An extremely disappointing side of the Full Release update

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TL;DR Performance is horrible and everything is extremely buggy. In this post I go over my problems with performance, story and weird bugs in general.

  1. Performance

The game’s performance is absolutely awful since last update. Turning off visual clutter helps a lot but town npcs or something on islands seems to extremely lag my game. Going away from islands sometimes returns me to 60fps and sometimes I still have extreme lag even when I go down from graphics 10 to 1.

  1. Story

I think everyone here already knows what I’m talking about. Text is randomly overlapping, dialogue doesn’t go away until you talk to another npc, story locks happen often where you are stuck in cutscenes and have to wait either minutes or rejoin.

The story locks are so annoying because they can even chain up multiple times, I had to rejoin 4 times for one story sequence. Everything about the dialogue is extremely buggy.

Boss visual clutter is also extremely annoying. The bosses also constantly break and stop attacking you. Side bosses have been much more fun to fight.

  1. Bizarre Bugs

The game is riddled with a lot of common bugs, which is understandable usually, but you’d think with an entire year to make this update and a larger playtester team they’d take care of most of these.

The Dark Sea sensing randomly breaks at some point and you can’t directly look at the blue orb for the War Seas.

Ship npcs are super unclear and having them wait at your ship sometimes has them return to their posts when you sail but then they randomly get abandoned after a while for no reason.

Loading Screen breaks frequently and it takes up to 3+ minutes on top of having to rejoin due to story locks.

There are random bugs with the cosmetic mechanic they added where your last weapon switches to your off hand. You can have a weapon buggily sit in your off hand while using a shovel. Many more small visual bugs other than this are present but you get the point.

Glider animations break often.

Invisible thief NPCs keep robbing you.

There are a lot more minor bugs that I won’t mention since you probably get the point now. List some bugs of your own if you think I missed something really weird.

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Vextex we need a patch or we’re finished.

Lol

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The average deepwoken update has less bugs than this and Vextex had several months to test full release and yes update size matters but fr this is just dumb I’m no longer as happy to try out fr when I have the time to

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im pretty fine somehow at graphics 5, thể í occasionally sutter but most of the time its pretty smooth

havent fought boss yet so i cant tell but otherwise i agree yeah

my current greatest gripe is probably the deckhand following system since its kinda buggy

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i cant even progress in the story. the trigger is broken

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New deckhand stuff seems so cool but it’s limited hard by how buggy it is. Worse yet is when you order your guys to chop trees they just chop one each and you have to spam the command over and over

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It appears that diving is also extremely broken. Going underwater and hitting the sea floor sometimes doesn’t regen stamina so you are stuck there until you die or reset.

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dude ikr its so annoying. the way i got past it is by clicking on the continue button in the dialogue as fast as i can so it doesnt overlap in time

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i lowk only care about being able to explore, get better gear and not be broke, and fight omen. But why the hell are there so many flying whales, and abandoned half loaded in ships???

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yeah ive been experiencing most of this but honestly the game is still really fun to play and ive been having a great time so

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bug odyssey

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they gotta fix the 1 in 1 drop chance too

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deckhand/crew pathfinding

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I swear there is a memory leak relating to insanity items that cripples fps, has anyone else ran into it?

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also idk if anyone else noticed this but HOLY MY SHIP LOSES DURABILITY FASTER THAN A LVL 600 ATLANTEAN

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look on the bright side… they could just not test the game at all

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I think dark sea generation might be a bit bugged too! I don’t know if it’s intentional, but it would seem that rift megastructures generate in I0! And they’re everywhere!

Dunno if it’s intended, but the rifts spawn inside of islands and they can trap you! Dunno if its intended tho

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also there’s a bug where the interact button doesnt appear and you cant pick up chests

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im lowk gonna just wait a bit before playing FR just to have a bug free experience.

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I think they took zero time to even patch bugs that were already in the game, THE BUG WITH THE STEALTH CLOAKS IN RAVENNA WAS MADE WORSE, AND NOW YOU SPAWN WITH THE CLOAK WHEN YOU REJOIN