Similar to Arkham Knight Release?

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This reminds me a lot of Arkham Knight. Both Unreal Engine, good dev but tried to do too much, publisher shooting their feet. Why don't publishers just release the pc version months later? How long did it take to fix AK, 4-8 months? If people were patient they could send a much needed message and enjoy a better game at a discount. Problem Solved!

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Originally posted by Darkie:

The big issue is, that people that play mainstream games (this is a mainstream game, for the avarage console player) want to be part of the mainstream and its novelty.

They will not refund games, they will complain on the forum instead.

Rinse repeat, at next big AAA console game ported to PC. Its a safe bet for making money, without having any consequences for a unstable and subpar coded game, that is not optimized at all for PC.


I don´t complain however, I have many stocks in EA. Thank you for your support.

Don't thank me, I never pre-purchase.

[iqscur]

Originally posted by Darkie:

I don´t complain however, I have many stocks in EA. Thank you for your support.

this is why its better to buy on the grey market, no one get any money

[suboptimal]

Originally posted by . . .:

This reminds me a lot of Arkham Knight. Both Unreal Engine, good dev but tried to do too much, publisher shooting their feet. Why don't publishers just release the pc version months later? How long did it take to fix AK, 4-8 months? If people were patient they could send a much needed message and enjoy a better game at a discount. Problem Solved!

Corporations don't care about us, ethics or morality. They care about maximizing profit regardless of consequence. So they make calculations that determines the damage done from a broken release still results in higher profits than the extra time spent on payroll to properly fix the game.

Corporations are almost always unethical and immoral. Often outright evil.

[AmaiAmai]

You can't compare this to Arkham Knight! That game was Nvidia-sponsored and ran beautifully!

I don't remember ever crashing when the Batmobile's smoke effects came up. Nope, no way.

If there were any problems with Arkham Knight it was solely on the dev team and not Nvidia and the effects being used.

Here though, it's definitely AMD! It just has to be! I can't think of any explanation.

Now excuse me while I use my 7950x3D on Windows 7 x64 even though the CPU has no support in that OS, my 4090 with only a UEFI BIOS and no CSM compatibility, and my RAM OC'd at 7444.

Windows 10 will never take me alive! Oh no, game crashed... AMD did it again!

[Dax]

Arkham Knight was way, way worse. For me atleast, it functionally didn't work, assets wouldn't load so missions were uncompletable because you couldnt interact with them. Like yes it had ♥♥♥♥ optimization too, but it was also just mechanically broken. Jedi Survivor is poorly optimized, but if you're ok playing at 30-45 fps it's a functional, and dare I say, good game.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by Dax:

Arkham Knight was way, way worse. For me atleast, it functionally didn't work, assets wouldn't load so missions were uncompletable because you couldnt interact with them. Like yes it had ♥♥♥♥ optimization too, but it was also just mechanically broken. Jedi Survivor is poorly optimized, but if you're ok playing at 30-45 fps it's a functional, and dare I say, good game.

Arkham Knight also froze PCs...so there is that too. On the 970 it was very good at freezing the system with that smoke effect. I think even AngryJoe or some other Youtuber crashed on stream with computer freezes playing it more than once.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Originally posted by . . .:

This reminds me a lot of Arkham Knight. Both Unreal Engine, good dev but tried to do too much, publisher shooting their feet. Why don't publishers just release the pc version months later? How long did it take to fix AK, 4-8 months? If people were patient they could send a much needed message and enjoy a better game at a discount. Problem Solved!

Won’t matter.

The amount of hardware diversification is enormous on PC. The people who want perfection actually are shooting themselves in the foot. The game tried to build around ray tracing and next gen tech. Rat tracing just doesn’t seem to be ready. Same problem with Cyberpunk and these devs make the best games in the business.

It will never have a smooth launch on PC for everyone. It’s the nature of PC. Unless they develop several years behind the tech. Meaning no ray tracing until it is bullet proof. It’s been out for years now and they still can’t seem to get it battened down.

And the people whining about 60 fps have no idea what they are talking about. The most important thing is consistency through all hardware. A game that runs at 30 fps locked perfectly will look better than a game that goes from 60 to 120. As the game cycles frames it causes sheering or latency issues through all the hardware.

Also producing 20 frames of microscopic changes that you can’t even react that fast. It’s a waste.

They would be better locking PC games to 60 fps with a band of 10 fps. If they can do that and all hardware works in unison games would look movie quality.

Better to frame lock it than have giant swings. And sone latency isn’t frame production. Sometimes latency is unrelated.

Basically imagine a water house that is consistent versus one that doubles output and cycles. All the hardware in the computer is bouncing around to try and match.

But sone people claim they can see 300 fps and other nonsense in this forum.

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From Steam DB:

Batman Arkham Knight
Builds, patches, and notes

9. 08 March 2016
8. 19 January 2016
7. 18 December 2015
6. 17 December 2015
5. 24 November 2015
4. 05 November 2015
3. 28 October 2015
2. 04 September 2015
1. 27 June 2015
0. 23 June 2015 (Release)

Total 9 patches, 9+ months

Large 3+ month time span
between patch 1 and 2