Elden Ring [2022-21-01] [PS, XB, PC]

[zed]

Most reviews are looking at the mechanics, the story and how the game feels to play.

Mate look at this video, just the first 30 seconds should give an idea, ignore the multiple frame hitches (I counted at least 7 in those first 30 seconds)

I complained before when the horizon zero dawn video was first shown about not all the foliage was interacting with the player (I think they fixed this in the game release)
Here its even worse, they dont even attempt anything, you walk through the plants like they are invisible
Im guessing you can throw a fire on the plant and nothing will happen, nothing with burn etc.
I'm in the process of adding creatures to the world, eg fish in the rivers, birds fly around and land on the trees etc because IMO this makes the world feel more alive, add atmosphere, the extra things, from what I can see in this game the didnt bother.
Maybe its best not to waste my time adding all the stuff like this as obviously reviewers don't factor it into their reviews, no need to get a nice fixed 60fps cause obviously that doesnt matter to reviewers / the gameplaying public also

A bit of a joke TBH

 

[BRiT]

https://www.aroged.com/2022/02/23/e...box-graphics-and-framerate-compared-in-video/

They don't indicate if they tested using the Day One patch or not, so be sure to investigate into that before letting it sway your decision. Considering their video was published 24 hours ago, I'd be skeptical unless they had it all along. XboxEra didn't get the Day One patch until middle of yesterday, perhaps the afternoon.

I'm not saying the Day 1 patch fixes everything, but it's definite improvements over what they had before.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Ouch, watching him on one of the dungeon bosses. Multiple attempts the fight was fine. But this last attempt had multi-second freezes. Definitely not good. Restarted the game and the freezes are gone. I'm wondering if there might be a memory leak.

But that said, the boss design was incredible. At first it looks really janky, but then something was tickling the back of my mind and it finally came to me. The boss was designed like a Chinese Vampire/Zombie complete with that signature Hong Kong stilted movement and floating wire flying/levitating look. I wonder if anyone else will see the very very obvious (to me) homage to HK Cat 3. vampire/zombie horror movies in this boss fight. I love it.

Regards,
SB

 

[mr magoo]

Ouch, watching him on one of the dungeon bosses. Multiple attempts the fight was fine. But this last attempt had multi-second freezes. Definitely not good. Restarted the game and the freezes are gone. I'm wondering if there might be a memory leak.

But that said, the boss design was incredible. At first it looks really janky, but then something was tickling the back of my mind and it finally came to me. The boss was designed like a Chinese Vampire complete with that signature Hong Kong stilted movement and floating wire flying/levitating look. I wonder if anyone else will see the very very obvious (to me) homage to HK Cat 3. vampire horror movies in this boss fight. I love it.

Regards,
SB

Watching him as well, damn the game freezes for few seconds almost all the time now .... this is bad

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Watching him as well, damn the game freezes for few seconds almost all the time now .... this is bad

Yeah, weird thing was on the attempt where he finally killed it, there was those freezes at the start and then they just went away and the fight was fine after that. So, now I'm thinking it's not a memory leak but something else.

Regards,
SB

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Meh. NEXT! Seriously, I have a backlog of 30 games to play on GamePass. I'm not going to bother with this trash until they fix it.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Whoa, I've never seen anything like this before on Twitch. Everyone in my followed channels, everyone in recommended channels and everyone in streamers that viewers of the current channel also watch ... are all playing Elden Ring and loving it.

Some of them are playing a Souls game for the first time ever.

Wow.

Regards,
SB

 

[Phantom88]

this youtuber says the new patch made it worse on PC. Less framerate hit, but more stutters instead. He also makes fun of the "wait for that day 1 magic patch" nonsense.

 

[Remij]

No.. no... everything is FINEEEE....... PC is tha best!!!

Cohh Carnage clip from twitch

JFC... BandaiNacmo/FROMSOFT should be absolutely ashamed of pushing this game out on PC in this state.

 

[PSman1700]

They don't indicate if they tested using the Day One patch or not, so be sure to investigate into that before letting it sway your decision. Considering their video was published 24 hours ago, I'd be skeptical unless they had it all along. XboxEra didn't get the Day One patch until middle of yesterday, perhaps the afternoon.

I'm not saying the Day 1 patch fixes everything, but it's definite improvements over what they had before.

The patch doesnt seem to fix the variable 30 to 60fps framerate issue if actual gamers are to believe (on consoles, comments on various media today). I assume it will be fixed, but still, its a messy launch. Almost like Dice and battlefield.

No.. no... everything is FINEEEE....... PC is tha best!!!

Cohh Carnage clip from twitch

JFC... BandaiNacmo/FROMSOFT should be absolutely ashamed of pushing this game out on PC in this state.

It aint okay to release it in this state on consoles either, or any platform.

 

[Remij]

The patch doesnt seem to fix the variable 30 to 60fps framerate issue if actual gamers are to believe (on consoles, comments on various media today). I assume it will be fixed, but still, its a messy launch. Almost like Dice and battlefield.



It aint okay to release it in this state on consoles either, or any platform.

You don't need to bring up consoles at all.. Just say it outright... the PC version specifically is BUSTED. And they knowingly released it in this state.. and charged $60 for it. UNACCEPTABLE.

If you're a fan of the PC platform... it's not doing it no favors by downplaying the PC specific issues by saying "the consoles have issues too"... they aren't even close to being in the same realm of problems that the PC version is in.

No more sugarcoating. It's time to start making publishers and developers who release trash like this, feel it.

 

[BRiT]

The patch doesnt seem to fix the variable 30 to 60fps framerate issue

The day one patch wasn't to fix all the issues but to elevate the low points up to higher and remove some hitching, which it has done. They still have a ways to go.

With that said, those who have been playing the game say it's great and they don't notice it being as bad as everyone who hasn't played it is reacting to it.

 

[PSman1700]

You don't need to bring up consoles at all.. Just say it outright... the PC version specifically is BUSTED. And they knowingly released it in this state.. and charged $60 for it. UNACCEPTABLE.

If you're a fan of the PC platform... it's not doing it no favors by downplaying the PC specific issues by saying "the consoles have issues too"... they aren't even close to being in the same realm of problems that the PC version is in.

No more sugarcoating. It's time to start making publishers and developers who release trash like this, feel it.

The games should be less of a mess on both pc and consoles.

 

[Remij]

The games should be less of a mess on both pc and consoles.

No. Stop equalizing them when they're completely different levels of "mess"..

You're attempting to MINIMIZE the severity of the PC versions issues... by stating "the consoles are a mess too!"

That's BS and you know it. Just say the damn words... You don't need to mention the consoles at all.. The PC version specifically...simply put... is a mess.

You're NOT helping the situation on PC by also claiming the consoles are so terrible too... Because they're not even close to the same level.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

With that said, those who have been playing the game say it's great and they don't notice it being as bad as everyone who hasn't played it is reacting to it.

I think this can be attributed to when you are 100% focussed on playing a game, you don't notice the imperfections - this is definitely the case for me. The difference between doing versus observing.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

You don't need to bring up consoles at all.. Just say it outright... the PC version specifically is BUSTED. And they knowingly released it in this state.. and charged $60 for it. UNACCEPTABLE.

If you're a fan of the PC platform... it's not doing it no favors by downplaying the PC specific issues by saying "the consoles have issues too"... they aren't even close to being in the same realm of problems that the PC version is in.

No more sugarcoating. It's time to start making publishers and developers who release trash like this, feel it.

Absolutely, games shouldn't release in this state, but the unfortunate reality is that it happens.

I think it speaks volumes then that despite these issues, people that are playing the game generally are loving the game despite the technical issues that the game quite obviously has.

It has unfortunately been happing for years/decades now and it will unfortunately continue to happen. Teams having to work from home due to lockdowns has only made it that much worse.

Regards,
SB

 

[PSman1700]

No. Stop equalizing them when they're completely different levels of "mess"..

You're attempting to MINIMIZE the severity of the PC versions issues... by stating "the consoles are a mess too!"

That's BS and you know it. Just say the damn words... You don't need to mention the consoles at all.. The PC version specifically...simply put... is a mess.

You're NOT helping the situation on PC by also claiming the consoles are so terrible too... Because they're not even close to the same level.

Then the topic should be changed to PC, not [PS, XB, PC]. If the situation doesnt improve on consoles, it for sure wont on PC either. The consoles are the baseline for many games, if devs are releasing shitty code there, you bet they wont put much effort to polish things on pc. It cant be much worse than having a game going between 30 and 60fps, thats not what performance or quality modes should provide. They might be different levels of mess, but either isnt better than the other to me. Something thats dipping from everything between 60 and 30 (or below, 25 on base consoles) is as much a mess as ingame stutters are. Both cant be something we pay 60 bucks for right?

Also, i highly doubt that by specifically bashing pc versions of games will get their attention anyway, not even all platforms combined, not using B3D atleast. Call out the PC version to Alex to cover it in a video with 100's of thousands of views, they might get some more attention. Then il call out to John to be loud about the console versions.

I really have no idea why you only want to see improvements for your favorite platform.

 

[Remij]

Then the topic should be changed to PC, not [PS, XB, PC]. If the situation doesnt improve on consoles, it for sure wont on PC either. The consoles are the baseline for many games, if devs are releasing shitty code there, you bet they wont put much effort to polish things on pc. It cant be much worse than having a game going between 30 and 60fps, thats not what performance or quality modes should provide. They might be different levels of mess, but either isnt better than the other to me. Something thats dipping from everything between 60 and 30 (or below, 25 on base consoles) is as much a mess as ingame stutters are. Both cant be something we pay 60 bucks for right?

Also, i highly doubt that by specifically bashing pc versions of games will get their attention anyway, not even all platforms combined, not using B3D atleast. Call out the PC version to Alex to cover it in a video with 100's of thousands of views, they might get some more attention. Then il call out to John to be loud about the console versions.

I really have no idea why you only want to see improvements for your favorite platform.

Hilarious.

You have no idea why I want to see the PC version reach a level of quality that's acceptable? Sorry, but unlike you I can admit the fact that the PC is in far worse shape than ANY console version... so yea, I'm more interested in getting the PC to the point where it works as a game should, and not literally freezing while you're fighting bosses and bogging down traversing the overworld...

Does any console version do this?
Cohh stream clip

No... they don't. And the fact is that you keep responding to my posts about the PC version specifically... in an effort to cope with the fact that the PC version is trash by saying "well the consoles are too!!"... No.. they aren't. You're not saying that to HELP anything. You're saying it to make YOURSELF feel better. That's why I'm getting annoyed with you right now.

If only there was a real world example of this type of behavior where one group of people downplay the issues raised by another group of people saying "all people have issues"...

Of course... this is just games. Whatever.

 

[PSman1700]

Create another topic for it perhaps. Your very loud and seemingly very upset, trying to get attention from the studios behind these unpolished games. Even if the PC version is in a (much) worse shape, that doesnt warrant drops from 60 to below 30fps elsewhere on other platforms. Again, create a seperate topic for your quest to see quality improvements for the much worse pc version, since its, as you say, in a different universe of problems, maybe its a better for fit for a seperate topic, where we can be loud and grab attention from developers.

 

[Remij]

Create another topic for it perhaps. Your very loud and seemingly very upset, trying to get attention from the studios behind these unpolished games. Even if the PC version is in a (much) worse shape, that doesnt warrant drops from 60 to below 30fps elsewhere on other platforms. Again, create a seperate topic for your quest to see quality improvements for the much worse pc version, since its, as you say, in a different universe of problems, maybe its a better for fit for a seperate topic, where we can be loud and grab attention from developers.

Ok, fair enough.