5/10/2023 0 Comments Serious sam 4 twitter![]() In classic Serious Sam, fashion Serious Sam 4 has no restrictions on framerate, which means, if your PC can support it, you can play with 150 frames-per-second. Exploring the level environments is very important since each level contains a maximum of 10 secrets that range from skill points, weapons, accessories and more. The chaos really begins at the mid-game, once the arsenal of weapons has become available. This system was created specifically for Serious Sam 4and allows for massive amounts of enemies on-screen at once, in frantic, fernetic, wave-based combat. Mixing all of these classic concepts with a new element called the Legion System. The core of Serious Sam 4 resides in, what is true in every Serious Sam game, the enemies, battles, weapons and music. While this prequel of Serious Sam 3: BFE was slightly delayed, it’s now possible to buy, download and play what may be the best Serious Sam game yet. The Serious Sam saga has been known for being comparable to Doom,while featuring an admirable use of humor, albeit a bit forced and repeated. MonsterVine was supplied with a Steam code for review Serious Sam 4 is a finished game that you will be able to enjoy without worrying about any Serious bugs (did you catch that?).When the evil prevails, Sam will be there to balance the situation. Other than some performance issues, I didn’t encounter any game-breaking bugs. Changing Serious Sam 4’s API doesn’t restart the game, so kudos to the developers for figuring that out. There is also a DX12 option if you are interested. With Vulkan, I was experiencing screen tearing, so I went back to DX11. However, you can change your API to Vulkan for a 10FPS boost. A day one update seems to have addressed some of the performance issues, but can still be an issue on certain missions. Reducing the graphics setting helped a little bit on these levels, but not by much. It’s also weird that a level where there are 100,000 enemies does not affect performance, but a random normal mission will tank your framerate. This is a big problem in a fast-paced shooter. In one particular level, my framerate went as low as the high 20s. There were some specific parts in some levels where my framerate would tank to 50 or even into the 40s. Unfortunately, it wasn’t always like that. There could be 200+ enemies on screen and I was still able to play without lag or stuttering. For the most part, I was able to play with 70FPS, and the number of enemies on screen didn’t affect my framerate at all. From my experience, optimization is a mixed bag. My hardware felt a little short of the recommended system requirements. I played Serious Sam 4 on a mid-range PC with an i5 9600k paired with a GTX 1070 and 16GB of RAM. I can’t thank the developers enough for bringing back some of the original Serious Sam tracks to rock out to. The soundtrack greatly compliments the situation you are currently in. The music then ramps up when you are fighting aliens. ![]() When you are exploring, the music is slow and sets the mood just right. I honestly wouldn’t have been able to fight so many aliens if it wasn’t for the music. The music of Serious Sam 4 is much better than I initially expected. ![]() SS4 had some big shoes to fill here, and it did the job amazingly. I remember listening to The Grand Cathedral (Corridor of Death) as a child continuously. The music of the original Serious Sam games was downright phenomenal. I didn’t expect this from a Serious Sam game, however, I appreciate that it’s there, Kudos to Croteam for this. The map design was massive and stretched to three to four kilometers. There is one particular level where I spent more time exploring the map than actually doing the mission.
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