Been getting full matches all day. Gotta love that post Christmas boost.
Yeah I've been getting semi quick games on the ps4 too. Which is great since I didn't play much multiplayer at launch.
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DOOM for Nintendo Switch |OT| Rip and Tear, Anywhere
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Yeah I've been getting semi quick games on the ps4 too. Which is great since I didn't play much multiplayer at launch.
I play in handheld mode when I go back to a area for collectibles. It works out nicely for me. I've never had a problem with resolution or controls once I got use to playing a portable again. For years I had split my time between consoles and handheld devices, GBA,PSP, DS,3DS, but I drifted away to mainly console and PC gaming. The hybrid nature of the Switch has been a godsend (I know it might sound cliche) but that freedom.
Back to your question, handheld was only a "problem" until I was comfortable, and after turning of chromatic aberration and smoothing to low it's been solid on the visual front.
I've also put a good amount of time in tabletop mode using just the standard grip during lunch breaks. It's worked pretty well after I fiddled with the settings. - two of my coworkers got switched after watching me play Doom and Skyrim at lunch.
Been a while since last time I played and now I can't choose multiplayer anymore, only Campaign, and the Welcome to Doom (This on give me the error "You have exceeded your matchmaking quota") And when I play the campagin, I can't move in the menu anymore, can only select the first option everytime, so I can't even play arcade. What's going on ? I reset the game several time and nothing changed
I've seen that happen a few times (unable to select MP), but I haven't been able to pinpoint the how/when. I have been playing my Switch in portable mode a ton and I usually exit out to the title screen before I put the Switch to sleep. I feel like it's got something to do with the Switch flipping WiFi on and off while the title screen is up.
I believe to fix the control menu bug you need to hard turn off your switch. Fixed it for me. There's details on Reddit I believe.
Nope, not yet. Maybe we'll see something after the new year, I suspect most devs are on holiday break right now.
I did it yesterday and it worked. Pretty weird bug.
Well that's a sweet bug... I'm in a big demon onslaught on Lazarus and the final enemy somehow spawned under the floor. Its fire can hit me, but I can't hit it.
Probably not, but it doesn't make it any less shittier. The game still has serious issues and it is reflecting poorly on both PB and Bethesda.
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I wouldn't be surprised and I hope that with Panic Button working on Wolfenstein 2 on Switch, that they use the added work on id Tech 6 to go back and patch up DOOM with further optimization, hell I wonder if that's why they haven't done so yet.
Hell, they're already going to heavily update Rocket League on Switch with better optimization I think this month.
Hell, they're already going to heavily update Rocket League on Switch with better optimization I think this month.
Just bought this for my train trip (I played the first third of it on XB1 and loved it but other games took my attention away). Any tips for control / visual options in game? I bought a Switch stand so I could use my Pro controller as I thought it would be a bit fiddly playing in handheld mode with attached joy-cons.
Just got Doom yesterday and can't stop playing and going back to find all secrets etc...has been a blast. I have no reference to Doom on the other systems, but I am loving the style and I think it looks great on Switch. I did however have the audio glitch out and had to restart and it came back. Is this a thing?
It probably sold fine for what it is. Full priced late port with no added features and some features removed. It will continue to sell as it goes down in price.
It was top 10 switch software in November and charted on the eshop for a couple of months I think
There's absolutely zero indications that the game sold bad.
God I wish. That's coming out in March or April.
As it stands, both games perform very poorly on the system. Playing Rocket League and Mario Kart 8 back to back in splitscreen is a generational leap in visual quality. RL's renderer is completely unnaceptable. The game is so fun people let it pass, but it's horrid.
And the same with DOOM, really. Other games have been ported to the system with much closer performance to the other current gen consoles. It should be running at dynamic 900p30 with no framerate drops in docked mode, not at 600p with horrible framepacing, framerate drops, bugs all over the place, demons teleporting and falling through the ground, fucked up sound, and performance degradation/crashing after a few hours of runtime.
Again, the game is so good it's a blast to play on the Switch, but it's no technical marvel on it. Still I think it's a must on Switch, for how good it is.
Edit: are we sure it's not Panic Button doing the patch for Rocket League? If Psyonix relied on them for the port, they'd rely on them for subsequent support, even if it's Psyonix who gets to spill the news?
Nah, Psyonix are doing that, not Panic Button. PB would have to be contracted by Bethesda to do it for Doom.
But Panic Button did the Switch (and XBO and PS4) version of Rocket League, why would Psyonix do the patch themselves?
Unfortunately yes. Still a great game regardless, but it is annoying. Fortunately, the audio glitch goes away whenever you reload the game, whether it's continuing from the last checkpoint, you die and respawn, or you do a rune challenge.
They took over the code from Panic Button and will be maintaining it themselves moving forward.
Can't say Panic Button's Switch output has impressed me so far. People were impressed by Doom at first, but the engine is designed with scalability and Vulkan support in mind, so we can't really assume any technical wizardry from their part. Ultimately once the honeymoon is over we're left with a buggy port with a lot of weird-ass issues that can't all be excused away by the lack of horsepower.
This is crazy talk. No other game has pushed the hardware as far as DOOM. The framerate and resolution are impressive for what they're trying to do. Bugs and uneven framespacing aside.
No game has pushed hardware as far as DOOM... On the other consoles and on PC. Which is why it looks impossible on a PS4, and why it should translate equally well to the Switch if done properly. The fact the game has incredibly smart programming and art design in its original form doesn't mean a less powerful piece of hardware cannot make use of that smart programming.
Now consider the company that ported DOOM also ported Rocket League, one of the worst looking games on the system, and one slated to get a massive resolution boost similar or higher to the one I'm proposing.
The idea that PB had little time to port a whole new engine with both games and that they could go back and implement solutions better suited to the hardware is not insane, in my opinion.
Since both games have trouble with resolution and alpha effects, it's probable it has to do with bandwidth. Something a neat neature of the Switch and Vulkan can solve (Tiled rendering) but that in its most powerful form requires specific programming.
Could explain why games made by Nintendo are performing the way they are performing while others are not.
Purchased this on the recent eshop sale and it's fuckin' awesome!!!
Anyone else jump in during the sale?
Anyone else jump in during the sale?
Waiting for the announced patch to drop before I get in on this again (already beat and adored the game on PS4)
Hell, I saw the threadbump and I thought thr patch was out already!
...I want to play the campaign again so badly, but I want to wait until the patch drops.
Yeah that was a big deal last week... but it's not going to magically bump res or fps to anything close to acceptable compared to other consoles... you are deceiving yourself because if they somehow could... they would've said exactly that in their tweet
Wait, hold up, what is this straight up trolling nonsense? First of all, nothing in their post indicates performance improvements. Second, the game is perfectly acceptable, impressive even, in its current state.
No need for this sort of ignorant shit man.
I never implied any of that. I just want the game breaking bugs to be fixed, I have absolutely zero expectations regarding possible performance improvements. Jeez, calm down.
There are people (including myself) begging for these post-support patches that would do things like that... I actually haven't run into too many bugs... just that Vaseline filter over my screen.
I still had fun, but it would be nicer to be a bit sharper eh... it's not even 720p most of the time but like 540p and below... that's insanity.
I still had fun, but it would be nicer to be a bit sharper eh... it's not even 720p most of the time but like 540p and below... that's insanity.
what were the other issues besides the sound one? That's what mostly the problem i've been having with it.
Not counting the frame drops ofcourse.
Not counting the frame drops ofcourse.
Textures glitch out during multiplayer. Stretches all over the place.
Animations skipping, demons dissapearing and reappearing, sometimes they'll fall through the floor, or spawn without an animation or a sound.
Edit: and the performance varies a lot, it's worse after sleep mode than when you jist booted the game. The first time I went into
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ah, never touched that much MP with this game yet. never noticed it, but yeah i did get some demons falling through the floor especially on the hell part. But like I said, I mostly get the no sound issue, and I always have to restart the Switch in order for it to work again.
I'm happy to say that personally I haven't really experienced many issues. I've had the audio bug happen once and the weird issue with the menu where i couldn't select things. Both were solved on closing and reopening the game. While clearly not ideal, a small blip in my 15 hours I've put in so far on campaign and multiplayer.
I've actually been enjoying the multiplayer way more than I thought I would. I had ignored it during my PC play through, but loving it on the Switch. Gives me unreal tournament vibes.
Interested to see if we get any other improvements with the patch other than bug fixes, guess we'll know soon.
Also put me in that weird camp that thinks this game looks great on the switch, both handheld and on TV. That's even with having had my initial run through on PC with close to 60fps lock at 1080. Guess I'm just not as effected by the framerate/resolution as some folks seem to be. Thought it was a damn impressive port.
I've actually been enjoying the multiplayer way more than I thought I would. I had ignored it during my PC play through, but loving it on the Switch. Gives me unreal tournament vibes.
Interested to see if we get any other improvements with the patch other than bug fixes, guess we'll know soon.
Also put me in that weird camp that thinks this game looks great on the switch, both handheld and on TV. That's even with having had my initial run through on PC with close to 60fps lock at 1080. Guess I'm just not as effected by the framerate/resolution as some folks seem to be. Thought it was a damn impressive port.
This game's checkpoint system is hot garbage. Shame as otherwise I'm really impressed with it on Switch.
Bugs were not a big deal to me, but I certainly hope Wolf II ends up being better adapted to the console. Surely Panic Button has learned a lot about porting to the Switch. Here's to Prey, Evil Within and Dishonored for Switch!