After six months of delays to cope with technical points, the PC model of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana lastly launched yesterday, albeit to less-than-great public response. Not as a result of it’s a nasty recreation – removed from it – however as a result of the PC model is plagued with bugs simply not current in every other model of the sport. Nonexistent Vsync, flickering lights, wonky controls and extra have been reported. Today, NIS America acknowledged the majority of reported issues, and have promised that fixes are coming.
While NIS America observe that they’re conscious of a prolonged laundry listing of wrinkles within the recreation that they’ve but to iron out, the one one to this point that has a repair on the speedy horizon is the shortage of VSync, which seems to be disabled within the recreation it doesn’t matter what graphics choices you choose. There is already a workaround to this drawback – simply forcing Vsync by way of your video card’s management panel – however that’s nonetheless a degree of trouble that gamers ideally shouldn’t must cope with. There’s additionally point out that they’re conscious of the sport crashing on some programs, however no root trigger has been talked about but.
The remainder of the problems on their speedy road-map for fixes are as follows:
Roadmap/Order we plan on fixing:
-VSync challenge to be mounted inside 48 hours
-Controller Issues (Detection, Joystick Input)
-Fix flickering in Eroded Valley & Towering Coral Forest
-Fix irregular shadows
-Remaining points famous above
It’s good that they’re already on the case, however you’d assume that one thing as plainly seen as torn frames would have been noticed a lot earlier by testers, particularly after a number of months of delays particularly to handle technical points with the PC launch. Similarly, flickering lights in early-game areas being one other clear indication that one thing was improper.
It’s a irritating state of affairs, and Ys followers aren’t joyful. Every single Nihon Falcom recreation launched on Steam up to now (nearly all ported & printed by XSeed) has been nicely acquired, the one exception being Ys VIII, printed by NIS America. With just a little extra time, effort and a few elbow grease they’ll hopefully get this PC model polished up proper, however given the wave of dangerous press it’s generated, I’d be shocked if Falcom – one of many few Japanese studios with a protracted historical past of direct PC releases – will flip to NIS America as writer once more.
