Hatred Is The First AO Rated Title to Be Sold via Steam, System Requirements Revealed | DSOGaming

Some questions arose as to whether Steam would still carry Destructive Creation’s Hatred after the ESRB rated it AO, or Adults Only, it appears we may now have an answer. The game’s Steam page went up and even includes mention of its AO rating on the right hand side.

What’s particularly interesting about this is Steam has long avoided carrying AO titles. Most notably Manhunt 2, also rated AO. Steam does carry the first Manhunt, only rated M (Mature) by the ESRB. Does the release of Hatred indicate Valve may be considering allowing AO content? Or at least AO content on a case-by-case basis? Tough to say. We’ve reached out to Valve for comment regarding any change in policy.

The page also includes the specs, I’m unsure if they were available before but at the very least we’ve never posted them.

System Requirements

MINIMUM:

OS: Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / (64-bit only)

Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-750 or 3.2 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 955

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM)

DirectX: Version 11

Hard Drive: 8 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX-compatible

RECOMMENDED:

OS: Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / (64-bit only)

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-2400S or 4.0 GHz AMD FX-8350 or better

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon R9 290X or better (2 GB VRAM)

Hard Drive: 8 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX-compatible

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Psionicinversion

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon R9 290X or better (2 GB VRAM)

what have these guys lost there minds lmfao…. pretty sure a dual core 4GB ram and a GPU from the stone age can run it
- Schiller
  
  Doubt it. It’s still an UE4 game with hardware hungry effects, physics whatsoever. High specs doesn’t always just mean glorious high res textures.
  - Psionicinversion
    
    how did they go from a 5850 to a 290x. a 290x destroys a 680 so it doesnt make any sense
    - Schiller
      
      It doesn’t make any sense because those specs are not final, at least that’s what one of the devs said in the steam discussions section.
      - Psionicinversion
        
        its not going to take a 290x thats a f’ing joke. Its an isometric top down shooter theres nothing graphically heavy in it. Just because it uses UE4 means nothing. UE doesnt automatically make your textures 4K when you feed it 1K textures. It will be able to run on much lower hardware
- xblastx
  
  Im pretty sure that’s if you also want PhysX destruction enabled. That sht is more resource hungry then UE4 itself.
  - Psionicinversion
    
    im pretty sure my i7 can handle whatever it throws at it. Trust me it wont require that amount. Every time a game launches with ridiculous hardware requirements (apart from AC Unity) its always been a lie and be run on lesser hardware.
    - djghost1133
      
      Your i7 wont be able to process physx NEARLY as well as a gpu would. Believe me, i’ve tried.
      - Psionicinversion
        
        yeah becuase phsc isnt direct compute but still.. that game wont be suing anything to heavy
  - Mafioso
    
    Yeah minimum requirements would be with PhysX disabled and recommended with PhysX enabled. Pretty straight forward really.
Primey_

A 290X rivals the 970 so why do they recommend a 680. Jeez. Even indie devs are getting in on the bloated requirements like AAA devs are.
- conyo985
  
  Don’t forget the 2GB VRAM. I know that’s the recommended amount but some might wonder if there’s 290X that has 2GB VRAM? Another fail system requirements.
kostas

I will buy it day one.
- ArchnophobiA
  
  from RLSLOG.
CervixCreampier

What exactly does this game have that requires a gtx680?
- xblastx
  
  You live under a rock? it’s called PhysX aka the hungry resource hog. Reason why DICE said it will never be utilized in their games over Havok. It eats up system resources and it tends to fk up the performance of alot of games using it.
  - insum snoy
    
    Actually it is generally the enhanced PhysX effects that demand performance in games and those settings tend to be aimed at enthusiasts. They also come with the standard “off/on” option too.
    
    Standard PhysX runs as well if not better than Havok and is a rather cheap and more widely (than Havok) supported middle-ware for implementing physics into your games.
Rayden02

😀
- durka durka
  
  GO GO PUT THE SAME TAG.
  
  Lets troll steam a bit.
  - MB.Mephisto
    
    Needs Problem Solving in there. Murder is a form of problem solving from the murderers prospective.
ArtGlu

Recommended: Nvidia GT 620m or AMD 290x 8GB (2GB VRAM).
durka durka

Are you kidding me those requirments are crazy high for this game.
- Mafioso
  
  This is an 64-bit only game on the Unreal Engine 4 game with Nvidia PhysX. Mate even my 3 year old rig can run this game.
  - durka durka
    
    It is a arcade game it shouldnt need such a powerful cpu and your “3 year old rig” comment is stupid, a 3 year old rig isnt garbage, there are people maxing out new games iwht older system.
FlameWater

you know the government’s gonna keep track of people playing this
- xblastx
  
  lol!
ArchnophobiA

System Requirements??? THIS IS Bull5#!7. If Limbo out in this era we are going to see the same Insanity.
- Martin
  
  Are you comparing Limbo to this? O.o
Nick G.

Very good.
Mafioso

Already pre-ordered on their own site, They said steam keys will be sent out next week.
Greendolf

I’m actually surprised for seeing this kind of game with nowadays technology, usually devs use the excuse “muh oldschool” to do lazy graphics and stuff.
Foxiol

If you have a bad day…just play this game. 😉
Jo Nandar

why AO rating??? how much is gore and sex in this game??
MB.Mephisto

Hopefully someone mods children in it. They deserve to die too, discriminating against age.

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