The game runs fine and it's really fun. This "controversy" really drives home for me how detached from reality online discourse often is
Case in point: I get 6-10 fps on a 7900XT with the default settings, 17 if I use the lowest preset, all while seeing around 55-ish percent system utilization.
Something is amiss here and the game is definitely not running fine for everyone.
As someone seeing this weird performance issue I wish both sides would focus less on screaming at each other and make it easier to figure out the root cause so everyone can enjoy the game.
It should be better optimized, but calling it "defective" does nothing but make people dismiss your comment.
runs alright for me, too. just alright, but for what it is that's fine.
however it's not really much better than the predecessor, and needs to give me a reason to give up on the HUGE mod community and well documented approaches from CS1.