From Dust's PC Port is Problematic

[GoldenShadow]

I got the game yesterday on steam. I didn't have any showstopper bugs, but I did have some weird ones. On the final map of story mode, the UI was suddenly in german, (I think) Also, I need V-Sync enabled, damnit, I hate tearing.

 

[infohippie]

How glad am I that I kept to my Ubisoft boycott?! If you really want Ubisoft to learn their lesson, though, best thing to do is to not buy any of their products, even on consoles. Let's see them haemorrhage customers.

 

[LookingGlass]

I cry each time I'm reminded that Massive Entertainment is under Ubisoft label. Instead of making World in Conflict 2 or something great they were turned into ubisofts porting house.

Seriously, they haven't made a game since 2007 and if we ever get another RTS from them it will be console exclusive with a horrible PC port 6 months later. It's so sad that it makes physicly angry.

They are? Damn. I only played World In Conflict for the first time recently and I was hoping we'd one day see a sequel. Really a great game.

 

[Rainforce]

Is there a version for the PC that isn't Steam? I got the Steam version and it works fine for me. Plays smooth, looks great. And the controls, while a little iffy aren't as monstrously awful as I've read.

Granted. I know as it goes, just because I personally have had no problems with it so far, doesn't change the fact that a lot of other people seem to. Which is a shame, because there's a very good game here.

same here, works perfectly fine. never crashed, always ran smooth. (same for 2 friends of me who own the game)
although I'd like to see a fix for that DRM issue, even though my connection is always on and working.

 

[andrewbrownster2]

Oh Ubisoft. I really think that you're making this harder on yourself then it needs to be.

 

[meepop]

Is there a version for the PC that isn't Steam? I got the Steam version and it works fine for me. Plays smooth, looks great. And the controls, while a little iffy aren't as monstrously awful as I've read.

Granted. I know as it goes, just because I personally have had no problems with it so far, doesn't change the fact that a lot of other people seem to. Which is a shame, because there's a very good game here.

Very reminiscent of Populous: The Beginning actually, minus the RTS elements in favor of a more puzzle based approach.

Finally! Someone just as rational as me. All of you guys who say "Ubi will never get another dime from me", do you hate Assassin Creed or are you just too blinded by rage? Honestly, it's not the end of the world, or do you just think "Anyone who plays a game as barbaric as Assassin's Creed is beneath me!" I'm not trolling, it just annoys me when people make empty promises.

I played From Dust (Second-to-last level), and the only problems I've had are, guess what, difficulty problems! Which are fine! Controls work well with mouse and keyboard. Anyone who argued that precision problems on Xbox 360 marred it, and PC would fix it, give another example of a game that had precision problems on a console that were fixed on PC.

 

[viranimus]

Ok, This is a massive regret for me, because I preordered this and had no clue it was from ubisoft until it was too late.

Now, I did experience the No UI glitch... Once. It took all of closing it down and restarting it to fix it. People over react at bugs.

Not sure what they mean about higher resolutions not supported in windowed mode because i rarely if ever play any game in windowed mode (got to love tri monitor display rig)

Now I did confirm the DRM is NOT always on, though it is an always on load as best as I can tell. I cut my internet connection to test and the game ran fine, but I could never get it to connect unless it did "save cloud" verification. Once that was done I played over 5 hours with no internet connected with no issue.

Greater than 30 frames per second is a major meh issue for winning imaginary pissing contests. The game looks fine, though the lacking extended graphics controls are a little weird.

So most of the article is kind of on, but just a little bit off in semantics.

And yes... Major regret purchase. Worst purchase of the year for me. Ubisoft, DRM, and a truly mediocre game that had a fairly copy pasta feel in its presentation. Disappoint.

 

[Ickorus]

Im currently jumping through hoops trying to get a refund directly from Ubisoft, we'll see how it goes; if they say no i'll just try going through Steam who I hear are doing a much better job of it.

Sad because it looks like a genuinely good game.

 

[koroem]

Ubisoft have a change of management recently? Or has the recent success of a few of their franchises just really gone to their heads? The amount of stupidity coming out of there lately is boggling.