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The Evil Within

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The Consequence, part two of The Evil Within's Juli Kidman DLC, comes out on April 21st

"If you've already completed part one of Juli Kidman's adventure and are dying to know what happens next," Bethesda teased, "we're happy to inform you won't have to wait long to see her story through."...

gameplay teaser...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGYE5Y7uEY
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aaaw, one month is a lot of time dammit! :D
 
Anyone playing "The Consequence"? I'm wondering if its going to be exactly like the first DLC with its stealth sneaking gameplay? I really hope it isnt because I absolutely hated the first DLC and only played it because I wanted to know more about the story and had already bought the season pass. I really wish it was the same gameplay as the regular game.
 
Dmac122383 said:
Anyone playing "The Consequence"? I'm wondering if its going to be exactly like the first DLC with its stealth sneaking gameplay? I really hope it isnt because I absolutely hated the first DLC and only played it because I wanted to know more about the story and had already bought the season pass. I really wish it was the same gameplay as the regular game.
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will start this night, i didnt started before because i was waiting for both parts to come out.
 
haha girly is lethal wearing those heels, it doesnt seem practical but who cares, this is gaming and what matters the most is she looks good!
 
D4rkn3ss said:
haha girly is lethal wearing those heels, it doesnt seem practical but who cares, this is gaming and what matters the most is she looks good!
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Anita would like a word with you.
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I think I'm in chapter 5 now and I really want to play the game but something about it just isn't fun. I'm slightly frustrated that when I'm faced with a challenge, like the Japanese spider monster thing, there doesn't seem to be repercussions for dying. If I screw up because I don't initially figure out what I'm supposed to do, it doesn't matter because there's always a save point ~1 minute away from the time I died. I die, I say "eff it!" and go do something else because I just don't care that I can basically pick up right where I died at any time later.

I'm liking the trippy stuff and I want to know more about the story, but the gameplay just isn't keeping me in the game.
 
Just started playing the game. Bought it last week, but my god that widescreen view is just annoying. The widescreen itself isn't a problem, it's how much of the screen is taken up by the black bars. Some games are okay like The Order but those black bars only took up maybe 5-10% of the screen. The Evil Within seems almost 30% of the screen is black bars and I find myself saying I wish I could just see more.
 
zamardii12 said:
Just started playing the game. Bought it last week, but my god that widescreen view is just annoying. The widescreen itself isn't a problem, it's how much of the screen is taken up by the black bars. Some games are okay like The Order but those black bars only took up maybe 5-10% of the screen. The Evil Within seems almost 30% of the screen is black bars and I find myself saying I wish I could just see more.
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Um you can turn off the black bars. They dont do anything but block the view anyway as the aspect ratio is unchanged.
 
The Evil Within is fantastic so far. I started this game blind, expecting more Resident Evil than Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid. Imagine my surprise when I found out how useless melee is, or how easy it is to die. I guess I've been playing too many console games, because the graphics are beautifully eerie and oozing with atmosphere. Few games have instilled such trepidation when approaching....anything, even while having the ability to rotate the camera to see around walls and objects without being seen. I wish that I had a nice surround system, but my 7.1 receiver died :mad:. I'm playing on my Alienware M18x-R2 with 680m SLI at 1080/30fps/FXAA and zero graphical hiccups. I haven't changed any other settings yet, so I'll mess with it later to check for performance issues.
I'm still early in the game (deep into Chapter 3 I think), so I'm very intrigued as to where the story will go. Regarding the gameplay, I think this is the direction that Resident Evil 7 needs to go, meshing the stripped-down action elements of RE 4 with REbirth's lurking sense of dread. Zombies and other horrors need to be terrifying again, and terror doesn't necessarily need swarms of enemies, CoD gunplay, driving simulators, and Matrix-fu (I'm looking at you, RE 6).
 
Did they ever fix the horrible stutter in the game? I tried to play it several times and never could get things running smooth enough to keep my attention.
 
This is the worst kind of game for performance hiccups. Moving around slowly makes stuttering and hitching impossible not to notice. I think the furthest I made it was 10 minutes in before quitting.
I did that 3-4 different times after various patches and hardware upgrades. Best I could ever get was intermittent hitching playing at only 720p with Borderless Gaming, but it was still messy.
 
I didn't see any stuttering I'm glad the developers got rid of the letter box on the side though makes the game more immersive.
 
It ran great when I played it on my 970. (with the initial frame rate hack, then with the official patches) I haven't played it in quite a while though. I may give it another go on my GTX 1070. It was just starting to get a bit interesting when I stopped playing it for something else.
 
I think some people are just oblivious to small stutters and hitches just like some people are oblivious to screen tearing. I have watched people play games with obvious stuttering and they have no clue what I'm even talking about when I tell them.
 
Tearing and stuttering drive me crazy actually. I think you might be right though about many people. I'm surprised when I see someone playing a game that's tearing, and they don't even seem to notice. Weird...
 
My wife is like that. She doesn't notice FPS drops, screen tearing, and occasional even plays in the wrong aspect ratio :p
 
twonunpackmule said:
I wish I could exist in such ignorance. It would be bliss. Consoles would be "good enough."
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Same. Any sign of hitching or FPS dropouts and I'll keep flipping out until I can either fix it or lower the details until I can achieve it.
In the cases of games like the Crew (and previously the Evil Within), not being able to fix it irks the hell out of me.
 
So, just thought I'd drop back into this thread. My oldest two kids are playing this right now. They wanted to get the new Resident Evil game, but I deterred them briefly with this. I set it up last night on the living room PC, and I have to say, it's night and day from when I first played it. It's smooth as silk now (even better than when they first updated it for 60FPS). I mean it ran fine before for me, but now it's flawless. The kids are having fun. I could hear them daring each other to play the next area last night from the other room. :D I never actually finished it, so I may avoid watching them, and then go back through it myself. Looks like all the DLCs are installed for it too, so it should be pretty cool.
 
Yeah it's a really good game I'm on like chapter 8-9 or something it gets kinda tuff later on.
Think I only payed 9.00 for the game off CD keys
I guess when the Resident Evil 5 people were layed off they rejoined to make this game.


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I already own it, so I might re-download it and see if I can finally get things going smoothly. With a GTX1080 I'd imagine that 4K/60 should be feasible.
 
I'm on a GTX1070 on that machine. I'm only running at 1080, but everything is maxed 100% and it's running perfectly.
 
As long as it's smooth, I'll happily take 1080p any day. Definitely going to try this tonight if I have time. I've really wanted to play that game for a long time.
 
It still has the same exact hitching it's always had for me no matter what setup I play it on.
 
So I just fired it up (after re-downloading it) and it seems to be okay now? It definitely doesn't like being run at 1080p when my desktop is set to 4K, but that's an easy enough thing to alleviate.
4K seems a little bogged down once I went into the first hospital, but 1080p seems smooth and stutter free now. I'll have to play a little more tonight and see if I've finally gotten my wish.

(EDIT: It's holding up okay, but the game really, really wants my desktop resolution and game resolution to be the same. I tried a few tricks to alleviate it, but the game is stuttery with all of them. Interesting, but at least it working fine now. Hopefully it stays this way. On the plus side, the graphics are pretty great when they aren't a stuttery mess.)
 
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Domingo said:
So I just fired it up (after re-downloading it) and it seems to be okay now? It definitely doesn't like being run at 1080p when my desktop is set to 4K, but that's an easy enough thing to alleviate.
4K seems a little bogged down once I went into the first hospital, but 1080p seems smooth and stutter free now. I'll have to play a little more tonight and see if I've finally gotten my wish.

(EDIT: It's holding up okay, but the game really, really wants my desktop resolution and game resolution to be the same. I tried a few tricks to alleviate it, but the game is stuttery with all of them. Interesting, but at least it working fine now. Hopefully it stays this way. On the plus side, the graphics are pretty great when they aren't a stuttery mess.)
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I run my desktop at 4k but had a heck of a time making the game behave at desktop res.. weird. I settled for 1440p which looks fine on my 40".
 
Has anyone checked PCGamingWiki for fixes on the game? I don't have the game, but it's a great place to go for ways around bugs.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Has anyone checked PCGamingWiki for fixes on the game? I don't have the game, but it's a great place to go for ways around bugs.
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It does look like there are some things there that could be helpful for certain hardware configs. In doing a decent amount of research on the game, it seems that the game runs in a very odd implementation of borderless fullscreen (no matter what the in-game menu says). That's where some of the stuttering issues lie for those of us with hardware that's more than enough to run the game perfectly.
At the very least on my system it seems like setting my desktop resolution and the in-game resolution to be identical is the fix. It's now smooth and the game looks pretty great too.
If I don't do that, either the game simply won't display (I can hear it, but there's no game window) or it stutters like mad if I use some of the windowed/fullscreen tweak programs.
 
Oh, there is a bug with screen size. It's not precisely due to desktop resolution differences. It's actually caused by scaling. If you have scaling set to 100% it's fine. If you have your icons/text set to scale above 100% then it will offset the screen in the game for some reason. Stupid, but switching scaling to 100% fixed it for me and others. Should have mentioned that.

Edit: Oh, looking at your post more closely, it looks like you're not getting the offset, you're getting no video when they aren't the same res. Weird...
 
It's a wonky-ass game from a technical standpoint. I've just started using the Nvidia right click menu to change my resolution before I play it and I'm just sticking to 1080p. I'm sure there's likely a way to do this via a batch file, but I'm too lazy to bother researching it. I'm actually lucky I discovered that works at all. Not sure why I thought to try it, but I think I was desperate when I noticed that running the game at 1080p wasn't displaying anything.
 
After thinking I finally had the performance issues with this game in the past, it still wonks out at random. Running the game in a window seems fairly smooth, but that seems to be the only 100% method I've found. Even swapping my resolution and using Borderless Gaming only seem to work sometimes but not others.
That said, the game finally has my attention. I'm enjoying it and it definitely owes a lot to RE. #4 in particular, but it's probably a little more stealthy.
 
after hearing good things about the Evil Within 2 from Gamescom it renewed my interest in the original...I never played the first game beyond the demo which I really enjoyed...as a horror fan the game looked great but after hearing about the bugs and issues with black bars etc on the PC version I put in on the backburner waiting for a sale

I see it's currently available on Steam for $8.74 (including all DLC)...can't beat that price...anyone play through the first game after all the patches?...opinions?
 
I kept trying to play the game on the PC, but performance is so up and down I bailed on it again. I probably tried to play it 4-5 times and kept giving up one it. 60fps is randomly stuttery and it isn't one of those games that looks smooth when locked at 30fps.
Plus, it's excessively stealthy as you get further. I lost interest when RE7 came out.
Great premise, but poor execution IMO.
 
Domingo said:
I kept trying to play the game on the PC, but performance is so up and down I bailed on it again. I probably tried to play it 4-5 times and kept giving up one it. 60fps is randomly stuttery and it isn't one of those games that looks smooth when locked at 30fps.
Plus, it's excessively stealthy as you get further. I lost interest when RE7 came out.
Great premise, but poor execution IMO.
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Part 2 is superior in every way.

As valari pillow guy said, it's free in epic currently
 
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The Evil Within is free starting tomorrow. I hated it up front, due to some of the technical issues. But the second time I tried it I was able to fix them (had to do something odd like disable G Sync in the monitor settings) and stayed with it. Ended up enjoying it. I think the first game is better. More interesting story, a lot more scary. It can be a bit hard in some places though so maybe a few more checkpoints would have been nice. The setting and antagonist was simply better. The second one smoothed out the game play like movement but it just wasn't as interesting or scary. They also changed the voice actors which was odd.
 
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