Lords Of The Fallen has issued a significant efficiency patch for the technically troubled Soulslike, serving to its Steam critiques to flee their early ‘Mostly Negative’ ranking as builders Hexworks resolve various the most important issues on PC.
The 1.1.191 patch launched earlier at this time seemed to handle what Hexworks outlined as 4 major points inflicting Lords of the Fallen to crash – one of many largest elements that led to an outpouring of dissatisfied critiques from gamers on its launch day.
One of the most important issues is a straightforward one, and never totally Hexworks’ fault: gamers merely haven’t up to date their graphics card drivers to work with Lords of the Fallen’s use of the most recent Unreal Engine 5.
“We’ve noticed that almost all of crashes outcome from outdated drivers,” Hexworks wrote of their Steam weblog.
To give gamers a useful reminder, the devs have now added a pop-up that can verify for the most recent Nvidia or AMD driver and level them in the proper course to obtain an replace in the event that they want it.
Other graphics card points resulting in crashes embody bother with body technology stability, which has been quickly deactivated till it might 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, reasonably than counting on the sport’s computerized detection of the perfect settings (which, post-patch, ought to now work with none crashing).
“We’ve additionally noticed that fairly a number of gamers allow settings that their rigs can’t deal with, particularly by way of VRAM,” Hexworks mentioned. “If you expertise instability, low body charges, and even crashes (particularly DX12 crashes), merely click on on “AUTO-SET” throughout the Graphics Settings, and this can most certainly resolve your points.”
The final main crash issue was a code error that led to a possible crash after the sport’s first cinematic. While the issue ought to now be fastened for many gamers, Hexworks recommends a workaround for many who run into the problem that includes 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 additional 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 influence[ed] efficiency if abused” beforehand. I’m but to play Lords of the Fallen myself, so don’t have any context for what most of meaning, but when nothing else I’m delighted at seeing the phrase “eyeball explosion” in patch notes.
The patch contains various tweaks to balancing too, with various nerfs to enemies to make issues a smidge much less punishing. The hit course of some projectiles has additionally been adjusted to cease the participant reacting within the fallacious course, and the hitbox of the Sunless Skein working forces will now spawn a number of frames later.
Meanwhile, the Ruiner boss has seen his customary harm buffed by a number of factors, whereas his fireplace defend assault and bounce knockdown skill have been barely softened – a change that Hexworks says “goals to take care of the problem whereas lowering the incidence of one-shots in later areas of the sport”. Fellow boss the Spurned Progeny will now not interrupt his combos it doesn’t matter what the participant is as much as, as properly.
If going up towards different gamers is your explicit flavour of punishment, you received’t have the ability to parry different gamers’ kicks any extra – one thing aimed toward giving gamers extra choices when combating a high-level parrier. Those choices being simply giving them a giant ol’ boot, I suppose.
The efficiency enhancements land as Lords of the Fallen’s over 5,000 Steam critiques have now bestowed a ‘Mixed’ common on the sport’s reception amongst gamers, with greater than half being constructive on the time of writing. In mixture with its creators’ latest affirmation that the sport will “by no means” use controversial anti-piracy tech Denuvo, it is likely to be that Lords of the Fallen is properly on its approach to seeing a redemption arc play out.
