Is it this broken on PC? Would it run OK-ish on a 4070? :\
This is one of those games that in my friend circle either had people with zero issues and generally smooth performance (outside of the sad expectations these days of shader comp stutter) or who just kept getting the most annoying bugs and crashes.
For the record, I had only 1 major issue (raytracing) and it's currently my GOTY (7600x / 4080 @ 4K). I played at launch for a total of about 60-70 hours and only had a couple of repeatable crashes at the exact same scripted sequence that were being caused by raytracing and only very mild bugs, outside of that nothing. Performance was not where I wanted it to be, but it was still very playable and even the shader stutter didn't really bother me. I think my biggest issue was probably the lack of DLSS and the buggy implementation of Ray Tracing. FSR2 is still just not quite there, but I did play a decent amount with it on in the more performance heavy areas and the experience was tolerable even as an IQ snob, but there really were some areas of the game where no matter what other settings I had on if I had ray tracing enabled I was 100% going to crash (a particularly sandy on rails mounted section comes to mind) which is a shame as I really think RT makes a pretty decent improvement to the way the game looks.
(Do note that I do think some of my experience is tinted with the rose coloured glasses of being a High Republic era dork who this game catered to, to a T - but even taking that into account I was expecting a lot worse in terms of experience than what I ended up dealing with.)
On the other hand I had friends at launch crashing every couple of hours, quest breaking bugs, one had their save corrupted a few hours in, general severe stutter and culling issues etc etc. Whilst I am glad I had basically zero issues, it really released in a unacceptable state and I'm glad most of my friends who were having such severe issues were playing via EA PlayPro and didn't shell out 100AUD for the experience of getting kicked in the teeth. It's really odd, I only know a single person that experienced 'moderate bugginess and performance issues', everyone else was either smooth sailing or absolutely hating existence - take that for what you will.
There has been several patches which have made things better, but there is still a tonne of work to do on the game so it really will be a YMMV situation if you decide to pick it up. Roll the dice and hope you don't snake eyes, or just leave it to hopefully cook for as long as Respawn want's to support it.
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