So firstly I'd like to preface this by saying that the game releasing without any sort of graphical options is a pretty big oversight and it likely would've helped with the following issue, but I didn't have too many framerate issues previously so I didn't think it was worth noting. Now, as for the topic of the post:
I got to the first Rebuttal Showdown and up until then the game was running pretty alright - however, the moment the minigame starts, the game slows down heavilly, from a steady 50-60 FPS to a very noticeable 20 - the nonstop debates barely had any framerate issues, if any. And if that wasn't enough of a problem, the minigame is basically impossible to beat even with the lowest difficulty settings - my slashes have insane cooldown and input latency, with a solid second of input latency + another solid 3 seconds of cooldown, and the slashes do absolutely no damage - whatever statements they hit, do not break. Not a single statement breaks, even when I'm somehow able to sneak in three slashes. So, as you can imagine, if the slashes have such extreme delay and I have absolutely no means of advancing in the minigame, the minigame is absolutely impossible to beat, and I am completely stuck.
I was extremely excited to play the game after getting home from a long day, so to find out that the game is impossible to beat because of performance issues on a computer that runs Alien Isolation on max graphic fidelity like it's running Notepad is very disappointing to say the least. It also makes me wonder why the game released without a low-spec version, seeing as the prologue had one.
Either way, I sincerely hope that these issues are fixed as soon as possible. I can't even begin to imagine how this must be like for anyone else playing on a worse computer than mine. Other than that, game's been pretty good so far - it's just a shame my playthrough had to end because of something like this.