Arkane Studio's Deathloop has been the talk of the town lately, with many praising the game's action and time loop mechanics. However, there have been many people, particularly among the PC community, that have taken umbrage to the fact that the game has had some serious stuttering issues. The problem became such a thorn in people's sides that Deathloop ended up getting review bombed on Steam. However, the studio has since addressed these concerns by releasing a hotfix which alleviates at least some of these stutters.
Posting to the Deathloop Subreddit yesterday, a spokesperson for Bethesda Softworks told the community that the company has listened to what the players have been saying, and have since updated the game. The patch went live yesterday, and addresses the "stutter" problems, some of which have been attributed to mouse input and the camera movement causing jittering to occur during play.
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However, while this patch seems to fix the problem caused by mouse input, it doesn't fix the stuttering issues caused by something else. After conducting tests, some have concluded that Deathloop also stutters when the framerate is set too low. The recommendation, in this regard, is for players to set the FPS to between 100 and 120 to reduce the problem. In the Reddit post, the spokesperson, who goes by the alias MortalEmperor, did say that there will be some news following this current update with some information about a possible fix for the issues caused by framerate. It can be assumed that this will also be a hotfix for the game.
Overall, the game has been praised by the community and by critics, but these problems with the PC have soured the reputation somewhat. However, there is still one major concern which has been mentioned recently. AbleGamers' director has outed the studio over Deathloop's lack of accessibility for disabled gamers. The director posted on Twitter saying that they were unhappy that the game is not compatible with on-screen keyboards, or voice recognition. Arkane has yet to comment on this issue, but it's likely that the developer could also address this in a future update.
While the game has been beaten out by surprise Steam hit Gas Station Simulator, it's still currently one of the hottest titles around at the moment. Here's hoping that Arkane Studios can continue to update the game to make it run better on PC, and that they perhaps also look at AbleGamer's concerns over Deathloop's lack of inclusivity features and mechanics.
Deathloop is now available on PC and PS5.