Bethesda and Epic Games are handing out The Evil Within 2 for free on the Epic Games Store. Starting today and lasting until November 2nd, you can head to its Epic Games Store page and grab your own free copy.
In The Evil Within 2, you’ll be playing as Detective Sebastian Castellanos once more. Sebastian will find himself in a super scary world, and he’ll need to survive by using weapons, traps, and sneaky moves.
This time, Sebastian’s mission is all about family. He’s on a quest to find his long-lost daughter, Lily, and he has to do it fast because the world is falling apart. Sebastian has to save Lily before everything crumbles, and they both get lost in STEM.
At its time of release, the game suffered from optimization issues. As we wrote in our PC Performance Analysis article, the game could not take full advantage of modern-day graphics cards. Since that was in 2017, we’ve seen more powerful CPUs hitting the market. Thus, my guess is that most modern-day PC systems will be able to brute force their way.
Something cool to know is that Bethesda added a first-person gameplay mode in this game. That means you can play The Evil Within 2 in two ways: from a third-person view and a first-person view.
If you’re interested, you can simply click here to grab your free copy.
Have fun!
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Great game, but PC optimization is a bit weird for this one. I found that using DXVK helped increase average FPS a bit and greatly reduce stuttering, but YMMV.
YMMV?
YMMV = Your mileage may vary. In other words, it improved my frame rates and frame times but it might not be the case for others.
DXVK definitely will improve performance & frametimes on NVIDIA’s 16/20 series and upwards.
But I’m not so sure about Radeon GPUs coupled with AMD’s Vulkan driver they are calling AMDVLK.
Especially both Polaris & Vega series already look like a lost cause, because AMD just dropped support for both of these, meaning no more new AMDVLK driver releases will work on these generations.
That is also true for Linux, however here AMDGPU users actually have it much better, because even the newest Vulkan release is still supported on anything starting with the original Tonga (R9 285) and up, all thanks to the Valve-funded open-source Vulkan driver named RADV.
Poor people are going to pirate it, what’s the point of theses giveaways?
It’s not like Indian scammers can sell them to make profit either.
Are you being dense or obtuse on purpose? The point is to try and convince people to use the Epic Game Store. Not sure how well they’re succeeding. I have a library of 349 games on EGS… haven’t bought a single one but there’s some I’ve played because I didn’t feel like buying them on Steam since i already had it on EGS. That said, they have a metric ton of improvements they need to make.
Did I ask for your opinion?
Nah, just like you we all spew our opinions freely here.
One hell of a great game. Really hope we see another soon!
Dumb boring game. Tried so hard to be a Silent Hill clone that ended up being nothing. Well, a bit of exaggeration here, but yeah, the game is bland af and the VO is almost ridiculous.
This is nothing like Silent Hill though, it’s a lot closer to action horror games like RE4.