“Another UE5 Stutter Fest”: Hit New Soulslike ‘Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ With Over 100,000 Players Launches To “Overwhelmingly Negative” Reviews On Steam Due To Performance Issues and “Terrible” Graphics
“Another UE5 Stutter Fest”: Hit New Soulslike ‘Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ With Over 100,000 Players Launches To “Overwhelmingly Negative” Reviews On Steam Due To Performance Issues and “Terrible” Graphics
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it runs fine for me /s
From what i can see on the steam reviews and review videos out there, either the game runs really well, or absolutely terrible (which seems to be the most frequent case). What’s even more interesting is that players reported that top grade pcs could struggle a lot with it, while decade old gpus could also run it fine at the same time.
Very unfortunate, especially considering the praises the game got from reviewers with little performance issues.
It is nice they have a two hour return window. Should be easy enough for people to check.
It is one of the reasons I buy on Steam when given the choice of platforms.
Good, optimisation should be at the forefront of releasing a game.
Obligatory shout-out to Warhorse (KCD2) who apparently used witchcraft when comparing to majority of bigger game releases with launching in a rare, well-optimised state.
Microsoft also need to sort out their shit, it’s single digit figures of games that release with even a similar version to Steam let alone things like DLSS or DLSS FG working *cough* E33, The Alters & Robocop to name a few *cough* *cough*
Watched the Iron Pineapple and The Backlogs videos on the game and it seemed to be fine. Weird that so many people are getting bad performance.
I am so sick of UE5 and shit performance
Got smooth 60fps 1080p native Ultra on my i5 11600kf and RX 6750XT
maybe it’s the fact i didn’t bought it the performance is higher
Sucks that people are having trouble running the game because it really is a great soulslike. Probably my favorite combat since nioh 2 once you get a few key talents unlocked. Hopefully the devs can get the optimization up to speed quickly so they can get the praise they deserve. The level design and combat is seriously top notch.
Don’t you worry, 2-4x fake frames will fix low FPS, just buy the latest NVIDIA cards lol
there are reports of a lot of performance issues on PC, but the article doesn’t mention the other 3 reasons for the negative reviews found on steam:
one being that players who purchased the base game on steam have received the deluxe edition items, which in turn has caused those who spent the extra bucks to be upset.
secondly that the game was priced incorrectly for some regions, this has been stated by the publishers online and they are working with steam to correct the issue.
third, some Chinese players have been review bombing the game for cultural reasons, that being the Qing dynasty not featured as enemies in the game. which is a ridiculous reason in the context of a fantasy game that takes place during the Ming dynasty (decades before Qing rule). my guess is the name Wuchang led them to believe the game would have some relevance to the Wuchang uprising, which saw the Qing dynasty overthrown, but I’m unsure as an outsider with only minor knowledge in Chinese history.
Turning off v-sync seems to have fixed the crashing for me
It’s honestly amazing how successful a game can be just because it’s a soulslike. Fans of the genre are ravenous for new games to a fault.
What really? Just played it earlier and it runs great. Was skeptical at first since another ue game, but so far its not comparable performance wise. Could even play it without framegen with good fps.
4080 13900KF and 32gb ddr4.
So far it isn’t too bad, typical UE stutters.
My main issue is frame gen randomly turns itself off and then back on.
I think there’s an issue with frame gen and reflex.
If DLSS/FSRS runs by default (cant be disabled) means that you didn’t care about the performance at all
It’s working pretty good on PS5 and PS5 Pro
There are review bombing campaign going on. As someone wanted this game to fail the attack is too coordinated and is used just enough to trigger the dog whistle.
1. Dev reduced the price and CN people now spreading its the most expsive region when in fact only 14 region is cheaper than CN. Most of the 1st world country is at least 25% more and some area is 100% more expensive than CN
2. There s a lot of keyword regarding to the gender war which is funny because this is the few act game where protag is wearing revaling like stella blade and Nier.
3. Review bomber switch different language is disguise themselfs but you will see a lot of CN reviewer in KR/JP language, half of the Traditional Chinese review is in Simplified Chinese
4. Some mob is han so the dev must be anti china(???)
Over 100k players – so the developers will not learn anything from that. It was successful despite the bad optimization
Steam might need to add another hour to the refund window. For people who stay waiting for a fix, and maybe not getting it.
Why would the devs even say (show on steam requirements) that you can run this game with a 1060 minimum and recommended a 2060. I don’t get what they gain by lying like that. it’s ue5 of course it requires way more than a series 2000
7900xt high on 1440p. Doesnt run as as well as it should. Especially enemy animations are stuttery af for some reason idk.
Why most games these days have such issues with optimization and performance Jesus
Yet it still is one of the top-selling games on Steam right now. It gives the devs no reason to optimize their games, since people will buy anyways. Quite sad.
Is it pc only? I (think) I just got to the first boss and so far so good on console.
Sony needs to send Tim Sweeney a flower basket.
I have a strong PC and I gave up and bought a PS5 Pro due to how shit every UE5 game runs in PC.
I work in unreal, or rather have. It’s not the engines fault they didn’t optimize and make their shit right. Unreal has its quirks, but it’s not difficult to get a smooth running game and ship it. It’s the best commercial sold engine, and unless you’re going to put in 500 million dollars making you’re own engine over a decade or two your in house engine isn’t going to be better.
God you should see some of the in house engines I’ve had to use. Fucking God awful. Like so bad LDs can’t place objects in editor they gotta do it in Maya, then import it. That was in an engine from 2021 not 2003. Or engines where there is no way to script anything and it all has to be hard coded in c++.
ah the good old optimisation problems surrounding ue5…
Legit every single time I hear about UE5 is about how fucking much this engine sucks in optimisation department. Even Marvel Rivals had to promise to actively work on their optimisation at one point despite game’s graphic not being all that cracked.
Everyday I get more and more reasons to hate UE
This is why I hate that the industry is seemingly dropping in house engines to migrate to Unreal Engine.
I can understand games porting their existing engine over to ue5 being rough. But if you’re developing it on ue5 from scratch, there’s less room for excuses.
I can already see people say it is the developer’s fault and not Unreal 5’s fault, Unreal 5 is PERFECT! NOTHING IS BETTER! /s
Unreal 5 is a shit engine. And the games will be worse and worse with it.
I can’t wait until the day gaming moves beyond “Soulslike” and “online multiplayer fps battle royale mtx”.
Wuchang: Fallen Framerates 😀
Why are these eastern devs so far behind the west when it comes to optimizing their games
The game is shit even if you ignore all the performance issues
lets be honest here, is it a souls-like or is it a wu kong like? c’mon now.
Watched a streamer play some of it last night and i don’t understand the hate. Gamers are the most toxic group out there. About to play it myself on gamepass.
80-200 fps for me with framegen
i played around 1 hour and enjoyed my time so far