>>45424489Well, I'm about an hour into it currently, and while there have been noticeable stutters on opening the menu (especially in battles) it's running really smoothly overall. I also am using some mods for QoL purposes so that might be impacting some stuff.
On their site's dev blog they've apparently cracked the stuff that makes Essentials run like shit and have optimized it quite a bit.
I will say I like the atmosphere quite a bit, reminds me of the Orre games barring the whole 'everyone dies on the train at the start'. I'm not really feeling the difficulty. The fact you can practically handpick your team on a nuzlocke is nice though