sexymajesco
Banned
My game started off fine but the closer I got to the end of the campaign the higher the frequency of freezes and stutters with freezes literally lasting upwards of 20 seconds at times now.
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55 days later, Arkham Knight PC is still hopelessly unplayable
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suddenlyissoon
Member
I just can't believe that I bought the season pass and, chances are, they aren't ever going to release any actual DLC.
With steam refunds, there's basically no risk involved.
Damn, I totally forgot about that. Good point.
LurkerPrime
Member
Yeah, I had a similar experience. The first half was OK, but performance degraded extremely in the tail end of the game. The last few hours were filled with stuttering and incredibly poor performance all around. I had no outright gamebreaking issues, but it was a decidedly unpleasant experience that couldn't be called "playable."
I'm really curious to see how long it will be before AK is actually finished. I am doubtful the interim patch will be a magic fix-all.
Steam refunds landed right on time for this one. Can't imagine how different things would be without it.
Well, all that would happen is you add WB to the chorus of "fuck you, got mine" that you see in some of the posts here.
I would say it's one of the worst ports in a long time, I bought the season pass edition so I feel sort of ripped off because I can't play the content(no matter how mediocre it sounds). For what it's worth I was able to finish the game, but on certain days it would crash every 10-12 minutes or so. There was a week where it just crashed to the desktop upon start until the new nvidia drivers came out.
I didn't request a refund, to be honest, I just wanted to play it. When it works it's an awesome game, but between this and MK X, WB is quickly becoming the publisher to avoid on PC. What's worse is that there hasn't really been a lot of communication about when this patch is dropping.
I didn't request a refund, to be honest, I just wanted to play it. When it works it's an awesome game, but between this and MK X, WB is quickly becoming the publisher to avoid on PC. What's worse is that there hasn't really been a lot of communication about when this patch is dropping.
IcyRhythms
Member
I know that Stream refunds were definitely a factor, but there is no way WB and Rocksteady could ignore the user reviews on Steam AND on Metacritic. One of their biggest games had been tarnished. The backlash was real on a number of different forums.
JigglesBunny
Banned
If WB gave everyone a free copy of Mad Max and released the patch before the end of September, that'd suffice.
What the heck is that stuff at the bottom of the skybox? The Earth's mantle?
Damn this post is crazy in so many ways. If drops below 10fps isn't unplayable then what is?
It's a gas texture that has been multiplied some times over, probably a bad idea to use that section of the game as an example to begin with.
Inferno313
Banned
I was able to run the game nearly at 60 FPS throughout, so I wasn't as affected as most.
However, now that I've beat the game and unlocked the ability to get the 75% ending... It won't activate, now matter how many times I hit the activate button, no waypoint for where to go to end the game. Even when I go where I know I'm supposed to it won't let me see the ending. :/
However, now that I've beat the game and unlocked the ability to get the 75% ending... It won't activate, now matter how many times I hit the activate button, no waypoint for where to go to end the game. Even when I go where I know I'm supposed to it won't let me see the ending. :/
SuperBanana
Banned
You still can't even buy it on Steam it's that unplayable and broken. How many times have you seen a publisher pull a huge title after release like that?
VincentMatts
Member
Didnt they already say september?
Hahaha. Imagine that PR statement.Mad Max releases on the 31st. Maybe the patch will be an unlockable.
I know right, I mean seriously. For the two people that still have expectations of it being fixed any time soon...
Replace Arkham Knight with MCC.
There. That's how long it's going to take more or less. So sit back and grab a Snickers; y'all gonna be here for a while.
This makes zero sense. GZ was an amazing port, the same guys are doing it. They even asked us what options we want in the game. Then after that they pushed the release up two weeks and implemented the options most requested by us ( not all of them, but the ones they could).
So where do you get the idea that it will be bad?
Not to mentions steam refunds are a thing now.
d00d3n
Member
One thing I can't figure out is: why no details about the compensation package for those who stayed with the game/dlc from WB? What do they gain from this? Are they seriously thinking about giving us nothing but the fixed game? ("Congratulations for the alpha access the last couple of months, hope you enjoyed your reward!"?) Or are they waiting for Mad Max (which they seem to have faith in) to be released to not slaughter sales by giving it away as a freebie?
I finished the game near launch with minimal issues, and I'm not even on a super high video card. As long as you tweak the settings just so you can get a good experience out of it. The game obviously does need to be fixed because you shouldn't have to tweak the settings, but saying it's unplayable is not truthful.
I do wish the DLC would come out though, I bought the Season Pass and have almost nothing to show from it. Even if the DLC all kind of sucks, I'd like access, I want to spend 15 minutes as Harley.
I do wish the DLC would come out though, I bought the Season Pass and have almost nothing to show from it. Even if the DLC all kind of sucks, I'd like access, I want to spend 15 minutes as Harley.
Ephemeris
Member
I'm in the same boat; especially on the Season Pass. Usually I'm the one where my hardware holds me back, so it's funny to me as I run through this "hopelessly unplayable" title on my humble PC haha
Yes, it is.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
It really is insane that two months later they haven't improved it at all, and still no official word on when the patches might start coming. What a fucking mess.
I played about 3 hours of it on Saturday using the settings recommended by Geforce Experience. It had some visible fps drops in some parts (lots of fog mostly) but overall I still was able to play and have fun with it. Based on that experience I wouldn't say it is unplayable, but I just read it gets worse as the game goes on, so perhaps that's why I haven't seen anything too terrible yet.
Either way the recommended settings from Geforce Experience has everything on low and res at 1080. Hopefully the patch will let me run it with some higher settings, or at 1400p, or something.
Either way the recommended settings from Geforce Experience has everything on low and res at 1080. Hopefully the patch will let me run it with some higher settings, or at 1400p, or something.
At this point everyone is wasting their time responding to those posts. "It runs fine for me, ergo it runs fine for everyone else, people are just hyperbolic!"
The game runs perfect for me from my SSD, less perfect from my gaming HDD. I've also seen how it runs for a friend of mine, which is pretty similar to how it runs for SalsaShark, going by the video he posted.
Plus when someone brings up a comment about some kind of freebie or compensation, the general response is "Well, they let you refund it." When the new SimCity launched broken, it took some pushing but EA started to accept refunds for it. It may not be as wide spread as Arkham Knight (Pushing retail stores for recall, but that shows how fucked the port was. Plus the retail copies were screwed up too. Would only install around 8GB then require people to download the rest unless they copied the discs to their HDD and fixed it themselves.) but refunds were allowed.
And they still offered a free game as compensation.
I did not know this dang it, now I'm even angrier.
How do they even mess up disc installs?
Yeah no. It'll run "fine" at times without hitching for like 30 minutes if I'm lucky, then it'll devolve to looking like Salsa's video after a while. Sometimes it just loads up acting like that, it's really unpredictable. I've shelved my play-through until it's fixed, but it was pulled from sale for a reason.
No idea, but there were a lot of angry posts from people who were being forced to download the rest of the game when they had strict data caps. That was before someone found out how to get the rest of it to install by copying the discs to a HDD and fixing it.
demosthenes
Member
Played and beat the game to probably 85% on PC. The only thing I didn't finish were the tiddler trophies because we'll screw that. I wouldn't call it unplayable, but it's definitely not preferred.
It sounds like your specific setup is causing those problems, I never experienced a hitch in the entire campaign. That totally might be the fault of the broken game, but you can't just generally say the game is unplayable when some people have played through it even before the first patch came out.
Lightning Count
Member
This is why when PC gamers act superior and shit on consoles, I don't take them seriously.
All the power in the world means nothing when matched up to poor optimisation and bad porting.
All the power in the world means nothing when matched up to poor optimisation and bad porting.
If the game wasn't so unplayable for a large majority of people it wouldn't be taking this long to fix it. WB wouldn't have pulled all digital and retail copies, causing loss of income. They wouldn't be withholding Season Pass content, pissing off the people who didn't refund and kept the game + season pass.
This is an edge case though. Pretty important specification.
You're right. It's probably just me having these problems. Carry on.
shiftplusone
Member
My game was not as bad as salsa sharks but I'd still call it unplayable
Even if it "worked good enough" after "tweaking a bunch of settings and an ini file" that shit is at minimum unacceptable and I don't see why you'd argue against that
I'm just bummed that it was the game I got with my brand new 980 ti and it's an absolute shit version
Would fight a person to get mgs instead of Batman
Wait what
Even if it "worked good enough" after "tweaking a bunch of settings and an ini file" that shit is at minimum unacceptable and I don't see why you'd argue against that
I'm just bummed that it was the game I got with my brand new 980 ti and it's an absolute shit version
Would fight a person to get mgs instead of Batman
Wait what
When the free MGS deal was announced, a lot of people were able to get a free MGS code from NewEgg by contacting support. Hell, when I contacted them I was originally told I wasn't eligible due to when I purchased the card and I'd already gotten 2 games free (Witcher 3 + Batman) but they ended up sending me a free code anyway.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
I'm interested in seeing how it performs when they make it available to buy again. Even then, I'm just going to hold out for their goty edition with all the dlc packed in.
As PC gamers we have at least had the luxury of fan modifications and steam refunds to get the game we deserve. Bad ports happen on every system lets not kid ourselves here.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
LOL. It's not his system. It's that the game is a busted pile of shit. I don't see how you can think otherwise after the company stops selling the product, and two months later we've had no updates as to when it might reappear.
Yeah, 'cause this type of mess happens all the time on PC. And there have been no broken ass games on the PS4 or XOne this generation. Totally.
XANDER CAGE
Member
This has nothing to do with the platform and everything to do with the publisher and developer. Let's not start a fight where there isn't one.
C'mon Smokey. Everyone knows your system just brute forced that shit to a playable state.
I got it to run somewhat okay while looking decent after a lot of work (gtx 970, i5 3570k @ 4.2 8gb ram) but decided to stop playing it until they fixed it. I really think that fucking season pass better be free or a free game for those who already spent money on the pass.
And no I don't think that is too much to ask for releasing this pile of shit. I will never buy another WB game on PC at launch, even from a key reseller on the cheap.
And no I don't think that is too much to ask for releasing this pile of shit. I will never buy another WB game on PC at launch, even from a key reseller on the cheap.
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