
Publisher: Crystal Dynamics


SteamVR support is now available for the “Blood Ties” story chapter from Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration!
HTC Vive and Oculus Rift owners can now experience the “Blood Ties” single-player story chapter through the eyes of Lara Croft on SteamVR. If you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the halls of Croft Manor, VR is the ultimate way to do so. SteamVR allows you to stand in the Manor’s main hall, explore Lord Croft’s office, and discover memories long thought lost in the lower basement levels of the home of Lara’s youth. Explore Lara’s childhood home in VR and uncover a Croft family mystery that will change her life forever.
The SteamVR update is free and available now. The “Blood Ties” story chapter is included with Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 year Celebration. Owners of Rise of the Tomb Raider standard edition can purchase the standalone version of Blood Ties, which is included in the 20 Year Celebration pack DLC, or purchase the season pass.



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“The best kind of action game.” - Game Revolution
“Rise of the Tomb Raider is a blast to play.” - Gaming Age
“Lara Croft is back, better than ever” - Gaming Trend
“Magnificent. Intelligent, beautiful, varied and huge” - GamesRadar

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The game has a minor stutter on scene loading but is otherwise perfectly playable and runs exceptionally well.

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IT WORKS EXCELLENT BUT HEATS TO 70 TO 80 AFTER 40 MIN BUT STILL NO LAG OR FRAME DROP 55 TO 60 FPS

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Bade M4 Mac Mini, game runs through Rosetta 2, detailed test results here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gFF2R1053RLDklrkUrJdmgSJGsgFV2-0cIG1dg-TLLQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

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This game performance is simultaneously impressive and frustrating.
First off it can run on this chip at near enough maxed settings at 2k and still stay above 60fps consistently. Considering top-end desktop gaming PCs struggled to run this on high settings when it released, that's incredibly impressive and serves as a strong M-chip benchmark.
That said, the game frame-pacing is simply horrible. I cannot reasonably grade it any higher the way it currently plays. Yes it's playable but it's not fun to play.
I've tested it and the fps and graphical settings barely matter. I set to lowest graphical option and stuck it on 1080p and what do you know, at 160fps and little to no demand on the system it still has the same jittery, laggy frame pacing. It's so bad the mouse input lag is often noticeable.
So yeah, does it looks phenomenal? You bet. Do I want to play it? Nope.
I'm hoping this is because of the Tahoe upgrade I saw others posting that some of their games now get bad frame pacing. Can only hope. This is also a great example why Mac desperately needs an FPS limiter of some kind, still haven't found a third party app that does it.