What is the current state of The PC port?

[Punished Soyjak]

I heard previously that it had many broken features and performance issues, and so I'm posting this wondering if that's still the case today. And whether or not I should still buy it.

[budisourdog]

Modding in NAIOM allowed me to have an extra dedicated dash button and toggle pod fire (autofire mode, very useful with missiles that find their own targets) both of which were missing in this PC "port".
Performance has been near perfect, never had any bugs or crashes.

[Damager101]

if you cant interact with a NPC you can press pause go to the menu and than get back out of menu so you can talk to him/her. Only bug i know so far from my playthrough. State is solid af.

[Sailor Gloom]

i was wondering about this too, I know in the past it needed Special K to run ok and fix some things is that no longer the case?

[Skeeka]

Originally posted by Sailor Gloom:

i was wondering about this too, I know in the past it needed Special K to run ok and fix some things is that no longer the case?

You can do without it nowadays. The main issues that made Special K vital in the past were:

- The game picking a lower internal resolution than the one you set when in fullscreen, which made everything look wonky and horrible.
- The FMV cutscene began stuttering after a couple of seconds
- Potential performance issues on lower end (Or at the time of release even mid-tier machines.) due to the global illumination setting that didn't actually do too much visually but was a massive performance hog and couldn't be lowered in the vanilla release
- Constant microstutter on some displays that a lot of Platinum Games' PC ports suffer from.

All of these things have been fixed now. There is a new issue now where some Ambient Occlusion effects are bleeding through certain objects in specific parts of the game that wasn't there before. Imo it's not too much of an issue but there are fixes for that too.

And it's recommended to turn off MSAA, little visual gain but even on fairly modern machines it can still be taxing on the hardware.

If the game released in the state it is now, it would've been a decent, servicable if barebones PC port of a console game. But since it took 4 years to get there it's getting docked a few points for all eternity.

[GOBL-GOBL]

I have zero issues after 3 hours of playtime. It runs better, compared to game pass version from a ~year ago. It is a locked 60 fps, but no drops on high settings.
I'm running MSAA 8x on 2070super/3700x rig at 1080p.