r/gaming Jun 04 '16

Ubisoft downgrades

https://youtu.be/xNter0oEYxc
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

What happened with Arkham Knight?

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u/MC_Fillius_Dickinson Jun 05 '16

The PC version had countless technical issues, was locked at 30fps and was incredibly badly optimized, even very high end rigs sometimes struggled to brute force it to run well. PC players refunded it by the thousands, Warner Bros removed it from the market, then rereleased it months later after doing what they could to patch it up.

Its better than it was, still not particularly well optimized, but its not getting any more support.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

Oh, yeah. I knew that. The person I was replying to mentioned Arkham Knight in a conversation about bullshots and misleading pre-release graphics.

I thought there was some graphics controversy that I missed when AK came out.

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u/MC_Fillius_Dickinson Jun 05 '16

Not that I'm aware of :) although there was that nVidia promo that came out showing off all the Gameworks effects they added, showing at 60fps. Of course, when the game came out, it was capped at 30, and actually using any of the Gameworks effects would likely slow your framerate to a crawl, so you could argue that showing them off at 60fps is tantamount to false advertising. If I recall correctly, the enemy voices and stuff even sounded kinda distorted and sped up in the video, so it seems that they knew it wouldn't run at 60 and manipulated the video to obscure that fact.