CambriaRising
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From yesterday. Any updates today? And any ETA?
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Warner Brothers suspends [new] purchases for PC version of Batman Arkham Knight
- Thread starter Mad Season
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From yesterday. Any updates today? And any ETA?
Schweinehund
Member
I probably won't flip out until the end of next week and we don't get an update.
Yeah I believe they're serious about fixing the game, but for me there needs to be more. If I had known there was a PC delay I might have opted for the ps4 version and gotten the preorder bonus + sale prices. Now I get neither and a broken game.
You do realize Bioshock Infinite was also broken at launch right??? The stuttering was tterrible and myself and other members of the community had to rally together to get irrational to finally admit there was an issue and a fixed version wasn't released until 8 weeks later.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Console update is being outsoured, confirmed.
This is shades of the NBA Elite 11 Jesus Bynum problem...except EA cancelled the game before it was actually released. I work in application development and I can't imagine the amount of sheepish looks around the office knowing they were releasing a piece of shit. A high profile one at that.
Zomba13
Member
Console updates will bring parity to the PC version until it's fixed. Next patch will remove rain effects and force low LOD textures at all times. Please understand.
Allnamestakenlol
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Chronicjihad
Banned
You guys see this? Not sure if true but it makes sense.
Schweinehund
Member
I'll probably just take the season patch. I'm still in shock this is happening though. Like what did they think would happen if they had released the pc version.
If true, what does that mean for those of us that bought the premium edition (I jumped on the GMG deal)? Do we just get a free WB game? I'm conflicted over whether I should get a refund on the game and buy it on PS4, or just wait this whole mess out. I'm currently preoccupied with TW3 anyway...
family_guy
Member
There's not a single WB game available that I would want for free...unless they want to give a voucher for Mad Max.
electroflame
Member
Well, crap.
Wonder what that means for us Season Pass holders.
Wonder what that means for us Season Pass holders.
The Dear Leader
Banned
That's really crazy if true, I would love to hear a post mortem about this whole situation when it's all said and done.
One would think Season Pass holders are also eligible for a refund.
If it were me, I'd take a free Season Pass, assuming they fix it.
But this is starting to sound like the worst port of a game...probably ever. The only time I ever remember a game being recalled was Tales of Graces for the Wii in Japan.
Consoles, say hello to Iron Galaxy!!!
Not sure I'd buy that Gamestop story. Sending them back because they need a new build? It isn't like we haven't seen retail games need a jillion gigs of patches anyway so that seems like an unneeded cost for WB to take onto themselves. It's not like you'd be able to play the game without going onto Steam and knowing there's patches since it's not DRM free.
I guess I can kinda see GS wanting to be rid of them and it's just part of recouping some of their costs since it's not like retail PC is a big deal for them, especially far from release date. I'd imagine most of their PC sales are pre-order and early business.
I guess I can kinda see GS wanting to be rid of them and it's just part of recouping some of their costs since it's not like retail PC is a big deal for them, especially far from release date. I'd imagine most of their PC sales are pre-order and early business.
Well...if they take the patch/dlc down at some point, the game is broken again with no way to fix it.
Gaming Disaster of the Year right here.
Why would they take the patch down? That doesn't make a ton of sense.
I'm talking about a long time down the line sort of thing.
Affeinvasion
Member
What if the retail boxes have the name of the outsourced developer on it and they've since been replaced? Is that a reason to withdraw the one or two copies that get sent to each gamestop? I don't know...
Hidden One
Member
Just ordered the parts to build my gaming PC and this game is coming free as a voucher..Will I be able to play it?
"Play" is a subjective term here, I think. If you can download it, possibly.
Yes just not a great showcase of your hardware. The performance you get wont be optimal and youll get crashes or not if your lucky.
I don't think that was nearly as widespread an issue at this one. I played Bioshock Infinite on a laptop with a GTX 260M at launch without any of those issues.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Question is, would they extend any sort of compensation to people who have the game because they bought an 900 series NVIDIA card. I'm sure I'm not the only one who pulled the trigger on upgrading because of the games, Arkham Knight was the one that pushed me over the edge.
Doctor Ironic
Member
Re: People who keep saying this is the worst PC port of all time -
Resident Evil 4 shipped without a lighting engine.
If you really think this is the worst port ever, your scope is extremely limited.
Resident Evil 4 shipped without a lighting engine.
If you really think this is the worst port ever, your scope is extremely limited.
If they're doing some sort of recompense, they'll likely just give it to all Steam owners regardless of where you got it, just because it would be a lot easier that way.
I'd bet on the Unity model. Season pass for everyone, anyone that owned the season pass can choose a free game.
Well, maybe not full season pass, as even Unity didn't include that with the AC china game existing. Probably the Batgirl campaign.
Depends on the rig I suppose. I'm running the game fine at 30FPS with limited drops (Batmobile) and not a single crash yet after 15 hours. It's missing some textures and features that the console versions have but it's playable (for me)
If you got the game through the Nvidia promotion, I don't think you got a Steam key.
Of course you did. The game is Steamworks.
Worst AAA port. I mean Deadly premonition might be my personal worst pc port of all time, but batman is easily up there with GTAIV.
Does everyone remember the Digital Foundry analysis of borderlands 2 for Vita...... That was also Iron Galaxy... if you watch the video on youtube you can see the framerate going as low as 12fps and averaging around 20fps...... How are Iron Galaxy still in business?
I'll leave this here for anyone who wants to see evidence of the fine work done at Iron Galaxy Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBj_A2OutJ4
I'll leave this here for anyone who wants to see evidence of the fine work done at Iron Galaxy Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBj_A2OutJ4
The Shadow
Member
Coincidentally, Iron Galaxy did some work on Bioshock Infinite.
Iron Galaxy's lessons learned on the path to Killer Instinct (lol)
Resident Evil 4, a mainline entry of one of gaming's biggest franchises, developed by Capcom and ported by Ubisoft is pretty much the definition of AAA.
Discotheque
Banned
Deadly Premonition is the WOAT port tbh
Father_Brain
Banned
If you want to prove that Iron Galaxy is a shitty developer, BL2 Vita is a really, really weak example, given that (a) it's running on a platform much less powerful than anything BL2 was originally designed to run on, and (b) it's running on an engine poorly optimized for Vita, in native resolution no less (which I don't believe any other UE3 game on the platform does).
I really doubt any other studio could have done a significantly better job.
Rodney McKay
Member
Yeah, Borderlands 2 Vita was just a bad idea conceptually and seemed like the only reason it happened was because either the fans bugged the developers about it enough or the developer over promised it originally (I forget which it was).
The fact it ran at all is somewhat impressive.
SteveWinwood
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MightyKAC
Member
What makes you think this fan boy bullshit contributes to the conversation in any way?
Also, Killzone Mercenaries called to tell you you're wrong.
I think they mean the game clearly wasn't intended to be ported to a handheld.
It's not fanboy shit, it's telling you that a big AAA open-world UE3 game is not going to work well, if at all, on the Vita's hardware. Multi-core problems, largely, I believe.
The game's still on Steam, if I uninstall it I can download it again. The generated keys still work, you just can't buy it directly from Steam or stores that have stopped selling the game.
Japanese PC ports were shit and had no standard when that one came out. I mean. RE3 had a pc port. Its terrible. DMC3. Terrible. There was no expectation other than wishing it was better. MT Framework/MGS5GZ set the bar for japanese pc ports. We have comparisons to draw from.
MightyKAC
Member
Oh, to be sure it was a shit port, but to claim that it's mediocrity comes from the solely from the Vita is pretty dubious when you look at actual good examples of Vita programming.
But alas, I'm derailing, so I'll apologize and see myself out.