I've not noticed any jarring drops in the heat of battle on my base model, but I'm trash at fast-paced character action games so I probably wouldn't notice it as much.
I do notice it quite a bit when traveling the overworld, however. It's strange that it'll suddenly drop when there is seemingly little going on. I've also noticed a few times that models and textures fail to load in properly in a timely manner. There's one dune in the desert in particular that seems to want to stay a giant polygon.
Still a pretty great game, though. On my third 'playthrough' now.







