Another Patch for RAGE on PC Coming Soon

Eewuhhh, I would be pretty irate if I had an awesome gaming PC, then that funky stuff happens.

Is this game even remotely fun? Even the videos of it working properly seem so "blah". Just seems like the most generic rehashed game of all time, with a car thrown in.

Rage= massive flop, the end.

I was thinking about getting rage when i heard about it, but after seeing how awful the textures are and how the developers seem to not care that oblivion with a few mods has better textures, I don't think ill get it until I can find it for less than $15.

This was bad planning. I think some of the problem was that all the test machines they used had SSDs which wouldn't suffer from the same texture streaming problems. BTW first comment!

never mind fkin unreliable internet connection

Too late for a patch, the game is shit. Non-existent story, invisible walls, terrible problems upon launch, etc.

id, you really shot yourself in the foot here.

Thank you! I was starting to feel like I was the only one that was NOT pumped for this game before its realease. It looked like complete crap! Glad to know my "crap-game" spider senses are still working

I'd pick it up on Steam for $5-$10, by the time it drops to that price, it might be spiffy.

Yes it is actually a fun game, it's just that it's had such a marred release.

I've only finished the first few missions / few hours because I figured I'd wait for the patches to come out before really digging into it.

Once the glitches are sorted out it will be a great game, though id software really dropped the ball on the PC version at release time. It's like they paid little to no specific attention for the PC, which is shocking and disappointing especially from id software.

To make it worse I don't buy their claims of blaming drivers for pretty much everything and then releasing patches, after all didn't they need drivers to test the game on the PC before release, or did they just skip that part. Also all this talking they're supposedly doing with the driver vendors should have been done before release if there were problems. If the game does present new problems for drivers you can hardly expect updated drivers to come out before the vendors have had time to test, update, retest etc. It's all 100% id software's fault.

Good game, but id failed in a truly epic fashion with the PC release and their attitude about both that and the PC in general doesn't make me want to be very sympathetic.

Great game or not, it is the last one I buy from id purely because it's an "id" game.

I would like to file an internet motion to change the commonly used phrase from "epic fail" to "rage fail"

i was waiting for about 20 seconds for the texture to load on the pic above.

Bordershock. :V
Scooter looks really different in Rage.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20323786/Cars.jpg

How's the AI up to this point? 1 guy shoots from cover, and alternates between popping out of cover either high or low, and the guy charges you in a zig-zag pattern. Repeat. Repeat. How many enemy combatants ever attacked you all at the same time? 2-3?

I'm just asking... following up on some comments I heard/came across.

This is a GREAT GAME. after the first patch and the the updated catalyst beta drivers, Rage runs absolutely smooth for me. Though it is lacking in story, it makes up for it with much diversity. As a shooter its very smooth and very fun to play. The few mini games are pretty good too. I've been sitting in my chair for hours trying to perfect the the knife/finger minigame. I get beat at round 5. The card game is nice as well. The car racing/shooter experience is simply awesome, and adds to the depth of gameplay. The graphics are equivelant to most directx 10 games but with much higher frates. Its unfortunate that so many others are having difficulty running this game, but for me this game runs almost flawless.

... no freeroam after ending... sad... and too short... but very beautiful...

id mande the game not brethersta, which roaly fd oblivion for the consoles, look at early pc only ai demos.




if you like shooters, this is by FAR the best one you can get, as the ai is that good.




not everyone had problems with the game on the pc when it was launched, amd seams to have suffered the most, but even than many people had no problems at all.

giving the game a patch to help the people who drivers had nothing to do with it is a nice little gesture.




the ai id different on different difficulties, from what i underatand, easy is... well... bad. normal shows you what the ai can do, and not sure about the higher difficulties, because i dodnt keep up with talk post launch. the girst few hours of the game are said to be kind of a grind, with mixed impressions, some love it some hate it, but once you are out of that, people generally praise the game.

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all that said, i want a game to come out, that had 5 graphical settings, 1 for low end, one for mid, one for high, one for dual card high, and one as a higher than that joke. as in you pick the highest one, the graphics are broken to the point its worse than the low end, but eats the crap out of system resources, with an ongoing joke of patching the game to make the 4 low end look better on less resources, but the highest end fixes one aspect but completely breaks another, just to screw with everyone who has to have the best of the best or its crap.

My drivers aren't even up to date and I haven't run into any bugs...
The only problem this game seems to have is that delayed texture loading BS.

The Ai isn't bad, their decently elusive. I'm on hard and these guys pull acrobatic shit everytime they spot me...

I also forgot to mention...
Don't these dupes even bother installing their bloody games on a PC that "isn't" configured to their specifics just to see wtf happens???
Just a thought, since this "Bicubic-upsample" seems to be the largest fail that a game was completely built upon I've ever seen...

I got Rage about 4 days after release, I'm not a huge shooter fan but mostly enjoyed it. In the past Carmack and id have been very community minded and I wanted to support them.
As far as the game, I put in the Catalyst preview driver for Rage and it worked fine on my 5850. I upgraded to a GTX580 recently and it worked excellent on that as well w/o any preview drivers.
Over all the game really did look beautiful, ran super nice too. Used about 40% of my 580 most of the time, constant 60fps. A few ugly textures, but I only remember seeing a couple that really bothered me.
Wish they would mega-texture a more appealing world than a desert wasteland though... that's id for ya.

This game is a big, big letdown for me. The game starts out fine, I played it fine, no major beef with it. But, it's just too short!!!

I mean, what the hell, the final mission was utter crap!!! It just ends, abruptly, making me feel very frustrated for investing time into it. The story seemed like it was just unfolding, and then poof it ends.

The game was fun to play but needed to be more in depth an was far far to short..... id/bethesda spokesperson says 15hrs playtime for main story. BAH, finished it in less than 7hrs. what a joke for such a massive game.
Also it was to linear, needed to be more oblivion like, free roam an explore pretty much whatever you can see.....

for people that havent played it...... PLS dont bother. wait till its dirt cheap. GET SKYRIM!!!!

Battlefield 3 overshadowed this. I pre-ordered mine. Rage? nvm about it I can skip this and live without it.

kudos to your opinion dude , i want to ask who the hell gave you thumbs down just for stating your opinion. I for one compeltelya gree with you every thign i've seen on this game just makes me yawn and "been there done that" , people should NOT give thumbs down to people's legitemate opinions , it's not like you came on and blasted the game or the game developers themselves.

two things the world never lacks though .. opinions and assholes.

any way i gave you thumbs up to help negate the BS thumbs down some ass hat gave you cheers!

i actually played this game (texures work just fone for me), and i still dont like it at all...

I hope doom4 look better (not borderlands style at least plz).

Yeah, saying it's drivers fault is absurd. Didn't they test the game before releasing it? I'm seeing here a half done console port. A real bad one.

I hope they do better when they port the game to GNU/Linux.

I have an ATI card.... i had to use the new beta ati drivers only to find that the problems persisted. Game totally unplayble due to a nasty bug that would simply pause the game for several seconds every several seconds... Did some search on google and of course some people had already found the solution....

You need to start the game with a specific command... then it runs well. Well most of the time.... ID and Carmack had to work closer with ATI to improve his game driver rather than go out and accuse both NVIDIA and ATI for poor driver updates. Problem was solved by altering its own exe file.

There is also a new config file that the user can create on his own to make some of the game textures very sharp.. SOME, not all.

The graphics in the game are really not that bad but they are nothing spectacular.... anyone who claims this type of game engine is the best in the market needs a brain overhaul. It is not CRYSIS 2 engine and it definitely not is DEAD ISLAND (chrome 5) engine ... if you have played dead island on max setting you will understand. The game has nice rock textures ..... what else hmmm. The game will run very smooth as well, but that is another thing. YOu need to take into account there is little open world to render as most of the game runs through narrow canyons.

Game is too linear. The story is too simple. The overal game (all side quests included/all races done) is less than 20 hours on easy mode. But in all honesty, a game that is so shallow and has no repeatable value, does not easily convince a player to replay the game on another difficulty level.

I warn everyone that the game has NOTHING to do with Fallout phiilosophy and open world and it has NOTHING to do again with the masterpiece i call Borderlands. Bordelands had this awesome replay value that is not easily found in games. RAGE has no rpg elements other than modying some of your vehicles... that was fun though.

I still have to comment positively for the really nice textures and graphics on the characters in the game as well the very precise mouth/lip sync when the characters talk.... that was really good.

Overall, it was a bit fun ( for those 20 hours i played it in total) to play as a game, it is suitable for those who like simple fps games without having to gather things, do zillions of quests etc and for those that will not grudge spending 39 euros to get a game that will last that ridiculously short. ( i have invested around 60 hours of gameplay on dead island and i am still at 58% of the main plot)

When you're down in the sewers actually doing the shooting and killing, the game is pretty slick. Plinking a heavy in his helmet with a pistol will knock his vision around and running up on the same dude with a 12gauge will completely take his nugget off.

The two player co-op missions are alright. They're fun to blast through but I really wished there was a proper campaign co-op. The other MP modes suck.

And pretty much everything else about the game sucks. The writing is horrible, the graphics are a mixed bag, it's totally linear, and there's 0 character progression to keep you invested.

Wait for a $10 Steam sale.

The main reason I only buy games six months after launch...second reason is they're usually less than half price by then.

I actually really enjoyed this game. It was a big departure from the type of shooters normally available right now. The action was generally really good, especially fighting mutants. One of the coolest things is being able to craft all kinds of things, and particularily the different ammo types that besides the pistol always gave the weapons totally new abilities.

It wasn't particularily hard, though. I died only around 4 times on Nightmare difficulty, and it took 14hrs 30mins to beat (which is actually awesome for a shooter, I can beat Metro 2033 in half that time).

Rage needs to get a QA department.

Id Software has had two flops so far...they are done. Duke sucked...Rage sucks.