Sick oldschool vibes, challenging gameplay, insane ideas. Loved it!

Probably my favorite new old school shooter

after the fact note - just found out this isn't some weird implementation of unity and in fact a custom engine written in pascal. this almost nearly excuses the performance but if you have written your own game engine, there is almost certainly room to improve it and add additional features but similar to the end of the review development has basically ceased, so instead of being excited about seeing the development of a custom engine we can just watch it be stretched out like a drum skin and atrophy. original review below


technically rotten. the game, as in the assets, weapons, enemies, levels are all competent and enjoyable. the engine or more specifically the utilization of the engine is piss poor. there is no true fullscreen mode. the game completely struggles to maintain over 100 fps despite being arguably simple rendering and logic, compared to dusk or a similar game that is even more advanced both technically and graphically, this game runs awful. there is noticeable mouse input delay that can be slightly improved by hopping around between the experimental gl rot or regular rendering, either way its bad. tons of graphical artifacts when you decide to "change resolution" an impossibility since the game is just 24/7 borderless windowed aka lag mode. the game likes to do funky frame buffering so that screenshots don't work properly and the steam in game overlay mostly just breaks and restarts itself. visiting the pcgamingwiki for any hopes of a remedy but mostly to discover the dx api level to apply dxvk and hope that does something and here is a quote about running the game above 60 fps "Renders multiple identical frames, making visuals heavily stutter and prevents the game logic from properly functioning." absolutely terrible. on a technical level this game while being inspired by quake resides well below the function of that engine. quake ran at a silky 72fps stock. this game aborts itself over 60. according to pcgaming wiki this game is software rendered only with the experimental opengl support. so i guess some of the awfulness can be excused for going out of their way to not utilize directx. makes it extremely hard to enjoy the game. the lowest fps limit is 120 fps which I can't even maintain so I have to use nvidia control panel or riva tuner to limit the frames to 60. some parts of the game drop so hard the fps goes from 100ish to low 60's and of course development has basically ceased. only play for eastern europe nostalgia porn

even further after the fact notes - linux and steam deck users are left to suffer and do some pretty big work arounds just to get a playable experience. these issues ideally would be addressed by the developer if they didn't completely give up