Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has officially arrived on Steam, and thankfully it does work on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.
In the Steam release announcement the developers noted "We will continue to make optimizations to improve compatibility on handheld PC gaming devices" so hopefully the experience on Steam Deck will get improvements in that. Additionally they're working on bringing AMD FSR 3 including Frame Generation in a future update.
As reported earlier by me, Valve released updates to both Proton Experimental and Proton Hotfix recently although there was no announcement on Proton Hotfix changes just yet, we can now see that at least on Steam Deck that Valve picked Proton Hotfix by default. So Proton Hotfix likely has some adjustments in it needed for the best experience.
Steam Deck shots provided by one of our Discord moderators, running it on the default settings (click to enlarge):
Good to see another fresh release working thanks to Proton! Early areas at least seem to give around 30FPS, but as we know from games this big, later areas may bring performance down just like the first game that can cause some issues.
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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P
"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.
I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.
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slaapliedje Mar 25
Quoting: JarmerIf you look at side by sides... to quote both my friend and brother (whom I sent the image to separately) 'they look like a younger Slug' (Slug in this case being a dude we've known for a long time.) They definitely look a lot different.Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P
"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.
I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fylnzmyqcwv171.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3d358d4dc6f814975b3b3a0f40236b03fd463680
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Quoting: slaapliedjeThat looks to me more like a difference in the shots than a difference in the face itself. Like, the impression was different, but then when I looked at like the nose, or the eyebrows or stuff, I realized it was pretty much the same. The difference is more in the expression, in the amount of forehead you're seeing (because the 2017 pics were cropped and/or had headgear) and so on.Quoting: JarmerIf you look at side by sides... to quote both my friend and brother (whom I sent the image to separately) 'they look like a younger Slug' (Slug in this case being a dude we've known for a long time.) They definitely look a lot different.Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P
"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.
I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fylnzmyqcwv171.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3d358d4dc6f814975b3b3a0f40236b03fd463680
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Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: JarmerIf you look at side by sides... to quote both my friend and brother (whom I sent the image to separately) 'they look like a younger Slug' (Slug in this case being a dude we've known for a long time.) They definitely look a lot different.Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P
"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.
I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fylnzmyqcwv171.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3d358d4dc6f814975b3b3a0f40236b03fd463680
That's simply increased fidelity on her face. More polygons means more definition to how they want the character to look. Look at the ears, the left two you can clearly see the polygons that make up the ears while the right it's almost indistinguishable, though it's not helped by the '21 image being blurry. The most noticeable difference in the nose but as others have said I think that has more to do with the way lighting is improved in a more recent title.
The right looks more human because they have more fidelity to make her look more human. If that's your complain I don't know what to tell you.
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slaapliedje Mar 26
Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: slaapliedjeThat looks to me more like a difference in the shots than a difference in the face itself. Like, the impression was different, but then when I looked at like the nose, or the eyebrows or stuff, I realized it was pretty much the same. The difference is more in the expression, in the amount of forehead you're seeing (because the 2017 pics were cropped and/or had headgear) and so on.Quoting: JarmerIf you look at side by sides... to quote both my friend and brother (whom I sent the image to separately) 'they look like a younger Slug' (Slug in this case being a dude we've known for a long time.) They definitely look a lot different.Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P
"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.
I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fylnzmyqcwv171.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3d358d4dc6f814975b3b3a0f40236b03fd463680
Quoting: LacSlyerUhm... she doesn't look more human on the right, she looks more like a dude. Like I know a dude who looked like that when he was younger. The one on the left looks like the model they hired to create the character the first time around. There are tons of examples of this 'uglification' of female characters all over the internet. Not sure what to tell you, if you can't see it. Hell, I don't even see that many attractive females in my day to day, but the YouTube shorts certainly have thumbnails of them all the time.Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: JarmerIf you look at side by sides... to quote both my friend and brother (whom I sent the image to separately) 'they look like a younger Slug' (Slug in this case being a dude we've known for a long time.) They definitely look a lot different.Quoting: slaapliedjeI'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P
"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.
I played the first one to nearly 100% at 120 hrs, and I have put several hours into this new one, and I think she looks the same. I mean I know it's been years since I saw her, but she seems totally fine.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fylnzmyqcwv171.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3d358d4dc6f814975b3b3a0f40236b03fd463680
That's simply increased fidelity on her face. More polygons means more definition to how they want the character to look. Look at the ears, the left two you can clearly see the polygons that make up the ears while the right it's almost indistinguishable, though it's not helped by the '21 image being blurry. The most noticeable difference in the nose but as others have said I think that has more to do with the way lighting is improved in a more recent title.
The right looks more human because they have more fidelity to make her look more human. If that's your complain I don't know what to tell you.
Aloy in the first game looked perfectly fine, the one in the second one looks like she put on weight, had her jaw squared off, and made to look more manly.
There are a lot of the 'twitter mob' complaining about Stellar Blade, and how unrealistic the protagonist is. But she's created after a Korean model... that very much looks just like the character. Every example I've seen of the original model, and the character in game of recent games (Like Spider-Man 2) they 'uglify' her. That actually takes more effort than to just scan her face and use it as-is.
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ssj17vegeta Mar 27
Man, I've waited for this game for years.
Very cool to see an "AAA" game launching just fine on PC : decent performance (runs smoothly on a 6-year old rig), no microtransactions, no invasive DRM or kernel-level anti-cheat, good story/graphics, and an overall great experience with Proton.
I'm having a blast with it !
Very cool to see an "AAA" game launching just fine on PC : decent performance (runs smoothly on a 6-year old rig), no microtransactions, no invasive DRM or kernel-level anti-cheat, good story/graphics, and an overall great experience with Proton.
I'm having a blast with it !
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Quoting: ssj17vegetaMan, I've waited for this game for years.
Very cool to see an "AAA" game launching just fine on PC : decent performance (runs smoothly on a 6-year old rig), no microtransactions, no invasive DRM or kernel-level anti-cheat, good story/graphics, and an overall great experience with Proton.
I'm having a blast with it !
same here! I just did the big fight at barren light (not a spoiler) and man alive, the production value is so high! It's really like playing a scene from a movie. Loved it.
I also have to LOLOLOL so loud at all the face stuff. Cmon people, it's so absurd, I can barely tell if you're joking or not.
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