PS5 crashes/texture/fidelity/delays optimization

[dusty birch]

turn display settings to bright in game if it's that bothersome for you without hdr

re apply your character's face and makeup then reload your saved plan its a glitch

[dim tide]

Oohh will do, tyy

[dusty birch]

np

[distant scroll]

Are we ever going to get a fix for the NPC texture quality? It makes it really hard for me to progress through the story when all the NPCs look they fell out of a PS2 in cutscenes. Are they pretty much done updating the game now that PSSR is in?

[tulip seal]

We can only wait

Since they havent said anything yet

[tacit belfry]

I’m betting they will focus on smartphone or PC.

[mighty dragon]

Sighhhh

[tacit belfry]

The port is so terrible, I really doubt they will spent months fixing it

When most of players on PS5 will leave soon

[mighty dragon]

Aiya bro make me lose hope sucks

[distant scroll]

Yeah... I'm feeling that way too. It seems like this patch is their "look we listened to feedback!! We added HDR and PSSR" without actually addressing any of the issues

I will say, the people that are saying that mobile is better than PS5 are out of their mind though. I have a pretty powerful phone and can play it smooth on max settings, but the game looks awful. Still impressive that it runs on phones but not even in the same ballpark as PS5

[still wolf]

i’d rather have better performance than visuals

[distant scroll]

Yeah... At this point, my only hope is that maybe when the big new regions release they optimize better but I've kind of lost hope for the current content

[distant scroll]

I mean, performance is not the PS5s biggest problem. Frame rate could be smoother but I think the biggest issues are across the board texture load in, geometry pop in and level of detail. The game oscillates between looking amazing when textures are there to looking like a PS2 game

[tulip seal]

Ngl, just unlocked the flight mechanic for kaifeng and tried it out

Its not as bad as i expected

Thought i would lag alot lmao

[warm pelican]

Agreed

[warm pelican]

Yes, all and all it's bad optimization, period

[iron pike]

They think pssr and hdr will fix the pop in and the fps🤦‍♂️

[iron pike]

True

[digital copper]

The game freezes very often in online mode. The only solution is to restart it.

[warm pelican]

I mean, at this state, I advise you guys, really, you guys should play another game, and wait for this game to be completely fixed

[median finch]

sorry this is probably out of topic but on wwm window ver when i turn on fsr and ( fsr frame gen when i walk in multiplayer mode i see the character moving like in 24 frame but the game is smooth

[distant scroll]

That's the thing... I think a lot of people here are starting to lose faith that day will ever come

Which is a huge bummer because I love the game otherwise!

[novel comet]

thats what I do. I was waiting for dec 10 update, and was left disappointed. Now on all other platforms people are just talking about game while PS is in this state, it feels like that spongebob window meme. I'll be back next year for hopefully better experience

[tulip seal]

Anyone been to the other regions and checked if the performance is any better than in Kaifeng?

Havent progressed much the main story so havent seen the new area yet, but maybe its better than Kaifeng?

[fathom lintel]

Did they fix keyboard and mouse?

[tacit belfry]

Those things you are telling are directly tied to performance, they are lowering everything they can to get some more fps, if they fix that, expect this game getting 20fps in some areas

[distant scroll]

They can definitely find ways to maintain FPS while increasing the texture quality. I mean... I played Assassins creed shadows this year at 60 fps on PS5 and it looked stunning, way better than WWM does on max settings on PC. I'm not asking for cutting edge graphics lmao, just for large parts of the game to not be so inconsistent. I think that's a pretty attainable goal without compromising too much performance. And honestly, if the game is gonna look like this, I'll take a 30 fps mode.

[tacit belfry]

The texture quality is so low because they are trying to save memory

Its obvious they have a poor asset streaming tech on PS5

[distant scroll]

Okay but what about every time they add a new feature (like HDR which is pretty standard to many PS5 games), it completely bricking other parts of the game? I also tried playing a bit more of the Kaifeng story this morning and had two cutscenes in a row that were completely a black screen even when rebooting. This altogether doesn't strike me as "the PS5 simply isn't capable of what we want to do" but rather inexperience or just minimal resource allocation to the PS5 port

[tacit belfry]

They are probably over the max memory even with those poor quality textures

The reason people got so many crashes in the first weeks

[distant scroll]

Tldr: kinda getting the vibe that everything we are seeing with the PS5 version is just them not really caring all that much about that version of the game, sigh

[tacit belfry]

The port is terrible, simply as that

Fixing textures probably only will get crashes and performance problems

Unless they rewrite their engine

[distant scroll]

Yeah, I just had some hope in my heart when they came out big on the developer feedback saying "we hear you! The textures are awful, we are going to work on it" only to barely do anything and and then add PS5 features that not only don't address anything but actually make the game worse in some regards

[tacit belfry]

They can do it, but it’s probably months of work

Supposing they have people with skills for that job

[distant scroll]

Not convinced entirely that fixing the game on PS5 would be as drastic as you put it. And even if it was, this studio has infinite money/resources with their monetization. The choices they made with adding PSSR and HDR before fixing more basic optimization issues gives me the vibe that they are more interested in hitting the PS5 buzzwords that get some downloads rather than true optimization

[tacit belfry]

PSSR and HDR is not even optimization

[distant scroll]

Exactly! It's just the current sexy PS5 exclusive feature. The fact that that gets pushed around by marketing rather than saying, hey we need to unbreak our game first is kind of telling

[tacit belfry]

PSSR is a 2ms task for GPU, that is basically a 15% from GPU every frame

You need reduce resolution to gain performance with PSSR, but they didn’t do

That is the reason Pro is running slower after the patch

[distant scroll]

So why even bother? Because... It's just an advertising bullet

[tacit belfry]

The point of PSSR is like DLSS get a similar or even better image quality at lower resolution

Also PSSR and RT on Pro (PC don’t have RT yet), sounds like a contractual obligation with Sony

[distant scroll]

But it didn't actually improve any image quality as they chose not to actually lower resolution. So again, they aren't actually using the feature the way it was intended and so it simply exists... To just be a bullet point to sell the game (well sell it in a F2P sense but you get it)

[tacit belfry]

Nope, PSSR works better at higher resolution, so simply didn’t help for performance

[distant scroll]

Yeaaaaah I think so too. I think they got big marketing bucks from Sony and so they have to put this stuff in. So you would think they would focus on getting their PS5 version right with all the Sony marketing but ugh...

Curious if the next devtalk or whatever from them will just completely silent on the PS5 version of the game or more empty promises. Not sure what I prefer

[tulip seal]

Hearing you guys talk about this is reminding me more and more of wuthering waves in ps5

[distant scroll]

Wait I heard that game was busted on PS5 when it came out. I played a bit of it this past summer (could not stick with it due to it be horribly gooner) but it seemed to look and perform pretty well when I played. Did that game have a comeback story in terms of visuals?

[tulip seal]

Well visually, i hear they arr degrading it more and more to improve fps

Cause lots of things were removed in ps5 version compared to pc, like water physics and whatnot

Stil visually good, but their solution is removing things to improve fps

[distant scroll]

Hmmm, it ran at a pretty smooth 60 when I played except for very busy action bits.

[tulip seal]

Well for the more vidually demanding areas

Most areas are stil 60fps i think, so better than WWM

[distant scroll]

I mean... I would be fine with more sliders ala like a PC for WWM. If I'm just playing a story section, let me up the textures so that when I see big zhao, he doesn't look like a weird blob and fps doesn't matter so much there

Heck even just a performance vs quality mode like MANY PS5 games have would go a long way

[tulip seal]

Perfomance mode and quality for solo would have been great, cause im not much of 1440k resolution anyways sinc im on an old tv

But anyways im stil positive on the game, since its realy just some areas in kaifeng, i just ignore them to the best of my ability

[distant scroll]

I remember playing FFXVI and I played through the entire game on performance because it's a sweaty action game. For fun, I tried out the quality mode in post game and I regretted my choice so much so hard because the game looked 10 times better in quality

[tulip seal]

Yea ff16 was a visually amazing game, ran so smoothly

[distant scroll]

I think overall positive on the game too. It just sucks when I have to go to YouTube to watch a cutscene because they keep breaking lol. Kind of hard to ignore at that point

[tulip seal]

True, but hey, for a free game, i can wait, and if it still like this i can play some other backlog games in the longrun lmao

[distant scroll]

Yeah, the game honestly doesn't have that much fomo since the gacha is all cosmetic so it's not like hoyo games where I got locked into the rat race of having to pull the newest character because otherwise gameplay gets stale. I definitely feel like I can take breaks (which I in fact have since I have played for two weeks hoping this PS5 update would be the one to fix things slightly)

[tulip seal]

Yeah, thank god it isnt like any gacha games we have had recently

[north mantle]

Exactly it. I've stopped playing and I'll return if/when they sort the performance. I enjoyed the game but it isn't acceptable to me to have it perform like it does

[polar pelican]

After the update the amounts of times the game crashes or freezes is insane ..

[tacit belfry]

That is not true, Wuwa is performing similar to this game

In fact Wuwa combats are 25-30fps on PS5 vs 40fps on WWM

[tacit belfry]

I didn’t have a crash yet

I wonder if Pro have less crash

[tulip seal]

Damn, nvm then, wuwa is still horrible

Thought that some parts were atleast 60fps

[tacit belfry]

The first area, if you walk it’s 60fps with micro stutter

But combats are 40-50fps, the newer areas are pretty bad too

[tulip seal]

Yea after a year and no improvements seems like wuwa abandoned optimization for console

[west sonnet]

how do I buy the new season pass on ps5 europe? says it does not exist

[dusty birch]

so what you do is basically uninstall the game

and wait till they actually fix all the problems first on ps5

then you can support them by purchasing stuff after

[warm pelican]

Exactly, that's what I've been telling

117.7gb of unoptimised sh*t

[fathom lintel]

Did they fix keyboard and mouse

[west sonnet]

hahahah ok wiil do

[tacit belfry]

The textures on the iPad are much higher resolution despite the game size is 4x lower

[warm pelican]

Yeah that's why I said unoptimised

They just don't have the development skills (or techniques, technologies) to actually optimise the ps5 version

[tacit belfry]

Sure, the PC textures are there, but they are simply rendering at much lower quality for performance reasons

not only the performance, even the login is almost inmediate on my iPad

on PS5 i have to wait 20 to 30 seconds until they get my user ready

[digital copper]

Since December 12, the game on PS5 always takes 2-3 seconds to confirm in all menus, tasks, etc. This problem does not occur on PCs and mobile devices. The problem is even worse when switching to online mode. In some cases, the game freezes and the only solution is to restart it.

[neon dome]

Turn off HDR. It's currently broken and causes the game to act like that

[warm pelican]

Play another game, please, I beg you guys 🤣

Wait for them to fix this f*cking mess of a game

[digital copper]

Thx

[neon dome]

Monster Hunter title update 4 is tomorrow. Gonna play that for a hot minute

[warm pelican]

I'm currently playing Red Dead 1, and waiting for tomorrow, Wo Long's gonna drop on Plus Extra

[neon dome]

Wolong is a time sink,same as any team ninja game really

But great game, enjoy

[quartz lava]

Wait a sec… u can turn on the hdr mode!? I cant! 🥺

[dense briar]

Under brightness, there's an option you can turn it on, can't remember which face bottom you need to press.

[distant scroll]

On one hand sure, but on the other hand how are they gonna have any incentive to fix any of this if we aren't making it clear how broken it is? The most recent update hasn't convinced me they care/know about the issues people actually have with the game

[warm pelican]

Scroll up, since that disaster update we've talked A LOT about the bugs

And they seem to give no f*ck

I really don't understand what they are doing now

[distant scroll]

Then there isn't a point to the "go play another game till they fix it". Feels like they'll just abandon this port and there will ever be a day where it's better

[shrewd folio]

Savior of kaif eng
Complete Havenfall campaign
The in-game achievements and PS5 trophy not unlocking

[digital oracle]

For what it’s worth.. I uninstalled the game on the ps5 pro, and did a reinstall and it’s been less prone to crashing and performance seems a bit better too. I’m switching between PS5 and GFN currently and tempted to go fully GFN if things don’t improve. The only issue with that is the game store.. and GFN not accepting payments

[tacit belfry]

that is not a problem, its a blessing

[mighty dragon]

Doomposting thread

[thick minnow]

New Issues on ps5

• Crazy lag or no reaction when doing anything in menu, such as opening boxes, returning to guild, recycling tips, recycling objects, etc.

Other issues:

• unable to use the exit button for things like exiting instruments or Madiao. Have to hard close and restart game.

• leaving co op also does not work without first going to online mode. The discontinue co-op button is just not working right now.

I tried deleting and fresh installing on ps5. It did not fix the issues.

I also reported everything to the official email and got some boilerplate response.

• trapped in dye menu. Have to hard close and restart.

QA team did not QA at all it seems.

[still wolf]

turn off HDR

[mighty dragon]

Mine is off but im experiencing lag too lmaoooo

[tardy terrace]

So guessing that there were no optimization passes? Certainly nothing seems changed on base console, and it sounds as if the game is now worse on pro? Seriously?

[distant scroll]

People debating if the PC version was downgraded as a result of the console issues... On console meanwhile, folks can barely get the game to run properly. Why is this game such a technical disaster?

[tardy terrace]

Console client is separate so there's no reason why one would affect the other.

The rendering pipeline isn't networked so nothing done to the console version would necessitate hamstringing a different platform.

But they've been working to optimize each client, and obviously that means they can screw them up separately and concurrently if thats how it shakes out

What is puzzling is why theres any struggle to begin with. They built the engine themselves. It's not a loaner and they built it to scale well.

So none of this should have been difficult to polish. They just needed to work on asset/texture load in and find some frames somewhere

That said I think the console version launched with global so this may just be birthing pains that can be overcome. One would hope.

[tribal pond]

can anybody help

my game keep crashing

im in pc

[mighty dragon]

Yeah hope...

[smoky topaz]

When will the next patch to fix the console issues be released? 😂 😂

[neon dome]

Never o'clock

[pearl dust]

i got 250 kaifeng oddities achievement on PC, when i open my ps5, it not autopop up the trophy
fix it plss

[novel comet]

I also had it not pop, but when I looked in trophy list, it was there already unlocked

[wraith plover]

If u have a PC dont ever open ps5 and issue solved

[pearl dust]

i mainly play on my ps5, i got all trophy there, but this one i forgot when i play on pc i got the achievement

[cursive seal]

Fix skill guardian palm on mobile. Because cant use when jump or double jump or triple jump.

[thick minnow]

What, turning off HDR fixes all these functionality issues? But then the game will look horrible again.

[dense briar]

I read once you pop another achievement, the one that didn't on PS5 should pop, can't confirm this.

[fathom lintel]

Did they fix mkb?

[mighty dragon]

Mine still looks ok without HDR ngl, i just tweak the brightness

[thick minnow]

Though does turning it off fix the problems?

[mighty dragon]

In my experience, it very much lessens them. I dont experience menu lags, only bad ping when doing certain stuff but that may be due to my wifi when i was playing at 1 am lol

[thick minnow]

Ok, I'll test it out, thank you.

Though in my case, it isn't always menu lags. Sometimes, you're just stuck forever.

(Also are you PS5 or PS5 Pro)

[mighty dragon]

Base ps5

I get the being stuck part lol, i have to force quit sometimes to fix it

Better than crashing 8 times in a row tho 💀 which i had before all the big updates

[mortal nest]

Am glad menu issue is being reported. I thaught am only one..

But the frame rate still dropping really badly on ps5 on solo..
Online is unplayable due to lag too

[digital oracle]

A lot of PC owners on Reddit are complaining about graphical downgrades. Seems like they don’t have raytracing on water on the PC at the moment and the ps5 water looks significantly better

[thick minnow]

Update: I turned off HDR. everything is still broken.

Still can’t do anything in menu.

[mighty dragon]

Damn

[digital oracle]

@thick minnow sounds like an issue on your end. I’m not seeing any of these lagging issues at all. Try rebuilding your ps5 cache and file structure and then a reinstall? This isn’t a global issue so you’ll have to fix it on your end.

I would uninstall first, then -

Power off PS5 completely (not Rest Mode)
Hold power button until 2nd beep → Safe Mode
Select:
Clear Cache
Rebuild Database

Then reinstall

Also make sure your HD isn’t full or nearly full

[thick minnow]

I’m not the only person experiencing this problem, see the above comments lol.

Which basically means all of us who are experiencing this would need to do the above?

Will this affect my other games on my ps5 by any chance or will it be fine?

[digital oracle]

I’m playing on ps5 and not seeing any of these issues, neither are my friends I play with

No it won’t affect any other games

[thick minnow]

Maybe your friends and you have had better luck lmao. But as you can clearly see from this thread, other people are experiencing this issue too.

But I can try your suggestions.

That would mean all of us experiencing this issue would need to all do this

Which is honestly kind of crazy lol

[digital oracle]

There’s a myriad of reasons for slow/laggy menus and they’re usually player side. I don’t think laggy menus is a major issue for most players.. you’ve just seen a handful of people on here out of millions. The main issues people are experiencing are frame rate drops and texture quality

There’s people on the PC subreddit complaining about laggy menus as well and it’s always some combination of their internet connection, storage, hardware overheating or some other issue to do with their PC

[thick minnow]

It’s not just laggy menus. Literally getting trapped and can’t exit out of certain screens. (When did you buy your ps5 btw? Mine is pretty old, got it during initial release.)

[digital oracle]

Mine is a year or two old ? The rebuild and cache stuff is worth a try as this game has had multiple updates and the file structure may need a refresh.

[thick minnow]

Notably, other live service titles don’t have this issue at all

It’s just this game and only this game. lol

[digital oracle]

Its pretty poorly optimized so its probably very sensitive 🤣

[mighty dragon]

Yea cuz CN server doesnt even have ps5 so we're literally the newborns

[thick minnow]

Wait, can’t I try to dump cache and refresh db before uninstalling and reinstalling

[digital oracle]

I’m not sure how that works. Maybe?

[thick minnow]

Tbh for live service games there’s usually a repair option on main screen

The issue is with wwm, it presently does not work

Also a weird thing is; aren’t we in 1.1?

[digital oracle]

I would try the cache rebuild stuff and then try running the game

[thick minnow]

I’ll give it a shot.

[mighty dragon]

I was assuming that ps5 was behind 😭 cuz i play pc too and it's 1.1

[thick minnow]

Nope, it’s still a problem.

I think it may be the age of the hardware. Which is why other people may be experiencing it.

[tardy terrace]

Rebuilding your database isn't going to do anything

Nor is your 4 year old console "too old"

[thick minnow]

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled as well previously, and it did nothing.

[tardy terrace]

If you're experiencing latency issues when bringing up menus the issue is your connection to the server

[thick minnow]

No, the menu comes up without issue.

[gilded bone]

I’ve had the same issues and it wasn’t present till this most recent update/patch

[thick minnow]

Here are some of the issues I’ve documented: #1443129731699445761 message

[thick minnow]

Yup

I didn’t have any issues before this patch

All of these problems are new to me.

I’m in NA, east coast. I don’t have high ping.

[tardy terrace]

Most of those issues sound like the result of latency

[gilded bone]

I know it’s the game or client, other games work perfectly fine. Hopefully they patch it out soon

[tardy terrace]

Doesn't matter.

[thick minnow]

I literally don’t have high ping in game lmao

[tardy terrace]

This is about your connection to the wwm servers

Network issues can be intermittent

What you describe as happening sounds like a network issue. This is the sort of thing that packet loss or high latency can cause

[digital oracle]

I have slower internet than you and I get 1ms latency

[thick minnow]

On your phone?

[tardy terrace]

You can't have 1ms latency honey

Not without living on top of the servers

[thick minnow]

The issues I listed are problems for me 100% of the time, and other players have also experienced the same. I run PvP, full sword trials, and hero realms daily--no issues with ping at all in those.

If anything, in the battle of ping v ping, my ping usually wins.

[digital oracle]

Yeah on my phone

[tardy terrace]

It's not always your local connection that matters

[thick minnow]

do you live inside the server

[thick minnow]

The menu itself comes up without issue, it's literally when you click on the item, nothing happens on PS5. When I do it on mobile, it's instant.

I don't have these problems on mobile, I'm on the same network.

I switch from PS5 to mobile/Ipad to have faster menu QoL right now.

And other players have stated they have the same issues; even if it's a small subset of players, it's still a problem that needs to be addressed.

[tardy terrace]

Your videos look like latency

[thick minnow]

Prior to this patch, I had no such issues with: 1. menu items not opening or 2. getting stuck and not being able to exit out of screens

[tardy terrace]

That's all I can tell you. Even the way it sounds suggests latency

Now why it affects one version and not another is a question none of us can answer

[thick minnow]

Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that other users are experiencing the same issue, and it needs to be addressed lol.

I don't actually care why it's happening.

I care that it gets fixed.

No one cares about the root cause.

We care about usability.

[tardy terrace]

Knowing whether you can do anything about it, does matter. In this case, you can't.

[thick minnow]

Hm, you make a good point.

all we can do rn is wait for a fix.

[tardy terrace]

It's clear this version is having a rough start

[thick minnow]

Since... we can't magically improve any of the issues we are dealing with.

[tardy terrace]

The console version has only been out a month

[thick minnow]

The graphic quality has improved significantly in a lot of places (though some textures are still really, really bad.)

But now usability has tanked for some users.

[tardy terrace]

There's hope to be had where fixes are concerned

[thick minnow]

Yeah, and they've been pretty good about working on it actively.

[tardy terrace]

Honestly I haven't seen any graphical improvements

What I have seen is a radical decrease in instability

The game crashed over 70 times for me in the first two days

They constantly work on it, so the main thing here is making sure mods know about issues so they can notify the devs

[thick minnow]

Weirdly, I've seen some significant graphical improvements with cut scenes

Like previously, my character would look like a weird early aughts model in some cut scenes, but now it actually looks decent with better lighting

[tardy terrace]

Oh I dont have any big cutscenes left to view really

I didn't notice the new story having any better looking cutscenes, and overall environment detail still remains very hit or miss where textures are concerned

Honestly it reminds me a little of how ac shadows looked at launch.

It had some kind of asset streaming issue where textures wouldn't fully resolve and display at the correct level of clarity.

An issue I believe is similarly at play in the console version of the game.

I really feel like if they just increase stability, fix the texture issue, and find some frames, the game would be in a pretty solid place

[digital oracle]

I’ve definitely noticed improvements in the textures, but mostly at the detriment of draw distance etc.. also - my game was constantly freezing and crashing, especially in Kaifeng.. after a full reinstall, it hasn’t happened since

[tardy terrace]

On base ps5 its effectively as if there were no graphic related improvements.

I cant speak to pro which seems to be the version that actually received changes

[digital oracle]

Turning off raytracing definitely helps framerate a lot too. Which isn’t too much of a loss as the SSR implementation on water is pretty decent

[tardy terrace]

I was going to look into getting a pro but analyses actually suggest that framerate is worse than base for no appreciable reason

They just need more time to work on the console version

Like maybe it released too soon even

[mighty dragon]

Clearly 😂

[digital oracle]

I’m 120 hours in and the framerate hasn’t been an issue for the majority of that. Low res textures and streaming issues have been more jarring

[mighty dragon]

I've submitted reports and begged multiple times in surveys (cuz "my opinion matters") for them to fix the low res stuff but nothing yet

[digital oracle]

Mainly on other characters. In the world it’s an occasional rogue low res texture

The high res are clearly there on disk. It’s just streaming and memory management

[mighty dragon]

My character is the prettiest but it came at the cost of low res outfits for yi dao and the others lmao

[digital oracle]

Currently on the pro if you go inside revelry hall, everything is high res, even the random NPCs.. it’s interesting to see how it could look

[thick minnow]

I’m on base ps5!!!!

[thick minnow]

That is so weird

[scenic thistle]

Have the devs acknowledged the UI/Menu delay?

Before 1.1 the menu experience was instant opening chests, searching for bounties etc.

Now there is a noticeable delay, it’s gotten slightly better but it’s still noticeable.

[tacit belfry]

I'm suppose they having players like you, we got so many broken ports

[manic rampart]

Does anyone still have crash issue?

Yesterday I’ve played game for like 3 session, 1st 4 hour straights, 2nd 3 hours straight, 3rd 2 hour straight

I crashed at that third session, I mean it not like I crash every single minutes

[tardy terrace]

Yea extremely puzzling

[tardy terrace]

Yes. I regularly still get crashes, and sometimes the screen will freeze and I'll have to restart the game.

It's still like a thousand times better than it was the first week

[manic rampart]

True, at least I never crash during fight

I usually crash when I buy something lol

but if it more than 2hrs game time

[tardy terrace]

No real rhyme or reason that I can tell, though I do feel at risk in online mode the game notably struggles when handling many players

Yea I am often navigating to or from a menu when I crash

I haven't died to any crashes yet

[manic rampart]

so far I have like 8-10 crashes

Since the launch

With 140hours game time

[tardy terrace]

That honestly seems impossibly low

Launch day was constant crashes and disconnects

Easily had double digit crashes/DC by the first weekend

[manic rampart]

I can’t swap weapon the first day, but when I keep doing the quest it work for some reason

Kaifeng performance rn is better than the launch tho for me

[mighty dragon]

Yeah same. Used to have crashes but not anymore too

[tardy terrace]

Honestly and this is only from my perspective on normal ps5, I haven't seen any improvements other than less crashing.

If anything, i feel like performance is slightly worse

The river god fight and ESPECIALLY the marriage fight ran like total garbage

The marriage fight nearly made me stop playing it ran so poorly, and that's outside kaifeng

I really don't understand it, all I know is they need to continue to work on the console version. Maybe as top priority even because it's simply in the poorest state

We shouldn't have worse visual consistency and performance than the phone version

Surely phones arent more powerful than ps5s

[manic rampart]

I agree with the marriage fight

It look like fps dipped

[tulip seal]

Anyone else crashing in sword trials?

[tardy terrace]

I have on load in a couple times

[tulip seal]

For me its usually load ins and sometimes on random in sword trials, thnkfully tho i can rejoin the fight after a few seconds

[crude mountain]

Hdr looks like crape for anyone else?

Crap* lol

[rotund mauve]

Hi, can we also get a known issues thread about the PC graphics changes?
Graphics quality is no longer the same and has become worse and buggy. Many players have already reported this issue multiple times here and on Reddit.
Please… this really can’t stay like this.

[digital oracle]

HDR is rarely implemented correctly in games. In the PC version it’s an afterthought.. it’s obvious this game was authored in SDR so I’m sticking to that. Just tweaking my brightness settings to raise the blacks which are more crushed on Ps5 due to the gamma

[shrewd folio]

Heavenfall campaign PS5 trophy and in-game achievements not unlocking after completing

[thick minnow]

Update: It seems they fixed the PS5 menu issues with today's patch

[mighty dragon]

Oh good to know

[cosmic rivet]

I found a bug and reported it to the devs and the only solution they could get me to try was restoring the license or deleting the game and reinstalling lol

Bug was losing my ability to execute in arena or on multiplayer bosses or modes.. amd also not being able to do the follow up counter when blocking..

[neon dome]

That's their solution to any problem apparently

I've sent a ticket for the broken HDR and they said the same thing

[crude mountain]

Yet to see any patch notes if there was an update. Even if it was a hot fix, it would be good to have some visibility

[thorny oyster]

Guys please help me I have to bugs .. with the broken bell i have the bell fragment but can’t place it because the bell is hidden there is no bell , and second bug the guy in river fury mission after I collected items i can’t interact with him to give him items

[smoky topaz]

The Great Faceologist Event ฺ Bug can't find with id
And some people use my name as the topic title.
when search Name but show topic title It made it impossible for my friends to find my name. What...

[digital copper]

I did everything as described here. Cleared the cache. Repaired the database and completely reinstalled the game. No improvement. I'm having the same problems: it's very laggy and freezes from time to time. When I turn off HDR, it runs great. But I noticed one thing: during the reinstallation, something else is installed by the game itself. It said version 1.1... After it was finished, it said version 1.0 again...

[tulip seal]

Is ps5 version not 1.1?

[tulip seal]

This still not working?

[shrewd folio]

It popped for me today when I logged in

[tulip seal]

Thats good, so u just need to restart then

[shrewd folio]

It took 3 days for the trophy to pop for me so I contacted customer service and sent them pictures and tell them it didn't get the in-game achievements and the PS5 trophy
After completing the mission
Are you logged on today and it just popped out of nowhere so my first thought was the Devs fixed it

[tulip seal]

Havent done it yet but im about to reach the area to do so, so was wondering if it was fixed, thanks

[shrewd folio]

If you have not completed the mission yet, just make sure you speak to the two People after the cutscene and it should give you the trophy without an issue

[tulip seal]

Alright, thnks for the reminder

[shrewd folio]

No problem

[pseudo forge]

Game keeps crashing at guild hall dk why

[mighty dragon]

Is the sound gone for you as well? In guild base i mean

[shrewd folio]

Did you get the trophy 🏆?

[smoky topaz]

The Veneta and Bounty quests load and refresh very slowly.
This issue has not yet been resolved.

[neon dome]

Did anyone else get a patch on PS5?

[west sonnet]

has it solved anything? HDR + lag on menus?

[vagrant wigeon]

Hdr still nothing change

[digital oracle]

HDR was never implemented properly on PC. I wouldn’t hold out hope for a good implementation on consoles. This game will always look better in SDR as it was authored that way.. if it’s causing issues it’s not worth toggling it on. The game looks great without it.

[balmy void]

I started PS5 and the second day started legging the game, like no respond to sprint and interaction not work, then 2-3 min later the game is rollback me 2-3 min before. A bought a PS5 pro and still lag and rollback evry 2min. I tried almost everything i found the net. 1.1.1.1 + 1.0.0.1 and 8.8.8.8 + 8.8.4.4, license redo etc. still unplayeble, lag+rollback.... i think i just give up and wait Arknights: Endfield + Ananta

[tulip seal]

Ah slr, but not yet, was busy the whole day

[lost lichen]

What is this fps 😭

[lost lichen]

It's not the HDR, my TV doesn't support HDR and the menu still laggy

[fathom lintel]

Did they fix keyboard and mouse?

[mighty dragon]

Was there a patch update or something? My game said updated but i havent opened it yet

Not expecting much to be fixed tho 😂

[digital oracle]

The ps5 pro is looking extra crispy today. I just did the veiled blades mission and I’m used to NPCs looking really low res, today they were all really high res, the same as my character

[gusty widget]

After that little update few hours ago, my game became supper laggy, even just standing still , dont even wanna talk how it is in hero trials and ect, what happend?

[unkempt crest]

Hello guys

is there anyone of you that have the same problem like me..

oh no I can't send my screen recording here?

do you guys have a same problem like me, whenever I tried to open equipment box from sword trial (where we can choose which sets we want to get), it takes like 10 seconds to show the "set selection menu"

[digital oracle]

Some people are getting laggy menus, and some of us have never had them. It seems to be a network connection issue

[unkempt crest]

but when I played with my ipad there was no issue

[unkempt crest]

and I just verified, it's not a problem of connection because when I tested with my phone network, it's still the same

[manic rampart]

Ye the lag input has been like this since day 1 on the shop

[lost lichen]

But mobile version is fine

[manic rampart]

It easy fix dk why dev didn’t do it

[lost lichen]

Has anyone reported it? Idk if they will fix it next week

Also, it's a good thing I'm on vacation next week, so I don't have to deal with this laggy menu for a week

[distant scroll]

Damn you got my hopes up.... NPC textures still look terrible on my end. The NPC textures getting better is the number one thing I want, I'll play the game at 30 fps for that lol

[thick minnow]

I reported it both in email and here. The more people who officially report this, the better. My issue did get fixed but I had to turn off all HDR. HDR also was making images look really bad…

[digital copper]

The crashes in online mode also occur without HDR. Unfortunately, you can't see which server you're on. I assume that we don't end up on European servers.
And I have to say, the patch policy was great at the beginning, but in the last few days, not much has been done to the game.

[unkempt crest]

Hello, can you share the email so I can report my menu delay problem also?

And also in this discord, which channel that I can visit to post my report?

And your menu delay problem was fixed with turning off HDR?

[neon dome]

#game-support

And yes supposedly the menu delays r caused by HDR

[unkempt crest]

Thankyou very much ! I’ll try to remove HDR then !

[west sonnet]

yeah, i've been reporting this since came out

[tardy terrace]

Framerate problems in menus definitely new after this recent update.

Really starting to question just what they are doing with this version of the game because creating issues just isn't the move

[manic rampart]

I got 2 crash today

always the menu

[digital copper]

I wonder if any of the programmers are reading this. We don't all need to write a message. These problems didn't just start yesterday. And yes, I can confirm that with today's new bed. It has gotten even worse.

[tulip seal]

Same, just finished updating and it alr crashed in the menu

[manic rampart]

I heard some people got their account log out

and they only see tutorial

[thick minnow]

Devs aren’t reading this, though Sophie might read it and report it.

We do need to manually submit bug issues to escalate it. The more reports there are, the more likely they will prioritize it.

[tulip seal]

Just me or they added sound to the mystic arts menu when u preview them? Its lagging whenver it does

[tacit belfry]

Where are you reporting? In the game?

[thick minnow]

#game-support

[tacit belfry]

Thanks

[digital copper]

Thank you. Is there an address where I can send the errors? Thank you.

[thick minnow]

It’s in the link above lol

[digital copper]

The Game is currently unplayable on the PS5. Constant crashes and freezing.

[fathom lintel]

Did they fix keyboard and mouse?

[light tangle]

Did anyone lose their progress in the game on their Playstation account? Or were you forced to start over your game after progressing past lvl 60?

@empty sundial

[digital oracle]

I wish I could attach screenshots here because they’re looking really good

[distant scroll]

I saw a post on Reddit about NPCs in the veiled blades quest and I didn't think they looked good? It was still blurry as heck

[digital oracle]

Those were off screen photos

That’s why. But the texture rez is there. They look the same as the PC

Up until recently the NPCs haven’t had any sort of stitching detail or even a detail map for the fabric and those are in now

They were just a blurry mess on the ps5

[distant scroll]

Hmmm idk I went to the veiled blades npc yesterday and he didn't look any better (granted I had never done the quest before so I couldn't really compare to the past)

How do other NPCs look to you?

[digital oracle]

They look great

If I stand my character next to them many of them look the same resolution wise

Well not as high, but they don’t look out of place like they used to

I’m able to switch back and forth between ps5 pro and the PC. NPCs on the PC at max settings weren’t crazy high res in many instances but the ps5 was still unacceptably low in comparison. That seems to have changed

[tardy terrace]

Ps5 pro =/= ps5

[digital oracle]

Yes true but even on the Pro when I first met granny turtle for example, her shell backpack thing was like a 64x64 blurry texture

[neon dome]

I like ur dedication 😂

Bro asks the same question every day

[fathom lintel]

Yeah i dont want to waste 150gb of my storage on a game that doesn't support mkb
Wanna make sure first.

[tacit belfry]

They are using the same textures

PS5 Pro only have 1GB more of access memory for developers. So most games textures are virtually identical

[tardy terrace]

There's been no improvement in textures on base ps5

[manic rampart]

PvP is unplayable on ps5

[sharp coral]

i take a time to play everyday and yeah its getting worst right now, i feel it too, delay when opening any boxes, freezed many times (even char just standing still, it freezed lol), etc. totally different when log in with any mobile device.
i think im trying to survive playing this bcs theres friends and community right here.

[thick minnow]

I got up to silver III while grinding for midnight blades to get the outfit, and regularly rank in top 10 in perception forest.

It’s not unplayable, it’s a question of skill + ping

Not sure about legend and above tho

[sharp coral]

i just suggest yall do set hdr off
setting - display - brightness - advance setting

[balmy void]

Just lazy devs, Death Stranding 2 textures is much higher and consistent.

[unkempt crest]

Yeah I solved my problem with this also. I’ll record a video and send them a mail regarding this.

[digital copper]

I have written several emails to support. With all the errors. Let's see.

[manic rampart]

It include the dual portrait too right

[vagrant wigeon]

They break this game after update =.=

[digital copper]

There will probably be no more updates until the new year.

[tulip seal]

Probably only my problem but when you go to the mystic arts page, and view them and the sound plays, do you guys hear static before it properly plays, happens aswell sometimes when you switch to view other mystic arts

Nevermind, found the problem, 3d audio is making it like that 🫠

[thick minnow]

They don’t really celebrate Christmas in China.

[tacit belfry]

They are using the same textures, only better texture filtering and better scaling tech

Here texturing filter is super low, and probably they are using mipmaps on both consoles, using the minimum level of texture quality to improve render performance

[digital copper]

Oh ok thx

[digital oracle]

You can’t compare death stranding 2. It has a tiny nature biome as its only scenery. No cities, no crowds, just limited nature assets. It gets a lot of use out of a few great assets repeated everywhere. It’s probably got 1/1000th of the assets this game uses, so it’s not as simple as that

[mighty dragon]

There's another hotfix?

Are yall at 1.0.49

[scenic thistle]

What is happening to the user experience and stability of this game?

Since 1.1 the menus/transition have been so delayed, for example you open a chest and it takes a noticeably long time for it to transition to the next screen, or on the bounty screen you click refresh and once it get to 0 it take several more seconds to display results.

Now the Draw shop is basically unusable due to the insane frame drops/delay.

Please fix!

[mighty dragon]

On god my game was doing so well but im suddenly experiencing minor input lags 💀

Wtf did that hotfix do

[iron pike]

Did they fix the menu glitch?

[scenic thistle]

Anyone that is experiencing menu delay when for example opening chests etc turn off HDR, I turned it off and my menu navigation etc is instant again!

However the Draw Shop is still cooked, some other issue affecting it as it was usable very recently with only minor frame issues.

[iron pike]

Game looks very bad without hdr on my tv💔🫩

[digital oracle]

Just adjust the brightness settings so you get more range.. the game was authored in SDR so it’s pretty easy to get it to look good. It’s not really a HDR game

[iron pike]

Aight ima try to tomorrow thanks

[digital oracle]

Try 4 stops up on the brightness and you get decent detail in the shadows but still contrasty

[digital oracle]

I’m probably going to migrate from ps5 to PC after 130 hours. I don’t think the dev team are ever going to sort this out to our liking. Using flight in Kaifeng really highlights just how busted it is and normally a dev team would be actively acknowledging and addressing such egregious issues. The complete silence makes me think nothing will be done.. I remember a bunch of perf issues being introduced to ZZZ on consoles and it was the same thing, it was just never acknowledged nor addressed

[tardy terrace]

Constantly getting crashes every single time I play. At least 4 to 5 a day. Why is the game getting worse?

[tulip seal]

Tbh they are silent for a lot of issues, part of me hopes they are working on it but idk anymore

[digital oracle]

I switched over to PC and I know people have been complaining about a downgrade there but my god Kaifeng looks soo much better

[restive island]

I can answer at least the legend rank:
didn't have any problems performance wise, the only thing is server selection that sometimes you are playing with people in their homes at the other side of the planet and that you can't save, even with the best pc a 3 sec delay is a game over... And that happens even if you don't have the "multiple servers" option activated when queueing.

[tacit belfry]

Death stranding 2 biome is much more complex to render than this one.

Also, i was not comparing DS2 vs this game, I was comparing DS2 textures on Pro vs PS5, because the user who I replied to

[distant scroll]

Yeah this is probably the right move to just get the best overall experience. Though, I think this dev team just in general doesn't really respond to actual problems. The downgrade issue on PC apparently happened on CN just like it did for us and a year later they've never addressed it there either. I think any feedback you see at this point is lip service and things like PS5 overall performance or the PC downgrade are never going to be addressed

Ain't gonna stop them from adding a new costume to the store every 15 minutes though lmao

[digital oracle]

Yeah.. I had hoped for a major patch of some sort, but I agree with the consensus here that they aren’t familiar with the ps5 hardware enough. Btw for anyone else who feels fed up with the ps5 version but loves the game (like me) you can bind your account to epic and play it using GFN on a max spec PC with a ps5 controller if you have a decent internet connection. Thats what I’m doing in the interim before I decide whether to get an actual PC.. and gives the devs a bit more time to see if they address the issues. It’s also a great way to see what is actually broken and whats the same on PC

[gleaming cedar]

Hi, I normally never make posts on things like this but is there anywhere to submit reports for PS5 performance? Since this latest update there is a treasure trove of bugs and optimization issues. Kaifeng is basically unplayable for me due to render time and pop in. Please help 🙁

[digital copper]

Today, December 23, the game received three patches for the PlayStation 5. Each patch made the game even worse. It is now unplayable, with or without HDR.

[digital oracle]

Ooh excited to see these new patches and how much worse it’s become 😫

[digital oracle]

You can report bugs directly in the game

[tardy terrace]

Don't see any difference. Doesn't seem like they did anything at all. Still have the ridiculously loud audio in martial art menus when there shouldn't be any, still have terrible lag in the shop.

[digital oracle]

Yeah I just did a run around.. I’ve never had lag issues and the menus still work fine for me, but all the other issues are the same. I can’t say it’s got any worse though

[tardy terrace]

The shop menu definitely lags now, like I think it risks a crash if you let it play the animations out.

And the audio shouldn't be playing in the development/martial art sections

[tulip seal]

The audio is annoying causs if 3d audio is on, it has a static sound that hurts to listen to

[tardy terrace]

Yea and when the audio first starts there's a clipping pop, which really grates my ears

I dont even know how they managed to screw this up even

Or why it wasnt hot fixed in a day

[tulip seal]

Yep, that pop is exactly why i turned off 3d audio, it hurts a lot

Sometimes i just mute all game audio when i need to go to that menu

[tardy terrace]

Been honestly considering it

[west sonnet]

when you go to your Mystic Skills and try and change, it also does a hurting noise for me when i'm on my headset

[lost lichen]

I have not touch the game in a while, how's the update going?

[tulip seal]

Yeah, honestly thought it was just me, and was quite annoyed since my headset is relatively new, so was glad knowing it wasnt just me

[west sonnet]

It's so loud and hurts, i don't even wanna go into that menu hahaha

[tulip seal]

Fr, it scares me lmao

[granite quartz]

Why can i play on high graphics but I can't play on lowest

like screen glitchy

on mobile

[digital oracle]

We’ve had a few hotfixes. The PC got hugely downgraded and was also running like crap and lost a lot of high end rendering but the latest update fixed most of the fidelity issues on the PC but doesn’t seem to have addressed any of the ps5 issues. It seems a lot of people are suffering from menu lag which strangely I’ve never encountered on my ps5.. but others have linked it to HDR implementation, which I personally am not using as this game wasn’t authored in HDR so the implementation seems like an afterthought anyway. TBH Ps5 pro and Ps5 run pretty good in Qinghe but it all falls apart in Kaifeng which is very rough

[digital oracle]

More thoughts after spending 3-4 hours on ultra settings on PC and going back to ps5 pro today.

Kaifeng has significantly less pedestrians than PC

Some advanced features like displacement mapping seem to be absent, but they are rarely used on PC anyway

The velvet shade area of Kaifeng runs at a nice frame rate.. and everything looks pretty good texture wise. If you’re in this section, it’s pretty solid.

The worst offender by far is the fairground area.. but even on the PC this stutters a bit at times. This section is where the ps5 drops to 25fps or so.

However keep in mind that if you turn off RT you’re in the same ball park as the PC and that increase fps by quite a bit.

Some of the textures I thought were severely downgrade on PS5 are equally ugly on PC. (A 128x128 stretched over a room sized column doesn’t look much better when it’s a 256x256 lol)

Mostly the ps5 seems to take one mip setting down for a lot of its materials - or one LOD down for props and some seem strategically chosen to stay very high res.

The RT water on ps5 adds a visual quality that really makes the console versions look nice.

Ps5 seems to have a nicer color space.. by default it looks too dark on regular brightness settings but if you push up the shadow brightness in SDR 4-5 stops it looks punchier and more colorful than the PC

Qinghe is very playable on Ps5 and mostly looks comparable to the PC in many ways.

The biggest issue is the aggressive draw distance which appears to be taking the mobile distance on ps5. Honestly Kaifeng is “acceptable” until you get flight powers unlocked and it’s kinda sad when you fly around because the engine can’t unload and pull in new assets and materials fast enough. PC suffers from this as well but its way way better

Overall, the ps5 PRO is in an okay state. I feel like it could get better but also this is a very very asset heavy game that has been authored for PC using extremely high bespoke materials and assets

[dim tide]

Its laggy for me as well xD

[daring cosmos]

Kaifeng is laggy for me, some of the boundary stones or ppl won't show up, and very long loading time 😭 how do we fix brightness in WWM? It's so dark

[digital oracle]

Boost brightness to 4 or 5 notches and it looks fine, more in line with the PC

[daring cosmos]

Is this on ingame settings? Already put it on maximum until the logo shown

[digital oracle]

Might be your TV then. Try the “bright” visual option instead

Maximum until logo shown or all the way to the right?

At 4 or 5 notches (the max) it looks great on my TV

Bright option completely fixes it as well, if you’re really struggling. That should be fine with default settings, no need to adjust it

[tardy terrace]

If they dont fix the fps in pve content, I'm just going to uninstall and take my money elsewhere. This is abysmal and unacceptable.

[tulip seal]

5 notches to the right? So maximum brightness?

[digital oracle]

Yes

If that doesn’t work it’s your TV or something. So I’d use bright mode

[smoky topaz]

Every time I access the Develop > Improvement Guide or Mystic Skill which includes video clips.
There will be crackling sounds and then the sound will disappear, even the PS5 menu will have no sound. It was terrible.
Has anyone ever experienced something like this? 🥶

[tulip seal]

Scroll up, your not alone

[west sonnet]

yeah, the game wants to make sure your heart is beating and you're awake xD

[tacit belfry]

Draw distance in mobile is much much higher than PS5 version

Textures on my iPad Pro are better than PS5 pro version, so I really doubt they are similar on PC

[digital oracle]

That is categorically false. I’ve also got it on iOS and while impressive for a mobile game it’s hugely downgraded in every way including draw distance and resolution

There’s multiple comparison videos of iOS/ps5/PC on YouTube - the textures are very clearly way lower res on the phone version. The direct comparison of draw distance also shows they are not even close

https://youtube com/watch?v=y34ebOPgbOM

[tardy terrace]

Go back to gamefaqs if you're going to post garbage.

The game has real issues.

Lying about issues that dont exist just makes matters worse

[tacit belfry]

PS5 Pro

iPad Pro

if you really think PS5 Pro textures are at the same level ipad pro textures you are delusional or blind

chinese symbols are fully blured on PS5 despite i got the capture from farther away than ipad pro

sure the fidelity specially the lighting is better on PS5, but textures are much slower resolution

you cant even see the helmet texture draw in PS5 version, because is super blurry

[digital oracle]

You’ve cherry picked a couple of examples to make your point. Everything outside of the helmet in that second shot looks like hot garbage.

What you should have said is “some textures on the iPhone version are higher res” - because as a blanket statement it’s just not true

Watch the comparison video.. it literally overlays the exact same scenes on iPad Pro and ps5 and everything on the iPad version looks 2-3 generations behind the PC and console.

I can’t post images here but I could show you the typical scene on the iPad where everything looks like a blurry mess close up.

[tacit belfry]

I talked exclusively about textures and draw distance, and both iPad pro version is superior

the comparison video is stupid, mate i have both machines, he is comparing the smartphone, not the iPad one with higher settings

tomorrow i will post you two videos here, and you will how PS5 is performing vs iPad

[sharp coral]

guys, despite to findout whose better, maybe just stick to tell dev the problems that ps5/ps5pro got as the thread supposed to be.
just shoutout the problems or our ps5 version is sinking, without battling each other, *they won't hear us in the end.... will they?

[manic rampart]

1st pic is ps5, 2nd pic is iPhone 11

[manic rampart]

I wished they fix the issue

it should not be that hard at all

[neon dome]

This thread has 0 recognition from devs anyway, it's mainly for us to complain to each other, it's like they gave us kids a playground -go play there silently-

[tulip seal]

Fr at this point, devs have not even acknowledged any of the problems that happened after mobile launch.

[dusty birch]

day 26 of waiting to reinstall the game once its fixed

[digital oracle]

Last night I went onto the PC version to check with max ultra settings and that guard helmet is no higher res on PC than ps5, and the signboard is slightly higher res than ps5 but lower than the iPad example you posted. That’s why I say they are cherry picked.. unless you’re going to say the iPad is higher resolution than the PC on ultra settings as well

[digital oracle]

They did fix a lot of visual issues on PC though, so they’re doing something

[crude mountain]

Oh wow. Ps5 pro performance is really bad right now. Textures not loading properly, draw distance limited with substantial popins, menu navigation lag, appearance preview framerate horrendous.
Performance was so much better at launch, these 'improvements' have only made things worse 🙁

[digital oracle]

A lot of the pop in is the same on highest settings on the PC. I’ve been going back and forth and there’s entire shacks that pop in 5-10 feet in front of you that happens on ultra settings on PC too.. this gives me more hope it will be fixed for ps5

[glass minnow]

Hi guys, I ve didnt play since 2 weeks cause I really enjoy the game but there is still so much issue on PS5 pro and I wanted few update before play again

How it look like on ps5 pro actually?

[thin canopy]

PSSR was added? Where's the option? I don't see it..

[digital oracle]

In two weeks I doubt you’ll notice any substantial changes. There’s a ton of (rightful) negativity about the Pro version on here.. but tbh it’s still very playable and looks beautiful a lot of the time. Qinghe runs overall pretty well but Kaifeng struggles a lot in certain areas.. but is fine in some parts of the city. Once you unlock flight it really struggles to draw and stream assets in time as you move quickly around the city. The pro still has the best looking water at the moment with raytracing turned on but it’s a performance hog. HDR was implemented but isn’t worth it as it’s not done well and the game was never designed with HDR on the PC.

I have PC and ps5 pro and I’m still playing it more on ps5 pro due to convenience so I’m hoping they fix some of the issues

[digital oracle]

It’s on by default

[hasty mantle]

Hello everyone I apologise for any disturbance but I have an issue. I have the game on my playstation and it's not letting me connect through my playstation but at least I was able to join the server here.
I press join then go to discord it doesn't work

[tacit belfry]

It’s sad if PC suffer too from that terrible lag loading things. In my iPad I can run that street and I get pop in, but at normal level, I can see every NPC from long distance walking in the street, on PS5 they sometimes appear 3 or 4 seconds delay, and if you are running they can need even more seconds to appear

[mighty dragon]

Genuinely wtf i have space left

Do you need more than 100 GB of space???

[dusty birch]

day 33 of waiting for the game to be fixed so i can reinstall it on my ps5

[lost lichen]

When will they fix the menu lag

[simple juniper]

If you ignore the Celetial Draw menu, the game still runs pretty well. I know it's not the prettiest in some area, but, people making it too big of a fuss

[dusty birch]

no it actually is that big of an issue when almost all the textures everywhere look like I've loaded into a ps2 game

and constant fps spikes all the time

[mighty dragon]

This is the biggest issue i have as well
Everything else for me is fine after i deleted and reinstalled

[dusty birch]

exactly

everything else is minor

the textures and fps need to be fixed first

[digital oracle]

It isn’t like that though. It’s certain textures that aren’t streamed in properly, that’s why it’s so jarring.

[dusty birch]

certain textures meaning

almost 80% of them

right

[digital oracle]

Nope

[digital oracle]

im gur.com/a/VUnG22Y

This is ps5. It definitely doesn’t look like a ps2 title

[dusty birch]

the fact that they're even noticeable shouldn't be the case at all for a triple a game

[digital oracle]

Yes, they need to fix the streaming priorities but I agree with the earlier poster who said it’s not currently game-breaking. It looks bad for sure, but not bad enough to warrant not playing

[dusty birch]

which they are to the point where it gets distracting

[dusty birch]

lowk is for me

[digital oracle]

I suggest you play on GFN or PC if that’s the case

[dusty birch]

i highly fixate on details a lot

[dusty birch]

i play on pc aswell

im just away rn

and have my console w me

i didn't expect the port to be this bad

[digital oracle]

I play on both, but I prefer playing on the ps5 pro, even though I know my PC runs it at ultra

At least the water looks better on ps5, ha

[dusty birch]

its miles better on pc still

performance wise and fidelity

[dusty birch]

true

[cosmic rivet]

I just want my ability to execute and counter after blocking in arena and in breaking army and basically anything multiplayer back, only solution is was told to try was delete game and reinstall and that fixed nothing, that combined with high ping basically making half the game completely unplayable

[simple juniper]

Ok, either I'm lucky with my version or idk... Have you guys tried to change the graphic to their default settings? Like they call it the "immersing way"
Because I'm on base ps5 and don't get nearly anything I see being discussed here.

Like I'm on the Mirage boat, loaded with fireworks, messages spamming and all, not a single frame drop Even the latest world boss with the 8 players and bombs.

[scenic thistle]

Draw Shop is usable for you?

[mighty dragon]

After i deleted and reinstalled yeah, it started lagging less

So im good now

[scenic thistle]

🤔 okay, I guess I’ll try that. Thanks.

[mighty dragon]

Yeah i put it on the WWM/default display but my eyesight be struggling so i have to set things brighter 😭

[tardy terrace]

Yea gonna call bs on that one.

[digital oracle]

Today I moved my PC equipment into the living room, tucked it behind the media console and synced it to my Ps5 controller. I have had enough waiting, and now by using the controller and playing on the big TV I can pretend they finally addressed the issues. I’ll check back in here now and then to see if anything ever changes but it seems unlikely to be fixed to all of our liking

[charred pecan]

ME NEITHER

[simple juniper]

Believe what you want. I have no reason to lie about it

[manic rampart]

does any of yall have issue when you standing like 2-3m distance from the boss before starting the boss fight, you cant see their head clearly

it noticable for me with yao yao npc too

[mental inlet]

Am I the only one when you receive a reward it takes a few seconds for the reward to pop up on your screen? It only happens when I have HDR turned on. I am playing on PS5 Pro.

[manic rampart]

There like a black thing on her head, if you stay far away from her

[dense briar]

This is the case since it was released on PS5, annoying, had to turn HDR off due to this...bug?

[mental inlet]

The thing is that before HDR didn't work at all. After the last update they fixed it. So I am having this delay of 3-5 seconds (when you receive a reward that pops up on your screen) since they fixed HDR. But this only accurs when HDR is turned on (on PS5 Pro). If HDR is off everything seems to be working fine. I am asking if it's just me or is there someone else with the same issue?

[digital oracle]

HDR looks like garbage on PC too. It obviously wasn’t originally designed for it, and nobody has bothered tuning it properly.. there’s really no point in using it - at best with everything balanced it makes the game look flat and grey

[dense briar]

I think it's everyone, 😥

[gleaming cedar]

Ever since mobile/global update it has been like this on PS5 for me. Didn't have much issues before outside of the occasional texture issues. I hope this upcoming patch addresses some of this...

[mental inlet]

Has it been reported, do the devs know?

[dense briar]

Hope so, it has been an issue once day one.

[mental inlet]

When is the patch coming out?

[lost lichen]

The game is more smoother now but the building pop up & menu lag still needs to be fixed

[manic rampart]

can you go to yao yao ever clinic and stand like 4-5 m away from her

you will a black pop up on her head

not sure if this hapen only to me

[lost lichen]

I have no problem with that

[manic rampart]

are you on ps5 pro or base

[manic rampart]

Cause I have this issue

[lost lichen]

OK, it happens randomly now on base PS5

[manic rampart]

i notice some freezing too. when i use spear

that is noticable for open world mob

[lost lichen]

I don't use spear

So I don't know that

[quick night]

is anyone having issues with the wind sense and healing? i’ve been trying to get into silver needle but everytime i try and heal the npcs for the quest it tells me there’s nothing to track and won’t let me heal them🫠🫠

[narrow venture]

My ps5 pro have this issue too

[manic rampart]

I don’t think I have that issue before

It feel worse lol

Hope they fix it on the upcoming update

[narrow venture]

I feel that whenever there's hotfix, new issues to be found

[manic rampart]

true

[fathom lintel]

Did they fix mkb?

[digital oracle]

Just LOD distances on the heads of NPCs, you see it all over Kaifeng on ps5, characters bodies draw in just before the heads. An easy fix and the fact that they haven’t done it speaks volumes about console priorities

[manic rampart]

frame rate in qinghe is now terrible

the launch was better except for kaifeng

[glass minnow]

I wish the 1.2 will have some big upgrade for PS5, can’t wait to play again

[dense briar]

I read if you connect KbM only, it works but havent tried this...

[west sonnet]

yeah i hope so too

[fathom lintel]

I do and it still not working

[dense briar]

Damn, that sucks. Don't think they are looking into this issue from what I've gathered 😟

[tacit belfry]

I though was obvious despite they confirming they are focusing on PS5, after the update the game looks and perform worse than original release

Kaifeng framerate was better previously and you could see the NPC in the street, now you have to wait 5 to 10 seconds so they render

also people playing on PC are complaining about that too, so it's pretty possible the performance is going to be degraded every patch like other gacha games such as Wuwa or ZZZ

[digital oracle]

Not on the pro. The main issue is just flying around at high speed.

But regardless.. I’ve left the ps5 version behind. I’m playing on PC ultra settings with a ps5 controller on my TV. No visual issues on this platform for me

[tacit belfry]

not on the pro? what do you mean? I'm playing on Pro

at release Kaifeng was bad, but not this bad

[digital oracle]

When I was on the pro it never took 5-10 seconds to render a person. Ever.

[tacit belfry]

do you need a video?

literally if you are running

running on circles

[digital oracle]

Sure, I can compare it to mine.. I have the ps5 set up in my bedroom now instead

[tacit belfry]

some NPC need 20 seconds

to render

[digital oracle]

20 seconds sounds like something on your end

[tacit belfry]

on youtube

use this

kXESB5gBDkI

you can see how broken is this game if you are running in a small area

@digital oracle did you watch the video?

if you want test yourself on your PS5, run on circles, don't stop, you can see how the game don't render properly until you stop moving

imagine if a car racing game would have this kind of optimization, where you need stop driving to get your rivals render on screen

[digital oracle]

I did. I dunno what to tell you, mine doesn’t look anything like that.. that’s wild

You’re on the pro? Crazy. That bridge disappearing and stuff, I’ve never seen it

[tacit belfry]

it's random, sometimes happens with the bridge, sometimes on other area

[digital oracle]

I mean, I would have stopped playing if it was like that

[tacit belfry]

the reason I uninstalled the game 2 weeks ago lol

[digital oracle]

The closest I’ve seen is flying at super high speed into an area and force landing and it takes 2-3 seconds to load in the data. But never just running around like that

[tacit belfry]

I tested on PS5

and was even worse

My roomate have a normal PS5

the point is teleport to the first one in the city

and run straight no stopping, you can see how the console is trying to load things from several seconds ago

also, they reduced NPC on PS5 in that street

on my Ipad is easily 2x the NPC

or maybe they simply don't render, who knows

[digital oracle]

The ps5 has significantly reduced pedestrians yeah

I’ll load it up on my ps5 pro and see if it’s as bad

[digital oracle]

I had a look. Yeahhhh, it’s pretty rough. I ran backwards from that bridge and back again. Lots of crazy low res textures, people loading in late etc.

I would recommend going the PC route. I love the game and it’s nice playing it as it’s supposed to be seen. It’s a really complex world though - I had to spend a lot to get a PC that could run Kaifeng well.. the devs have quite a task ahead of them. Ps5 and pro have fixed memory / bandwidth.. WWM was built around variable memory budgets, fast streaming pipelines and PC-style asset management. The Pro can make better graphics, but can’t change the streaming bottlenecks

[red bluff]

I think they allocated too much memory to the skins so that they'd load instantly, which leaves very tiny amount to the actual world stream. the texture quality in this game is just atrocious, I've never seen textures as bad as this even in the PS3 era. This is the N64 level textures and needs to be fixed asap.

[manic rampart]

so ps5 pro has almost the same issue as base ps5?

except the graphic

[digital oracle]

The pro doesn’t have much except raytraced water

[tacit belfry]

Pro is the same with slightly better framerate and higher resolution (1440p vs 1080p)

RT mode is useless with the poor performance you get enabled

[tacit belfry]

Even PC version have lower texture quality than iOS version (according some users here)

They probably are using low mipmaps because the performance is atrocious

[digital oracle]

Again, there’s a couple of examples. Overall the PC has way higher res textures for the most part. Also, mip maps have nothing to do with performance, it’s just memory

[red bluff]

ib b.co/PvYtd4Ms

can't upload a photo, remove the space to check it out

This game shows much higher res textures even on my old gaming laptop with 6GB VRAM

It's shockingly bad on PS5

I just beat the dancing lion mask boss, and the game looked down right broken

[red bluff]

ib b.co/XfDRhVh4

I'm pretty sure none of the devices you mentioned would look this bad

[tacit belfry]

It’s both, memory and processing time on CPU

[tardy terrace]

Game gets worse with every update. Its amazing

Now another issue where I'm clearly hitting enemies but no damage occurs no numbers come up

I really don't have any faith that this game will ever be playable on console.

[dusty birch]

day 42 of waiting for the game to be fixed

[storm dagger]

It's my dream game but there are so many issues on PS5. I hoped that they try to fix things but it's getting worse instead

Anyone else here having problems with setting there own way markers? Some time it works and suddenly it stops. It don't work 90% of the time for me and a friend who also play in the PS5

[tardy terrace]

It's broken on console. That's honestly the answer to any of these questions

They dont even look at this topic

It's hard not to see the console port as abandonware at this point

[dusty birch]

we should both quit playing the game

[tardy terrace]

Pretty much have been forced to

The realms and trials are all unplayable messes. Performance in the teens and below, attacks not registering so no damage going out.

Had the game use up all my ability charges without the ability being used, 10 separate times.

It's abominable.

[digital oracle]

I’ve moved onto PC (but still log on to ps5 now and then for battle pass etc) but I want to reiterate to all my ps5 friends here that the best way you could enjoy the game while waiting for them to fix this stuff is to play on GeForce Now with your ps5 controller. It works really well, and as long as you’ve got a decent internet connection will feel and look like it’s running locally especially if you have the ultimate sub. Way worth it IMO - this is what I did until I upgraded to actual PC hardware

[dusty birch]

i agree

[abstract blaze]

Anyone have issues with game assets loading? It takes 5-10 minutes to load everything. But going place to place also does the same. It was running smoothly before with no problems. Game would load instantly. I use nvme ssd with 130GB's left.

[digital copper]

Today, there was another new patch for the PlayStation 5. The problem with HDR and menu lag still persists. A new bug has been introduced: when HDR is enabled, you can no longer adjust the motion sickness settings.

[fathom lintel]

Will they ever fix mkb support?

[somber mango]

I've been having this issue on PS where I'm fighting and suddenly my MC stops moving as if stuck, and then only can move if hit by an enemy or if I press the button to unstuck in settings... it's pretty annoying especially if I'm doing PVP in arena or perc. Forest.

Hoping they'll fix it ngl.

[calm bobcat]

Hi guys, is there any new about visual/performance improvements for the 1 .2 patch? They used to adress PS5 problems in Nov, but I didn't see news in the last month. Can't wait to enjoy it properly in console.

[tardy terrace]

Nope. No updates. No improvements. If anything it's gotten much worse since the final area of kaifeng was added

Console version simply doesn't seem to be getting worked on at all

[calm bobcat]

🥲 that is what I thought... Lets hope to get some news in the 1.2

[digital oracle]

I logged into my ps5 to redeem some stuff and saw there was a huge update.. and it seems worse than ever. Kaifeng buildings were literally not appearing in some places and you could just stand in empty parts of the map waiting for them to appear. Terrible

[unique peak]

After the update, UI freezing when getting rewards still not fixed

[calm bobcat]

Sometimes I think the base PS5 game is broken beyond repair, because they are quite new with consoles. I hope it is just a matter of time and patience and it will just take them many months.

[somber mango]

Yeah I believe so, we just need a little patience for them to optimize it

[twilit niche]

If you press the button to lock onto the enemy, it unstuck you, if I'm not mistaken. However, it is still a issue

[digital oracle]

1.2 patch notes says “Optimized material and environment rendering on consoles for greater stability” and “Reduced lag and latency in the Draw Shop” - fingers crossed console friends

[calm bobcat]

It's already released, someone tried? I'm sad there is nothing about visual improvements. And the "For greater stability" scares me as they might add even more pop in 🤣

[tardy terrace]

There is no difference in performance between base or pro. That says all that needs to be said

[tardy terrace]

Not for 4 more hours

[digital oracle]

I’m on PC now but when I was playing on ps5 I would have tolerated the lower res materials and NPC counts if the game was stable in Kaifeng tbh. Let’s see what they do.. not getting my hopes up though lol

[red bluff]

I gave up on them optimizing this game on ps5 to run smoothly on KaiFeng. However if we get the LFC (low frame rate compensation) for 120hz display, the game play experience would significantly improve as that's basically how their mobile version works as well. currently ps5's VRR support can covers only up to 48fps, and we do all know that the frame rate dips well below that in cities and towns. So everyone make petition that we get the LFC support for ps5!

[tardy terrace]

No one has vrr displays

They need to actually optimize the game.

[thin canopy]

Just installed this 70GB update on PS5, which seems to have broken the game? I can boot it up and see the main menu. But the news page is just a black screen and every time I try to start my safe file or a new game it results in a black screen as well? I literally can't start the game since the latest update

Anyone else experiencing this?

[red bluff]

The game is currently on maintenance, it should be done in about 3 hours.

[thin canopy]

Roger, Roger. I'll spend some time on Division 2 in the meantime 🙂🎮

[tacit belfry]

1.1 said the same thing, and we got performance degraded, much worse draw distance and worse graphics

[tacit belfry]

That is a terrible way to fix things

[digital oracle]

The game wasn’t designed with consoles in mind - it’s unlikely it will ever function like the PC due to the way it was engineered

[tacit belfry]

The game is running much better on smartphones

stop looking for excuses

they simply did a bad port

[digital oracle]

Totally different architecture on mobile too

[tacit belfry]

my roommate have a PC with worse CPU and GPU, my PS5 Pro have

and the experience is much better

[digital oracle]

The game is very simplified to take advantage of that. The mobile version wouldn’t fly on consoles for obvious reasons, even thought it’s a very nice version

[thin canopy]

Sounds promising.. hopefully they were able to optimize the FPS. The engine could absolutely deliver locked 60 Frames. I think they're in the same phase as many GaaS games were at some point. They need to push new content so no one gets bored. And at some point when no one can't complain about the lag of new stuff they'll have time and resources for QoL improvements. DE went through that with Warframe

[tacit belfry]

We are almost 6 months behind of content compared to chinese version

they probably don't have a team focused on PS5, or simply they don't have experience

also, Sony is moneyhatting many gacha ports, and looks like they are not demanding good quality ports

[thin canopy]

I assume it was targeted for the Chinese market first, then it became a global success. The fact that they need to work on two different versions doesn't make things easier. Guess over time the global and Chinese version will get more and more in sync. Would be ressource friendlier to have only one. I just wonder if the game already performs better on PS5 in the Chinese version or not. But they say they're officially working on it and for now I still have trust on the devs

[digital oracle]

I won’t disagree here. But it required way more than a straight port - is what I am saying

WWM was clearly PC authored (in term of asset streaming, memory usage, shaders, and CPU) they all assume PC style scalability

When that foundation isn’t built with fixed console constraints in mind, you don’t “optimize” it later.. you have to completely rewrite and author content and systems.

Mobile running better.. sure.. but it is a separate, simplified build with different rendering paths

At this stage, a truly great console version would require deep rework from scratch which is why I am saying it’s unlikely

[tacit belfry]

"WWM was clearly PC authored (in term of asset streaming, memory usage, shaders, and CPU) they all assume PC style scalability"

the game is running 20 to 30fps higher on similar hardware

with higher settings

PS5 dont have a Jaguar like PS5, have a Zen 2

[digital oracle]

A weaker PC outperforming a PS5 isn’t surprising if the engine was designed around PC assumptions.. Raw hardware specs don’t matter if the engine doesn’t map cleanly to the console architecture. That’s why

[tacit belfry]

Every game is designed on PC first

and most of them run better on consoles compared to similar hardware

[digital oracle]

With console limitations and architecture in mind. This wasn’t

[tacit belfry]

i think you dont know what are you talking about

[digital oracle]

It’s literally my job believe it or not

So you won’t win this argument

[tacit belfry]

what game did you develop for PS5?

[digital oracle]

I’m not getting into my personal life on here, thanks

But if you have any tech questions about game dev I will gladly answer

[tacit belfry]

This is not a design problem, this a port problem

they have their own engine

[digital oracle]

Yes, it needed more than a port though. It needed to be completely rewritten to take advantage of consoles.. that’s actually how the mobile version was handled. Instead it’s a straight port and the ps5 is struggling because it’s being treated like a PC

[manic rampart]

I wonder how many ps5 player base are

[digital oracle]

I’m curious too.. that will probably determine how much work goes into the fixes

[tacit belfry]

they have more players they deserve

in my country was on top 5 for one full month

on F2P category games

[digital oracle]

I’m sure we are all curious what today’s patch will look like. I know I’m gonna fire up the ps5 just out if curiosity even though I’m on PC now. I’d like to be able to tell my ps5 playing friends it has improved

[manic rampart]

3.8 for this performance is kinda generous

[tacit belfry]

even AI trash have 2.x to 3.x on PSN

[manic rampart]

I love the game and would rate it higher

Except the performance

[tacit belfry]

that is the problem

rating this higher is basically telling developers this is ok

[manic rampart]

True

I guess some people just overlook performance

I can’t take it anymore now due to crashing every 2hrs

[tacit belfry]

most people rate the first 2 or 3 hours

on consoles

so mostly they didn't get to visit kaifeng

when they rated the game

[manic rampart]

If they actually go to kaifeng vendor

They would crash

Some time

[tacit belfry]

also 1.0 the game was performing much better

[manic rampart]

I usually crash in multi player lobby, shop menu

[tacit belfry]

1.1 was a huge downgrade

[manic rampart]

Qinghe performance is almost like kaifeng

Despite not a lot of npc

[tacit belfry]

1.0 had similar performance, but you could see NPC in the streets and the draw distance was not so low its now

[manic rampart]

how many crashes did you have?

since the launch

[tacit belfry]

1

and was after 1.1

[manic rampart]

How is that possible

I had like 20-30 over 200hrs play

[tacit belfry]

i only played 30 hours

[manic rampart]

If you ignore the shop and develop the skill menu, you would not crash at all

I tested it

[tacit belfry]

I think i had 10 crashes in total in the last 5 years between PS5 and Pro

[manic rampart]

Every time I’m farming something or upgrade my skill, it guaranteed a crash

[manic rampart]

Funny enough, i never crash on my ps5 slim that I just bought until this game lol

[tacit belfry]

I usually stop playing games after 1.5 or 2 hours

[manic rampart]

that make sense

[tacit belfry]

so if the game have a memory leak

I usually don't get that point

[manic rampart]

that where the game will usually crash

highest I get is 5 hours straight

but I just ignore the menu and stuff

[tacit belfry]

I think the second day of the release i played around 5 or 6 hours straight

but didnt get a crash

the first crash was on 1.1 after enabling RT

I think i uninstalled the game 1 or 2 days after

[manic rampart]

I don’t get a crash until I unlock kaifeng and stuff

[tacit belfry]

anyway, I have read the update was some days ago

PS5 had a patch

and today is content, but the game performance should be the same you had some hours ago

[red bluff]

The mobile version dips to low 40s or even lower in KaiFeng, but it feels much smoother than the PS5 version because of the LFC. It will significantly improve the visual fluidity at least for those with the 120hz VRR display.

assassin's creed shadow uses the LFC in its balanced mode, so the frame rate won't stutter even when it dips below 40fps.

[errant flicker]

Hello, I am having a unable to connect to the server error after the update on ps5. Can someone help me please.

[red bluff]

It's under the maintenance now, 1 more hour to go

[errant flicker]

Thank you, I thought the maintenance was supposed to be tomorrow.

[main axle]

Me also as well

[outer heath]

See here is what I don't get. From ALL that Netease has given us with times of maintenance in UTC (mind telling us AM or PM would help a lot), the times don't make sense.......ie, the maintenance should have finished by now and we should be able to log in OR we still have 5 hours to go before maintenence starts........ SO WHICH ONE IS IT?????

[main axle]

Or….the us server maintenance was supposed to be tomorrow. So what is this?

[red bluff]

the patch note indicates that it would be Jan 9th UTC+8 from 5:00 to 10:00 which is Jan 8th PST 13:00 to 18:00

[outer heath]

SO IS THE UTC TIME IN 24HR OR 12HR?????

[red bluff]

just wait 50 more min

[outer heath]

Why wont anyone aswer my simple question? Is the UTC times they gave us in 24hr or 12 hr?

[red bluff]

why can't you understand such simple answer? IT IS UTC+8 5:00 to 10:00

https://www.wherewindsmeetgame.com/news/official/LivetoGame.html

just read here

[main axle]

If it says 1300 than it’s military time. There’s no such thing as 1300 in 12 hour time

[red bluff]

it's 1:00 to 6:00 PM in PST jesus

[outer heath]

WHY CANT YOU ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION? IS IT IN 12HR or 24HR? Also smartass I am in Australia, so its the difference between; the maintenence finished 3 hours ago OR I still have 3 hours till the maintenece begins. FFS why do people have to make this so hard!

[red bluff]

DO YOU SEE AM OR PM ON THE PATCH NOTE? IF YOU DON'T THEN IT'S GOT TO BE 24HOURS USE YOUR BRAIN

[rapid river]

Chill out gang what’s this about

[red bluff]

CAN'T BELIEVE HOW DUMB PEOPLE ARE REALLY

[outer heath]

So its in 24 hr. Not fekkin hard to answer a simple question ya jerkoff!

[red bluff]

use your brain

[outer heath]

Bite mee smartass.

[red bluff]

it's just another 40 min, what's your problem?

[rapid river]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-whuh-cat-huh-kitten-whuh-kitten-side-eye-cat-side-eye-gif-15153715894785353453

[red bluff]

I really hate people with low IQs

[rapid river]

Funny chat

[high glen]

I'm having issues with server on ps5 have we identified that it's under maintenance currently?

[outer heath]

You are the one with the low IQ. I asked a simple question and you had to be a smartass.

[red bluff]

just 40 more min

[rapid river]

It is for 40mins more aprox

[red bluff]

I told you that it's just another hour, and yet you're still yelling around because you have low IQ

[high glen]

Okay I'll check it again later, I literally re-downloaded the game thinking it was my game/console😭🤦🏻‍♀️ thank you😊

[outer heath]

i DONT CARE ABOUT THAT! i ASKED A SIMPLE QUESTION AND YOU DECIDED TO BE A SMARTASS. SIMPLE. NOW GO CHOKE ON SOMETHING YOU OXYGEN THEIF

[hot hull]

glad im here to find out what was wrong. thanks @red bluff

[rapid river]

It was just an update day today alot of content getting added

[red bluff]

you don't own anyone an answer to your dumb question

[rapid river]

Ignore dawg @red bluff

🙏

Not worth it

[red bluff]

well, so y'all the PS5 people right?

[rapid river]

Yes

[red bluff]

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one suffering lol

[rapid river]

Tbh im having not many issues except the rendering in kaifeng

And im hoping alot of it gets fixed today

[digital oracle]

Agreed. The rest of the game is pretty decent comparatively

[rapid river]

Yea runs really smooth in both solo and online

Sometimes fps do drop in the new hero realm but thats it

[red bluff]

For me. the biggest problem is the chest delays and the game locking itself playing chess and gambling etc when HDR is enabled. I really hope it had been sorted out. This game is almost unplayable without the HDR support.

[rapid river]

Did u try re-downloading?

My friend had the same issue as u and re-downloading fixed it for him

For the chest delay

[red bluff]

sounds to me that your friend didn't turn on the HDR 😂

[rapid river]

I meant this

His menu in general was very delayed so he re-downloaded and it got fixed

[red bluff]

The chest delay thing happens only when you turn on the HDR, so when I need to open multiple chests or to play chess or gambling I disable HDR

This is a common problem shared by every PS5 users

[rapid river]

Oh well never heard of that one

Atleast i dont have that so im glad

[red bluff]

Sounds like you didn't turn on the HDR yourself lol. I seriously recommend you to enable HDR because it makes a world of difference.

[rapid river]

I just dont like how bright it gets

I prefer the earthy vibe without it

[red bluff]

It gives you balanced contrast, so the area that are too dark will be much visible and places that are too bright will be toned down, make things easier on your eyes

[rapid river]

Its the opposite for me lol

I turn it off in every game

[red bluff]

That's strange, that's basically what the HDR supposed do at least in WWM

[rapid river]

Its just a personal thing

[red bluff]

If I disable HDR, my eyes would bleed after 1 hour of playing lol.

[rapid river]

My eyes are pretty sensitive than most ppl in terms of bright things

[red bluff]

Without the HDR you will have too dark and too bright on same screen, make things uneasy for your eyes.

[rapid river]

I have custom monitor settings so it doesn’t affect me at all

[red bluff]

that's probably why

I play on Samsung TV

[rapid river]

Ah okay

On TV hdr is fine cz ur not sitting really close

[red bluff]

Also there's super low res texture on cut scenes in KaiFeng.

This is 100% bug because when you meet the Lion Dance Boss on the field you get this super low res assets, but when you fight him on the trials everything looks fine.

I stopped progressing the main quests in KaiFeng due to this, it really destroys the immersion.

[snow field]

please

anyone else on ps5 and hdr is going to black scren?

while loading

[digital oracle]

Only if implemented correctly. This game was never authored as HDR on the PC so it’s a pretty bad implementation. I turned it off and it looks better

[ebon cradle]

having an issue where it wont let me connect to the servers after the update. has anyone else had this issue?

[digital oracle]

Also remember - all the media you see - screenshots, YouTube play throughs, graphics showcases etc are SDR on PC

[red bluff]

I tried it on PC and its color space and brightness are completely different from the PS5 version. I could never get it to look as vibrant and perfectly balanced as seen on the PS5.

[digital oracle]

Yep, the gamma is different.. I got it looking somewhat close by pushing the brightness all the way up on ps5

Oh you mean on PC? Yeah for that you have lots of variables to toggle.. it actually needs the opposite, and I tweaked the darkness and contrast

[red bluff]

For me, it looked completely washed out. I tried everything using the nvidia control panel and all, but could never replicate the beauty of the PS5.

[digital oracle]

There’s like 5 graphics modes and multiple sliders. Its strange you couldn’t find settings to your liking, i managed to

If you don’t like a washed out image, you should avoid HDR - inherently it normalizes everything and if it’s implemented correctly it will flatten the image and look washed out

[red bluff]

I think the PS5 with the default graphics mode with HDR enabled is just perfect. The moon never looked so pretty in a video game. It's almost mesmerizing.

[digital oracle]

It looks dubiously implemented in this game though

[red bluff]

At least on my Samsung TV which is D90

[digital oracle]

So you’re probably enjoying it because it’s broken

[main axle]

How do you turn off hdr on ps5? Do I have to do it at the system level?

[digital oracle]

It’s not on by default

[red bluff]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO just turned on my PS5, and it started downloading the 70GB file 😭 😭 😭

[digital oracle]

Don’t worry it only takes 4hrs to download

[main axle]

Not on in the game settings? How can I check I can’t even find the setting

[digital oracle]

Under brightness

Advanced or something

[red bluff]

under brightness and advanced option

it's turned off by default

I seriously recommend you go to places like the ghost market

[red bluff]

somewhere dark where you can barely see anything

try enabling HDR and see if you can see those dark areas now

[main axle]

I get the difference between hdr and I prefer it in it almost all cases but someone mentioned it was causing menu issues on the ps5. Which I’m experiencing

[red bluff]

so can anyone confirm if the chest delay thing had been fixed?

I just logged in on the mobile and looks like they screwed up something. The KaiFeng map looks all broken 😂

[unreal oyster]

Has the textures or visual issues been fixed?

[manic rampart]

How is the performance now

[red bluff]

dang they added the Leopard ride, it's only 544 beads 😃

[digital oracle]

I’m playing on PC waiting for my ps5 to update. There’s a lot of new rendering options on PC which makes me think they’ve done some work at least

[tardy terrace]

Doesn't seem to be any better than before

Except now when you purchase beads you get zero

[red bluff]

I'm sooo buying this once the update is complete on my ps5 😛

[tardy terrace]

You can't

[red bluff]

actually I just did on my mobile

[thick minnow]

Unable to purchase battle pass on ps5

[red bluff]

this is strange, I couldn't use the beads I bought on ps5 on the mobile, but now I can

[tardy terrace]

Yea well they owe me 100 dollars.

[red bluff]

lemme see if I can purchase the beads on mobile, because I started this game on PS5 and it didn't allow me to buy or spend beads on any other platform.

[thick minnow]

Is anyone else locked out of BP lmao

[red bluff]

and it works too

[wise roost]

i topped up $100 and its not there :((

[thick minnow]

Also my god, the UI for PS5 got so screwed up. I have no idea what I’m selecting at any given time

[red bluff]

I just purchased 900 beads on my mobile even though my account is bound to the PS5

try using the touch pad on PS5 controller to see if you can navigate through

[red bluff]

try using the touch pad on PS5 controller to see if you can navigate through

[thick minnow]

Nope

It’s selecting things that’s a nightmare rn

[red bluff]

😩

[thick minnow]

Missing resources too lmao

[red bluff]

dang this new white dragon armor look sick

[gleaming cedar]

If you cannot purchase elite battlepass restore license and restart.. that worked for me at laest.

[thick minnow]

How

How do you restore license?

Oh like start menu from the game?

[thick minnow]

#game-support def report it

[snow field]

misn 2 tops ups of $100 and batl pas

missing. opsn of cous

[wise roost]

thank you!

[scenic thistle]

I turned on HDR with the new update to check if the menus are still delayed when opening chests, opening professions screen etc but I got a black screen instead lol, restarted the game and when it loads my character on the home screen I got another black screen so I just turned HDR off.

[manic rampart]

so hdr is the issue for black screen?

[scenic thistle]

Yes

[manic rampart]

gameplay wise is it smooth?

i need to wait 2hrs more

[scenic thistle]

I can’t answer that, I didn’t play yet just logged in to try and test HDR, check the shop and anything new in the menus.

I hope the texture loading is better in Kaifeng as it was still pretty bad before the update, but after the updates that were meant to improve it.

[digital oracle]

The PC is running way better than before on Ultra, and they added a lot more graphics settings (some new such as DoF and vram character texture toggles) - I’m about 10 mins from trying the ps5 version. I have a bunch of teleports I can go to where I know performance and textures were awful and I can go see if anything improved

[tardy terrace]

Thank god it happened to someone else.

Workings of a class action suit if they don't swiftly remedy this issue

[scenic thistle]

Also I forgot to check can anyone on PS5 or using controller check the appearance gallery (browse other players uploaded appearances) because before the update scrolling the gallery was extremely buggy! Auto scrolling issue, it was impossible to browse the gallery due to this.

[manic rampart]

they said this patch included confirming search

which mean they may fix dual portrait

[tardy terrace]

The appearance menu is severely bugged and if you enter various submenus the game stops registering the "exit" button

Forcing a full hard close of the game

Performance has not improved. No noticeable change in texture fidelity.

[manic rampart]

i found another bug when the game launch, when you click on the location of the mob you cant exit that one

[tardy terrace]

A complete strike out on console

[manic rampart]

i think they have fixed it now

[tardy terrace]

The game is now WORSE after this update

They didn't even fix the audio bugs in mystic arts/martial arts menu

[manic rampart]

that audio bug is worst when wearing headphone

[thick minnow]

Missing resources lmao

[tardy terrace]

Goddamn amateurs

[scenic thistle]

Is this a visual issue? Does it still take you to the resource when you click view details then resource?

[tardy terrace]

I'd expect at this point trying to do that would lock the game and force you to turn it off from the dashboard

Cannot trust this game anymore

[oak cobalt]

I can’t even get my game to download an update
It keeps giving me an error. Deleted the game to retry and still happening

[wise roost]

i want my pullsssss

[unreal oyster]

Being honest, for me the textures are fixed, UI has issues

[scenic thistle]

No pop-in in Kaifeng?

Or you mean texture quality?

[thick minnow]

Opening building menu, free camera does not work. You cannot rotate objects using controller. You cannot use R2 to place objects. You cannot exit the building menu without closing the game entirely. UPDATE: you cannot exit building menu even after closing game

[manic rampart]

i think it apply for pc player too

i saw someone on pc also has missing resource issue

every new update just introduce new bug

[potent canyon]

I update my game, it crashed two times and now my character has a white face

[thick minnow]

THIS IS BROKEN ON IPAD TOO OMG

I can’t get out of the menu!

[unreal oyster]

Texture quality

I'll test other places when I have time

[distant scroll]

If this is true, I have to try the game again. Every character looking like they fell out of PS2 during a cutscene made the game unplayable

[red bluff]

PS2 is an understatement, it's more like N64 quality textures in cutscenes 😩

[tawdry ether]

This game is unplayable on PS5 now.
The UI and HUD almost impossible to navigate

I've been playing since day 1 global until last night. If they can't fix it tonight I will uninstall sighed

[unreal oyster]

There's no more haptics and the triggers feel weak

Idk if it's me or what, lighting feels off

[digital oracle]

Okay there’s some definite improvements here - (I’m on ps5 pro)

Kaifeng - no more random building pop in, I flew around the city at full speed using flight and it looked solid, they’ve definitely fixed the issue with entire buildings not drawing / drawing too late. Still lod pops and so on but it no longer looks “broken”

NPC heads no longer draw in late. (Used to be missing heads until you approached them )

Textures - a couple of textures look higher res but mainly to me it looks like they put resolution into the characters. NPCs have proper stitching patterns and decorative details now instead of blurry blobs. I’d have to see a single player cutscene to confirm but that’s where I suspect they put the texture res.

Framerate - vaguely improved. Qinghe runs pretty smoothly everywhere I tested it

Didn’t notice any UI or HUD issues

[distant scroll]

Any chance you can take a look at a cutscene or zoom in to an NPC to see if textures are loading in?

Actually thanks for your post, I see it now

[tulip seal]

Is it just me but is controller vibration not there?

I feel nothing in my controller

[unreal oyster]

Yes, my muscle memory got fk up and almost died

[formal oriole]

Any news on a fix for the new bugs? Been a few hours. Textures not loading, can’t purchase anything because the menu is bugging out. I’m a floating head on the appearance screen. 😭

[unreal oyster]

The game also feels blurry

[ancient cradle]

For anyone missing their purchases (BP OR ECHO) log out with the exit menu and log back in. It worked for me

[tulip seal]

Damn, hope it gets fixed

[manic rampart]

damn so qinghe is better than before?

i knew that kaifeng still need more work

[unreal oyster]

Just asking, anyone feels the game blurry or lighting feels changed, it's soft

[tardy terrace]

All that still occurs. They didn't apparently do anything except introduce about 100 new bugs to force yoi to close the game

[tardy terrace]

Same on ps5 so far