Outer Worlds Switch port

[Shiken]

curl-6 said:

About halfway through it now and I can confirm the "rimlag" theory put forth by DF is not true.

After about 9-10 hours of play, it's not running any worse than it did at the start. If anything the outdoors areas of the first planet are the lowpoint so far in visuals and perfomance; DF would've only been able to play the first few hours so they probably just saw it get worse as they entered the first town and assumed it was downhill from there. Thankfully, that's not the case.

In spite of its ugly graphics, I'm enjoying it a lot. In fact, I'd go so far as to say its in the Switch's top ten best games.

IcaroRibeiro said:
Down to 67 on Metacritic now damn

How much will this affect Virtuos reputation?

Quite a bit I expect; their involvement used to pretty much guarantee a Switch port would be good, now when it's confirmed they're the ones behind a future port a lot of people's thoughts will go to this.

Shiken said:
The game has somehow made it into the top 30 most downloaded games this far post release on the US eshop. It seems that these games with a portable option certainly have an audience, even if the port is considered broken by many.

Hope this gets patched soon.

I feel like people overuse the word "broken" nowadays. A drop to 20fps at a stress point doesn't make a game "broken". I feel like this phrase should be reserved for games that actually do not function, like ones that have gamebreaking bugs.

This is a rough port with significant polish issues, but it's not by any means broken.

That said, I also hope for a patch.

I was exaggerating, of course the game is not truly broken.  No one has ever claimed it to be unplayable.  It does however, lack polish and does not live up to the standard of what we should expect in gaming today.  We all know the Switch can handle this game better than what this delivers, we have seen it done with more demanding games.  So when I say "broken", I simply mean lower quality than what I would deem acceptable.