Cronos New Dawn

I can't tell you how frustrating this game is, so many bugs and runs terribly for what you get but that's more of the UE5 garbage which sadly is so many games now, they're spelling their own depression with UE5 imo

First of all the audio does NOT autoswitch. If you play it with headphones it WILL NOT auto switch to open speakers later unless you tweak which audio output in windows or in my case I HAD TO PLUG IN HEADPHONES THEN UNPLUG THEM to get it to switch to regular speakers. REEDICULOUS for a game in 2025 or any game. Lazy developers.

Another thing is crashes, I had to switch to a lower resolution and also delete a couple of engine.ini mods that help this derivative game run better to get past one encounter and it of course runs like axx without engine tweaks. I also had to put -dx11 after the shortcut to get it to progress. THEN LATER when I had to get a key from a basement to the shelter the enemy that is supposed to run out of it, breaking the door, DOES NOT break the door and is STUCK so there is NO WAY TO PROGRESS.

This game is a HORRIBLE waste of time, it's derivative AS F, of much better games like RE, Dead Space, Silent Hill and etc You wouldn't miss much not playing this game. I also wouldn't bother without a trainer to speed the walking the helup, and more.

 

I still have this repack and installed game but I've not been back to it after the bug that stopped me from progressing. It's derivative and just doesn't appeal to me much. Updating a yar copy is a pain as well, which would likely fix a few things including the bug I get. Eh I've moved on to silksong, dishonored 1 replay and also the surprisingly easy to get and play Android versions of hollow knight, silksong, and a few other pc games. I can even plug in my old xbox controller via cable to my phone and play natively controller which is much better then on screen controls.

Prob delete this game eventually when I want some space on my drives.

 

updated to 1.30 so we'll see if this bug is fixed or not, if not this is an immediate delete for me.

 

Getting back to this I've now deleted this game and the repack, trash. I successfully upgraded to 1.30 but it still didn't fix the bug where the creature can't break through the door in the basement to get the key! I've tried this on multiple versions now and I'm just done w this derivative game that takes way too many hw resources for what is shown.

Typical UE5 garbage, most UE5 games are for newer desktop systems with much more expensive cpu-gpu combos. So UE5 ASSUMES and really enforces the hardware cartels objectives, selling overpriced terribly value proposition stuff. It does NOT scale well at all, imagine baking in RT that essentially can't be turned off. You CAN disable the software RT in UE5 games but then you're missing a lot of stuff since there is NO raster fallback in this engine. Ridiculous.

Game also looks fairly awful for me, not even Fallout 4 level or just barely on par with it at my settings and I STILL get jet engine fans, terrible work by the devs and the engine sucks as I've said and most people know. Unless you're having a system that would cost 2500+ with RT and FG capabilities you're SOL with UE5. Only games that prob wouldn't give too many problems are less demanding ones and ones that the devs spend time on optimization, which is not the norm. They just say OH, JUST USE FrameGen to get your 60+ fps, at any settings and resolution!!!

Another major reason to sail the seas. Crap game though.