As promised, Bethesda has released a free trial for Dishonored 2 on Steam. According to the publisher, this free trial will allow players to dive into the first three missions of the campaign as either Empress Emily Kaldwin or the royal protector, Corvo Attano.
Players that decide to upgrade to the full game during or after the free trial will be able to keep all of the saves made during the trial, and can continue enjoying Dishonored 2’s campaign from where they left off.
Dishonored 2 is set 15 years after the Lord Regent has been vanquished and the dreaded Rat Plague has passed into history. As Emily or Corvo, players will travel beyond the legendary streets of Dunwall to Karnaca, the once-dazzling coastal city that holds the keys to restoring Emily to power.
Those interested can download this free trial for Dishonored 2 via its Steam store page.
Have fun!
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Even with Denuvo, Sales are catastrophic ??? So a free trial to encourage gamers to buy this game !!!
because piracy isnt the problem, crappy pc versions are. Why buy dishonored 2 when you can buy so many other games for a lower price?
On the one hand it is good to see demos, but on the other hand recently only the biggest failures in history and half finished games are adding them… Which doesn’t make much sense because they are demos by themselves, so in fact they are adding free demo of a paid demo of half finished product.
This is indeed becoming a trend.
Anyone knows if the “worst performance” sections of the game can be experimented on those three missions?
Realise you top end system runs Dishonored 2 like a 486dx2! Flicker through the first three levels totally free!
Apparently it’s still suffering issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOy8DBgd4hI&t
Downloading it now so to experience a demo of the dev’s incompetence rather than paying to experience the dev’s incompetence!
I think they’ve given up at this point and have most of their team working on the eventual disaster that is Prey.
They talked big about prey being the “best it can be” on PC, so we’ll see how they handle that fall next month.
Oh well, that’s some money saved from not buying it then. To buy woefully optimised games is to encourage more woefully optimised games to be released so I won’t be buying it or, if I do, then it’ll be for peanuts from a game key site one day.
Considering that the first Dishonored ran butter-smooth on even a potato PC back in 2012 it makes the sequel’s abysmal performance all the more shocking.
It shows that back then, current gen was nearing it’s end, but come this gen, they somehow managed to screw things up big time. THey had damn well better release a well optimized Prey, otherwise it’s their rep that bites the dust.
I’m guessing if they don’t bother to fix it. Then perhaps wait for a few more gfx card generations, to bulldoze through it.
ok just tried on my pc i can say there is some small stuttering but the my framerate is pretty high all maxed out ultra 1080p(only shadow at very high) and its a flawless 60 fps with a very small framepacing issue and i thought it would be worse than arkham city but this run much much better
my pc
i7 3770k 4.3ghz
16gb ram ddr3 2400mhz
980ti g1 1450mhz core clock 7700mhz memory(oc)
game installed on SSD
anyway im grabbing it it runs decently enough for me
Tried it out. Lots of microstutter (framepacing related from the looks of it?) no matter the settings (despite avg fps being high). No combination of syncing/fps capping/view mode or any of the other homemade remedies are working for me (I’ve not worked through them all, but I’ve spent more time messing with it than I am happy to do so).
So, yeah, gonna give this one a pass. I want to enjoy it, but the stutter issue is so persistent that I just can’t surmount it. And what’s worse is there’s not even a decent console version either. There’s just no way to play it and get a stable experience.
Thank you so much for the info!