La Quimera was meant to come out on April 25th. However, at the last minute, Reburn decided to delay it. And today, the devs have released the game on Steam as an Early Access title.
For what it’s worth, La Quimera was meant to come out as a full game. It was never planned as an Early Access release. I don’t know what happened and why the devs decided to release it in Early Access. Perhaps its reviews were not that great? Perhaps it needed one more year of development? Or perhaps they need more money to finish it?
As I mentioned previously, the review code was kind of a mess. Its graphics were nowhere close to the game’s promo screenshots. The promo screenshots showcased a game that could compete with a lot of modern-day titles. In reality, La Quimera looks like an old-gen game. It looks bad. I don’t know whether the devs will be able to improve the graphics. Right now, though, this is a really underwhelming-looking game.
Not only that, but for some strange reason, the game was constantly using all of the cores of my AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Normally, this would be a good thing. However, no matter what the resolution you use, the CPU was always maxed out. Even when I paired the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with the NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti, the game was still using the CPU at 100%. That was even at 4K/Epic Settings where I was GPU-bound. I seriously don’t know what the hell the game is doing, and why it’s hammering all the cores of the CPU.
In my previous article, I said that I was glad the devs delayed the game. But now, I’m not on board with this Early Access release. After all, I was never a fan of Early Access games. I can understand why the devs have done it. However, as a customer, I’ll never purchase an Early Access game.
The good news here is that La Quimera was never available for pre-order. So, you can’t say that this is a scam. Again, the game was never available for pre-order. Not only that, but it comes at a somewhat low price (29.99 euros).
To be honest, I suggest waiting until the game leaves Early Access. That, or you should temper your expectations. This isn’t anything close to the quality of Crysis, Killzone or STALKER. At least in its current state!
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the trailer is like you told an ai to mix metro 2033 with call of duty, but specifically the first game and some game from 7 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrl55wJBMM
unlaunching the game after bad reviews and relaunching into early is hilarious. Im split on Early Access/Early Purchase because you do occasionally have some projects that make good on their pitches like Pillars of Eternity, Baldur's Gate 3 and Hades 2 but then you have thousands of garbage fires and disappointments. I dont think this will be exceptional and for $30 its a crazy ask for the state that its in from the gameplay, visuals and how dry some of the npcs are.
Is it like the first Metro game?
It's nowhere near. It's more like Futuristic Call of Duty.
Those are the more worse ex-4A devs.
The better devs are still in 4A.
Not a scam cause it didn't take pre-orders? Early access is just another sort of scam, with Star Citizen being a fine example.
People have been calling it a scam, even though it wasn't available for pre-order. How was it a scam when the devs weren't taking your money? Now, you can buy and play it as an EA game. Again, not a scam as there is a game you can play. Whether it's good, bad, mediocre, or unfinished, it's a COMPLETELY different story.
PS: And as I said multiple times, DON'T BUY EA GAMES. Don't also donate on Kickstarter for games. Buy the full games whenever they come out. As simple as that.
I largely agree with you but technically it would be a "rip-off" in this and those cases and not explicitly a scam.
People have been calling it a scam, even though it wasn't available for pre-order. How was it a scam when the devs weren't taking your money? Now, you can buy and play it as an EA game. Again, not a scam as there is a game you can play. Whether it's good, bad, mediocre, or unfinished, it's a COMPLETELY different story.
PS: And as I said multiple times, DON'T BUY EA GAMES. Don't also donate on Kickstarter for games. Buy the full games whenever they come out. As simple as that.
A game being playable doesn’t automatically mean it’s not a scam, it just means it technically works. But if it deceives players through misleading marketing, unfinished content, or false promises, it is legally considered a scam.
Up to this point, the developers had promised a finished product with next-gen visuals. Instead, we got an early access game with old-gen visuals. If that’s not a scam, I don’t know what is.
Misleading is the word you're looking for, not scam 😉
Check Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices – Directive 2005/29/EC under EU law.
You can give money for EA or Kickstarter if you want but it's entirely on your own and you're the only responsible for this, the dev doesn't take your money without consent, if you're scammed in the end, that's entirely your fault.
I noted a negative was no automatic health regen, you have to use med packs. I'd put that a positive?
Guess they saw Expedition 33 coming out so polished while being developed by a small team and realized they couldn't launch a broken game.
They're giving themselves another 18 months of early access, besides whatever amount of time post release for patches.
It's gonna be a while.
The game is using Always Online DRM… Poor devs didn't even included that info on game store page, which is against Valve ToS btw.