Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty got here out at the moment, but it surely may in all probability have used slightly additional time within the oven. Gamers throughout the web are complaining about all kinds of technical issues with the sport’s PC model: dropped frames, stuttering, points with shaders, and different efficiency points which have turn out to be disturbingly widespread in PC ports over the previous couple of years. However that may not even be the worst of it, gamers utilizing a keyboard and mouse to play the sport are reporting some actually baffling design selections with Wo Lengthy’s controls.
You do not have to go far to search out gamers complaining about technical issues. Solely 31% of Wo Lengthy’s 2,331 person evaluations (opens in new tab) are optimistic at time of writing, and lots of the unfavourable ones point out the sport’s efficiency. One evaluation from a person named AloneInSilence (opens in new tab) sums it up, calling the sport “Unplayable” as a consequence of “Fixed stuttering, common freezes, occasional crashes,” which occur “in gameplay, in cutscenes, and even navigating menus”. Points like these had been additionally current within the recreation’s demo (video beneath), and it appears the complete recreation isn’t any completely different.
Here is examples of frames dropping whereas taking part in Wo Lengthy demo…that is on efficiency mode. I do know individuals prob gonna say it is my laptop.. pay attention I used to be simply taking part in Returnal flawlessly! no different video games doing this lol my 1080ti can nonetheless dangle!! Possible will play full recreation on console. pic.twitter.com/LUl64FcaduFebruary 26, 2023
Over on Reddit, a person known as Particular person-Error5651 (opens in new tab) complains that their Recreation Go model of Wo Lengthy is inexplicably locked at 720p on their RTX 3060, however someway nonetheless solely manages to run at 10-15 frames per second.
However for each lament about Wo Lengthy’s technical points, there’s one from a pissed off keyboard and mouse person pushed to distraction by the sport’s keyboard and mouse controls. A person named cashews (opens in new tab) calls Wo Lengthy “An excellent recreation buried deep beneath the most important disaster of a PC port that I’ve ever seen,” noting the sport’s technical points however declaring that “the most important situation are the controls”.
“If you happen to do not transfer your mouse quick sufficient, the digital camera won’t react, no matter your mouse sensitivity,” stated cashews, who reckons Wo Lengthy’s devs have imported the deadzones of a gamepad’s analogue sticks over to the sport’s mouse-based controls. “The important thing structure can be an absolute joke,” they add, “Deflect/Dodge sure to Tab by default? Okay then”.
“Performed just below an hour on Mouse and Keyboard,” stated a reviewer known as T.E.S (opens in new tab), however the sluggish mouse-controlled digital camera made them “really feel unwell,” forcing them to place the sport down.
To be honest to Wo Lengthy, gamepads have all the time had an edge over a trusty outdated keyboard and mouse setup in relation to action-heavy, Souls-like video games akin to these, but it surely appears like Wo Lengthy’s keyboard controls are dangerous even by that customary. Some gamers report a measure of success reconfiguring the structure, however it might probably solely achieve this a lot within the face of the problems with the sport’s digital camera talked about above.
It was solely a few weeks in the past that we complained that PC gamers had been fed up with one shitty PC port after one other (opens in new tab), and it appears like Wo Lengthy is one more instance so as to add to the pile. It is a disgrace, because the recreation itself is fairly nice past the efficiency and management points (a reality famous by lots of the unfavourable evaluations). Sam Greer was very optimistic concerning the recreation in our Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty evaluation (opens in new tab), praising it as “exceptionally completed” other than its “technical blemishes”.
Hopefully, the sport will get some immediate patches to convey it as much as snuff, but it surely’d be a lot, significantly better if firms simply stopped releasing video games on this state within the first place.
