Rise of the Ronin arrived on Steam this week, a yr after its debut on PlayStation 5, and I’m sorry to say it is not going properly, as gamers are reporting severe efficiency issues with the sport. Koei Tecmo says it is now “investigating” the studies and dealing on a patch that may hopefully “repair or enhance a few of these points.”
There would not appear to be any singular, constant difficulty driving the complaints, past that it simply would not run properly in any respect, even on comparatively high-end PCs. Common points embrace stuttering, low and inconsistent body charges, crashes, and enter delays; making issues worse, quite a few gamers complain the sport actually would not look nice, even with graphical settings cranked up. The internet result’s a “blended” score on Steam, the place simply 44% of person evaluations are optimistic.
A couple of picks:
- “The sport seems to be like early PS4 graphics… and the truth that the sport efficiency is INSANELY unhealthy is unacceptable.”
- “Combat is sweet, efficiency is unhealthy, in the identical place I can have 70 fps then it shortly drops to round 30 fps for no motive. Graphics is sweet at greatest, however typically it seems to be like PS4 sport, I actually do not perceive why it is so demanding.”
- “My PC goes above the advisable {hardware} after which some but it doesn’t matter what is finished it simply seems to be like blurry sub-40 FPS crap regardless of the upscaling, the framegen, the exterior GPU software program settings, even working it at low/medium at a lesser decision causes points.”
- “Game is de facto enjoyable thus far. Performance is horrible. It ran simply wonderful for the prologue, however as quickly as you get to the open world … efficiency falls off a cliff. Stuttering and choppiness even when you decrease the settings.”
Our personal Rise of the Ronin reviewer, who for the document continues to be engaged on it, has run into related issues himself: “One minute it is clean on the excessive setting, subsequent it is struggling on low.”
The state of affairs is comparable on the Rise of the Ronin subreddit: Some gamers say it is wonderful, however fairly just a few others are reporting vital efficiency points. Even amongst those that say they’re proud of it, there appears to be a specific amount of hedging right here and there.
“Feels like there is a slight stutter/choppiness but it surely’s nothing I’m not used to taking part in Team Ninja PC ports,” one redditor wrote. “You get used to it fairly quick. My framerate stays at 70-110 with DLSS balanced and excessive settings, and the sport feels nice general. Noticed some graphical glitches in just a few cutscenes however the precise traversal and fight has been clean.”
“You get used to it” is never what you wish to hear in any state of affairs, however the reality is that we’ve got sort of gotten used to shoddy PC ports. Monster Hunter: Wilds is the obvious current instance, however the listing of notables additionally contains Spider-Man 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, The Last of Us Part 1, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and little question an entire bunch of others I can not recall off the highest of my head. It’s sufficient of a difficulty that in 2023 we took a deeper dive into why PC ports appear to be getting worse. (The brief reply? Making video games is dear, time consuming, and arduous.)
In any occasion, Koei Tecmo is on the case. In a Steam replace, the writer mentioned FPS drops, gradual efficiency, and “mannequin rendering points” can happen when utilizing the Ultra graphics preset no matter your PC specs, and that the sport “runs in gradual movement” when the FPS restrict is ready to 120. It’s now “getting ready a patch, which might be launched quickly, to repair or enhance a few of these points,” and within the meantime, when you run into these issues recommends altering the graphical preset to both High or Standard, and dropping the FPS restrict to 60, which “might” clear up the issues.
