Available for two days now, Mindseye meets a particularly chaotic launch. Faced with the rumble of the players, Build A Rocket Boy therefore decided to speak to take stock of the situation.
That’s it. After several weeks of relatively chaotic marketing, which were notably marked by A road trip very noticed on the part of one of the CEOs of the studio, MindsEye is now officially available. First title developed by Build A Rocket Boy, he was then particularly monitored due to the fact that one of his creators, Leslie Benzies, was once an eminent member from Rockstar Games. But unfortunately for him, this new GTA-like is far from meeting a success similar to that of his model.
Not surprisingly, the launch of Mindseye is chaotic
To tell the truth, as you would expect, it’s even rather the opposite. As proof, two days after its launch, Mindseye already displays more than 1,200 user assessments on Steam, and the observation is final: more than 40% of them are just average. On social networks, returns are then little more positive. Because if some do not fail to say that without being incredible either, the game is still entertaining, which is the most, it is above all the catastrophic state in which Mindseye is currently.
There is no longer the number of posts, on X as on Bluesky, which reports all more amazing – but sometimes funny – each other. Defective textures and lighting, NPCs that make anything, unstable framerate or even untimely crashs, the list is long. “It is the most scary bug that I have never seen since Assassin’s Creed Unity » For example, a user on X, showing the video of a Mindseye NPC who dislocates herself completely before his eyes after being hit by the player.
The result of the disaster is such that even the sponsored lives, however few, finally turned to vinegar. On Bluesky, the video of a streamer leaving for laughter when having to encourage players to buy, for example, to make the buzz. It must be said that for the latter, it is difficult to remain serious after having noticed the state of Mindseye live. Another streamer of the name of cohhcarnage, on the other hand, indicates that his sponsored live was simply canceled by the studio at the last minute to be postponed. It says a lot.
A new patch is approaching
In short, as much to say that we understand immediately better why no preview manette in hand had been organized for the press upstream of the release of the game. And even, more generally, why almost no media received a code to test it from Build A Rocket Boy. Again, a little like what had happened with the consoles versions of Cyberpunk 2077 In 2020, there are signs that do not deceive. This also explains why you always find no mindseye test in our columns at the time of these lines written.
For the good news, however, the studio announced yesterday that the launch of a third patch was in preparation. “We understand that the minimum species required is very high, but our team of engineers works hard to improve performance [de MindsEye] On mainstream hardwares and on consoles by integrating performance improvements in version 5.6 of Unreal Engine ” he said yesterday. “We will provide the Patch 3 calendar, which will include these improvements in the coming 24 hours”.
