Having launched the game on release: oh god it looks like ♥♥♥♥. I have a 4070ti and a Ryzen 7 5800x on a new build and the game on high. The textures, especially the foliage, switch back and forth to low poly versions right in front of my unmoving camera. Shadows flicker incessantly and there is screen tearing. It legitimately looks worse than CS:1 right now. I'm not sure what build the streamers are playing but my game sure doesn't look like theirs. Not only that but I already get frame drops on a nearly empty city. I don't want to hate, I have 800 hours is CS:1 and was looking forward to this, but I'm not going to be touching this for a couple months while they sort it out. Half of the fun of these are enjoying the aesthetics of your city. You can't do that right now.

Don't buy until they fix it.

Having launched the game on release: oh god it looks like shit. I have a 4070ti and a Ryzen 7 5800x on a new build and the game on high. The textures, especially the foliage, switch back and forth to low poly versions right in front of my unmoving camera. Shadows flicker incessantly and there is screen tearing. It legitimately looks worse than CS:1 right now. I'm not sure what build the streamers are playing but my game sure doesn't look like theirs. Not only that but I already get frame drops on a nearly empty city. I don't want to hate, I have 800 hours is CS:1 and was looking forward to this, but I'm not going to be touching this for a couple months while they sort it out. Half of the fun of these are enjoying the aesthetics of your city. You can't do that right now. Don't buy until they fix it.