aspect.
- Really fair price point.

Way too many collectable stuff. The clothes are nice but all the other stuff really drags it down. It's like an Ubisoft game where there's stuff to do on every corner, so you get bored quickly because a lot of it is meaningless.
I expected much more and it doesn't look like as if I'll come back to it anytime soon.

Good co-op game, needs more content and story refinement. The graphics are stunning and the building system is even more immersive than the first game. The map also requires more points of interest as well as more hidden treasures you can dig for. The inhabitants demonstrate a range of emotions and act differently depending on the tribe, but it would be helpful to have more background on why there are so many and to more clearly indicate which territory belongs to whom. Some caves are too small, I'd like to see them expanded. Make golf cart drivable please. Add cooking and more traps, boats and binoculars.

Lots of fun, haven't noticed a bug yet other than villager sometimes needing a few seconds to remember the job they want to do next. Every other possible bug was linked to me not understanding the game properly.

Haven't played much Anno and a bit of Banished, I really like this game so far. Beautiful soundtrack and graphics.
I'm reaching a critical mass of buildings and overall city layout now, which will show how good they managed to deal with mid game. Will update this review accordingly.

Edit: Found some more bugs, especially around labour workers idling and food processing. Probably through the latest hotfix. I'm very confident that the devs will fix it as they have proven so in the past, just be aware.

Short fun game. It's recommended to think like a cat.

Best Soundtrack in ages

Amazing game so far. Will update this short review later.

Performance:
While 60 FPS locked, this works most of the time.
Certain parts are of the game are not very optimized, and when fighting from a horse, I've seen it dip to 40fps on a RTX 3080. It certainly needs some optimization. Hopefully it doesn't drop below 30fps for other people, on maybe lower settings.

Update:
We have now skins you can only buy in a bundle for 85€. lol
It sucks to not be able to get skins via playing, but some skins are locked behind a bundle for 70€ you can only buy if you spend 85€ to get in game shop currency. That's super greedy and I don't feel like recommending the game at this point.

Also Amazon Prime customers now get tiny booster packs that give them a bit less grind (like shards/crafting item where you usually need to do at least one dungeon or elite chest run or gypsum farming for, so basically saving your some time). You could say it's so little, that it's worthless. But you could also see it as a start of something bigger. You decide if you want to risk it.

Will update if I keep playing and things improved.

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Old short review:
A lof of things got fixed. Overall a buy at this point. Major issues, with housing prices and weapon bugs have been fixed. Further changes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/wiki/should_i_return/

!! Attention for anyone with a larger resolution than 720p:

As of writing this, the pixel scaling isn't working properly. The base game is rendered in 720p and then upscaled. But this somehow doesn't work properly. It needs the following tool.

GET THE FREE DEMO!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

Depending on your monitor you need to set it to different values.
Example with 1440p monitor. I've set the Scale Factor to 2 and enabled Force Resize (also Multi-Display as I have three screens) This made everything much sharper and how pixel games should look like. As 720p x 2 is 1440p. Now everything is sharp.

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Review:

Real fun, highly recommended. Amazing sountrack with a nice world to explore.
Overall the game isn't too difficult and puzzles aren't that hard. This isn't much of an issue though if you expect a lovely crafted game. Would buy again.


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The bad:

Though why not simply add some more languages?
Not sure why the devs cheaped out on that. German is completly missing.

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After finishing the game:

Wow, just wow! I love this game. The ending parts might not be everyones taste, but for me it was greatly done and it had so much, so ... hard to tell. Hard to explain :)