Lords Of The Fallen has issued a significant efficiency patch for the technically troubled Soulslike, serving to its Steam critiques to flee their early ‘Largely Destructive’ ranking as builders Hexworks resolve various the largest issues on PC.
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The 1.1.191 patch launched earlier right now seemed to deal with what Hexworks outlined as 4 fundamental points inflicting Lords of the Fallen to crash – one of many largest components that led to an outpouring of upset critiques from gamers on its launch day.
One of many largest issues is a straightforward one, and never solely Hexworks’ fault: gamers merely haven’t up to date their graphics card drivers to work with Lords of the Fallen’s use of the newest Unreal Engine 5.
“We have noticed that almost all of crashes end result from outdated drivers,” Hexworks wrote of their Steam weblog.
To offer gamers a useful reminder, the devs have now added a pop-up that can verify for the newest Nvidia or AMD driver and level them in the best route to obtain an replace in the event that they want it.
Different graphics card points resulting in crashes embody bother with body era stability, which has been quickly deactivated till it could actually typically a extra dependable expertise on 40-series Nvidia GPUs, which mixed with errors affecting “sure 30 and 40 sequence GPUs” that resulted in crashes even when the sport was set to auto-detect graphics high quality.
This was made worse by various gamers apparently making an attempt to push their PCs’ {hardware} previous its limits, fairly than counting on the sport’s automated detection of the perfect settings (which, post-patch, ought to now work with none crashing).
“We have additionally noticed that fairly just a few gamers allow settings that their rigs can’t deal with, particularly by way of VRAM,” Hexworks mentioned. “In the event you expertise instability, low body charges, and even crashes (particularly DX12 crashes), merely click on on “AUTO-SET” throughout the Graphics Settings, and it will most probably resolve your points.”
The final main crash issue was a code error that led to a possible crash after the sport’s first cinematic. Whereas the issue ought to now be mounted for many gamers, Hexworks recommends a workaround for many who run into the difficulty that entails including “-nopsos” to the sport’s launch line in Steam to disable the shader compiling calculation at fault.
On prime of the headline bug-squashing, there’s an extra efficiency enchancment in stopping the “lingering VFX from the Barrage of Echoes eyeball explosion” from persisting for too lengthy when casting the spell, which “probably affect[ed] efficiency if abused” beforehand. I’m but to play Lords of the Fallen myself, so haven’t any context for what most of which means, but when nothing else I’m delighted at seeing the phrase “eyeball explosion” in patch notes.
The patch consists of various tweaks to balancing too, with various nerfs to enemies to make issues a smidge much less punishing. The hit route of some projectiles has additionally been adjusted to cease the participant reacting within the fallacious route, and the hitbox of the Sunless Skein working forces will now spawn just a few frames later.
In the meantime, the Ruiner boss has seen his customary injury buffed by just a few factors, whereas his hearth defend assault and bounce knockdown potential have been barely softened – a change that Hexworks says “goals to take care of the problem whereas lowering the prevalence of one-shots in later areas of the sport”. Fellow boss the Spurned Progeny will not interrupt his combos it doesn’t matter what the participant is as much as, as nicely.
If going up in opposition to different gamers is your explicit flavour of punishment, you received’t have the ability to parry different gamers’ kicks any extra – one thing geared toward giving gamers extra choices when combating a high-level parrier. These choices being simply giving them a giant ol’ boot, I assume.
The efficiency enhancements land as Lords of the Fallen’s over 5,000 Steam critiques have now bestowed a ‘Blended’ common on the sport’s reception amongst gamers, with greater than half being optimistic on the time of writing. Together with its creators’ latest affirmation that the sport will “by no means” use controversial anti-piracy tech Denuvo, it could be that Lords of the Fallen is nicely on its strategy to seeing a redemption arc play out.
