Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun [Steam, GOG] is a very good tactical stealth game, it just got a whole lot better with a new beta patch too.
When going over various changelogs as usual, I came across one for Shadow Tactics (see here). It mentions "Major performance improvements" along with "Reduced mission loading times" and "Reduced saving and loading times". I honestly thought that the performance improvements would be really minor and likely be more tuned for the Windows version. I was wrong—very wrong.
The performance impact of this opt-in patch is staggering. Times when I was getting 30FPS while moving the camera, is now giving a solid 120FPS+ even while zoomed out. The performance, for me, has at least doubled in all cases across every level I tried. Absolutely amazing, I have no idea what they've done as I'm on the same settings and it looks as crisp and beautiful as ever.
On top of that, they really did work on loading time which has also been dramatically reduced. Before, I could probably pop downstairs and grab a biscuit before it loaded a level, now it's mere seconds before it's ready.
I'm extremely impressed with the post-release effort Mimimi Productions has put in with Shadow Tactics. I already enjoyed the game and I did recommend it when I initially covered the release at the start of 2017, now it's a very clear and solid recommendation.
I'm sure once the patch is stable and released properly on Steam, it will also make its way to GOG too. For now, if you wish to test it, simply opt-in to the "patch-preview" branch on Steam.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Schattenspiegel Apr 2, 2018
Quoting: ArehandoroYeah, that work's although missing out on the story isn't a big let down :/390.48 does not change it for me
I'm also running on 390.42, will wait to 390.48 and see what happens.
But it's only the 5 short "movie" cutscenes you miss out on with -skipmovies and someone was nice enough to put them on youtube it seems.
Arehandoro Apr 3, 2018
Quoting: SchattenspiegelQuoting: ArehandoroYeah, that work's although missing out on the story isn't a big let down :/390.48 does not change it for me
I'm also running on 390.42, will wait to 390.48 and see what happens.
But it's only the 5 short "movie" cutscenes you miss out on with -skipmovies and someone was nice enough to put them on youtube it seems.
Cool thanks :_)
lucifertdark Apr 18, 2018
Quoting: PatolaI know I am a little late to comment on this game, but it is on sale on GOG and I just stumbled upon a very deep article about is development and how the developers nearly went bankrupt: Postmortem: Mimimi's Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. It also explains why there are no DLCs for the game.I highly recommend anyone who hasn't bought the game to get on it right away, it's definitely worth every penny even at full price.
Very good read, I highly recommend to anyone involved in the gaming industry.
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