Dishonored 2 Game Director Is "Distressed" about PC Performance Issues, Says It's Not a Port

Dishonored 2 Game Director Harvey Smith has been past far the near responsive representative of Arkane and Bethesda when it comes to discussing the game'due south unfortunate functioning bug on PC.

He replied to literally dozens of questions via his Twitter account. To begin with, the Dishonored ii Game Manager said he's distressed about the issues PC users are having and that the development team is focused on solving those every bit presently as possible, even during this weekend. He then added that the game was tested on PC earlier release since it's not a port from other platforms.

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At least information technology seems similar data collection after release from all the gamers who submitted their technical feedback helped the developers in identifying the culprits.

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There's been speculation in the gaming customs that this was acquired past the engine. Dishonored 2 uses the Void engine, which is supposedly derived from idTech v, a problematic engine (different DOOM'southward idTech 6). However, Dishonored ii Game Director Harvey Smith stated that it has pieces of both idTech 5 &half dozen, but ultimately Void engine has been rewritten for most 90% of its code.

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The Dishonored 2 Game Manager and so stressed multiple times, as you tin encounter below, that functioning in this game is too taken up by other departments than simply graphics. Yet, on this topic we take to say that there are many games nowadays featuring not-linear levels and fifty-fifty far bigger worlds than Dishonored 2 without any such performance bug, so it's non actually an excuse.

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Still, while the situation is not platonic on PC right at present it'south worth pointing out that the underlying game is fantastic and a worthy successor to the first Dishonored. Hopefully, Arkane and Bethesda tin can quickly solve the virtually pressing issues causing disappointing performance and when that happens Dishonored 2 will exist an easy recommendation to any gamer.