If you need a reminder of what you need to run Days Gone, I've listed its minimum and recommended PC specifications below. It shares a lot of the same PC requirements as Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding (both of which ran beautifully on my test systems last year, Horizon's launch bugs be damned), so if you've been able to play either of those games in recent months, then you shouldn't have any trouble with Days Gone. It's properly great, and more games should adopt its approach to real-time graphics changes and in-menu performance meters going forward.įrom the testing I've done so far, Days Gone runs pretty smoothly on PC. I can't say the PC version has changed the way I think about Days Gone the game, admittedly - to me, it's still a rather bland and very bloated take on open-world zombie-ing - but I can say its settings menu is probably one of the best I've seen in a long time. It might not be the most beloved first-party PlayStation exclusive to ever make the jump to PC, but having played the first couple of hours of Bend Studio's open world zombie 'em up, there's no denying it's a handsome-looking port, standing shoulder to shoulder with the technical improvements we saw in both Death Stranding and Horizon Zero Dawn. It also ran like crap for me until I upgraded my CPU earlier this week and I'm getting real sick of the bug where revives don't work half the time.Days Gone rolls onto PC today, bringing the post-apocalyptic adventures of motorcycle rider and denim jacket and baseball cap enthusiast Deacon St John into a new era of uncapped frame rates, ultrawide monitor support, keyboard and mouse controls, and enhanced graphics effects. The guns feel pretty good after my first 12 hours (but need some work), specialist gadgets are surprisingly helpful, and Portal mode makes it easy to hop into a personalized match of throwback Battlefield with old rules and guns. I remember being here a decade ago with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4, and history is repeating itself: I am having a good time with Battlefield while the community is on fire.įor what it's worth, I think there's a lot of fun to be had in Battlefield 2042 right now. It makes me morbidly nostalgic to see the loudest corners of the Battlefield community in uproar on launch day. the_slaughter_has_begun from r/battlefield2042 The top post at the moment is a screenshot of the game's negative review status on Steam with the title "The slaughter has begun." Another post climbing to the top points out that BF2042 is currently the sixth worst reviewed game on all of Steam, and another calls on redditors to write "proper" reviews on Steam so that EA "can't just pull the review bomb card on media," referring to a policy on Steam to adjust review averages when a game is being inundated with what Steam determines to be "off-topic" posts.
Meanwhile on the game's subreddit, where frustrations have already been boiling during a week of early access for those who bought the expensive editions of the game, things have gotten ravenous. The 94-complaint list covers everything from "No standard server browser," "No crouch sprinting," and "No thermal optics" to ultra-specific nitpicks like "No swelling crescendo of dramatic music near the end of a match.