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Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package [Switch] |OT| The closest thing to GTA on Switch
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OT, but have you see Switch footage of AC3? Super curious about how this turns out.
I wouldn't say it would be easier to port, the pc version is a notorious unoptimized mess and they've never re-released it.
Yea so I've heard, but that could have just been a bad porting job rather than something wrong with the code, they could still use the 360 version as the base. I was mostly thinking in line of it being older and less hardware intensive, thus less taxing on the Switch, but Im not that well versed in these sort of things so I might be wrong in everything I just said.
THQ Nordic makes me miss Miiverse. There is no way to give negative feedback on Switch towards their output. Fucking fascists.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what happened here tbh. Will be interesting to see how it improves with the patch!
Rip, I just read an article saying Koch was purchased by THQN. Although it looks like the holding company that owns THQN (the one that did the 8chan AMA) is a separate entity, and Deep silver also operates as a separate entity.
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Ugh, my order says its delivered but it's 100% not delivered, and since it's a weekend I have to wait until Monday at the earliest to get it sorted. Bloody Royal Mail.
I mean, the performance issues really suck but I'd much rather be able to see them for myself instead of being stuck in the limbo I am right now.
I mean, the performance issues really suck but I'd much rather be able to see them for myself instead of being stuck in the limbo I am right now.
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It's published by Deep Silver & Koch Media which are owned by THQ Nordic AB.
THQ Nordic GmbH (the people behind the 8chan thing) have no direct ownership of or control over either publisher, and THQ Nordic AB itself is a holding company that basically just exists to make money from what it owns.
Yeah, I think SR2 and I SR1 as well are just a mess code wise and so ports of them are unlikely. The first game only really came to the 360 and as you said the PC port of 2 is a pretty bad. Shame since 2 is my favorite by far, but it does run pretty well on an xbox one.
Not sure if this was posted. The patch should smooth things out easily. I will pick this up at some point.
During one of the streams yesterday the developers said that they couldn't port 1 or 2 due to technical reasons. So yeah, probably not going to happen :(
So? It was THQ Nordic AB's CEO, who felt the need to adress the issue in this sad excuse of a non appology:
"...the controversial website...", okay...
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Yeah, it would have happened already if it were easy to do so.
OK, it seems you've made your mind up here.
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Controls seem really sluggish on first play. Changing the sensitivity doesn't seem to help much, but this could just be me.
It's really bad, and isn't limited to just one mission. Restarting the game doesn't help in any way, so not sure how to fix it. That patch needs to come quick. Disappointing.
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Yeah that's essentially game-breaking. Would suck if players missed out (or worse, had a weird messed-up version of) on the car singing scene due to it.
Picked this up today, but I can't change the brightness setting? Anybody else having issues with that?
Yeah...the game seems way too dark to me like the contrast is super low or something.
Also experienced an annoying glitch earlier. I finished a mission, went to the safe house to upgrade a weapon, and was told I don't have enough money but I CLEARLY had enough money. More than enough. Anyway, the game glitched and wouldn't let me press A (the prompt said to press A for "ok") and it wouldn't let me press B to back out. I was stuck at the screen incorrectly telling me I don't have enough money for an upgrade. I tried every button combination I could think of and even pressed the Home button to go to the Switch menu and back to the game. Nothing worked.
I ultimately had to restart the game and play that mission over again because it didn't auto-save after beating it the first time and I didn't think to manually save the game before upgrading stuff at the crib. Now I save immediately after finishing a mission, just in case.
Had an audio glitch during a mission where my car horn kept honking non-freaking-stop the entire time no matter what I did. It was driving me crazy.
Apart from the odd glitches, blurry textures here and there, and the low resolution, I'm enjoying the game. They fooled me into thinking local co-op meant two people sharing the same screen a la GTA San Andreas. Unfortunately, not the case :( Both people must have a Switch and a copy of the game. Oh well...
The gameplay still feels really fun to me personally, I really enjoyed it back in 2012.
This port in particular has some serious technical issues right now though.
Sorry to resurrect this thread but is anyone interested in playing some Co-Op?
If so please add my friend code
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If so please add my friend code
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I keep getting a glitch where it tells me I have $1,000,000 which I don't but then it won't let me upgrade if I have the actual money to cover it. Game is a mess, but hopefully the patch works.
I mean it's Saint's Row 3, it was never the most stable. But it's a faithful port. I'm awaiting the hopeful port of SRIV since it's a heck of a lot better performing if I recall.
Wow this game is so good, I forgot how much fun it was, Pure fun no time wasting nonsense, cool levelling system, fun mechanics
They really need to improve the framerate though its really bad
They really need to improve the framerate though its really bad
Yeah thats what I am hoping for from the patch. Docked performance in particular. Undocked its...ok I guess given the complete lack of a GTA style game, and I actually prefer the gameplay systems in SR3 to GTA games. But they really need to up the framerate to make it fun particularly the driving.
I for one won't be satisfied until heads roll for that shit. "Sorry we marketed directly to nazi pedophiles" ain't it.
Here are the patch notes:
https://www.deepsilver.com/en/saints-row-the-third-the-full-package-switch-patch-notes-2/
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https://www.deepsilver.com/en/saints-row-the-third-the-full-package-switch-patch-notes-2/
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- added auto-matchmaking feature
- added low resolution particle rendering and related performance update
- added credits sequence updates to icons & names
- fixed an issue where audio would desync after switching to the main menu and back
- subtitle fixes for female character customization
- fixed user confirmation pop-up to reconnect to Nintendo Switch Online after connection loss
- fixed auto matchmaking for public game play
- fixed DLC Russian & Japanese localization
- crash fix: forced termination may occur after selecting "End game" on the pose screen
- general iterative bugfixes and performance optimizations
- infinite loading screen fixed
- user confirmation popup to reconnect to Nintendo Switch Online after connection loss
- fixed International & Japanese subtitles and lip sync
- subtitle fixed (subtitles for female character)
So no fixed gamma, no updated controls sensitivity/acceleration (the sluggish camera/aiming controls really impact how fun it is/isn't to move/play around SR3's world) and obviously no gyro aiming support.
It seems the problem is known, but not widespread and therefore needs to be verified. Below the patch notes it says:
"Some of you have experienced some more unusual issues which we need to look at a little more deeply. Should you experience any of the below, or anything not listed which impacts your enjoyment of Saints Row: The Third – The Full Package please report it to our technical support team using this form: http://support.deepsilver.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=6&id=5&artlang=en
Please give us as much information as possible so we can replicate and fix, this includes system number for your Nintendo Switch, SD cards in use and your region.
- Input lag
- Default low sensitivity in controls
- Slider sensitivity in character creation
- Texture and graphic bugs"
Can you turn off automatic updates on the Switch?
I don't want my copy of Saints Row to get patched. I would like to wait to hear about impressions.
Honestly I am very happy with how it runs and plays in handheld mode. Made lots of tuning to controls and such to get it right too. So I don't want this patch possibly ruining that.
I don't want my copy of Saints Row to get patched. I would like to wait to hear about impressions.
Honestly I am very happy with how it runs and plays in handheld mode. Made lots of tuning to controls and such to get it right too. So I don't want this patch possibly ruining that.
According to digital foundry it is a mess and compared to one of the worst third party ports on switch. I have heard others enjoying it as is. A patch is on the way and the dev team seems to be behind this. Think I will purchase now to support. Too much negative press as of today. I say start playing and have your own impressions.
I had the game crash after failing a Genki challenge, the only time I had my switch crash like that was when I decided to start using the Wabbajack on the main city for the Stormcloaks in Skyrim. Once I got into the throne room the game crashed.
Yeah, I just noticed that this too. Doesn't look like anyplace else has caught on about it to post yet. I could boot it up and see how it performs, but I don't really have the eye to see what the improvements are, if any.
Edit: Booted it up, and I'm sure I can see some slowdown still when running and spinning the camera around...but it does feel smoother. I don't notice that horrible latency when aiming anymore. This is just first impressions though.
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The patch that updates the game to version 1.4 should be out everywhere now and improve performance (among other things) quite a bit. I'm gonna jump into the game tonight for the first time (well, after finishing it on 360 several years ago).
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Let us Know, I had to send my Switch into SquareTrade for repairs. I am hoping the might have cleaned up the messy code a bit.