Pokemon Scarlet And Violet Patch 1.2.0 Performance Review!
Pokemon Scarlet And Violet Patch 1.2.0 Performance Review!
by blubberpuppers
46 Comments
Tito1983
Embarrasing, how they dare to present a DLC for a game running like this….it is incredible how little the care about their fans and more importantly, consumers.
Now, before someone mentiones it, the supposed leak that says that this game is made for a future version of the Switch and that the performance patch is targeted to that new hardware and bla bla bla bla….I remind you that THIS current hardware runs Nier Automata, Witcher 3, Fire Emblem games, Xenobalde games, freacking NO MAN SKY!!!!! trillion times better than this mess of game. So no, this game does not need more powerfull hardware, it needs care, profesionalism and respect for the people that love their franchise and have make them win trillions of dollars.
Starbornsoul
It’ll only get worse from here on out. I’m not buying the next game without reading reviews/waiting for patches. I liked Sword/Shield a lot but S/V is sooooo shitty performance wise. What a disrespectful trainwreck.
GamblingGhost
That’s sad and they just announced two DLCs with a price increase. I’ve seen early access without a lot of money doing a better job than them and with more frequent updates (actually doing something).
At this point, I’m not even sure they can do anything without rebuilding the whole game. What baffled me is they don’t want to hire more people or take more time to polish their games before release, better release shovelware games instead and take your money.
Early_Lawfulness_348
Welcome. As a collector, I think it’s getting quite pathetic. In case you misunderstand, I think that Game Freak is pathetic and that Nintendo is quite pathetic for letting this go. They suck. They make some things I love but I still think they suck for doing the bare minimum. I expect more.
Professional-Duck964
I’m a pretty big Pokemon fan but this game can suck my balls
Moznomick
Can’t really say that I’m surprised but still disappointed because as someone who enjoys Pokemon, it deserves so much better. If games like Cyberpunk 2077 pushed their dlc back to prioritize on on fixing the issues, then GF should follow suit. Until this mess is fixed I won’t be buying this game and I’m just thankful that there has been plenty of games to keep me busy.
Chionei
I personally found pop in to be sooo much worse after the patch and I never saw that weird texture pop in way in the distance before, but now I do.
It’s worse than before (for me at least), more pop in, less wandering pokemon making the world feel empty, and that ugly black texture pop in on the horizon.
chatranislost
It’s sad that the game runs so poorly. I recently bought it because it was on sale, and honestly, the game is VERY GOOD. I like everything about it so far but yeah, it runs like crap. If it wasn’t bad enough the design doesn’t help at all and it makes things even slower. Why can’t you just play the animation and dialogue in battles at the same time?
I just want to kill myself whenever some dumb pokemon attacks with fury swipes or when I’m battling in a sandstorm. The slow animations and dialogue don’t stop. Even navigating the user interface and menus is slow and a pain in the ass.
suck-it-elon
I had delayed playing the game til a performance patch. I just didn’t want to play a game with stuttering framework, I find it so annoying. I don’t even care about graphics, I just want something smooth.
Actually started the game today but…yeah…I’m still out. Maybe will see in the future if something happens but I’m having my doubts. Glad others still enjoy it tho!
wilson_xof
Game runs like shit. Not getting the DLC, and apparently the performance issues could be targeted to be fixed by DLC2 (Winter) a whole damn year to fix FPS, and ugly graphics and shading.
I’ve never been disappointed with a Pokémon game like this.
Sword and Shield is way better than SV. Even Legends Arceus, a completely different gameplay including graphics.
>!FuckYouGameFreak!<
bassCity
I love how they dance around how bad the performance is with their verbiage. Like I just want to see the head of whoever is in charge of handling all that to sit down and and stream the game to an audience and explain what the problems are, directly to their consumers. They deserve to be in the hot seat.
Bring2Light
posted was the bad eggs for the new raids UPDATE BEOFRE YOU do the raids. if not you are stuck with a forever egg.
ThePughskii
I wish this company would fail so it’d actually give us some quality games for once.
CrudelyDrawnDedede
Remember when we apologized and said we would devote all our efforts to fixing the game? Just kidding we made DLC instead!
roshanpr
Well is it embarrassing if people keep paying for this?
Raccoonborn
I’m just gonna stick with Brilliant Diamond and Legends: Arceus.
cocoabutta32
I’m surprised by how much people seem to think the graphics are the only problem with this game. They truly are terrible but there are other issues with the game IMO. All of the “gym tests” I’ve done make me feel like I’m just wasting my time. Give me some sort of puzzle, show me you’ve put a little thought into the game.
Also the open world aspect of it is completely wasted when wild pokemon, gyms etc don’t scale in difficulty at all. The open world just feels like a gimmick at that point.
And my last complaint is that its so goddamn easy. I took on the “quaking earth titan” with my pokemon in their low 30s and only a few of my pokemon even fainted. This is the mid-level 40s titan, it feels like he should be probably 1 or 2 shotting my guys pretty easily.
Anyways I think I’ve talked myself out of buying any more pokemon games lol
Jobles4
Shit game
berrymetal
I wish I didn’t buy this game
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TheChozoKnight
Installed the update, booted the game, started in the town with the big windmill.
Super Choppy 5fps windmill still there? Yep.
EddieXXI
Lol it’s never going to be patched. Mostly likely they don’t even know how to improve it, probably needs rebuilding from the ground up. First mainline Pokémon game I haven’t bought and I won’t be buying the next one either unless they sort themselves out.
RevengePies
As a long time Pokemon fan for almost my entire life this is the first time I have not bought a core game. This is unacceptable to me, putting aside the fact that Pokemon designs worsen by the generations (obviously not all but most in my opinion).
Looking on tons of reviews I decided it’s disrespectful to fans. Can I afford throwing the money on this game? Absolutely, but I won’t because I will not accept such treatment. Will it make any difference? No, because it still sells a ton so nobody cares.
Game Freak does terrible job, but honestly I would have done the same if people kept acting like a herd of sheep buying anything Pokemon. To those saying “but it’s fun”, well I have not played it but I am happy for you and that you have low enough standards to enjoy, genuinely happy for you. But every Pokemon game is fun to it’s fans so I’d rather go and play again games like ORAS or HGSS.
Here’s hoping something in the future will change, until then I am enjoying my PS5 games instead.
GummyWyvern
Arceus was fun, I have my issues with it but I love the game. How the fuck do we have shit like Doom 2016 and Odyssey running like champions and the highest grossing media franchise releases the next game and it’s not only worse but substantially so learning nothing from the issues of Arceus.
Writhing
Absolute dog shit and embarrassing release. They should have done mass refunds like Cyberpunk but Nintendo doesn’t give a shit to protect consumers like Playstation/Xbox/Steam did
zombiepoon
Not sure how they go from legends to this lol
Maximum-Internet-421
I sold my game a week after release. Im not putting any more MONEY in their pockets. This is outrageous.
nvincent
Hey I bet they are just REALLY working hard on making the *next* game bug free… right?
galgor_
If this game didn’t have the Pokémon branding it would already be discounted and forgotten about.
The trouble is, with every passing year, Pokémon acquires new fans in kids. So while some older people will ditch the series, the games will see a new era ushering in new sales.
The cycle is endless so long as they keep making games. It’s a shame as I felt the series might actually be going in the right direction with the open world stuff after many, many years of them not having an excuse to make one other than the cash cow explanation. But nope, here we are.
I think the passion for creating new entries in the series is long, long gone and it never evolved into what it could have been years ago.
7iag0
Id be happier getting a paid Arceus DLC.
pointesedated
This is the only pokemon game I regret. I don’t even have more than 5 hrs in it and I am a very casual gamer. I bought a switch to play pokemon games and I do not care about frame rate or graphics, I mostly play pixel games. But this game was terrible. I kept trying to like it but the pop in and chunky graphics made it seem like a gamecube came.
I don’t get it, Arceus was ignored, no DLC. But it’s such a good game.
Guess I’m just a sad fan now, I feel like I got robbed of my money lol.
AlexWar07
Lmao, yesterday went to hunt slither wing in area zero and bugged inside of a rock, spent 15 mins trying to get out, how is that a performance update
giibeto
Still haven’t played this game yet and it’s can only imagine how annoying this must be for vet fans. Taking the piss announcing the dlc but not fixing the bare minimum
barbietattoo
Franchise sucks
CookieMisha
Yeah I’m not starting this game up ever again
baconsticks
I was downvoted from what I said in another thread a couple of weeks ago, but I’ll say it again:
The hard truth is that they will *not* provide a general performance improvement update to this game, past games, or future games, with their current dev cycle. We will continue to receive mediocre performing games from them regardless of what system they’re designing on. They are responsible for pumping out mainline Pokemon games that are ever-increasing in scope and scale in order to keep pace with TPC. The current team simply does not have the talent nor size needed to provide proper care for their games. They will fix crashes, exploits, etc. that can be reliably reproduced, but not much else (this is probably because Nintendo is forcing them to).
Until things drastically change over there, please don’t expect a polished game like we got in in the GBA/DS era. They have unfortunately outgrown what they’re capable of doing.
Coccquaman
I played last night to get the two new Paradox Pokemon, and it seemed like nothing changed. It was very disappointing.
Jenova__Witness
The game definitely feels more “chuggy” to me than it did before.
erin_silverio
Ngl, it seems to run worse now than it did before (granted I started recently playing in docked mode after playing handheld for so long)
-eschguy-
As much as I enjoyed Scarlet, I think it will be my last Pokemon game.
MRmandato
For me its the gaslighting excuses the defenders keep making. This reviewer couldnt even ignore them.
“The camera clipping in and out of caves happens is EVERY 3D game”
How delusional, how painfully brainwashed do you have to be to say that? This type of mentality was rampant when the game launched. Complete with a guy pretending to be a “AAA developer” and making long posts on Reddit defending the game’s performance. (He was exposed and deleted the pose but it was a riot)
By all means enjoy the game. But don’t lie about objective facts of its poor performance. This game is Sonic Boom level shitty if not worse as far as its visuals and performance. By all means spend your money, but I wont.
I almost believed they were actually going to patch this, but why would they? Its selling like hotcakes.
magictats
sad
Windst
I enjoyed it only thing I hate are the uniforms.
DayKlutzy6647
Still didn’t fix the ditto outbreaks lol
MoonieSarito
I’m still amazed how a game that looks so much uglier than Zelda BOTW, Xenoblade 3 or Monster Hunter Rise manages to run so much worse than all those games.
I mean, isn’t Pokemon literally the richest franchise in the world?, even indie games like Temtem that are made by a team of just 30 people do better on Switch.
mcadams226
I’m not sure if it’s just me or not, but it’s virtually unplayable on the original V1 Switch after the patch. The lag between menus is awful. I didn’t have this problem several weeks ago, so clearly something is wrong with the patch.
46 Comments
Embarrasing, how they dare to present a DLC for a game running like this….it is incredible how little the care about their fans and more importantly, consumers.
Now, before someone mentiones it, the supposed leak that says that this game is made for a future version of the Switch and that the performance patch is targeted to that new hardware and bla bla bla bla….I remind you that THIS current hardware runs Nier Automata, Witcher 3, Fire Emblem games, Xenobalde games, freacking NO MAN SKY!!!!! trillion times better than this mess of game. So no, this game does not need more powerfull hardware, it needs care, profesionalism and respect for the people that love their franchise and have make them win trillions of dollars.
It’ll only get worse from here on out. I’m not buying the next game without reading reviews/waiting for patches. I liked Sword/Shield a lot but S/V is sooooo shitty performance wise. What a disrespectful trainwreck.
That’s sad and they just announced two DLCs with a price increase. I’ve seen early access without a lot of money doing a better job than them and with more frequent updates (actually doing something).
At this point, I’m not even sure they can do anything without rebuilding the whole game. What baffled me is they don’t want to hire more people or take more time to polish their games before release, better release shovelware games instead and take your money.
Welcome. As a collector, I think it’s getting quite pathetic. In case you misunderstand, I think that Game Freak is pathetic and that Nintendo is quite pathetic for letting this go. They suck. They make some things I love but I still think they suck for doing the bare minimum. I expect more.
I’m a pretty big Pokemon fan but this game can suck my balls
Can’t really say that I’m surprised but still disappointed because as someone who enjoys Pokemon, it deserves so much better. If games like Cyberpunk 2077 pushed their dlc back to prioritize on on fixing the issues, then GF should follow suit. Until this mess is fixed I won’t be buying this game and I’m just thankful that there has been plenty of games to keep me busy.
I personally found pop in to be sooo much worse after the patch and I never saw that weird texture pop in way in the distance before, but now I do.
It’s worse than before (for me at least), more pop in, less wandering pokemon making the world feel empty, and that ugly black texture pop in on the horizon.
It’s sad that the game runs so poorly. I recently bought it because it was on sale, and honestly, the game is VERY GOOD. I like everything about it so far but yeah, it runs like crap. If it wasn’t bad enough the design doesn’t help at all and it makes things even slower. Why can’t you just play the animation and dialogue in battles at the same time?
I just want to kill myself whenever some dumb pokemon attacks with fury swipes or when I’m battling in a sandstorm. The slow animations and dialogue don’t stop. Even navigating the user interface and menus is slow and a pain in the ass.
I had delayed playing the game til a performance patch. I just didn’t want to play a game with stuttering framework, I find it so annoying. I don’t even care about graphics, I just want something smooth.
Actually started the game today but…yeah…I’m still out. Maybe will see in the future if something happens but I’m having my doubts. Glad others still enjoy it tho!
Game runs like shit. Not getting the DLC, and apparently the performance issues could be targeted to be fixed by DLC2 (Winter) a whole damn year to fix FPS, and ugly graphics and shading.
I’ve never been disappointed with a Pokémon game like this.
Sword and Shield is way better than SV. Even Legends Arceus, a completely different gameplay including graphics.
>!FuckYouGameFreak!<
I love how they dance around how bad the performance is with their verbiage. Like I just want to see the head of whoever is in charge of handling all that to sit down and and stream the game to an audience and explain what the problems are, directly to their consumers. They deserve to be in the hot seat.
posted was the bad eggs for the new raids UPDATE BEOFRE YOU do the raids. if not you are stuck with a forever egg.
I wish this company would fail so it’d actually give us some quality games for once.
Remember when we apologized and said we would devote all our efforts to fixing the game? Just kidding we made DLC instead!
Well is it embarrassing if people keep paying for this?
I’m just gonna stick with Brilliant Diamond and Legends: Arceus.
I’m surprised by how much people seem to think the graphics are the only problem with this game. They truly are terrible but there are other issues with the game IMO. All of the “gym tests” I’ve done make me feel like I’m just wasting my time. Give me some sort of puzzle, show me you’ve put a little thought into the game.
Also the open world aspect of it is completely wasted when wild pokemon, gyms etc don’t scale in difficulty at all. The open world just feels like a gimmick at that point.
And my last complaint is that its so goddamn easy. I took on the “quaking earth titan” with my pokemon in their low 30s and only a few of my pokemon even fainted. This is the mid-level 40s titan, it feels like he should be probably 1 or 2 shotting my guys pretty easily.
Anyways I think I’ve talked myself out of buying any more pokemon games lol
Shit game
I wish I didn’t buy this game
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Installed the update, booted the game, started in the town with the big windmill.
Super Choppy 5fps windmill still there? Yep.
Lol it’s never going to be patched. Mostly likely they don’t even know how to improve it, probably needs rebuilding from the ground up. First mainline Pokémon game I haven’t bought and I won’t be buying the next one either unless they sort themselves out.
As a long time Pokemon fan for almost my entire life this is the first time I have not bought a core game. This is unacceptable to me, putting aside the fact that Pokemon designs worsen by the generations (obviously not all but most in my opinion).
Looking on tons of reviews I decided it’s disrespectful to fans. Can I afford throwing the money on this game? Absolutely, but I won’t because I will not accept such treatment. Will it make any difference? No, because it still sells a ton so nobody cares.
Game Freak does terrible job, but honestly I would have done the same if people kept acting like a herd of sheep buying anything Pokemon. To those saying “but it’s fun”, well I have not played it but I am happy for you and that you have low enough standards to enjoy, genuinely happy for you. But every Pokemon game is fun to it’s fans so I’d rather go and play again games like ORAS or HGSS.
Here’s hoping something in the future will change, until then I am enjoying my PS5 games instead.
Arceus was fun, I have my issues with it but I love the game. How the fuck do we have shit like Doom 2016 and Odyssey running like champions and the highest grossing media franchise releases the next game and it’s not only worse but substantially so learning nothing from the issues of Arceus.
Absolute dog shit and embarrassing release. They should have done mass refunds like Cyberpunk but Nintendo doesn’t give a shit to protect consumers like Playstation/Xbox/Steam did
Not sure how they go from legends to this lol
I sold my game a week after release. Im not putting any more MONEY in their pockets. This is outrageous.
Hey I bet they are just REALLY working hard on making the *next* game bug free… right?
If this game didn’t have the Pokémon branding it would already be discounted and forgotten about.
The trouble is, with every passing year, Pokémon acquires new fans in kids. So while some older people will ditch the series, the games will see a new era ushering in new sales.
The cycle is endless so long as they keep making games. It’s a shame as I felt the series might actually be going in the right direction with the open world stuff after many, many years of them not having an excuse to make one other than the cash cow explanation. But nope, here we are.
I think the passion for creating new entries in the series is long, long gone and it never evolved into what it could have been years ago.
Id be happier getting a paid Arceus DLC.
This is the only pokemon game I regret. I don’t even have more than 5 hrs in it and I am a very casual gamer. I bought a switch to play pokemon games and I do not care about frame rate or graphics, I mostly play pixel games. But this game was terrible. I kept trying to like it but the pop in and chunky graphics made it seem like a gamecube came.
I don’t get it, Arceus was ignored, no DLC. But it’s such a good game.
Guess I’m just a sad fan now, I feel like I got robbed of my money lol.
Lmao, yesterday went to hunt slither wing in area zero and bugged inside of a rock, spent 15 mins trying to get out, how is that a performance update
Still haven’t played this game yet and it’s can only imagine how annoying this must be for vet fans. Taking the piss announcing the dlc but not fixing the bare minimum
Franchise sucks
Yeah I’m not starting this game up ever again
I was downvoted from what I said in another thread a couple of weeks ago, but I’ll say it again:
The hard truth is that they will *not* provide a general performance improvement update to this game, past games, or future games, with their current dev cycle. We will continue to receive mediocre performing games from them regardless of what system they’re designing on. They are responsible for pumping out mainline Pokemon games that are ever-increasing in scope and scale in order to keep pace with TPC. The current team simply does not have the talent nor size needed to provide proper care for their games. They will fix crashes, exploits, etc. that can be reliably reproduced, but not much else (this is probably because Nintendo is forcing them to).
Until things drastically change over there, please don’t expect a polished game like we got in in the GBA/DS era. They have unfortunately outgrown what they’re capable of doing.
I played last night to get the two new Paradox Pokemon, and it seemed like nothing changed. It was very disappointing.
The game definitely feels more “chuggy” to me than it did before.
Ngl, it seems to run worse now than it did before (granted I started recently playing in docked mode after playing handheld for so long)
As much as I enjoyed Scarlet, I think it will be my last Pokemon game.
For me its the gaslighting excuses the defenders keep making. This reviewer couldnt even ignore them.
“The camera clipping in and out of caves happens is EVERY 3D game”
How delusional, how painfully brainwashed do you have to be to say that? This type of mentality was rampant when the game launched. Complete with a guy pretending to be a “AAA developer” and making long posts on Reddit defending the game’s performance. (He was exposed and deleted the pose but it was a riot)
By all means enjoy the game. But don’t lie about objective facts of its poor performance. This game is Sonic Boom level shitty if not worse as far as its visuals and performance. By all means spend your money, but I wont.
I almost believed they were actually going to patch this, but why would they? Its selling like hotcakes.
sad
I enjoyed it only thing I hate are the uniforms.
Still didn’t fix the ditto outbreaks lol
I’m still amazed how a game that looks so much uglier than Zelda BOTW, Xenoblade 3 or Monster Hunter Rise manages to run so much worse than all those games.
I mean, isn’t Pokemon literally the richest franchise in the world?, even indie games like Temtem that are made by a team of just 30 people do better on Switch.
I’m not sure if it’s just me or not, but it’s virtually unplayable on the original V1 Switch after the patch. The lag between menus is awful. I didn’t have this problem several weeks ago, so clearly something is wrong with the patch.