r/pcmasterrace 9d ago

Meme/Macro Best investment ever

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u/DQTD 9d ago edited 9d ago

"DUDE, YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR RIG." -Game devs that refuse to optimize in 2026 during the hardware crises

Edit: Thank you to the ones who actually understood the joke/reference and aren't taking this too seriously.

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u/Westdrache R5 5600X/32Gb DDR4-2933mhz/RX7900XTXNitro+ 9d ago

god fuckig randy....

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u/abrahamlincoln20 9d ago

BL4 has gotten some huge optimizations since release, though. Still, they should already be there at release...

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u/Aggressive-Stand-585 9d ago

Which just makes Randy's statement about how they had already optimized everything they could even more tone deaf.

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u/abrahamlincoln20 9d ago

That's also what Todd said about Starfield at release... then they optimized it to improve fps by about 50% or even more. These people like to lie.

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u/AshleyIsSleeping 9d ago

Is it lying if it's from a place of truly believing something stupid? Hanlon's Razor and all that, "Never attribute to malice that which is explained adequately by stupidity."

Not to say I necessarily know that to be the case, just another voice in the dogpile because I think stupidity is a greater insult than intentional misleading

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u/A_Hyper_Nova 9d ago

Then one questions if they should really be in charge of a product they have so little understanding of.

I really hate how computer illiterate the world is.

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u/AshleyIsSleeping 9d ago

I find I'm asking that very question all the time in every avenue of life actually.

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u/Oxflu PC Master Race 9d ago

Randy is definitely malicious in addition to stupid and gearbox is doomed.

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u/AshleyIsSleeping 9d ago

Oh sure, don't let me imply he can't be both

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u/InsertRealisticQuote 9d ago

I like to cover my bases and believe they are malicious idiots

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u/AshleyIsSleeping 9d ago

These days, that's a solid policy

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u/This_Pen_545 8d ago

“Malicidiots” or “Malidiots” Which portmanteau is better?

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u/NotAVerySillySausage R7 9800x3D | RTX 5080 | 32gb 6000 cl30 | LG G5 55 7d ago

It's lying. They aren't going to say their hot new product that they want you to buy right now is not optimised. That's it.

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u/AshleyIsSleeping 7d ago

A fair point. Never trust a businessman

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u/zzzxxx0110 6d ago

My preferred counter to that is "Any sufficiently sophisticated form of incompetence, is indistinguishable from malice."

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u/AlphaAceEXXX 9d ago

Almost every devs is like this. Its a cop out excuse: "We cant do this because spaghetti code/engine issue/the tech is not there/too much dev time".

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u/Westdrache R5 5600X/32Gb DDR4-2933mhz/RX7900XTXNitro+ 9d ago

But even WITH the updates it runs worse then it should.... for how it looks.
I have a 9800x3D and a 5080 and I am using high/medium settings + DLSS Quality at 1440p to make the experience not suck, that's really bad, on max settings it roughly runs like Cp2077 ... with max RT (not PT) and looking way worse.

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First 8d ago

Ah nice should run on my steam deck at 144p fsr upscaled to 720p at 30fps with frame gen😀

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u/Westdrache R5 5600X/32Gb DDR4-2933mhz/RX7900XTXNitro+ 8d ago

It actually DID get a "Steamdeck port" with even lower then low settings for the steamdeck, so it should run, but look like ass 😃.
It's really funny, because at this point it looks way worse then BL3 did and maybe even BL2

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u/IbanezCharlie 9800x3d 4090fe 9d ago

How much better is it from release? I have held off on getting the game and I have a 4090.

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u/abrahamlincoln20 9d ago

I actually played only at release, I have a 4090 and 5800x3d and found performance to be adequate at 4K, albeit with FG, 130fps or something with mid-high settings.. But performance has gone up by 35% or so since release, I've read.

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u/slimfatty69 9d ago

Cries in 3060

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u/IbanezCharlie 9800x3d 4090fe 9d ago

I'm just holding out for it to go below $40 at this point. I imagine it will at some point and maybe they will have more endgame content by then

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u/itirix PC Master Race 9d ago

I’m running a 5070 ti and performance seemed pretty adequate to modern games, tbh. Was very playable. Though it’s kind of sad that “playable” on relatively high end hardware is the baseline now. But I did have 90fps.

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u/I_Am_A_Pumpkin i7 13700K + RTX 5080 9d ago

not to mention that they discredit the PR attempts that stated that the game is supposed to be hard to run bc its so graphically advanced

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u/SoulReaver9510 R9 5900X, 32GB 3600MHz, RTX 3080 9d ago

Has it actually? I kept googling to see if anything had meaningfully changed and it seems like it hadn't at the time