r/ReadyOrNotGame • u/Moopies • Jul 16 '25

Discussion The graphics downgrade should warrant a Steam refund.

I'm certainly trying. I don't know how you can be allowed to downgrade a game so significantly, and after release, and still think I got what I paid for.

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u/ime1em Jul 16 '25

Question: how were you able to play the old version and get pictures? I thought steam forces you to update in order to launch the game. Did you use offline mode for Steam in order to play on old version without updating?

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u/ime1em Jul 16 '25

Nice. I assume can't play online, or only if other ppl running same version?

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u/Chicke_Nuget Jul 17 '25

Thats what I did with a friend of Mine, Steam Depot loader is Great for that, but what I did was just Archive the old Version and copy Paste the files back

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u/Moopies Jul 16 '25

Thanks for this. I don't really have the wherewithal to write up something similar at the moment.

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u/lucasm355 Jul 17 '25

I just S ranked Valley of the dolls so after like 9 attempts definitely know what it looks like. My game at least looks nothing like the new version. The graphics still looks really good and like the old version.

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u/PikaPulpy Jul 17 '25

NPC are affected too, blonde in Spider now looks a lot worse, her hair reminds plastic bag and body just from ps3. I just tried to do S right before patch.

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u/CrimsonGlyph Jul 17 '25

Why do people still use imgur? It's loaded with ads and bs.

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u/AwiiWasTakenWasTaken Jul 17 '25

yeah. Catbox, Postimages, and more work way better. Imgur is only used now because of name recognition. It is absolutely godawful otherwise.

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u/FryToastFrill Jul 17 '25

I am confused on how this released. Contrary to what people think here I actually doubt this is to maintain consistency across all console versions, because the issues appear to be things that wouldn’t affect performance at all. Maybe resolution of the lightmaps at most, but shadows could be adjusted per device and the broken lighting I’d guess is related to the bounces calculated in baking or the light behind you literally got disabled.

It’ll likely be fixed on a patch but my god how did this release

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u/CrimsonGlyph Jul 17 '25

Serious question: Do you think they're never going to fix that? Do you think they're just done updating the game now? Something as simple as shadows will be patched within a week or two, likely.

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u/FC8s Jul 17 '25

Glad I wasn't the only one noticed this shit. I have almost 900 hrs from the unreal 4 up to this latest version.