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New Yakuza 0 beta patch fixes bugs, adds FOV slider, ultrawide support and supposedly removes Denuvo.

Lant_War

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SEGA's been removing Denuvo from its games lately, and thankfully Yakuza 0 was one of them. Full patch notes:
• Fixed an issue related to shaders and shadow rendering affecting lighting/skin tone (most noticeable during cut scene at the end of chapter 6)
• Fixed an issue where certain particle effects were not being displayed (most noticeable when using certain weapons like the cannon)
• Improved ultrawide display support
• Added FOV slider in advanced graphics menu
• Added border artwork displayed during areas with locked aspect ratio when played in non-16:9 display modes
• Added Background audio slider in audio menu
• Added UI toggle in settings menu
• Added target monitor output selection option for multi monitor setups in advanced graphics menu
• Added support for QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboard layouts
• Fixed an issue where disconnecting a controller during conversation could cause a soft lock
• Fixed an issue where mouse cursor would be confined within application window while in menus
• Fixed an issue which could cause a crash when playing the fishing mini game
• Fixed an issue where the game could crash if the installation folder path includes a dot
• Improved behaviour of camera control when using a mouse to use raw mouse input
• Improved mouse scroll wheel behaviour
• Improved Alt+Tab behaviour
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They didn't mention Denuvo here, but apparently the game's exe went from 220MB to just over 20, on top of opening faster.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/638970/discussions/0/1776010325134009474/
 

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I no longer use an ultrawide monitor but it should be almost mandatory for games to support it now, good for Sega continuing to support this game.

And yes, everyone should buy it
 
Skel

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I was already happy with the port, but this is great news (especially Alt+Tab behaviour and UI todggle for me). Hope these issues won't be here again in Kiwami.
 

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Wonder if they fixed the save corruption bug? Every time I save I use a new slot and check my inventory after to make sure its not corrupt
 
Brauni

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Lol, literally played through the main story last week and had search for and use an obscure 21:9 fan mod.

Still very glad they fixed it, maybe it motivates me to go through the side content... I nearly ignored all of it so far.
Really brilliant game and truly a banger soundtrack.
 
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Grand Galvantula

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I hope this fixes the weird audio bugs like the really loud Sega logo sound and the arcade games reverting the game app's volume in Windows to 100%
 
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As an ultrawide owner, it feels good that I've been rewarded for having this game on my backlog. Looking forward to playing it at 21:9.
 
Lashley

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Glad to see Denuvo removed.

Already finished the game, so the shadow fixes etc are a tad too late for me.
 
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Oh hell yeah, accidental Alt+Tabs have fucked my world up on PC, and compounded by no autosave made for some serious frustration.
 

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I couldn't get ultrawide screen to work in my eyefinity setup, hopefully the patch addresses that. Although at this point I am done with 0 and wait Kiwami to drop next week
 
Pargon

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Glad to see Denuvo removed. Seems to run about 10% faster in the intro section of the game now, as it seemed to be heavily CPU-bound there.
Current version, with Denuvo:
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New version with Denuvo removed:
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I think they must have already improved ultrawide support from what it was at launch, as it doesn't seem quite as bad as I remembered. This patch fixes it.
Current version:
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New version:
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The FoV controls are extreme - which is how they should be in games.
Allow players to set it far higher than you expect - you don't know what will suit someone's setup/preferences. So many games limit to around 100–110° Horizontal FoV, which might be fine on a 16:9 display, but it's not enough on an ultrawide.

maximum-fov-bpj0p.jpg


There's still a deadzone on the mouse, so it seems like they're still emulating a gamepad with the controls though.
I'm glad that they have improved the game, but disappointed that it took this long. None of these recent Sega ports have been released in the state that they should have been.
One issue that I did run into, is that Borderless mode now stretches to fill the screen, even if the resolution is lower than it. So if you select a 16:9 resolution on an ultrawide display, it gets stretched out.
 
Grand Galvantula

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Pargon said:
Glad to see Denuvo removed. Seems to run about 10% faster in the intro section of the game now, as it seemed to be heavily CPU-bound there.
Current version, with Denuvo:
old-stats-nnkit.png


New version with Denuvo removed:
new-stats-i9jfe.png


I think they must have already improved ultrawide support from what it was at launch, as it doesn't seem quite as bad as I remembered. This patch fixes it.
Current version:
old-version-1vjxx.gif


New version:
beta-patch-akk0r.gif


The FoV controls are extreme - which is how they should be in games.
Allow players to set it far higher than you expect - you don't know what will suit someone's setup/preferences. So many games limit to around 100–110° Horizontal FoV, which might be fine on a 16:9 display, but it's not enough on an ultrawide.

maximum-fov-bpj0p.jpg


There's still a deadzone on the mouse, so it seems like they're still emulating a gamepad with the controls though.
I'm glad that they have improved the game, but disappointed that it took this long. None of these recent Sega ports have been released in the state that they should have been.
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missed opportunity to say "The FoV controls are Kiwami"
 
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About Kiwami:
https://www.pcgamer.com/yakuza-kiwami-review/

"Expectedly, Yakuza Kiwami runs smoothly—easily maintaining 165fps at 1440p resolution on my GTX 1070. There are a handful of graphics quality settings—SSAA, FXAA, texture filtering, and shadow and geometry quality. Even with everything on maximum, though, this is not a game that cares about perfectly rendered high-resolution textures.

There's plenty you can tweak, from UI scaling to remappable gamepad and keyboard inputs. As with Yakuza 0, though, a controller is the preferred way to play. The game warns you to use a gamepad when it boots up, and it's just the more comfortable control scheme. Attempting to manipulate the camera with the mouse is an exercise in frustration.

Perhaps the biggest quality-of-life improvement is that Yakuza Kiwami autosaves your progress, and even lets you manually save from the menu without having to visit a phonebox. Purists may argue that having to travel to a savepoint was more philosophically in keeping with the way the series attempts to ground Kamurocho as a physical space, but I don't mind sacrificing that if it means not accidentally losing hours of progress."
 

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Great, no Denuvo means I will probably buy it again for a future replay. Zero was just too damn good.
 
Jazzem

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Was super excited for this, alas I'm still getting the stuttering which was introduced in the last patch

 
Pargon

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Dinjoralo

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It's very nice they've fixed the remaining issues with the port.
That said, my faith in Sega's cult classic ports has definitely gone down. Their original ports like Valkyria Chronicles and Vanquish shipped mostly stable, with a handful of issues that weren't too bad and usually got fixed within a month or two. Yakuza 0 taking so long to be completely fixed, and Catherine's really poor state at launch, aren't great.
 
Kyle Cross

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So, this patch fixes all of this?

(fucked up skin and lighting with missing effects)




What about the low resolution depth of field, that is so pixelated at 4k you need to use a mod to remove it?
 
tyfon

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Nice,
If Denuvo is gone I might buy it on PC too as I'm getting a new graphics card tomorrow. Already played through it on the playstation but this is one game that deserves all the sales it can get.

Have anyone tested it with proton yet?
 
GhostTrick

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Pargon said:
Still broken. 5120×2880 shows as 512×2880. Other resolutions make even less sense.
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When selected, I just get a very small window and the game freezes.
I set it to 8K manually, and it started up at my monitor's native 3440×1440 instead.


…dammit.
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Eh this sucks :/
For now it's not problematic. But once we get beyond 4k, that'll be a problem.
 

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Welp, game still doesn't work well with eyefinity. Even more annoying is that every other game I've tried works to some extent.
 
Vanta Aurelius

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I'm glad to see that the dev team is still working on this port. Now if Sega would port Yakuza 6 and Kiwami 2 to PC...that would be great.
 
Lunatic

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Oof I was hoping for a volume mixer. The background music can be very overpowering during the in-game convo scenes.
 
Giever

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Nice, I didn't have any real hope that they'd make these fixes. Though I suspect it only happened because they were working on releasing Kiwami and a lot of the same issues applied.
 
Dick Justice

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Holy shit, I'd lost all hope that they were going to fix it. Guess they needed some goodwill with Kiwami coming up. Happy to hear regardless.
 
J75

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Sadly the FOV is now too narrow in combat on default values in this Beta Patch 3.
Walking around is fine but now when you get to combat, the camera is too narrow. Upping the FOV value a couple notches alleviates this but doing so causes the FOV when walking around too be too expanded. There is simply no way as of this Patch to play it the same way FOV wise as either the PS4 version or the previous Patch 2 version. I hope this is addressed.
 
ThatOneGuy831

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I stopped playing Yakuza to play Resident Evil 2 and Magic Arena the past couple of days so this is coming at the perfect time! Good fixes
 
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