www.alanwake.com/story/alan-wake-2-update-notes/
I had this issue when I had it installed on my hard drive. Switching the game to an SSD made the issue go away. Just in case someone has this issue it may help
Ok genuine question. Why do people still install games on their hdd when they have an ssd available?
Does the game automatically install on the hdd? Is there another reason? I would assume people would know that games nowadays benefit greatly from an ssd, especially triple A titles.
Size. Some people still are stuck with a 240GB or smaller SSD. This game is like 100GB from memory. That plus windows leaves not much room for anything else.
I have the game installed on SSD and the audio desyncs during cut scenes. I would say it must have been reinstalling the game that fixed the issue and not the ssd itself.
Am glad that fixed it for you. Unfortunately for me I’ve always had it installed and reinstalled on multiple ssds and the issue still persisted until the last patch.
You can work around it by pausing til the loading circle goes away.
Not really, only works one third of the time maybe
One third of the time, it works every time
On ps5 the workaround is to pause when a cutscene starts, go into video settings, and set it to 'quality' mode, which locks the game to 30fps. This 100% fixes the audio sync issue during cutscenes every time. Annoyingly this also means you have to pause and switch back to performance mode after the cutscene.
If it's possible, the PC equivalent might just be going into settings and capping the framerate to 30, then uncapping after the cutscene. Or if you can adjust your monitor's refresh rate and set it to 30 that might work too.
Hope this helps!
Great game, highly recommend everyone to give it a try!
It's sad that epic doesn't allow reviews, this game deserved more community involvement, positive or critical.
AW2 has mostly relied on word of mouth, from what I've noticed.
Never even heard of this game til it won awards, looked for it on steam to play it, got sad it wasn't there, forgot about it til now.
Yeah it's wild
My personal opinion, if you're not going to buy it, pirate it to try it.
It's a different type of game, slow at times but some good highs.
Perhaps they should buy it if they want more good games to be made.
True. But if they have almost no interest, they should just try it. If they like it a lot, maybe they buy it too.
Yeah I agree overall, I pirate a lot of games, but if I like one I always buy it, especially if it's an indie game that I wouldn't have bought otherwise (Signalis, TEVi and most recently Selaco are examples)
I buy games that I didn't enjoy but think deserve support too
Sure I'd buy it, if it was available for purchase to me.
If only it wasn’t an exclusive. They complained about sales, I wonder what the issue was? 🤔
"Let's take a sequel to an already niche game, make the PC version exclusive to EGS, not print any physical copies for consoles, and do zero marketing for it."
Much as some people here want to sing Epic's praises for funding the game's development, they also made damn sure sales would be abysmal. Not only does their storefront suck, they suck as a publisher too.
Maybe if it ever comes to steam.
At this point I hope it doesn't because all thw whining Steam stans. They are missing out on the GOTY.
You know what they say, if it’s not on Steam it ain’t seen.
It doesn't even rhyme, who says that ?
The Alan Wake 2 sales numbers sure do
Ya the sales that were good enough for them to get the funding to buy the rights to Control...
This ongoing Alan Wake 2 downvote brigading is the craziest thing that I have ever seen for a game that is objectively good, was in a good technical state at launch and whose developers never lied to its customers.
Is it just the Epic Games hate boner? This is not a case of them buying up exclusivity. They literally funded the entire development of the game from the ground up.
Smh.
It also had a launch price of just 50 euros/dollars.
The physical deluxe edition costs around $67 in Poland. Love to see it.
I got the deluxe version on sale during the holidays with an epic coupon for like $37. They threw in Alan Wake 1 remastered for free. Insane value.
It's sad. AW2 is the exact kind of freshness we need in the industry and some have made it their mission to see it fail. Will their efforts have a notice ale impact? I'm not sure.
I feel like Remedy is cursed, cause people will hate on it no matter what they do
I'm not personally a huge alan wake fan and so gave aw2 a pass but man the shit it's getting is so not worth it
I feel like remedy needs one big financial hit. They keep having to make these exclusivity deals (not just with EGS, like they did a deal with Microsoft for quantum break, etc) to get their games funded which generates negative sentiment and limits their audience. If they had one super successful game to get some cash in the bank they could fund their own development and stop having to do that.
Control has done very well for them financially
They're doing Max Payne 1 and 2 Remakes, which are being funded and published by Rockstar. Remedy will get to keep all profits once Rockstar has recouped their investment and marketing costs.
Beautiful looking environments, top-tier destruction effects, slow-motion shooting, with a cool story.
That's gotta be a commerical hit!
But regardless, Remedy's games always sell well in the long run. The company is not worried.
I doubt remedy's games will get the kind of mass market appeal that other games tend to
their work is very.. auteur (or experimental) for the lack of a better term, even when relatively normal like Control and i can see why their high art ambitions could put people off
i do pity them, people really should give their games a proper fighting chance
Max Payne remakes have a chance of being that.
there's a slim chance of this happening, but i kinda want remedy to lean into their experimental auteur stuff for the remakes
the original is pretty noir, but i want it to be more noir
I want them to make a Medieval or Napoleonic game in the Control universe. Something where you've got those same artifacts but they're making witches and whatnot real. Maybe you have an Excalibur type weapon, or a super crossbow. Or if it's Napoleonic a kick ass rifle with a bayonet and a cavalry saber, maybe with a good horse mechanic. But I think that fiction is the coolest part- that those artifacts can be anything depending on people's imaginations, and so they make that stuff real. Doing an xfiles/twin peaks/secret window thing was also awesome but it really narrowed their market to fans of that kind of stuff (which I am).
Wasn't the Service Weapon implied to be a new incarnation of Excalibur in the game? Maybe just in a note somewhere.
it's not just a "version" iirc, it was excalibur, among other things
That won't happen. They make niche games that are not for the mainstream audience.
People said that about Larian and FromSoft... Lol
The irony is that they won’t get that mega hit by taking exclusivity deals. AW2 probably would have hit if not for the deal. It had a lot of buzz and great reviews.
AW2 probably would have hit if not for the deal.
Epic funded the entire development of AW2, so the scenario where Remedy didn't take the deal also includes the possibility that AW2 simply just does not exist.
The ultimate catch 22. They really should have looked for different investors.
They did and others said no
It’s so fucking stupid. I love the Remedy universe and I thought AW2 was fantastic. I think the whole SCP-ish things they go with are so freaking cool, and it’s such a fresh idea in the industry.
It’s bullshit that this studio gets the shit they do, especially when so many other companies are so much more deserving. At least Remedy is ambitious and trying to do something awesome
is the exact kind of freshness we need in the industry
whats so innovative about it?
They won best narrative and best game direction over Baldur's Gate 3 for a reason lol
It does absolutely nothing innovative gameplay wise. But it is the closest thing we have to a David Lynch video game lol
The story telling. Remedy building upon how they construct and deliver a narrative, including clever blends of live action and other mediums.
What downvote brigade? Your comment is top rated and this post has hundreds of likes?
Yeah pretty sure he's fighting phantoms
This could be the subtitle of reddit nowadays
I mean, you can still hate epic games even if they paid for the whole game.
I dislike EA and avoid their launcher but I'd find it odd to go around downvoting anything related to EA.
I don't find it odd at all. If a company that is part of a market I care for attempts anti-consumer bullshit like EGS is known for I will oppose them any time I see them.
Imagine "hating" a storefront/publisher
they fund/make/publish games that are worth playing, that's it
Objectively good is a wild thing to say about an entertainment product. It was an objectively high quality production with a nice and polished release, you could argue.
I played AW2 and I appreciate so much about it. It deserves its accolades. But it took me a long time to complete because I didn’t find it very fun or engaging. Nothing wrong with the game but that’s just my taste.
There are good reasons why a lot of people don't like Epic Launcher and them limiting Alan Wake 2 to just Epic Launcher is to their own detriment, sales wise.
It's always about EGS. Steam is great, but it's kind of insane how tribal gamers act over a store/launcher.
Epic kinda dropped the ball when they bought platform exclusivity for games originally slated for release on Steam. That, combined with Sweeney's hate boner for Steam, has really soured peoples opinion of the platform.
Bit of a PR misstep in my opinion.
Epic's strategy for EGS was mostly based on disrupting other storefronts instead of trying to build a better alternative. PC gamers are right to boycott this mess.
Especially when they didn't just buy exclusivity or anything, they 100% funded the damn thing.
People are also disgusted at Epic's business practices and don't wish to support it.
You don't owe them anything.
That's me. I even have an Epic account and was quite optimistic when they announced EGS. Because another storefront that could potentially end up being a competition to Steam, whether it's pricing or its feature set, is a good thing.
The issue is that they decided to perpetually remain in the "potentially" part of the sentence. Not only did they bring console exclusive bullshit to PC, but between different storefronts, they did so by buying up 3rd party exclusivity. They snatched Metro Exodus like a few weeks/months before release! It was so ridiculous, that they had to slap EGS stickers on top of the Steam logo, on boxes ready to ship to retailers. That's just... I can't get behind this, there's no argument to be made here for me.
And that doesn't take into account the fact that they kept up these exclusives until they realized they don't really work (because surprise surprise, artificially forcing people to use your product/service is not looked at positively), but more importantly they refuse to improve their store at any other pace than absolutely glacial. 3 years for a shopping cart... And they tried to make a "clever" joke about it too. No, you did not earn that "joke", it just shows how detached from reality you are.
All of the money in the world thanks to Fortnite and that's the best they could come up with? There are also a myriad of different things under the hood with their policy, the CEO's childish ramblings and contradictions on Twitter, their legal battles they fight for the wrong reasons (their initial lawsuit against Apple was 100% winnable, but they are in this to get all the money for THEMSELVES, not "small developers" as they claim, and thus weren't able to make a compelling case in the end)...
It's just a disgusting company I refuse to support, no matter what they put out, because they've shown me where their priorities lie. If they had just launched a decent storefront and only introduced coupons and free games, they'd be in a much different position today. But as it stands, their number of registered users is growing, while 3rd party spending - you know, THE most important metric for a storefront - is actually down 13%. In the industry, where their competition sees consistent growth. 6 years into its life.
I wonder if those people maintain the same level of decorum for all purchasing decisions in their life.
I am, everyone should have a completely adversarial/skeptical relationship with anyone trying to sell you anything
It's also kind of insane how shitty EGS is towards consumer advocacy and how antagonistic they are towards Steam. People don't want to support Epic for good reason, and the fact that AW2 is Epic exclusive is obviously going to be a sticking point.
when you have nothing in your life except a steam library worth thousands its easy to get attached to it even if you play only like 2 games from it
You seem very upset about this.
They didn’t sound upset to me tbh
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I'm still pissed that they never really delivered the Fortnite that I backed. My friends and I were excited to play this co-op base building horde survival game, and we got a half-abandoned mess that Epic quickly abandoned for yet another battle royale.
We paid for the founder's packs and everything, and Epic quickly moved on and never apologized or refunded us. On top of that, they killed Unreal Tournament to work on Fortnite BR.
I’m a pretty anti-Epic guy but this is not a real reason to dislike them. There’s been quite a few of these Arena FPS games to release and they have no playerbase.
Gen Z and younger don’t like them or know how to play them. It’s a dead genre unfortunately but these things happen.
That still doesn't mean, that Epic should do what they did, i.e. remove the legacy titles from sale. Even more so, since they didn't have to run servers for the UT games anyway. However, right now there is no legal way to buy any of the legacy Unreal or Unreal Tournament titles.
EGS is just terrible compared to Steam. Until EGS is fixed, it deserves all the hate. It is supposed to be Steam's competitor, right? So compete!
Alan Wake 2 getting hate is a terrible by-product. Remedy shouldn't be getting the hate that the publisher is getting. They don't deserve it.
alan wake 2 without egs won't exist what are you on about lmao, I've purchased 0 games on egs but some of you just have hate in your hearts
I don't hate anything except the store. It just sucks so bad and it's annoying how Epic Games tries to make everything exclusive to it instead of actually making it at least as good as GoG.
Maybe then Epic won't keep losing money on the store and there will be an incentive to use it.
It's terrible how it's just punching down on AW2 now. It happened to Metro Exodus as well when it went exclusive just a week before release.
The difference was Metro was Epic legit just buying exclusivity, Alan Wake 2 was them funding the entire development of the game.
*cough cough* Kingdom Hearts *cough cough*
Remember all those BS rumors about how Epic paid to port Kingdom Hearts and it would NEVER show up on Steam? Yeah we'll see Alan Wake 2 on Steam in a few years and I'm very patient.
Epic assisted with the Kingdom Hearts PC port, and since they spent money on that, they wanted some timed exclusivity.
Epic wholly greenlit and paid for the entire development and existence of Alan Wake 2.
They're entirely different situations, Alan Wake 2 is only ever coming to Steam if Epic specifically puts it there themselves. It's like asking Valve to bring Half Life 2 to the EGS.
When they remember UT is a thing, then we'll talk
There a lot of people who don’t like the game. Myself included.
Also, I don’t see any big downvote brigade. Seems completely made up.
The system requirements didn’t help the game.
It just reminds you that Reddit's opinion is usually the complete opposite to mainstream and should just be ignored.
This post which is just patch notes has over 1000 upvotes, what are you on about?
It's just a PC only version of the console wars. It's dumb as shit. Yeah, Steam is a better service. Yeah, I would rather it be on Steam. Am I going to let that stop me from playing a game of the year nominated title? No.
People are just dumb, and yes if you bitch and moan about playing a single player game on a different launcher, in which the literal only difference is the 30 seconds of using a different launcher than steam, yes you are are dumb as shit.
Personally, it’s about their business practice. Instead of trying to update their launcher they spend ton and ton of money to buy exclusive right and law suite to take others down. I just don’t want my money to support that kind of practice. People in here like to say “vote with your wallet” and I’m doing exactly that,
Well, to me, I’m just not buying games on Epic because I don’t remember they exist. If I buy a game on the Epic Store, I know that I’m not gonna remember the game because I have other stuff to play. Even then I think people are vastly overestimating how many people like a game like Alan Wake 2.
You can’t be disappointed that there are not that many players of a game when you artificially limiting that game to the very limited Epic platform that people just don’t use. Taking a niche title with high system requirements and locking it to the store that a few people use is not gonna work well. it doesn’t help obviously that there are evangelical Steam users who refuse to use anything else but even worse because those users are people who can actually can do the path tracing and stuff that the game is trying to push.
It is the perfect storm of making their game hard for people to play.
Oh, I'm not defending the epic exclusivity or or trying to debate about its low sales. I agree with all that, and understand why it didn't sell high. It's a sequel to 13 year old game and takes a fucking super computer to run maxed out. It is without a doubt a niche title. And that's before you even factor in that horror is a niche genre in gaming anyway. All I'm saying is that the argument that just cause it's on epic, therefore, it's bad is dumb.
Epic might have practices that people don't like, myself included, and I can kinda understand the argument to not support them based on that, but at the same time, competition can be a good thing. Epic existing is an incentive for steam to do better. And I mean Epic does do some good things, I mean I've probably played/beaten/enjoyed well over a dozen games that I would have otherwise never even tried if it wasn't for the fact that Epic gave them out for free. Hell they giving out Marvel's Midnight Suns right now which seems to be a very positively reviewed game. People just love to complain
Epic's strategy did not personally bother me, but I do genuinely think that it only damaged them in the long-run.
They threw a lot of money at exclusive titles, a decision that's ended up in the Epic Store being what's been aptly described as a "marketing black hole". I'm always deeply curious to know what timeline would have been made if Epic simply .. let the tons of free games they handed out act as their store draw, and spent all that exclusivity money on either more free games or just adding features to the launcher.
Well yes but comparing it to the console wars doesn’t even capture the full level of dumbness because at least that’s financially motivated, like AMD vs Intel/Nvidia. These are just downloadable launchers that you open up to launch a game, that are free. The sheer insanity of being so upset about that reminds me just how underdeveloped so many gamers are.
Its even sillier when you consider PC gamers don't care at all if a game is PC exclusive. When people say they hate exclusivity, they mean every game should be on PC and on Steam and fuck all the other platforms.
"Objectively good"
Perhaps you should consult a dictionary on the definition of the word "objectively." I don't think it means what you think it means.
You know what is "objective?" The fact that it bombed in sales.
This subreddit is a cesspool and probably one of the most negative and toxic gaming communities on this site.
I agree that it's a cesspool, but have you seen the rest of reddit? this is par for the course, it gets much, much worse
And I thought r/gaming was bad but this sub is just where people want to find a reason to hate on anything
Gamers (at least the vocal minority) are pretty stupid.
People voting with their wallets against business decisions they don't like is definitely not stupid.
That's true, but that's not what is happening here
Epic didn't pay them to keep The game off other platforms. Without Epic the game wouldn't have even been made.
Was the business decision to make the game in the first place?
This is all Epic's fault though, quite unfortunate for Remedy (although they at least got the recognition that may boost their future games' sales).
People aren't against the fact that Epic funded AW2 and made it possible, they're simply against Epic's other decisions surrounding their storefront, so they simply refuse to buy anything on there, some refusing to buy anything Epic gets any sort of money out of, because they don't want to support them and their practices.
It's sad that Remedy has been caught in the crossfire at least with Alan Wake 2 due to that, but once again, it's all on Epic. They pissed gamers off way more than companies like EA, and even the latter were able to feel just how stubborn people can be (remember the "don't like it, don't buy it" before the launch of Battlefield V?).
Not just their storefront. Also getting screwed out of hundreds of dollars from original Fortnite release special edition and their bullshit bait and switch with the llama lootboxes and the Paragon rug pull to pull devs onto Battle Royal Fortnite. I had already been full mast on my hate boner before they even decided to spend millions upon millions of scummily obtained fortnite bucks pulling games i had wishlisted and was excited about off of steam with exclusivity deals out of nowhere so they could arbitrarily boost their garbage storefront (spyware? I dont keep up anymore). Also ruined Fall Guys, which I was happily playing with my son on release, but we needed Fortnite monetization and bullshit. Fuck Epic. And rip to Alan Wake 2 which I'll never get to experience because Im just sick of the Epic Games bullshit over this last decade.
Downvote brigading is not voting with your wallet tho
Agreed. I guess many people see it as a way to prevent people from flocking to EGS. But as long as Epic is giving away free games this doesn't really make a difference imo.
I agree voting with your wallet isn’t stupid. In this case it is a silly reason though.
I disagree. If Epic would succeed in pulling devs and publishers from other storefronts, we would loose lots of useful perks and features AND get a true monopoly instead.
I love that this is a comment while the last thing we heard about AW2 is that has not made back the money they put into it... But hey, I guess gamers are a bunch of stupid dum-dums and will eat up any slop you serve them, am I right fellow intelectual?
objectively good
not for nothing but being good or bad is a subjective thing. A game cannot be "objectively good" mate, cause we're talking about opinions here. Opinions are subjective by the nature of what opinions are.
Ya for a game that nearly won and imo should have won GOTY the downvoting brigading is fucking insane.
I bought it on EGS and enjoyed it, and I'm tired of pretending I didn't.
The launcher sucks and Epic has questionable business practices, but damn if AW2 isn't an incredible game. I just finished Hellblade 2 and AW2 actually looked much better. Played WAY better too. Like, it's actually a game.
I bought it on PC as well, and I loved every second of it. In fact, I loved it so much that I just pre-ordered the deluxe edition for PS5. An extra Andrew Jackson is well worth a digital code of the first game, the two story DLCs, and the cosmetics.
LOL ... that and not supporting older graphics cards. Also, personally not convinced that a general pcgaming forum knowing about the "simpler" patches is needed and that is true about a lot of games; I did NOT downvote but was tempted.
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was in a good technical state
3000 series cards struggling for 60fps at 1080p is excusable on top of everything else?
Good technical state is crazy. My 3090 couldn’t run the game without performance dlss and no ray tracing
"Good Technical State at launch" The game runs like shit for a lot of people. I wanted to wait until they fixed the audio desyncs, but they never did. At least some of the negative reviews are justified.
Edit: I just think it's funny that I am getting downvoted for no reason, even though it is a legitimate criticism. It's basically exactly what this post is about lol
Every cutscene for me the audio desynced when I played in December last year.
Yeah, I had some (maybe 2 or 3) that didn't have desyncs but all of the rest had them, which is especially jarring in a game mike this, heavy with cutscenes
I downvoted because the audio desyncs are the worst valid complaint. Besides that, the game scales a ton and can run really well if you have the minimum requirements.
It’s 100% the EGS thing. People don’t take the time to realize the game was fully funded and published by Epic. They can’t acknowledge that it being on Steam makes as much sense as Half Life being on EGS. All they see is it’s not on Steam, and that makes them angry. The mob mentality is really working in full force here.
What is an objectively good game?
I mean, it's not a broken game. It's bugs at launch seemed super minor and the game looks great, but does that make it objectively good? That seems like a low bar to me.
The actual game play was sufficient, but it wasn't groundbreaking. Control was a lot more interesting in this aspect IMO.
Subjectively I thought the story was fine. Again nothing crazy or great, but not the most terrible thing in the world like some of the detractors said. The pacing was a bit off to me and the set pieces with Alan seemed underwhelming to me, but again nothing terrible.
So what makes it an objectively good game?
It kinda runs like dog shit for me personally but I really really want to get into it. A big thing is a lot of the cutscenes have desynced audio for some reason. Definitely going to keep giving it more tries until it eventually works out though. I already slurped up anything Remedy, they just make ‘em exactly how I like them. And AW2 essentially being twin peaks resident evil remedy game is something that I have to play through.
Had the same thing with the audio. I pushed through to the end though and it's truly a shame because behind the technical issues there is a great game.
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What Valve produced games are on a different pc store? Cause you know that’s the situation with Alan Wake right? Epic funded this game.
was in a good technical state at launch
I loved the game but I don't know about all of that lol. The game ran like ass during the Saga parts of the game unless you had a 4080. I was on a 3080 and constantly had frame drops below 60 with a mix of medium and high settings while enabling DLSS. It ran great during Alan's sections though.
it's not the principle of the matter this time, epic is just a shit launcher that i'd really prefer to keep off my computer. they can release it on steam if they want it to gain more fans, or they can keep it exclusive to maximize profits. it's up to them really.
They also told people that there would be no physical copies and yet here we are.
Honestly the worst "lie" the devs told was that the game required higher specs than it actually needed, like it still needed a reasonably beefy PC they still oversold how much power you needed and have since released an update to bring down the require specs by optimising the game anyway.
It's this sub doing it's usual damage to the entire hobby. Probably spearheaded by some 12 yr old, educating these elderly scientists.
Always-online losers that need to be shitting on something to feel alive.
Please remedy gimme FSR 3 😭
I'm playing Tsushima on High with a 1650, god bless AMD
Just use the mod.
It only works for RTX cards or am I mistaken?
There’s a mod on Nexus Mods called DLSS Enabler that should work with any gpu. They say it is working with AW2 for both upscale and FG.
DLSS3 to FSR3 FG mod works on any card so you should be good even if you have an older card.
I'm pretty sure you need an RTX 2000-3000 GPU for that to work if not I'd be happy for a link :D
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Not true, since it’s software based you can hack in FSR3.0 into most things and then use frame gen since it’s not hardware bound. I scooped up a good 15-20fps on my 3080.
Honestly just give it a shot. I’ve been surprised how well it works when needed.
It sucks that the DLC doesn't work DRM-free like the base game does, but I kind of expected that. I can't wait to see where the story goes!
I have a question for those of you who still own the game. Did they ever fix the awful traversal stutters on AMD cards? the forest areas were basically unplayable and I refunded it and that was a year ago. I tried everything to try and fix it but man the game was freezing up so much it ruined the immersion.
Haven’t tried recently but it seems those were introduced with the 23.12.1 drivers, try rolling back to 23.11.1, all but fixed the issues for me. Seems AMD is dead set on ignoring this since they’ve addressed other issues with that game since but not this one. Really sick of fucking around with driver versions tbh
I was having a great time and was most of the way through the game then i got hardlocked and couldn't unlock a jail cell and i was only using autosaves.. really pissed me off and i just uninstalled, ill give it another go soon though.
The game has a chapter select feature now, so you can jump into different parts of the game directly
I love to hate on the epic as much as the next guy but I still bought AW2. It was completely worth it the game was amazing and I’m happy I was able to support the developers, i hope we get AW3. The game very unique, honestly I was sad when it ended and I haven’t felt that way about a game since I finished the Last of Us. It’s annoying that i have use epic games shitty platform but it is what it is. I don’t think the people who won’t buy it because it’s not on steam are unjustified but you’re missing out on an amazing experience. Hating AW2 for no reason other than that Epic produced it makes you look stupid. It’s not like they sold out to Epic exclusivity because they thought they would make them more money, the game was literally funded by Epic it would not exist without them.
I for one am glad someone is bringing back full motion videos to games.
Look forward to the Steam release
No steam release, no purchase
How does it feel being in a cult and not actually be a video game fan but a lame person that just makes a stand for no reason?
Well the reason is people don't want use the Epic launcher and/or support Epic games. You might disagree with that reason, but it's a perfectly valid one.
not actually be a video game fan
Buying Alan Wake 2 doesn't make you a 'video game fan' btw.
Lame person? Because I won’t buy on Epic launcher? What 😂
Is the bug fixes where you get stuck in her head space and can't exit
Have they optimized it?
Shoutout to the devs for listening to the community.
When is it coming to Steam
It's not. Epic funded the game.
So I imagine they’d probably like to make some money off it?
Nah Sweeney's hate boner for Steam is so strong that he'd rather sink Remedy than give the game a legitimate chance at being a hit. Tencent and Fortnite money is limitless anyway.
It doent make much sense for Remedy using Epic unless they make money out of it either way.
It doesn't mean they can't release it on Steam. Unless they still think they can compete.
They can’t compete.
Epic paid for the development so sadly they'll probably keep it permanently exclusive to EGS.
Excellent reason to pirate it.
Poverty is usually reason number one, friend
excellent reason to never see a third game
Is someone running bots to downvote every Alan Wake 2 post? This is crazy
No, just people complaining about downvotes, which earn a downvote.
Did they fix the bug where the game is epic exclusive?
I keep wondering when they intend to release a PC version. It's a huge market to ignore.
In theory I hate everything about this game. The theme, plot, gameplay, genre. Everything is bottom tier for my preference.
In practice it's an awesome game and I thoroughly enjoyed my playthrough. I just wish all this talent and effort was put into literally anything else, but oh well. I'll take it.
Give it a shot if you haven't played it yet, it's that good.
We need Max Payne remakes and Control II
Well, they are working on them! Max Payne 1+2 Remake is in full production rn. And Control II is nearing production readiness.
What did you like about it?
Presentation, level design, pacing, the whole package I guess?
It's like a food you don't like, prepared by a top chef. All the individual components you dislike are still there, but they're mixed in a pleasing way. They support each other and make sense within the context.
So in theory you hate everything about it, but you actually like everything about it. Maybe you just like the game and that upsets you?
Of course I like the game. That's what I said. I very much like it despite expecting to hate it. Which is a testament to how well crafted it is.
I have a bugged achievement as the game wouldn't let me collect a duplicate item. I raised a support request who told me they haven't seen this issue before.
Doesn't appear to have been fixed in any release notes. I can't be the only one lol
What achievement? Have you checked on r/AlanWake? I 100%'d it at launch and didn't have issues but I remember one or two achievements being talked about there.
It's been a while but doesn't hurt to check and see if you find a solution.
The one where you collect the charms. Can't remember the name of it.
Every few months I forget this game existed, then I remember why, then the news passes and I go back to forgetting about it again.
Ad nauseum repeat.
when is this game coming to steam?
Sadly never, matey, yarr harr
Idk when was the last time I pirated anything, could be call of duty advance warfare but never played it.
I had this audio issue but I uninstalled the game from my hdd and reinstalled it lm my ssd and it ran perfectly after that
Wow now I can actually play the game on my ancient 1070. Great success !
Does this game has FSR 3?
Am I the only one who noticed that the loading time increased after the new update on ps5?
Have they fixed the annoying bug where audio desyncs with the video during cutscenes?