The game gets increasingly laggy

[nimble fox]

that game has always been laggy but since the new DLC its been harder to even go on crusades cause no matter how much i dodge to move i still get hit and die. My cult has so much of it too. ive heard there will be a patch to fix but idk. i heard that 9 months ago. im just curious if anyone has the same issue as me.

[pine summit]

same issue here, I admit my cult is over 30 followers and I have a very busy farm... but the lag persists even in crusades it's SO annoying

[chrome granite]

Oh your Cult isn’t even that busy either! I am getting the same stutters too but it’s seems to be limited to crusades (and possibly if I’m using Bane weapons?). I’ve got like 44 followers now.

[fallow cedar]

I have the same problem, mine is almost always super laggy

[cerulean drum]

Same issue here! My game starts to lag severly after a while ever since the update.

[pine summit]

when I tried having over 40 followers the lag got SO BAD I had to kill a lot of them... 😔

I really hope this gets fixed. Having a numerous cult is so much fun

[ionic temple]

I'm pretty sure it's literally the Switch itself not being to handle the game as well anymore
There's a bunch of stuff going on, and the Switch isn't the best console performance wise

Perhaps if the game was slightly more optimized in terms of files, specifically make files for handheld that saves performance issues while having a separate version for docked play

[gloomy sky]

I've found that restarting sometimes helps the lag, but not always. I'm around 30-38 followers. I guess I shouldn't get more, then.

[chrome granite]

Reminds me of Sims 2 and 3. The game just gets too much jelly in its jam and you gotta do a hard reboot of the whole thing from time to time.

[pine summit]

I highly doubt so. I'm aware that the switch might not have the best performance, but the game is definitely not well optimized for it.

I've played in both handheld and docked mode and lag can get really nasty anywhere, anytime, even inside crusades with a relatively small number of enemies or things happening, for example darkwood crusades

[wispy citrus]

same

[torn charm]

Popping in to say that this is an issue on PC too. I have a BEEFY rig, but on my cult of ~40 followers, I've been getting some gigantic frame drops since the update (typically in the mornings; even on certain bossfights.) My other friend on PC also reports getting huge frame drops.

[foggy dragon]

I have a bout of heavy lag almost every in-game morning, and it's only fixed by moving close to my followers for some reason??

[torn charm]

Same here. It also for some reason happens sometimes if I cook a meal (the cooker waaaay to the left, the follower tents and statue to the right). I get single-digit frames until I move closer to my followers on the right side again.

[frank sonnet]

Same here, lost me so many no-hit crusades because of the frame drops or dodging and still getting hit...

[toxic idol]

Happening for me too, the game gets unplayable after an hour or two

[thorny mirage]

i think its bcs of all of the dead bodies in the grave

try and turn them into compost

[torn charm]

i removed all my graves ages ago, and i only have like 5 bodies max in the crypt

[runic tulip]

I have the same trouble, but i find something useful, it always happen when one member of the cult is going to give you a mission

[torn charm]

For me it doesn't matter if there's a mission or not; I only get missions every few days, but the lag spike happens every morning if the followers aren't rendered on my screen. Game just really seems to hate it when they're offscreen