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Zelda BOTW Patch 1.11 released
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RPGCrazied
Member
Done with the game, but did the WIi U get any improvements or is it just for the Switch?
Finale Fireworker
Member
Is this the longest thread we've ever had over a stability patch? Not that performance isn't better and it's not cause for applause, but how much can we really talk about a slightly more stable frame rate?
This thread is longer than some OTs. We're 13/26 pages into this. Is this a Seinfeld thread? Because it's a thread about nothing.
This thread is longer than some OTs. We're 13/26 pages into this. Is this a Seinfeld thread? Because it's a thread about nothing.
SoraanTribal
Member
Yeah this is definitely a major annoyance to me. It should be like every other game that has mounts. It just runs in no matter where you are.
one of the most well received games of all time addressed pretty much the main complaint with the game
Finale Fireworker
Member
Right. Of course. That's great. Like, I get that. I love it too and this is great news.
I'm just amazed we have sustained a thread for over 1,100 posts for "this is better, cool."
I'm really just musing. I think it's funny we've kept this thread going for so long and with such enthusiasm. I've been here every day, pretty much. What am I doing? Why am I here?
And yet, here I am.
Kamina
Golden Boy
Yeah, i can't even hear your whistle if you are a hundred meters away.
Mammoth Jones
Member
It really makes the horse functionally useless. I haven't rode a horse in a week because I'm on the other side of the zone.
psychotron
Member
It'll die down after DF do their analysis. Lots of this thread is people guessing what's different.
b00_thegh0st
Member
Come on. There are so many stables... You don't even need to warp to one since there's always one around. Get your horse from the stable guy, ride it till you need to be on feet again, rince repeat. Horses are optional anyway, you don't actually need one.
Finale Fireworker
Member
Imagine an April Fool's joke where DF puts out a video that completely misrepresents the changes just within the realm of a reasonable adjustment. Like, "version 1.11 improves framerate by reducing the amount of variable NPC faces by one. This man (shown) no longer appears in the overworld."
"The patch corrects Hetsu's name to "Hestu", improving the forest experience somewhat."
So then we have another 30 page thread arguing over the result of the video. The mayhem would be insane.
Yes, most of the towns have been improved and some areas in the overworld are MUCH better (
Faron region and heavily wooded areas in Hyrule Field
Benefits of being single, I guess =3
... to be fair I did cancel a lot of plans to go out with friends but meh, it's Zelda and this only happens once every few years so it's Ok.
FallingSputnik
Member
I started a new game, and the starting area runs great. The area in the plateau with all the trees was rough, and now it's smooth. Really wish the game had shipped like this, otherwise the game runs so much better now.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Did this update make the fan run full blast all the time in handheld? Mine sounds like a jet now.
Lionel Richie
Member
I'm in a similar position and the game is truly a tremendous achievement and it's in a real battle to be the best game I have ever played. Every time I'm in a big grassy field I'm always hit hard by how beautiful that world is. I'm in no rush whatsoever to finish this one.
Guys, NXGamer's frame rate analysis is up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5vhikphzLg
It's that long because half of the posters are subject to nocebo effect and are seeing downgrades where there's nothing.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I wonder if they should make new patches more obvious in-system. I mean, it alerts you when you start a game, but I'd last launched Zelda several days earlier and was just going in and out of sleep mode. If I didn't know there was a patch thanks to the Internet, there's no telling when I'd have next launched it.
Is it?
GenG3000 said:
Ehhhh, gonna disagree with you there. Most don't let you go through the major objectives in any order you want. In BOTW there's not much difference in the difficulty of the puzzles/enemies/boss from the first divine beast to the last, except that by the last I had like 10 more hearts and much better equipment.Rodin said:
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Estimated delivery May 2014.
Naked Snake
Member
Text summary? I'm worried about seeing areas I haven't been to yet.
The video is spoiler-free, he doesn't go further than the second village.
I just found my horse again out in the open where I left it weeks ago. Stealing horses from Bokoblins has been much more useful.
Armoured Titan
Member
I don't know. I'm playing for the first time in a week and to me the visuals seems slightly downgraded? I mean, it looks softer whereas before it was crisp and sharp. I don't know if the patch has done anything?
NXGamer has done a test, there is no change in resolution or in LOD. I am afraid you might be suffering from a placebo effect.
Specifically, nocebo effect if one thinks the game actually looks worse, which might result from the additional scrutiny (or lack thereof) people are giving the game.
Sucks if that happens though, adjust your TV settings folks.
It is good design to me. Makes me pay more attention to my companion. I've been playing exclusively on horseback and am having a blast.
Naked Snake
Member
I found having to unmount the horse to collect stuff to be annoying. The world is littered with loot when you first enter an area, I find going on foot more convenient. Also climbing.
We should wait for Digital Foundries Fun-Analysis-Graph so we can be certain Nintendo didn't patch any of it out to improve the frame rate.
entremet
Member
What did it address? Needs a summary lol.
Wading through a huge thread is a bit nuts.
Check 8 posts above your post.
Teletraan1
Banned
I have only read this page but if only three other people had even a benign criticism like difficulty I could see there being at least 13/26 pages of "you salty" posts and silly response gifs. Game is perfect remember and is above criticism.
Not even remotely close to every problem with the game (I'm not going to call them complaints because many of them aren't even debatable).
But it's definitely nice to have. I'm playing on Wii U and there is a tangible improvement. Still choppy in some places, the high stress places especially, and I'd almost say the drop is more obvious now because it actually bounces back only to drop again a bit later in those areas, but overall an appreciated improvement.
bananafactory
Banned
WiiU version doesn't feel much different. Kakariko is still muddy choppy ass
Haven't tried plateau yet
Haven't tried plateau yet
I never said that tho
Problems = complaints, at least they should. Unfortunately the very real problems in this game aren't just being ignored, they're being spun into a false narrative in defense of the game at every turn.
you lost me
I was just saying they addressed the framerate which was the main issue that most people have with the game. every review mentions it, pretty much.
I wonder how that kid will turn out.
SpookyBlackFish
Member
Switch version here, a few dozen hours in.
Interesting how some people say there's more pop up and lesser draw distance and foliage after the patch. Or that it's blurry.
The game looks like before.
Also interesting how some wait for a DF analysis as if they weren't able to see and judge for themselves. "Framerate might be a little more stable? That MUST come at some cost! It seems definitely maybe less detailed now... I think... I dunno, please someone tell me what I see here!"
Seriously, you must force yourself to see worse graphics or more pop up than before. If an analyst would do an April's fool and falsely state a game would be 720p instead of 900p and had lesser blades of grass swaying in the wind after a patch, a mass hysteria would occur. Yeah, yeah, I absolutely see it, downgrade, you see it too!
Ok, let's say some things were really toned down in favour of the framerate: that must be so minor or well implemented, that you would only be disturbed by it if you had a side by side comparison (like in the Snake Pass analysis).
I'm revisiting certain places in BotW for more than 30 minutes now and cannot spot a difference. Framedrops have not vanished but the framerate is better. Very obvious in some forest spots, just glide down to the very first forest in the game from the starting point when you leave the cave. That was one choppy mess sometimes when hunting your first boars. Only a single minor framedrop during sundown for less than a second. Tested in morning light, noon, evening. Really much better. With no noticeable loss in fidelity.
Strangely, the noticable framedrop at the very beginning of the game (a few metres down the road after you meet the old man the first time) is still there. Reduced and in a smaller area, but still there.
Get the Switch update. And please quote and ban me if DF comes with a warning, that Zelda looks noticably worse on the first sight on Switch after the patch. Because then I would know, that I could not believe my own senses anymore.
Interesting how some people say there's more pop up and lesser draw distance and foliage after the patch. Or that it's blurry.
The game looks like before.
Also interesting how some wait for a DF analysis as if they weren't able to see and judge for themselves. "Framerate might be a little more stable? That MUST come at some cost! It seems definitely maybe less detailed now... I think... I dunno, please someone tell me what I see here!"
Seriously, you must force yourself to see worse graphics or more pop up than before. If an analyst would do an April's fool and falsely state a game would be 720p instead of 900p and had lesser blades of grass swaying in the wind after a patch, a mass hysteria would occur. Yeah, yeah, I absolutely see it, downgrade, you see it too!
Ok, let's say some things were really toned down in favour of the framerate: that must be so minor or well implemented, that you would only be disturbed by it if you had a side by side comparison (like in the Snake Pass analysis).
I'm revisiting certain places in BotW for more than 30 minutes now and cannot spot a difference. Framedrops have not vanished but the framerate is better. Very obvious in some forest spots, just glide down to the very first forest in the game from the starting point when you leave the cave. That was one choppy mess sometimes when hunting your first boars. Only a single minor framedrop during sundown for less than a second. Tested in morning light, noon, evening. Really much better. With no noticeable loss in fidelity.
Strangely, the noticable framedrop at the very beginning of the game (a few metres down the road after you meet the old man the first time) is still there. Reduced and in a smaller area, but still there.
Get the Switch update. And please quote and ban me if DF comes with a warning, that Zelda looks noticably worse on the first sight on Switch after the patch. Because then I would know, that I could not believe my own senses anymore.
^^^ Nice write-up!
Can someone ease my mind by confirming that this patch did not add a change to the way it is visualized when enemies on lookout spot you?
I only noticed this for the first time after the patch so it might be a coincedence, but the question mark above an enemie's head now seems to turn red gradually before becoming an exclamation mark to indicate when it actually saw you.
Like I said, I never noticed this before, only that a yellow/white question mark becomes a yellow/white exclamation mark after they spot you, but maybe I'm just crazy.
Edit: I need new glasses = confirmed.
Can someone ease my mind by confirming that this patch did not add a change to the way it is visualized when enemies on lookout spot you?
I only noticed this for the first time after the patch so it might be a coincedence, but the question mark above an enemie's head now seems to turn red gradually before becoming an exclamation mark to indicate when it actually saw you.
Like I said, I never noticed this before, only that a yellow/white question mark becomes a yellow/white exclamation mark after they spot you, but maybe I'm just crazy.
Edit: I need new glasses = confirmed.
psychowave
Member
That was definitely there before the patch.
That was quick - cheers! Guess I simply never looked closely enough before.
I feel dumb. Came off of a week of not playing BotW (instead I was playing stuff on PC) and I was absolutely sure it didn't look that bad when I had played it earlier. I guess I must not have paid much attention to the aggressive pop in and terrible AF at the time. Jumping back in after coming off of PC is also quite the fucking contrast @__@
Rushersauce
Banned
oh look, the exception and not the rule!
Judging by review scores and general reception neither did the vast majority of other people, so you aren't alone.
Well, it's not like they've really fixed it, it's just less bad. At the same time if reviews actually meant a damn thing they'd probably have touched on the PS2 era draw in, the incredibly poor IQ, the shoddy hit detection/hit boxes, how jarring zero depth of field effects are in a 2017 game especially one so built around vertical transitions and distance, the wonky lock on mechanic, etc..