She won't stop talking about it, so it seems like it. She hasn't made it past act 1 though. I tested it briefly before handing over to her, and it seemed okay. Still, if you have the option, I would look at 16GB on the M2. There are a few deals to be had on MacBooks at BestBuy and Amazon, and Black Friday specials should start showing up in a couple weeks.
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I play at 4k on the studio.
Daughter tried to play at native resolution on the Intel MB air and does play at Native on the M2 MB Air.
I have 16inch MacBook Pro M2 Max, 32 gig ram. Currently about 45hours of game time on this machine.
The game runs flawlessly at maxed out graphics, FSR is at ultra quality and resolution is 2560x1600 with fullscreen mode.
I have also tried running the game at 4k and it runs perfectly there too but 2560x1600 seems like the sweet spot.
I'm on Sonoma so game mode for MacOS is enabled automatically.
The anti-aliasing is annoying as it resets after each launch which means you need to enable it each time too, I use TAA.
The fullscreen option also doesnt play nice with each launch and you need to fix fullscreen each launch.
HDR mode makes steam overlay completely unusable - however you can access steam on the desktop by minimising the game.
The 16inch MacBook runs relatively hot and the fans hit full tilt about 5 min into the game session, which is something to be aware of when having long gaming sessions.
The game runs flawlessly at maxed out graphics, FSR is at ultra quality and resolution is 2560x1600 with fullscreen mode.
I have also tried running the game at 4k and it runs perfectly there too but 2560x1600 seems like the sweet spot.
I'm on Sonoma so game mode for MacOS is enabled automatically.
The anti-aliasing is annoying as it resets after each launch which means you need to enable it each time too, I use TAA.
The fullscreen option also doesnt play nice with each launch and you need to fix fullscreen each launch.
HDR mode makes steam overlay completely unusable - however you can access steam on the desktop by minimising the game.
The 16inch MacBook runs relatively hot and the fans hit full tilt about 5 min into the game session, which is something to be aware of when having long gaming sessions.
You can buy the game on steam, play for like an hour (I think the limit is two hours) and if you don't like it return it for a refund.
I wouldn’t describe it as a dungeon crawler.
The combat is turn based, so it isn’t super fast paced if you want to consider your actions.
Other than that, the game is more like Dragon Age or Mass Effect. There is a story you are working through, and the choices you make result in multiple outcomes.
I can say the game runs on an 8GB M2. I haven’t tried an M1 Pro. My M1 Ultra with 64GB runs it fine with all settings at max.
And I don’t have the extra GPU core Ultra version.
Has anyone else had an issue where the moment you change video settings the game plummets to about 1-2 FPS and then stays like that until you quit and relaunch (even if you restore the previous settings)? It's making it really hard to figure out optimal settings for my machine, but I'm not sure what's causing it.
Problem is they won't 16GB at the same price 8GB was like with the 15PM Max. Then people who don't need it are forced to pay morn.
Exactly but they won't. They will just elimiinate the 8GB pricing tier like they did with the 15PM 128GB tier. I'm still pissed they did that. I use like 76GB storage so I would have to pay an extra $100 for nothing. Just because people want a nice camera and storage doesn't mean they use a lot iof storage
I'd definitely say for games like that 16GB would be much better, but not everyone games so not everyone needs 16
Yea it would be another story if you could do it yourself so it would be a convenience upcharge
And the issue is many don't. They just cough up whatever it costs, so why would Apple stop?
Yes it may not directly increase but they'll do the same they did with the 15PM. They just eliminated the 128GB and its pricing tier. All the other tiers are the same price, so people who only need 128 need to pay an extra $100 for nothing
Problem is Apple won't sell base for the old 8GB price. They will eliminate 8GB and its pricing tier but need 16GB at the same price, so now 8GB have no way to pay $200 less. They already did that crap with the 15PM and the 128GB Tier
The team at Elverils yes but as the poster writes it could be because the game is out and they can be taking over furthur updates themselves. I don't know if it could also have something to do with Elverils being a Russian company in S:t Petersburg.
