Lords Of The Fallen has issued a significant efficiency patch for the technically troubled Soulslike, serving to its Steam opinions to flee their early ‘Principally Adverse’ score as builders Hexworks resolve plenty of the largest issues on PC.
The 1.1.191 patch launched earlier at the moment regarded to deal with what Hexworks outlined as 4 principal points inflicting Lords of the Fallen to crash – one of many greatest elements that led to an outpouring of dissatisfied opinions from gamers on its launch day.
One of many greatest 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 most recent Unreal Engine 5.
“We have noticed that almost all of crashes consequence from outdated drivers,” Hexworks wrote of their Steam blog.
To provide gamers a useful reminder, the devs have now added a pop-up that may test for the most recent Nvidia or AMD driver and level them in the proper route to obtain an replace in the event that they want it.
Different graphics card points resulting in crashes embrace hassle with body technology stability, which has been briefly deactivated till it could 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 plenty of gamers apparently attempting to push their PCs’ {hardware} previous its limits, reasonably 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 a couple of gamers allow settings that their rigs can’t deal with, particularly when it comes to VRAM,” Hexworks mentioned. “For those who expertise instability, low body charges, and even crashes (particularly DX12 crashes), merely click on on “AUTO-SET” inside the Graphics Settings, and it will almost 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. Whereas the issue ought to now be fastened for many gamers, Hexworks recommends a workaround for many who run into the problem that entails including “-nopsos” to the sport’s launch line in Steam to disable the shader compiling calculation at fault.
On high 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 impression[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 contains plenty of tweaks to balancing too, with plenty of 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 a couple of frames later.
In the meantime, the Ruiner boss has seen his commonplace injury buffed by a couple of factors, whereas his fireplace protect assault and leap knockdown skill have been barely softened – a change that Hexworks says “goals to take care of the problem whereas decreasing 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 effectively.
If going up in opposition to different gamers is your explicit flavour of punishment, you gained’t have the ability to parry different gamers’ kicks any extra – one thing geared toward giving gamers extra choices when preventing 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 reviews have now bestowed a ‘Combined’ 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 is perhaps that Lords of the Fallen is effectively on its method to seeing a redemption arc play out.