The critical path for a lot of game adaptation is joining friends in a game. So that means your first game is time critical, your friends are already playing, you just downloaded it, the most important thing is to join your social group and have a good time. Immediately.
Anything that gets in the way of the critical path, causes people to switch games, or to refund the game (i.e. they were not able to join their friends)
So even if the first game is a stuttery potato, it’s better to have it work immediately, then delay until it’s beautiful
I mean, they could solve both problems by adding a button to compile shaders in the menu, that way the people are anal enough about shader stuttering have a way to fix it without lengthening the time it takes to get into a game for the masses
Blah blah blah I’m going to ignore the opinion of half the gamers out there and bitch anyway.
I appreciate DFs technical dives but they don’t understand that micro stutters on the first few loads aren’t what people care about outside of gamer “forums”. See every fromsoft game every made except sekiro.
Some of us are jaded and won’t accept microstuttering or poor performance, but considering Fortnite’s success I believe that a large number of players surely must not mind, especially if it goes away after a while.
We aren’t respected as pc gamers. Seems like Epic boss doesn’t like our money.
They still don’t have proper shader precompilation? That’s insane to me
