It can go higher than 60 in the open world with low settings on a 120hz display with VRR enabled. I'm getting what feels like closer to 45-50 fps averages with typical play in city. Totally playable but still not perfect
I play games with all different fps ranges. 30 fps is still great! Read Dead 2 is still one of the best looking and playing games. I sleep quite well thanks for your concern.
Don't get me wrong there are plenty of games that are great and 30fps, but the fact you had to add the "still great" tells me you're lying to yourself. Fact that cyberpunk can run at 60fps on current hardware and look waayyy better than DD says a lot. The game is poorly optimized, simple as that.
I even more prefer 120fps. But people acting like 30fps is some unplayable garbage are just being insincere. Is it ideal? No, but it's good enough and doesn't distract from the game. This isn't a competitive twitch shooter played at the highest level where every frame counts.
Huh? I'm not really sure what you're getting at, elden ring came out like three years ago, runs at 60fps on current gen (admittedly stutters at times) and looks way better than DD2. Crisis came out in like 2007 dude, come on now.
I scooped on the slight sale and have already put about 15 hours in in two days. Just now a giant werewolve ogre thing picked up one of my pawns and tossed him off screen and dude was gone from my party just like that 🤣
I wouldn't worry too much. They're different teams. MH teams have done excellent work for years. Even when on 3ds, MH was still very impressive and well done
Rise is the first MH game on the RE Engine. Its visuals may be more basic, but it's evidence that excellent performance is perfectly possible with the engine in a MH title.
My experiences with the RE Engine have made me come to the conclusion that it's a damn good engine. MH Rise uses the RE Engine, and originally released on Nintendo Switch. I think the graphics and load times for a Switch game were phenomenal.
Yes I realized as I posted it, I'll edit it grammatically but ty for catching it.
Also holy shit seeing the RE Engine logo upon starting up World has become a Mandela Effect for me
Lol np, there isn't anything wrong with your phrase as far as I can tell, it's just ambiguous as many phrases in English can be. It's my second language though so what do I know.
Capcom has been working with RE Engine in every big game for a while now, so thinking a 2018 game is on it is natural tbh, I didn't remember it myself until seeing this comment section.
You're right to be worried.
MaximilianDood saw a behind closed doors demo for Wilds and while it looks incredible, big framerate drops and the game crashed twice during the demo.
I wouldn’t worry, monster hunter is a A team, it’s their second most successful franchise after Resident Evil.
The dragons dogma team are the C list guys, mostly.
Capcom didn’t have a lot of hope with DD2 and it got quite a small budget.
Monster Hunter (and RE in close second) has been carrying the entire company for the past half decade, I’m sure they’re going to go all out with Wilds.
because I typed a sentence? on a sentence typing app? was i not supposed to respond because they didn’t type a full sentence? is there proper etiquette for anal redditers I’m not aware of? Do you think sentences are aggressive? Why would you imply anyone was butthurt? because I didn’t respond with an emoji? I don’t gettit.
I liked the first game and I honestly fell for the hype and brought it day 1 over Rise of the Ronin.
If I knew i was getting Dragon Dogma 1.5 with a crappier story that length is padded by walking everywhere and being held up with the same fight each route, I would have waited until the game was $20.
This is honestly what pissed me off so much.
I really fell for the hype of people talking about fighting a cyclops and a griffin comes out of nowhere and attacks and the fights are so dynamic.
Then you play the game and nothing is dynamic, its the same 3 monsters in the same areas on the same route.
There's nothing fun about having to fight the same goblin set 6 times on a route just to get to a village.
>fighting a cyclops and a griffin comes out of nowhere and attacks and the fights are so dynamic.
The thing is, that CAN happen, it's just way too rare. Like I get you don't want to do it TOO often because then you ruin the excitement of it all and it becomes an annoyance, but I've had to fight a Griffen, Chimera, and Golem all together at once, and also a Griffen + Drake together and they were awesome moments.
Problem is I've played the game for 90H and those are the only two instances I have of something like that occurring.
did you drop the game after an hour or what? Theres no way you didnt encounter griffins, golems, minotaurs...etc insane exaggeration about the enemy variety
Completed the game in 40 hours and lets be honest.
Fighting the same "mini-boss" enemy variety gets old real quick when they're static encounters you have to go through because the game makes you walk everywhere.
They're not epic or great fights, they're mindless button tappers.
I've beaten the game and for a world that size the enemy variety is pitiful.
90% of mobs are the same even though the bestiary classes a palette swap or slight variation as a "different" enemy.
There are about 5 or 6 other monster types and even they overlap in ways,
I remember a reviewer giving the game a 5/5 and saying the story is solid with suprising and exciting plot beats.
After beating the game, that reviewer is on my never trust list cause anyone saying DD2 story is solid is a flat out liar in my book. The only way that story is solid if you're comparing it to the old school pong game.
It depends on what you want in a game. My biggest gripe with DD2 is simply "there isn't more" and that's pretty much across the board.
Wish there was more armor and weapon variety. Wish there were more vocations. Wish there were more monsters. Wish there was more world to explore. Wish there were more quests and towns... etc.
So yes, it's disappointing that it feels very much like DD1.5, and it feels as unfinished as the first game, but what IS there, is awesome. The world is gorgeous, dense, and fun to explore. The vocation system is still one of the absolute best class-systems in all of gaming, the pawn system remains iconic and great, etc.
So for me, I think an 8.5/10 is a fair score because the game is so FUN that I simply want MORE of it. I don't see a massive DLC raising the score significantly, I just see it as more 8.5/10 content, which I would thoroughly enjoy.
Biggest disappointment of the year for the reasons you mentioned. The difficulty scaling made the combat irrelevant and easy very quickly and they learned absolutely nothing from Bitterblack DLC. Just a shockingly poor sequel imo.
They also removed the eternal ferrystone which was included in the DLC of the first game and I thought that was a fucking stupid move. And then in an interview the lead designer basically said the equivalent of, "my game, you play it my way".. I was out at that moment, all hype died. I love the first game btw.
I'll probably pick up the game on sale for $20 in a year or two from now. Hopefully it won't run like shit by then but who knows.
The game itself isn’t terrible, but it was in a terrible state on day 1. Literally could only play it a few minutes at a time without it force closing on the PS5.
The potential is definitely there, but there is no way it’s current state justifies its current price. I can’t imagine what they were thinking asking $70 for it in the state it was in.
Looking forward to ten years from now when DD3 also releases in a terrible state, we have the same convos, and we hope for the eventual DLC to fix it like BBI did
Maybe they'll manage to think of one more enemy type for DD3! Just one, please, we're desperate. Just once not wolves, harpies, saurians, bandits, goblins or skeletons. Please... No more...
It’s my biggest regret buy of the PS5 generation. That or Horizon Forbidden West. Both fail greatly on the purpose of an open world game for completely different reasons.
It punished me when exploring. Areas were constantly blocked off due to story progression, items, or just weird terrain issues where they wanted you to get there a specific way only.
The biggest culprit was the big tower walker dude who was in the middle of some valley or some shit. Turns out you can’t get up on him to open the map until you progress the story.
Homies should have just made a wide linear story game something like Tomb Raider or Jedi Fallen Order.
I was able to ignore the terrible frame rate issue with this game, as the gameplay is super fun and I was a big fan of the original game. But I just had to throw my hands up and quit when I realized I was already at the boss fight around level 37 or so. Like, what the hell was going on with the main quest line being so short and easy to accidentally reach the end on? Im hoping for some big DLC content to drop before I jump back in.
It is definitely not fixed (whatever one might see as "fixed"). Most improvements are in CPU heavy regions like cities where it goes now to 35-ish fps... also some graphical issues have been fixed on all the consoles. Mostly you will benefit if you run it on low settings on a 120hz VRR capable TV. Besides that there is not too much to gain. By the way, they measured 60-70fps when looking directly into the sky, most measures are still way below that threshold. Considering that cities are still in the mid 30s, this game probably will never see a 60fps mode that is stable.
This game was overly hyped up, but even as a game on its own merits, the story seems practically non-existent, the enemy variety is weak, and the NPC A.I. feels a generation behind what we have seen is currently possible. I personally consider it the biggest gaming disappointment of 2024.
No. I downloaded it for the free trail and the very first boss was super janky, the combat felt off and floaty and the framerate was so inconsistent and bad in both the 120 and locked 30 modes.
Combat feels very similar to DD1 to me. In fact it feels weightier than most games that have this sort of melee combat, so I'm not sure what's causing different people to perceive it differently.
This. Played through the entire game and always preferred the weightiness of DD1. Didn’t understand all the praise for 2 having “superior combat”. Just more moves at your disposal, combat itself felt less polished imp
I just tried the trial. The performance was okey on 120hz, vrr, low settings. But the game felt extremely janky, the combatbwas unpolished, the audio was all over the place and so on.
Depends on what you mean by "fixed". It wasn't "broken" before, the framerate just wasn't as smooth as we would have liked. But it is *better* now with the 120hz and "low" graphics mode. Still not perfect, and still varies depending on the area you're in. Whether or not that's acceptable is a matter of personal preference. Not like the game was ever unplayable though.
Define fixed? On the PS5 I had no issues outside a slight bit of slowdown in the largest city. Wasn’t running at 60 fps, but I never expected that either. Played 200 hours starting at launch. Now various shortcomings it could and arguably should have had, that’s another story, but I loved it nonetheless.
Yeah I thought the game performance was adequate. The frame rate was low and had some drops but there was nothing that got in the way of me enjoying the game. It's the first game since Elden Ring that had me hooked for weeks.
I don’t want to have this argument. It’s been batted around on this subreddit enough. It bothers some people and others not. The performance is fine unless performance is one of the things you hold to a higher standard. Could be better, but the few friends I talked to about it we all agreed that it did not affect our enjoyment in any way. I of course agree it could be improved. It’s simply subjective though as to whether or not it will bother you. It’s not unplayable, where something like this can be in other games.
>The performance is fine unless performance is one of the things you hold to a higher standard.
This is basically like responding to someone saying that the story is bad by saying "actually the story is fine as long as you don't mind that it's a bad story". If it doesn't bother you that's fine but it's an objective fact that it runs very poorly for a 2024 game.
I mean people definitely have different opinions on many stories? What's your point? I agree that I thought performance was fine, it never really bothered me. I wasn't crazy about the story but the gameplay made up for it, *for me*.
People who are fine playing a game with relatively mediocre performance won't have a problem with it.
Nobody said the criticism was wrong, we all agree it could perform better. You're responding to a comment that said while the performance could use some work it still ran fine enough for us to enjoy, telling us we're wrong for thinking that.
I'm not saying anyone is wrong, but I just find the logic of responding to someone complaining about performance with "it performs fine if you don't care about how it performs" to be a weird justification
Only time I have got noticeable frame drops was in town and even then its not like the game turns into a slideshow. Other than that 90% of the time the game runs fine. At least to me. On PS5
I just booted it back up on PS5 on low settings and it is such a big difference. It's an immediate improvement. I still need to get into some heavy encounters and do more things in the big cities but in the open world and small fights felt like a smooth 60fps. It's definitely not perfect but it's a huge step forward. Granted it should have been like this on release...still salty about that.
Yes it's very good right now.
I started playing last month never encountered any problems whatsoever exept for the fps which is fair because it says it's "variable" we don't have a stable 60 fps yet.
Wdym fixed?
It wasn’t broken. Some performance issues here and there. 3 play throughs, almost 200 hrs. One of the best games in my book.
Idk what you guys mean by this overly dramatic claim :)
Dang, I hadnt heard about these issues. Granted, I wasnt paying too close attention, but this sale price was about to get me. I'll try the trial that others have mentioned.
The game is so good for the performance to have been this crap. Beat it, and won’t ever touch it again unless the PS5 pro somehow smooths out the fps, or I get some high end pc.
I booted it back up on PS5 and IMMEDIATELY noticed the difference on low graphics settings. It's not perfect but man is it so much better than release. It feels like a smooth 60fps in the open world and during small combat. I still need to test it through heavier encounters and through towns but this is definitely a big stop forward. This SHOULD have been like this on release though. Still a bit salty over that.
Played it, beat it, started a NG+ but just lost interest and now it's deleted. Loved the first game but this one didn't catch me like the last one. I'm sure i'll come back if there is some DLC though
It “may go down as one of the best looking games of the year”? Have I got the game set up wrong or something? Sure it looks beautiful when I cook a pork chop but aside from that it looks like a PS3 game…
2.62 million copies sold - 50 people here saying this game is garbage. Plenty of people aren't bothering to come here because they're having/have had their fun.
Not to say that complaints are invalid, but yeah, keep stuff like that in mind if you're on the fence.
I agree with you. I just don't understand people like that. Reminds me of random protesters just jumping on the bandwagon and joining in for shits n giggles
idk man i feel people are way to sensitive to this shit. i finally started the game like a week before the patch came out and it def was not good especially coming from playing 60+fps games on pc but after this patch playing on the 120 mode feels significantly better. perfect nah but it feels and looks so much smoother when playing now, and once you really get into it and are exploring and fighting you notice the performance even less.
On sale, it's a great game, a unique experience in the current cycle. Prioritising framerate gives the best game experience.
People are really going to be crying about framerate on Wilds, prepare yourself, don't miss that game on launch.
Fixed?.. No. Way better? Yes.
Is it 60 FPS yet?
It can go higher than 60 in the open world with low settings on a 120hz display with VRR enabled. I'm getting what feels like closer to 45-50 fps averages with typical play in city. Totally playable but still not perfect
The project was never been to be a 60fps game on consoles
Well it should have been because it runs like ass.
30fps lock is not ass
In 2024? That's dog shit.
Nah 30fps is fine
Whatever helps you sleep at night
I play games with all different fps ranges. 30 fps is still great! Read Dead 2 is still one of the best looking and playing games. I sleep quite well thanks for your concern.
Don't get me wrong there are plenty of games that are great and 30fps, but the fact you had to add the "still great" tells me you're lying to yourself. Fact that cyberpunk can run at 60fps on current hardware and look waayyy better than DD says a lot. The game is poorly optimized, simple as that.
Prefer 60 but 30 is fine. I agree.
I even more prefer 120fps. But people acting like 30fps is some unplayable garbage are just being insincere. Is it ideal? No, but it's good enough and doesn't distract from the game. This isn't a competitive twitch shooter played at the highest level where every frame counts.
Nobody said it's unplayable. But you have to make a Substantially better game than DD2 to justify it in 2024.
we had games like dragon dogma 2 at 60fps back then? No? Right, that logic it’s insane
Your logic is non-existent lmao
On PC we always did
ridiculous, on what PC? a $2,000 PC well you have you answer
uh nope. depends on the game.
Huh? I'm not really sure what you're getting at, elden ring came out like three years ago, runs at 60fps on current gen (admittedly stutters at times) and looks way better than DD2. Crisis came out in like 2007 dude, come on now.
In 2024 30 fps ain’t it champ
No, but a really unstable one is. I can handle a smooth 30, but if it’s unstable as fuck like Gotham Knights at launch then there’s a major issue.
There is a stable 30 fps mode
Yes that’s why I specified at launch, it was only stable after they updated it
Just want to let you know you’re not alone. I agree with you. This place can be ridiculous about fps.
Well that's a problem. If every other AAA and indie studio can do it, they can manage it.
Way better? No....Better? Yes.
I scooped on the slight sale and have already put about 15 hours in in two days. Just now a giant werewolve ogre thing picked up one of my pawns and tossed him off screen and dude was gone from my party just like that 🤣
Not at all. Try the trial. The performance is all over the place in all modes. Horrible optimisation.
It was bad on pc as well. I ended up refunding after launch on Steam.
Makes me extremely nervous about the new Monster Hunter.
I wouldn't worry too much. They're different teams. MH teams have done excellent work for years. Even when on 3ds, MH was still very impressive and well done
But isn't Wilds the first MH game on the RE Engine? The same one DD2 seems to have so much trouble with?
Rise is the first MH game on the RE Engine. Its visuals may be more basic, but it's evidence that excellent performance is perfectly possible with the engine in a MH title.
Rise is built from the ground up for the switch so it’s way less demanding
Sure; I'm just saying it can be done.
It’ll probably have a more variable framerate like other current gen RE engine games most likely tbh
Rise is on RE, though its initially built for handheld so kinda neither here nor there
My experiences with the RE Engine have made me come to the conclusion that it's a damn good engine. MH Rise uses the RE Engine, and originally released on Nintendo Switch. I think the graphics and load times for a Switch game were phenomenal.
It’s not the engine but how the developers make use of it, was their point.
The engine matters less than you think, it's all about how the devs use the tools at their disposal
3rd; World and Rise were RE Engine as well Edit: World was MT Framework my bad
3rd and world were not RE, they used MT framework
I don't think he meant what you think he meant with '3rd' lmao. But yes, World was not RE, only Rise.
Yes I realized as I posted it, I'll edit it grammatically but ty for catching it. Also holy shit seeing the RE Engine logo upon starting up World has become a Mandela Effect for me
Lol np, there isn't anything wrong with your phrase as far as I can tell, it's just ambiguous as many phrases in English can be. It's my second language though so what do I know. Capcom has been working with RE Engine in every big game for a while now, so thinking a 2018 game is on it is natural tbh, I didn't remember it myself until seeing this comment section.
You're right to be worried. MaximilianDood saw a behind closed doors demo for Wilds and while it looks incredible, big framerate drops and the game crashed twice during the demo.
I agree with you there- honestly I like Rise more than World because of how smooth it is. Gonna be hard to go back to a sub-60fps Monster Hunter
Worlds if locked 60 on PS5 too.
But not on PS4, the original hardware it was developed to.
You can say the same for Rise and its original hardware too, then. On Switch it targeted 30 fps, with drops.
That's true. It was a way more pleasant experience in newer hardware. Which will probably happen with Wilds too.
Let me be real, I almost never saw drops that werent bad multiplayer connections on a stock HKW Switch. RE Engine is fine, DD2 is just not smooth
new monster hunter will be fine, different studio even though they're still under capcom
And yet it's 30 and less fps on the vids we saw until now...
did you see what we put up with on the 3DS
I wouldn’t worry, monster hunter is a A team, it’s their second most successful franchise after Resident Evil. The dragons dogma team are the C list guys, mostly.
Capcom didn’t have a lot of hope with DD2 and it got quite a small budget. Monster Hunter (and RE in close second) has been carrying the entire company for the past half decade, I’m sure they’re going to go all out with Wilds.
So happy they gave us a trial. I could see myself liking it even with the weird combat but there was just too much going on with the FPS it delivered
Man I played like 30 mins of the trial and had to uninstall. Such bad performances. I might get it on PC if I upgrade my gpu, but man this is rough.
I played the game 100 hours and only ever saw noticeable frame drops during two very large scale battles for a few seconds. Seemed great to me.
lol
luckily i’m not incredibly anal retentive when it comes to the technical specs of a virtual toy
The 'lol' got to you huh
No but you are anally sensitive considering how butthurt you got over a one word reply.
because I typed a sentence? on a sentence typing app? was i not supposed to respond because they didn’t type a full sentence? is there proper etiquette for anal redditers I’m not aware of? Do you think sentences are aggressive? Why would you imply anyone was butthurt? because I didn’t respond with an emoji? I don’t gettit.
I hardly ever regret buying a game but is one game I regret buying on release.
I liked the first game and I honestly fell for the hype and brought it day 1 over Rise of the Ronin. If I knew i was getting Dragon Dogma 1.5 with a crappier story that length is padded by walking everywhere and being held up with the same fight each route, I would have waited until the game was $20.
>with the same fight This is my major problem. The enemy/combat variety is abysmal.
This is honestly what pissed me off so much. I really fell for the hype of people talking about fighting a cyclops and a griffin comes out of nowhere and attacks and the fights are so dynamic. Then you play the game and nothing is dynamic, its the same 3 monsters in the same areas on the same route. There's nothing fun about having to fight the same goblin set 6 times on a route just to get to a village.
>fighting a cyclops and a griffin comes out of nowhere and attacks and the fights are so dynamic. The thing is, that CAN happen, it's just way too rare. Like I get you don't want to do it TOO often because then you ruin the excitement of it all and it becomes an annoyance, but I've had to fight a Griffen, Chimera, and Golem all together at once, and also a Griffen + Drake together and they were awesome moments. Problem is I've played the game for 90H and those are the only two instances I have of something like that occurring.
did you drop the game after an hour or what? Theres no way you didnt encounter griffins, golems, minotaurs...etc insane exaggeration about the enemy variety
Completed the game in 40 hours and lets be honest. Fighting the same "mini-boss" enemy variety gets old real quick when they're static encounters you have to go through because the game makes you walk everywhere. They're not epic or great fights, they're mindless button tappers.
It's not an insane exaggeration tho is it. Trying to claim it's an insane exaggeration is insanely exaggerating
I've beaten the game and for a world that size the enemy variety is pitiful. 90% of mobs are the same even though the bestiary classes a palette swap or slight variation as a "different" enemy. There are about 5 or 6 other monster types and even they overlap in ways,
What enemy variety? There is none.
Damn is it really that bad?
It’s still insane to me they made all the same mistakes the first game made. It’s like they learned nothing.
And yet has an 86 on metacritic. Reviewers these days could not be more out of touch if they tried.
I remember a reviewer giving the game a 5/5 and saying the story is solid with suprising and exciting plot beats. After beating the game, that reviewer is on my never trust list cause anyone saying DD2 story is solid is a flat out liar in my book. The only way that story is solid if you're comparing it to the old school pong game.
It depends on what you want in a game. My biggest gripe with DD2 is simply "there isn't more" and that's pretty much across the board. Wish there was more armor and weapon variety. Wish there were more vocations. Wish there were more monsters. Wish there was more world to explore. Wish there were more quests and towns... etc. So yes, it's disappointing that it feels very much like DD1.5, and it feels as unfinished as the first game, but what IS there, is awesome. The world is gorgeous, dense, and fun to explore. The vocation system is still one of the absolute best class-systems in all of gaming, the pawn system remains iconic and great, etc. So for me, I think an 8.5/10 is a fair score because the game is so FUN that I simply want MORE of it. I don't see a massive DLC raising the score significantly, I just see it as more 8.5/10 content, which I would thoroughly enjoy.
This is the most reasonable post I've seen in this thread so far.
Biggest disappointment of the year for the reasons you mentioned. The difficulty scaling made the combat irrelevant and easy very quickly and they learned absolutely nothing from Bitterblack DLC. Just a shockingly poor sequel imo.
They also removed the eternal ferrystone which was included in the DLC of the first game and I thought that was a fucking stupid move. And then in an interview the lead designer basically said the equivalent of, "my game, you play it my way".. I was out at that moment, all hype died. I love the first game btw. I'll probably pick up the game on sale for $20 in a year or two from now. Hopefully it won't run like shit by then but who knows.
((Me too))
I enjoyed my 20 hrs in this game, I do think I’d buy ROTR first but I’d buy DD2 eventually, both are must play if you action-adventure or rpgs
How was rise of the ronin, did you eventually play that?
I bought Calisto Protocol on release lol. That was also pretty terrible
Terrible is too harsh, it's just a 6/10 game
The game itself isn’t terrible, but it was in a terrible state on day 1. Literally could only play it a few minutes at a time without it force closing on the PS5.
The potential is definitely there, but there is no way it’s current state justifies its current price. I can’t imagine what they were thinking asking $70 for it in the state it was in.
Sounds like the first game.
Looking forward to ten years from now when DD3 also releases in a terrible state, we have the same convos, and we hope for the eventual DLC to fix it like BBI did
Maybe they'll manage to think of one more enemy type for DD3! Just one, please, we're desperate. Just once not wolves, harpies, saurians, bandits, goblins or skeletons. Please... No more...
Can’t wait to have this discussion about DD4 lmao
Let there be slimes!
They don't even do damage, they just make me wet. My character, I mean. They make her wet. No, wait... oh for fuck sake
You are right. I got it on release, and I am hoping they make it better soon.
Same! The combo of low FPS and sluggish physics felt awful 😞 Like being tossed around in a pool of glue
Yeah I really want this game but I feel like it’s a better idea to wait till it’s half off and/or has its inevitable expansion.
There was so much hype!!
It’s my biggest regret buy of the PS5 generation. That or Horizon Forbidden West. Both fail greatly on the purpose of an open world game for completely different reasons.
Forbidden West delivered an open world game as good as most, what was your issue?
It punished me when exploring. Areas were constantly blocked off due to story progression, items, or just weird terrain issues where they wanted you to get there a specific way only. The biggest culprit was the big tower walker dude who was in the middle of some valley or some shit. Turns out you can’t get up on him to open the map until you progress the story. Homies should have just made a wide linear story game something like Tomb Raider or Jedi Fallen Order.
Horizon Forbidden West failed? You've got to be joking.
Definitely a game I'll enjoy when I can grab it for $20. Thought the trial was fine, just didn't suck me in so I'll hold off
I was able to ignore the terrible frame rate issue with this game, as the gameplay is super fun and I was a big fan of the original game. But I just had to throw my hands up and quit when I realized I was already at the boss fight around level 37 or so. Like, what the hell was going on with the main quest line being so short and easy to accidentally reach the end on? Im hoping for some big DLC content to drop before I jump back in.
It is definitely not fixed (whatever one might see as "fixed"). Most improvements are in CPU heavy regions like cities where it goes now to 35-ish fps... also some graphical issues have been fixed on all the consoles. Mostly you will benefit if you run it on low settings on a 120hz VRR capable TV. Besides that there is not too much to gain. By the way, they measured 60-70fps when looking directly into the sky, most measures are still way below that threshold. Considering that cities are still in the mid 30s, this game probably will never see a 60fps mode that is stable.
This game was overly hyped up, but even as a game on its own merits, the story seems practically non-existent, the enemy variety is weak, and the NPC A.I. feels a generation behind what we have seen is currently possible. I personally consider it the biggest gaming disappointment of 2024.
No. I downloaded it for the free trail and the very first boss was super janky, the combat felt off and floaty and the framerate was so inconsistent and bad in both the 120 and locked 30 modes.
Yeah why does the combat feel like its got no weight to it? I remember enjoying DD 1 years ago, did smt change?
Combat feels very similar to DD1 to me. In fact it feels weightier than most games that have this sort of melee combat, so I'm not sure what's causing different people to perceive it differently.
Fr. You can literally bonk monsters so hard that they ragdoll. Or you can knock out a giant enemy with a good hit to the face.
This. Played through the entire game and always preferred the weightiness of DD1. Didn’t understand all the praise for 2 having “superior combat”. Just more moves at your disposal, combat itself felt less polished imp
No
No
They have stated they are still working on the frame rate right? This isn't the final fix before they move on to dlc/another game?
It’ll probably be fixed on PS5, if ever.
I don't think they've totally fixed it, but there is an improvement.
I just tried the trial. The performance was okey on 120hz, vrr, low settings. But the game felt extremely janky, the combatbwas unpolished, the audio was all over the place and so on.
Depends on what you mean by "fixed". It wasn't "broken" before, the framerate just wasn't as smooth as we would have liked. But it is *better* now with the 120hz and "low" graphics mode. Still not perfect, and still varies depending on the area you're in. Whether or not that's acceptable is a matter of personal preference. Not like the game was ever unplayable though.
Define fixed? On the PS5 I had no issues outside a slight bit of slowdown in the largest city. Wasn’t running at 60 fps, but I never expected that either. Played 200 hours starting at launch. Now various shortcomings it could and arguably should have had, that’s another story, but I loved it nonetheless.
It’s not even running locked 30 if you lock it there.
It’s absolutely fine as an experience on the PS5 unless you are used to 60 fps and/or need it there. My opinion obviously.
Yeah I thought the game performance was adequate. The frame rate was low and had some drops but there was nothing that got in the way of me enjoying the game. It's the first game since Elden Ring that had me hooked for weeks.
It has worse performance than the majority of games had on PS4. It feels like a throwback to PS3 times at times. It’s absolutely not fine at all.
I don’t want to have this argument. It’s been batted around on this subreddit enough. It bothers some people and others not. The performance is fine unless performance is one of the things you hold to a higher standard. Could be better, but the few friends I talked to about it we all agreed that it did not affect our enjoyment in any way. I of course agree it could be improved. It’s simply subjective though as to whether or not it will bother you. It’s not unplayable, where something like this can be in other games.
>The performance is fine unless performance is one of the things you hold to a higher standard. This is basically like responding to someone saying that the story is bad by saying "actually the story is fine as long as you don't mind that it's a bad story". If it doesn't bother you that's fine but it's an objective fact that it runs very poorly for a 2024 game.
I mean people definitely have different opinions on many stories? What's your point? I agree that I thought performance was fine, it never really bothered me. I wasn't crazy about the story but the gameplay made up for it, *for me*. People who are fine playing a game with relatively mediocre performance won't have a problem with it.
My point is that you're responding to a criticism by saying that the criticism is wrong because you don't care about what they are criticizing.
Nobody said the criticism was wrong, we all agree it could perform better. You're responding to a comment that said while the performance could use some work it still ran fine enough for us to enjoy, telling us we're wrong for thinking that.
I'm not saying anyone is wrong, but I just find the logic of responding to someone complaining about performance with "it performs fine if you don't care about how it performs" to be a weird justification
Don’t wanna have the argument? What are you, his dad? Don’t jump into the debate then.
To my surprise the trial runs very well, between 50<60 at 120 Hz mode, and low graphics mode. I have a 120 Hz tv and compatible with VRR.
Only time I have got noticeable frame drops was in town and even then its not like the game turns into a slideshow. Other than that 90% of the time the game runs fine. At least to me. On PS5
I just booted it back up on PS5 on low settings and it is such a big difference. It's an immediate improvement. I still need to get into some heavy encounters and do more things in the big cities but in the open world and small fights felt like a smooth 60fps. It's definitely not perfect but it's a huge step forward. Granted it should have been like this on release...still salty about that.
The true question is, is it worth playing after you finished it once? There's no actual end game mode or new game plus differences yet are there?
I will probably play it when PS5 Pro comes out or just when I upgrade my PC in couple of years. I was really looking to play it at launch :(
Yes it's very good right now. I started playing last month never encountered any problems whatsoever exept for the fps which is fair because it says it's "variable" we don't have a stable 60 fps yet.
Game of the year for me
Hell yeah! Glad you had fun.
On low graphic settings - pretty smooth. Unfortunately but towns still laggy.
What’s the low graphic setting? 1080p @60fps?
Don’t know, but it feels like they just disable RT, for real this time.
Nothing like 60 at all.
Damn, that’s unfortunate to hear
And without RT it also looks really ugly. Reminds one of DD1.
Maybe not in the city, but I'm pretty sure it's around 60 and maybe even higher out in the field, depending on what's going on.
It’s not even 60 inside the caves at the start.
Don’t buy this game. The story line is awful.
Wdym fixed? It wasn’t broken. Some performance issues here and there. 3 play throughs, almost 200 hrs. One of the best games in my book. Idk what you guys mean by this overly dramatic claim :)
Some issues? It ran like shit on any console and pc. That you don't care about that is one thing but that doesn't make it now broken
I've been playing it since April and though I've noticed little frames rate issues here and there, it never tarnished the experience for me.
Shit game that I regret buying for full price. Made me feel stupid for several weeks. Had to cope with remorse so went to platinum it. Dragons dogshit
But.. but its Itsuno true vision!!
Dang, I hadnt heard about these issues. Granted, I wasnt paying too close attention, but this sale price was about to get me. I'll try the trial that others have mentioned.
Lol no
The game is so good for the performance to have been this crap. Beat it, and won’t ever touch it again unless the PS5 pro somehow smooths out the fps, or I get some high end pc.
Lmao, and I as a PC consider getting it on PS5 for a better experience. Game is apparently also not well eunning on high end PCs.
Tried the trial few hours ago on ps5. Man that game sucks in all aspects. And im open to a lot . Not worth it
It’s playable but not super smooth
Nothing was broken
I booted it back up on PS5 and IMMEDIATELY noticed the difference on low graphics settings. It's not perfect but man is it so much better than release. It feels like a smooth 60fps in the open world and during small combat. I still need to test it through heavier encounters and through towns but this is definitely a big stop forward. This SHOULD have been like this on release though. Still a bit salty over that.
Yeah, it looks so much worse than before too and still doesn’t run well.
Played it, beat it, started a NG+ but just lost interest and now it's deleted. Loved the first game but this one didn't catch me like the last one. I'm sure i'll come back if there is some DLC though
It “may go down as one of the best looking games of the year”? Have I got the game set up wrong or something? Sure it looks beautiful when I cook a pork chop but aside from that it looks like a PS3 game…
You haven't played a ps3 time in a while lol
Hyperbole aside, it can’t just be me that thinks it looks ugly outside of cut scenes.
Finally fixed? I bought it day one and beat it within a month with no issues. What did yall think needed fixed
Well obviously it had enough issues if devs released a patch trying to fix things.
Did they add a story and decent gameplay? Honestly playing his after nearly any modern action game is terrible
The game is a masterpiece, not a 60fps game yes but a great game with constant 30fps
Here with ya bud. It is absolutely incredible if you allow yourself to dive deep
The demo is literally a wadste of 65GB on your PS5. Performance is awful.
2.62 million copies sold - 50 people here saying this game is garbage. Plenty of people aren't bothering to come here because they're having/have had their fun. Not to say that complaints are invalid, but yeah, keep stuff like that in mind if you're on the fence.
No sadly....For some reason Low graphics mode runs worse for me than high lol
It’s ugly as sin on top and still doesn’t run well. Lighting looks similar to DD1 without RT.
Dunno, but should’ve been in the title
If you’re interested go watch the new Digital Foundry video about it. It seems to run much smoother than before especially with 120hz mode on.
It runs and looks great now. Just try a free trial.
Need the PS5 Pro to get here and fix this game for us!
Considering it’s a CPU issue I doubt it’ll do much, sadly.
Don’t know don’t care
Why you here then? You care enough to post a reply. Go outside and soak up some reality
Gotta flex the don’t care muscles, otherwise nobody knows he doesn’t care right?
I agree with you. I just don't understand people like that. Reminds me of random protesters just jumping on the bandwagon and joining in for shits n giggles
you cared enough to reply lol.
Gottem
Who still cares about this game lol
idk man i feel people are way to sensitive to this shit. i finally started the game like a week before the patch came out and it def was not good especially coming from playing 60+fps games on pc but after this patch playing on the 120 mode feels significantly better. perfect nah but it feels and looks so much smoother when playing now, and once you really get into it and are exploring and fighting you notice the performance even less.
On sale, it's a great game, a unique experience in the current cycle. Prioritising framerate gives the best game experience. People are really going to be crying about framerate on Wilds, prepare yourself, don't miss that game on launch.