I have currently Been trying to give it a try yesterday and this morning only to find it performs pretty bad, so I can’t imagine how bad it is on the XBoxes. On top of that if you take a little search you’ll find some corroborating experiences like mine thus far, by many people over the last year or so of it being out. The big issues aside from unstable performance is that it has serious controller latency issues.
So much so that not only do you have to try to weed through the multiple graphic settings options to get the poor performance inncheck; but you also have to take into account how the graphic settings choices you make worsen or better the latency of input from controller to what you actually see on TV. It’s actually one of the worst offenders of this problem I’ve seen in the last few years aside from cyberpunk and most recently Resident Evil 4 which is somewhat fixable but also baked into its design. In this case the latency is so bizarre. no matter what you tweak with the settings, not only does it affect being able to achieve any type of precision but it also makes it feel like you’re playing with controller stick drift issues that aren’t from the controller itself but actually the input lag and latency problems the translate in this overshooting like drift regardless of the acceleration, deceleration, or dead zone swttings.
After several hours and many articles, videos, and Forum readings later I found some settings that I’ve slowly started to get used to but there’s still a ton of latency problems where I’m basically using strafing left and right to kind of compensate for the poor Precision with the right stick aiming.
I spent hours playing and digging through info posted throughout the last year including every set of patch notes trying to figure out why a year has gone by and this hasn’t been addressed regardless of the issues being verifiable and reported by many. There was/still are even mainstream outlet articles and videos put out when it first released addressing steps one can take to try and mitigate the problem with combinations of controller settings and video settings set up to where it’s at least bearable over time if you push through it. IGN even put out a video on it back in 2022.
** I mainly say this as a PSA to save others time. The latency is baseline based on poor optimization. It is unfixable. The best you can do is do the primary things recommended over the past year to make it manageable after your eyes, brain and subsequently stick handling adjust over time playing.
So basically you can either accept it/deal with it, or don’t waste your time and move onto the myriad of other titles that released without such blatant technical issues, or at the very least listened enough to the community to address them over time.
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