SE2 - a perspective from someone with close to "minimum specs"
By "minimum", I mean a 1660Ti and a Ryzen 5 2600, both of which are about 5-6 years old now.
If you've got a similar setup and you're on the fence because you're concerned the game won't run very well... just do it. I'm running on "Medium" preset and it looks amazing and is unbelievably smooth.
The only thing I can surmise is that Keen have:
- Mastered witchcraft;
- Harnessed the power of some alien technology;
- Found a line of debug/tracing code in VRage that made everything run like a turd and fixed it for SE2, or;
- All of the above.
Seriously, I'm blown away by how much more polished the SE2 engine is and how well it performs (granted there is less complexity and a teeny tiny world, but the movement/physics are incredible).
So, if you're running a rig which is basically an overbaked potato with an HDMI port, give it a go anyway, you might be surprised.
I am itching for Survival mode to be released.