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Bloodborne Load Times are Getting Patched. Along with other performance optimisations

Let us toggle chromatic aberration please!!!

This is in the game? WTF. I hate CA with a passion. I bought it on PSN this morning because I can't get over to BB to pick up my copy until later in the week. Grr, now I wish I had it on disc so I could trade it in if I hate that effect. I refused to buy Lords of the Fallen until it was patched to toggle off.

Ah well, hopefully it isn't too severe and I won't notice...much.
 
Generally agreed, but in this case long load times are such a miniscule issue, I have no problem buying the game now.

Load times, I agree with. While annoying if too long, it hasn't stopped me from other games. Frame-rate problems (frame pacing, frame drops, frame spikes) drive me nuts.
 
This is the annoying thing. First dayers pay the most for a worse off experience.

That's the inherent risk for early adopters of any product. What you're paying for is to be the first to experience it. Any game you buy on day 1 nowadays is basically the worst version you're ever going to get for that game.
 
At least we now have the ability to have games patched and fixed, unlike the pre-PS3 era. It's not like games back then released in a perfect state.
 
This is in the game? WTF. I hate CA with a passion. I bought it on PSN this morning because I can't get over to BB to pick up my copy until later in the week. Grr, now I wish I had it on disc so I could trade it in if I hate that effect. I refused to buy Lords of the Fallen until it was patched to toggle off.

Ah well, hopefully it isn't too severe and I won't notice...much.

It's as bad as it was in Lords of the Fallen pre patch.


Upper left tree is covered in it.
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Is now the right time to mention that the Valkyrie scene in Too Human was shorter than the Bloodborn post death load screen?

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The game desperately needs a framerate patch. The game is fun as all hell and easily the best game on PS4 right now, but it's painful to see it stutter.
 
I was going to buy BB at launch, but the Collector's Edition Strategy Guide was delayed until mid-April, and I just decided to wait until then. Looks like that delay may have been a blessing in disguise.
 
If it plays like Blighttown then there is a problem. If, when I roll through a lot of breakable furniture, it stutters, this is par for the course. It didn't make me enjoy Demon's Souls any less. Of course, ideally there won't be any technical issues so it is good they are trying to address them. I'd rather have them aim for the stars with their design than let it be tailored and made less grand by technical boundaries.
 
It's as bad as it was in Lords of the Fallen pre patch.


Upper left tree is covered in it.

Oh, that is disappointing. Why developers? :( The whole image looks terrible. I always feel like I don't have my glasses on when I see this effect. It's really tiring to look at too.
 
If it plays like Blighttown then there is a problem. If, when I roll through a lot of breakable furniture, it stutters, this is par for the course. It didn't make me enjoy Demon's Souls any less. Of course, ideally there won't be any technical issues so it is good they are trying to address them. I'd rather have them aim for the stars with their design than let it be tailored and made less grand by technical boundaries.
It isnt framedrops like blighttown. Its a constant stutter because the engine isnt putting out all the frames in the right order.

The framerate isnt dropping (mostly) it just feels like it is.
 
The chromatic aberration is terrible, GAF. It's right there with the persistent framerate wonkiness.

I really dig the game so it's especially jarring. I never suspected that From would bother with CA considering that it only exists to make your game look like it was filmed with a shitty lens.
 
From probably didn't have the engine muscle to be able to iron out everything in house. Game launched and people noticed, Sony sends staff to clean it up a bit?
 
I was going to buy BB at launch, but the Collector's Edition Strategy Guide was delayed until mid-April, and I just decided to wait until then. Looks like that delay may have been a blessing in disgust.
I pre-ordered that on Amazon expecting to get it today, but missed that it had been delayed. :(
 
Have the game installed, but resisting the urge to play.

I can live with long loadings, but the frame pacing is terrible.
 
Is now the right time to mention that the Valkyrie scene in Too Human was shorter than the Bloodborn post death load screen?
Hah! Nice comparison.

The load times are really bad.. not so bad that it makes me want to stop playing, but I can absolutely see it turning off new players when so much of the game is dying and trying again. It hurts the flow of the game.
 
I was hoping that the load times wouldn't bother me, but they really do. I hope it isn't too long of a wait.
 
Hope they fix the frametimes too.

hopefully fixes frame-pacing issues :)

Hopefully the frame pacing is a higher priority. Much bigger issue for me.

Except it is.

The broken frametiming makes the game seem like it is constantly stuttering.
It is a bug. A very annoying bug.

Yes, frame times need to be improved if I'm ever to play (and enjoy) Bloodborne for more than 20-30min at a time. I don't know what it is about uneven frame times and eye fatigue accompanied by a slight headache, but I definitely felt it last night.

Here's hoping they'll manage to sort it out soon.
 
Is now the right time to mention that the Valkyrie scene in Too Human was shorter than the Bloodborn post death load screen?

TH_Valkyrie.jpg

I had read a lot about her back then, but only now did I watch the full animation on youtube, because of the comments on Bloodborne loading... it's barely 15 seconds actually, it's not that much.
 
I had read a lot about her back then, but only now did I watch the full animation on youtube, because of the comments on Bloodborne loading... it's barely 15 seconds actually, it's not that much.

It's amazing how much shit the game got for it, when it was right around the same time as every other game to go from game over to playing again.
 
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