Vampiric RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker has, you shouldn’t be enormously shocked to be taught, launched with a bunch of points on PC (thanks GamesRadar). It’s exhausting to think about an RPG that doesn’t, and it’s downright anticipated if you keep in mind it is a recreation created by a bunch of CD Projekt vets. Nevertheless, builders Insurgent Wolves are already engaged on fixing the principle complaints, and have issued a couple of workarounds for among the frequent gripes.
The Blood of Dawnwalker at present sits on a really respectable 84 on Metacritic for its PC model, and has 75 p.c optimistic evaluations out of over 1,400 on Steam, so it’s clearly removed from a disastrous launch. (These scores are doubly spectacular when you think about how it will likely be unfairly in comparison with The Witcher 3.) Nevertheless, among the points being encountered are barely extra egregious than others, like the lack to remap buttons on a PS5 controller, or requiring fullscreen to run correctly. Probably the most important drawback, nonetheless, the place the sport crashes throughout its preliminary shader compilation, is a comparatively straightforward—if considerably tiresome—repair.
Posting to the game’s X account, Insurgent Wolves lists the 4 points which have come up essentially the most, and present options if there are any. They’re:
- Recreation stuttering when in Windowed / Borderless mode – please strive launching the sport in Full Display
- Recreation crashing on compiling shaders – please replace your BIOS, that ought to repair it (link)
- Lacking choice of mapping buttons on a PS5 gamepad – we’re already engaged on it
- Sprinting stops when altering instructions on a gamepad – we’re engaged on a repair, however within the meantime you’ll be able to strive altering the sensitivity of your controller from 1 to 0.8 (within the console settings)
The crashing situation seems to be based mostly on a participant’s BIOS being old-fashioned on Intel Core CPUs after which conflicting with Oodle and Unreal. Intel identified the issue again in 2024, so these bothered are actually in want of operating some updates on their machine.
The poor efficiency in windowed/borderless is a a lot greater bummer, and the “answer” of simply operating in fullscreen is lower than ideally suited. Hopefully this will probably be optimized in a future patch.
One other frequent grievance that’s not talked about on this temporary put up is the shortage of some primary accessibility choices. UI textual content and subtitles are fairly small and there’s at present no approach to scale them, which is deeply tiresome. Once more, hopefully the builders will hear the appeals and tackle this rapidly.