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[PathOS]

Yeah, I don't think there was any widespread issues of Machine for Pigs having crippling game-crashing issues that I recall.

Obviously it ran slower than The Dark Descent, although I cannot be sure if it was a technical framerate issue or TheChineseRoom's preference for slow walking/running speeds (which they've continued to employ in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture to many headaches). But I replayed the game recently and aside from the slowness it technically was quite sound.

But since that game was mostly developed by TheChineseRoom to begin with then of course Frictional would defer to them for technical quality assurance since they are the ones who took the HPL2 engine and updated/modified it for their own uses. I mean that's the reason why there was no modding or custom story support in that game as well.

Obviously SOMA has been built using the new HPL3 engine by Frictional and will contain all the files for modding and such. So it's not going to be a remotely comparable situation to AMFP to begin with.