Apparently Tomb Raider 2 port is fantastic

pibbur who · February 2, 2016

Alrik Fassbauer said:
Such a shame. And I had thought that someone had made a Remake with realistic looking graphics …

XBone ? I only know this Bone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_(comics)

Only that? Man, you've got about 200 bones in you body.

pibbur who pretends misunderstanding the friendly German.

xSamhainx · February 3, 2016

nice, i was bummed about the exclusivity of this game at launch.

Better go check out TB's report!

coboney · February 4, 2016

Collector's Editions not delivering

Apparently not all the collector's editions are delivering what they promised though - like literally giving a case with no disk after saying it would have a PC Retail Copy.

Shamelessly I did write about it here for TR: http://techraptor.net/content/square-enix-changes-collectors-editions-without-notice

joxer · February 5, 2016

Here's +1 partially because I like pinpointing such stuff and partially as suckup so you adress another spreading scamware plague in games industry.

joxer · February 7, 2016

http://www.vg247.com/2016/02/05/ris...s-new-graphics-options-fixes-critical-issues/

Even more (good!) news. TR2 got a patch that fixes some bugs but you won't believe this part:

- A variety of fixes and improvements to UI including map, basecamps, and Remnant Resistance mode.
- New graphics option ‘Specular Reflection Quality’ to enhance resolution and reduce aliasing of specular reflections, at some performance cost.
- New graphics option to disable film-grain independently from ‘Screen Effects’.
- Improved HBAO+ quality, including better occlusion for distant objects.
- Improved NVIDIA SLI performance. (Steam only)
- Fixed SLI glitches during water/snow effects. (Steam only)
- Resolution Modifier option that allows you to use a lower rendering resolution independent from window size when running in windowed mode.
- Performance optimization for situations where Razer Chroma features are enabled. (Steam Only)
- Improvements to Razer Chroma effects. (Steam Only)

Square Enix, a company who's some ports were nearhorrible in the past, adds SLI support and even more gfx options for the already great port?
Either 2016. brought some new winds to the games industry scene just because or they wanted to show middlefinger to WB Games.
Or... Maybe they're targetting "port of the year" award if that will start to happen.

Zloth · February 9, 2016

Or maybe they are practicing for the port of Final Fantasy 15?

joxer · February 9, 2016

Could be.
Imagine this PR "FF15, brought on PC by the same people who ported Tomb Raider 2".
Who wouldn't preorder it?

Alrik Fassbauer · February 9, 2016

Zloth said:
Or maybe they are practicing for the port of Final Fantasy 15?

They should rather practise porting the only and true Tomb Raider II to modern systems !

joxer · February 26, 2016

Tomb Raider 2, PC version, outsold XBone version in launch month.
Whatever the number on the console was, three times more people bought it on PC.
http://www.vg247.com/2016/02/25/ris...d-xbox-one-digital-31-in-launch-month-report/

“Initial sales numbers on digital console for Rise of the Tomb Raider were soft, due to sharing its release date with Fallout 4 and its exclusivity to Xbox One,” CEO Joost van Dreunen said.

“The game sold almost three times as many units on PC than it did on console during its first month.”

I don't think the number on PC has something to do with release date and believe the number on PC could have been even greater if they didn't screw it with avoidware.
For example I'm eager to buy it but won't till they complete it (season pass idiocy).

Still, it's impressive. Does this mean people are turning away from gadgets and getting games on PC when possible?

Ripper · February 26, 2016

I think that the future of gaming will be split between mobile and some form of PC. I think it is the traditional console that will fade away, in the end.

joxer · February 26, 2016

But you can't play games by mushrooms on phones!

zahratustra · February 27, 2016

Pity it's a twitch/QTE type of game. If it was of the Dishonored/Deus Ex sort, I would buy three!

Ripper · March 11, 2016

DirextX 12 is now supported in the latest patch, enabling some new features, and better performance on some systems. Don't expect miracles, but it might be interesting to hear some reports.

http://www.pcgamer.com/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-gets-directx-12-support-in-latest-patch/

joxer · March 12, 2016

Actually the move itself is a miracle.
Of all games, this one getting dx12 support was IMO the least expected - I thought after Fable MMO got cancelled EA or Ubi will want to jump on the wagon first to capitalize some more $ by advertising it.

Good job Square!

Moriendor · March 12, 2016

joxer said:
Actually the move itself is a miracle.
Of all games, this one getting dx12 support was IMO the least expected

Why? DirectX 12 PC patch for this game was rumored for a long time already since the Xbone version is DirectX 12, too, and Microsoft had their hands all over this one with the Xbone exclusivity.
Outside of Microsoft's own catalog, like GoW Ultimate and the like, this was actually the MOST expected game to be getting a DirectX 12 patch

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