>>715103776
>How does this happen?
Heavily downsampled, 1-bit shading, faking of transperency, and even re-construction of images from lower res, which is then dithered to poorly mimic smooth gradients.
All this is then supposed to be smudged into more solid-like (yet blurry) image by the modern cancer known as Temporal AA, which is like a fucking CRT filter that uses past frames' data to guess how the things should look.

Things are only made WORSE if you need to use the Upscalers, such as DLSS, FSR or XeSS, that essentially render the image at LOWER resolution, and then use various filters to scale it up to your screen res. It's meant to make things look less smudgy than the traditional bilinear upscaling, but it also introduces many new artifacts.

tl;dr: nu-devs cannot into 8-bit alpha masks and smooth shading that was already common stuff during the PS2 era.

>>715104026
Exp33 is literally an indie game that is FAR better optimized than the 80 dollar AAA shit, that had 80+ million dollar budget, and used the same engine.
It also does not use Pajeet asset store slop.