@nessisonett Didn't know about that until a couple days ago when I watched a video by Digital Foundry and they said, "FromSoftware's engine is notorious for bad frame pacing..."
Personally, I think my eyes are not sensitive to differences in fps cause I usually couldn't really tell the difference when I watch the comparison videos.
@WanderingBullet I don’t really watch Digital Foundry at all. I prefer to make my own judgements about games because everyone has their own sensitivities when it comes to frame drops, frame pacing, motion blur etc. Control on PS4 made me feel genuinely ill and that was when I started paying a bit more attention to these things.
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I started as the wretch. Stats even across the board, starting level one. Yeah a club is all you start with, but weapons can be bought or found. Already have flame sling and combustion. Tried the forest sentry, died. Came across Marge, died. Came across the knight sentry, died. Found mad pumpkin head, died. Loving the game so far!
I enjoy DF's analyses, but I don't really let them influence my feelings about a game. A game either feels good to play or it doesn't, and that's all I really care about in the end. But the technical side of things is interesting to learn about, regardless.
Of course, I don't read the comments, since reflexive performance snobbery annoys the hell out of me.
@nessisonett I have no interested in comparison videos either. Only watching them nowadays because I don't have a PS5 so they could help me to decide on whether if I want to get some of the games that I’m interested in on the PS4 or not.
@Jimmer-jammer I'm also really liking the fact that you recover some health flasks (can't even remember what they're called this time round, but I know they're not "estus") when you defeat a group of enemies. It means if you end up getting through them with just a sliver of health, you don't necessary have to retreat straight back to the nearest point of grace
I ended up playing for about 4 hours last night. Frame rate can be a bit choppy at times, but I'm playing (PC version) on a GTX 1060 3GB - it's the kind of graphics card that'll play the vast majority of modern games, but choppy frame rates are just a fact of life for more recent games. It's also the absolute minimum GPU for playing Elden ring on PC, according to the system specs
With a few tweaks to the graphics settings (including some specific suggestions from Steam users on Windows settings which help mitigate the issue - obviously PS players don't get this kind of flexibility, they just have two graphics modes and whatever patches From software release) I managed to get a mostly steady 60FPS, dipping occasionally, down to 30 or so at the lowest points, but only very occasionally. That's just life for me, and it didn't really detract from the experience that much.
What is unusual is that if I'm managing to get a mostly steady 60fps on a 1060 3GB on medium settings, the guys with 3080 TI's really shouldn't be struggling to hit 60 at all on any graphics setting (given that there isn't any RT options yet), so hopefully they'll be able to improve performance at some point. But like I say, I had a blast despite the occasional frame rate drops
@Voltan I did manage to co-op on Steam at one point. It works - the three of us utterly failed to take down the horseback knight that's near where you start in the overworld
As I posted previously, the PS5 version arrived yesterday but I probably won’t start it for a week or two. In the mean time, I’m seriously considering picking up the PS4 version as it is supposedly the best way to play it atm. It’s currently £45 on amazon.
@colonelkilgore Seems like a bit of waste of money. I'm sure that will be patched eventually. I'm playing the ps5 version and it has been fine, but I've never been that sensitive to the issues reported. Sure I notice sudden spikes in in frame rate, like in Bloodborne when you first enter Old Yarnham. But it has bever really effected my enjoyment of the games. Like Ness said before, everyone has different sensitivities to these things.
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@JohnnyShoulder you’re probably right… the main thing that is sticking in my mind though is, I’ll want to plat both versions eventually anyway. So it probably makes most sense to play the PS4 version while it is the best version (as minimal an advantage as it may be)… and then play the PS5 version in a year or two, by which time it’ll probably be running far better.
@JohnnyShoulder I've got the bonus gesture but not the adventure guide for some reason (I pre-ordered PC version from Argos, and to be fair to them the preorder bonuses weren't advertised on their listing, so it was never clear if they were included or not)
@JohnnyShoulder wouldn’t be the first From Soft game that I end up having more than one copy of tbh… I have 3 different versions of Demons Souls, Bloodborne and Dark Souls 2, 2 versions of Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3… in fact it’s only Sekiro of the Miyazaki From era that I only have a single copy of.
@Mega-Gazz I've been sneaking up to birds and deer to kill em. I'll probs end buying arrows eventually, but at this early stage it is good to save on some coin.
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