Their FAR (Fix Automata Resolution) mod ups Nier Automata's resolution from upscaled 900p to 1080p, and increases frame rate up to 60fps, thanks to some clever optimisation of various graphical effects. Well, we say "enjoying" - there's a significant overlap between people who pirate games and people who want their PC gaming to be absolutely top notch (amusingly, they never seem to see the tension between these two positions) and it must be said the PC port of Nier Automata does not exactly knock it out of the park.Įnter Kaldaien, a well-respected modder who seems to delight in taking substandard PC offerings and polishing them up. Nier Automata uses Denuvo DRM on PC, but that's been well and truly cracked so plenty of people are enjoying the game on PC without paying a cent for the privilege. Talking to PC Gamer's Andy Kelly about Nier earlier, he mentioned looking out over the city and seeing one skyscraper collapsed against the other, as though it was tired of the world.A Nier Automata mod has made a lot of people hilariously mad. It's not concerned 'world building', which implies an attempt to create a plausible working society, instead it wants to use its world to put the player into a particular headspace where its themes resonate more effectively. Nier is more of a mood piece than a world. On a surface level you're killing hundreds of machines with cool swords and defeating waves of enemies in bullet-hell bits, but all of it underscored by a deep sense of sadness. In a particularly on-the-nose moment you meet a robot called Jean Paul who wonders what any of it really means. Huge machines burst out of the earth, like freak weather events that pointlessly kill other machines. Though much of what the NPCs have to say is banal, they're offering you short stories of struggle and, frequently, failure. As you explore you passively absorb cues-music, scraps of dialogue, short stories-that collectively have a suggestive effect. In an abandoned theme park another machine straps dead androids to itself in an attempt to recapture an operatic vision of beauty. In the heart of an abandoned housing district the machines are trying to have sex while some tend to heaps of spare parts in prams. They have formed small societies that crudely mimic human behaviour. It's quickly obvious, when they start screaming in fear at your arrival, that the machines have gained a degree of sentience. In Nier you play an android, dispatched by android high command to destroy the little rust-coloured machines that have taken over the planet. At the same time, it is a game that explores existentialism, nihilism, and other big isms in a despairing vision of a world that has lost humanity and cannot move on. It is also a game about androids smashing hundreds of squat machines with samurai swords. Nier: Automata is a game about white-haired Ken dolls plotting their ascension while a colony of surviving humans hides on the moon.
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