The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

Patch notes don't mention anything about consoles, but they did say the fixed FPS drops from Dead Hard, gens being done and healing. Hope it's true. Sadly there's nothing related to hooking/unhooking because these are the most annoying hitches right now imo.

Menu looks different too. But fans were always quiet when you first boot up the console. It might be that.

My console was already on. Had been using it watch something.

Thats good. Hope they fixed at least that.

I guess Myers isn't fixed right? I mean freezing after tiering up.

@MandyTalk unfortunately killer side still needs a lot of improvement. I don't know if it's because RCPD is a super heavy map and Nurse usually causes a lot of freezes, but this match had incredibly poor performance.

Sloppy Butcher lag.

BBQ stack lag.

I don't even know how to explain this one. The flashbang Feng used made me slutter into the stairs and I couldn't move until I blinked out of it.

Unhook lag.

Gen explosion lag.

Unfortunately nobody used Dead Hard on this match so I couldn't record it on the killers' perspective.

Also, off topic, but is Shadowborn bugged? Wasn't the FOV bigger than that on Nurse?

The loading screen no longer displays particle effects. My console is quiet. I’m gonna cry

Definitely noticing a drop in quality on PC/Steam. The game chugs along during certain things, usually when a killer picks up a survivor or certain parts of the map. Auto Heaven going through the entrance of the garage once it's open as killer caused some severe frame drop when passing under the flickering lights for example.

Additionally it makes other things chug as well, turning other programs/videos on my other monitor into slideshows.

Honestly I'd love for them to remove fog all together because, like luck, it's just useless and the offerings are just wasted BP. Look at this fog on Coldwind, it looks like exhaust from an old crappy city bus. That doesn't make this map look creepy, it just looks crappy.

Dead Hard seems to be working okay on killer's perspective. This match was overall better than the one on RCPD, only had very few minor freezes. Maybe it's worth investigating performance issues on that map.

You’ve got a point here. Loading screens are definitely better but particle effects in lobby or in the rift menu are an useless overheat source.

Another really wonderful feature I have this patch, I can hear footsteps and moaning so clearly now through my headphones. They really nailed it. I’ve never heard any pc streamers talk about it since tuesday so I assume this is how the game is supposed to be. I dont’t talk about the walls bug fixes mentionned in the patch notes, I mean even open spaced sounds. It’s such a gameplay improvements for me as a killer.

Sadly the fog used to look good, i don't remember in which patch they changed it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I regret not investing a damn good PC. That I regret investing in this game for the old gen PS4 and it shouldn't be that way. Now I'm hearing even really decent PCs is getting a slice of the action... It just ain't right.

As much as I love new content, I'd be 10x happier to be able to actually play it 100% smoothly. I can't remember if I've shared it before but here is what it is like to verse Nemesis on console:

Myers still freezing often when tier 3 pops.

Wonder if I l'll ever be able to play him properly on last gen anymore.

Feelsbadman.

The fan noise is really an issue that needs to be addressed asap imo; and what I noticed that was strange is that once the match loads and the loading bar is finished, you can clearly hear the fan spin down to a regular speed which it remains at until returning to the lobby screen. So its stressing the console more in the lobby than in a match??

The freezes have all but gone for me, none on hooking, Dead Hard, Sloppy Butcher, Ruin etc - slight hitch sometimes on an unhook or the first time you use an action. Its as if it doesn't load things until its used and needs to, then once its loaded once it runs fine but you get a hitch when it access stuff initially.

This update has honestly fixed more than I was expecting and I have to say I'm impressed, even though there is still a lot that needs to be done.

My biggest issue and always has been is the really low base FPS which makes first person games in particular feel awful and difficult to play\control.

Its been difficult to test things so far as the new killer means queues are really long to play the side with the most impactful issues; and when I have got a game my MMR\rank is so low because I haven't been able to play since the Nemesis DLC\updates, that I'm playing people who aren't really playing well and that is where the issues are most apparent, when every little thing that costs you a few seconds can lose the game.

I still think the best solution for me is to drop all the fancy graphic\textures\lighting etc that are the most resource hungry and less impactful to gameplay to bare minimum so we can instantly improve FPS; then I would look to optimise things and slowly reintroduce things to push the hardware and see where the limit is while still retaining the most important thing - how smooth the game feels to play. Its 2021 and I don't feel the base FPS is reasonable, even if the PS4 version was running like it does but on some handheld device.

I've been playing Aliens Fireteam which is the first game made by the studio, cost £35 brand new at launch, and runs smooth as butter while looking great and having a reasonable amount of AI enemies on screen. I just can't see a reason DbD runs so bad in comparison to most other games, especially with the money earned and time spent on it.

I really strongly feel that BHVR could do with at least 1 person there who plays on the older consoles and can offer insight into small changes that would massively improve console QoL. Controller acceleration options and dead zone settings for example are still bafflingly absent.

Overall though I'm surprised and impressed with this patch, its done a lot more than I expected from what I've experienced so far.

Edit to add its definitely killer\map dependent, just had a horrible game as Pyramid on Yamaoka Temple where I got really bad freezing when trying to use the power, and a choppy framerate in general that game making basic control of the character a real challenge.

I think Spirit as a killer is fine and maybe the Midwich School map that was causing the general low FPS I was feeling on my previous match.

This happen to me in every match mostly and I play on PC.

I thought I could still play if I don't hang out too long in menu/lobbies. Then I had to get something from the bloodweb for a minute, and just touched my ps4 pro out of curiosity.

I nearly burned my hand, not even exaggerating.

Dangerous game playing dbd since the update. I should probably try to control my urges and play other games until they do something.

But it is hard.

I don’t know if it’s just me but the game seems to playing worse on my series x since the update.

Wednesday I crashed and got a DC penalty.

Last night I played 3 games but only got to play one. Game 1 the killer crashed instantly.

Game 2 I got half a game, and then the killer crashed, but I somehow got a DC penalty.

Game 3 I actually got to play. I can’t see me playing for much longer if these are how the games are going to go.

After 5.2 is the performance again really horrible on Nintendo Switch. Feels like you are playing again with 20-25 FPS. Before the update everything works fine because of reduced graphics.

5.2 is a step into the wrong direction. Or maybe 2 steps.