Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty got here out immediately, however it may most likely have used a bit further time within the oven. Gamers throughout the web are complaining about all types of technical issues with the sport’s PC model: dropped frames, stuttering, points with shaders, and different efficiency points which have grow to be disturbingly frequent in PC ports over the previous couple of years. However which may not even be the worst of it, gamers utilizing a keyboard and mouse to play the sport are reporting some really baffling design decisions with Wo Lengthy’s controls.
You do not have to go far to seek out gamers complaining about technical issues. Solely 31% of Wo Lengthy’s 2,331 Steam consumer evaluations (opens in new tab) are constructive at time of writing, and lots of the adverse ones point out the sport’s efficiency. One evaluation from a consumer named AloneInSilence (opens in new tab) sums it up, calling the sport “Unplayable” resulting from “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 is not any completely different.
Here is examples of frames dropping whereas taking part in Wo Lengthy demo…that is on efficiency mode. I do know folks 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 cling!! Doubtless will play full recreation on console. pic.twitter.com/LUl64FcaduFebruary 26, 2023
Over on Reddit, a consumer known as Particular person-Error5651 (opens in new tab) complains that their Recreation Cross model of Wo Lengthy is inexplicably locked at 720p on their RTX 3060, however in some way 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 consumer pushed to distraction by the sport’s keyboard and mouse controls. A consumer named cashews (opens in new tab) calls Wo Lengthy ” recreation buried deep beneath the largest disaster of a PC port that I’ve ever seen,” noting the sport’s technical points however declaring that “the largest challenge are the controls”.
“If you happen to do not transfer your mouse quick sufficient, the digicam won’t react, no matter your mouse sensitivity,” mentioned 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 format 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,” mentioned a reviewer known as T.E.S (opens in new tab), however the sluggish mouse-controlled digicam made them “really feel unwell,” forcing them to place the sport down.
To be truthful to Wo Lengthy, gamepads have all the time had an edge over a trusty outdated keyboard and mouse setup relating to action-heavy, Souls-like video games reminiscent of these, however it feels like Wo Lengthy’s keyboard controls are dangerous even by that commonplace. Some gamers report a measure of success reconfiguring the format, however it may well solely achieve this a lot within the face of the problems with the sport’s digicam 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, for the reason that recreation itself is fairly nice past the efficiency and management points (a truth famous by plenty of the adverse evaluations). Sam Greer was very constructive in regards to the recreation in our Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty evaluation (opens in new tab), praising it as “exceptionally achieved” apart from its “technical blemishes”.
Hopefully, the sport will get some immediate patches to carry it as much as snuff, however it’d be a lot, significantly better if firms simply stopped releasing video games on this state within the first place.