I concur. I usually avoid early access games unless I know the devs’ reputation(s), or have already heard good things about it (Project Zomboid, Factorio, Deep Rock Galactic, Subnautica, BattleBit, Lethal Company, and Palworld just to name a few).
But I’ve also heard horror stories of devs taking the EA money and dumping the game before it’s finished. Though I haven’t heard anything like that in a while.
Subnautica is an amazing game that I really enjoyed experiencing, but even the full release was buggy. I can’t imagine playing a game where atmosphere is so important and then being pulled out of it by bugs.
That is true. I forgot about that with Subnautica. I remember experiencing lag spikes with terrible texture pop-in when entering new biomes.
I remember watching a streamer play a version near release and he built a large base to mess with one of the leviathans. But it caused the game to seriously lag. In the following video, he says the devs asked for his save file so they could use it to optimize their programming. I don’t remember how much of an impact it made, but it did improve a little.
Depends on the developer tbh.
I concur. I usually avoid early access games unless I know the devs’ reputation(s), or have already heard good things about it (Project Zomboid, Factorio, Deep Rock Galactic, Subnautica, BattleBit, Lethal Company, and Palworld just to name a few).
But I’ve also heard horror stories of devs taking the EA money and dumping the game before it’s finished. Though I haven’t heard anything like that in a while.
Subnautica is an amazing game that I really enjoyed experiencing, but even the full release was buggy. I can’t imagine playing a game where atmosphere is so important and then being pulled out of it by bugs.
That is true. I forgot about that with Subnautica. I remember experiencing lag spikes with terrible texture pop-in when entering new biomes. I remember watching a streamer play a version near release and he built a large base to mess with one of the leviathans. But it caused the game to seriously lag. In the following video, he says the devs asked for his save file so they could use it to optimize their programming. I don’t remember how much of an impact it made, but it did improve a little.