Wo Lengthy’s technical points are driving gamers up the wall, however its controls may very well be a much bigger drawback

Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty got here out as we speak, but it surely might in all probability have used somewhat additional time within the oven. Gamers throughout the web are complaining about all kinds of technical issues with the game’s PC model: dropped frames, stuttering, points with shaders, and different  efficiency points which have grow to be disturbingly frequent in PC ports over the previous couple of years. However that may not even be the worst of it, gamers utilizing a keyboard and mouse to play the game are reporting some really baffling design decisions with Wo Lengthy’s controls.

You do not have to go far to search out gamers complaining about technical issues. Solely 31% of Wo Lengthy’s 2,331 consumer evaluations are constructive at time of writing, and lots of the adverse ones point out the game’s efficiency. One evaluation from a consumer named AloneInSilence sums it up, calling the game “Unplayable” as a consequence of “Fixed stuttering, common freezes, occasional crashes,” which occur “in gameplay, in cutscenes, and even navigating menus”. Points like these had been additionally current within the game’s demo (video beneath), and it appears the complete game isn’t any totally different.

Over on Reddit, a consumer known as Particular person-Error5651 complains that their Game Cross model of Wo Lengthy is inexplicably locked at 720p on their RTX 3060, however by some means nonetheless solely manages to run at 10-15 frames per second.

However for each lament about Wo Lengthy’s technical points, there’s one from a annoyed keyboard and mouse consumer pushed to distraction by the game’s keyboard and mouse controls. A consumer named cashews calls Wo Lengthy ” game buried deep beneath the largest disaster of a PC port that I’ve ever seen,” noting the game’s technical points however declaring that “the largest concern are the controls”. 

“For those who do not move your mouse quick sufficient, the digital camera is not going to react, no matter your mouse sensitivity,” mentioned cashews, who reckons Wo Lengthy’s devs have imported the deadzones of a gamepad’s analogue sticks over to the game’s mouse-based controls. “The important thing structure can also be an absolute joke,” they add, “Deflect/Dodge sure to Tab by default? Okay then”.

“Performed slightly below an hour on Mouse and Keyboard,” mentioned a reviewer known as T.E.S, however the sluggish mouse-controlled digital camera made them “really feel unwell,” forcing them to place the game down.

To be truthful to Wo Lengthy, gamepads have all the time had an edge over a trusty previous keyboard and mouse setup on the subject of action-heavy, Souls-like video games akin to these, but it surely feels like Wo Lengthy’s keyboard controls are unhealthy even by that customary. Some gamers report a measure of success reconfiguring the structure, however it will possibly solely achieve this a lot within the face of the problems with the game’s digital camera talked about above.

It was solely a few weeks in the past that we complained that PC gamers had been fed up with one shitty PC port after one other, and it seems like Wo Lengthy is yet one more instance so as to add to the pile. It is a disgrace, for the reason that game itself is fairly nice past the efficiency and management points (a reality famous by plenty of the adverse evaluations). Sam Greer was very constructive in regards to the game in our Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty evaluation, praising it as “exceptionally achieved” apart from its “technical blemishes”. 

Hopefully, the game will get some immediate patches to carry it as much as snuff, but it surely’d be a lot, a lot better if firms simply stopped releasing video games on this state within the first place.