Maktaka

January 06, 2012 at 6:52pm

Constant texture pop-in whenever the camera is rotated is all on id's head.

Saving taking forever and the total lack of any useful autosave system is also entirely id's fault.

So is the godawful, always-on, cannot-be-disabled mouse smoothing that makes menus almost unnavigable.

And then there's the fugly as sin textures used for close-in views of the world. If it's not a weapon model, character model, or *distant* object, it looks terrible.

Plus the fact that half of the already-short game is spent just screwing around in town or driving yet again across the same pointless stretch of desert that you've been through a dozen times before.

Then they went and used every single "dungeon" twice to really stretch the remaining content thin. How so little content requires a 20 GB download I'll never know.

So it's a repetitive, empty, nigh-unusable, pile of crap. Nothing nVidia or AMD does can turn id's pile of excretion into a good game. And given the noises coming from John Carmack after the game's release, nothing can ever restore id to a developer capable to doing any better.

blkpanthr

January 06, 2012 at 11:20am

its a bit of both

The new idtech5 engine uses some new tequniques that werent mature enough at launch so AMD has had to muck about to patch things.

Those same tequniques have casued issue in the game code as well so Id has had to patch things.

bling581

January 06, 2012 at 10:37am

So are the issues truly AMD's problem or did the devs do a crap job creating the graphics? I would think if it was the devs problem AMD wouldn't be churning out so many updates to try and fix these issues.