Nintendo Switch Port Lag and Patch

There was a patch that improved Switch lag, and there is another to be released at an unannounced time. I personally estimate around the middle of this month for the next Switch patch, but I am not a 505 or ArtPlay employee. I feel very confident in my prediction, however. So there is hope. Thanks for your patience and I hope the next patch gets the game to where you need it to be.

That's a terrible argument and not one we would agree with either. All versions should be great. Hopefully we get there.

Experience with the Switch version has been oddly subjective. Around half of players report having no problems at all, with the game running fine, albeit of course not looking not as great as the other versions. There has been quite an effort figuring out why this is, and one theory was that different Switch models handled the game differently. The game was tested on launch Switch models which seem to run the game better than latter model Switch consoles, for some reason, but even that doesn't seem to be proven or completely consistent.

You can see this is most threads about it on the Bloodstained subreddit, and I've heard it from some people I know. "My Switch version ran just fine, 100%'d the game no problem", and then there's guys who report an unplayable state with input lag and constant crashes. Either way, yes - a patch is out for this that improves it, and another is coming - and obviously that kind of performance isn't acceptable, whatever the conditions behind it are.

That's me, yeah, and it's important to note that when you try to send 50 different things to 100k different people located all around the world in a game development project, it's going to be very complicated and some things are going to go wrong. Nobody is going to go through the trouble of visiting the KS comment section to say "hey there! Just reporting in to say everything is wonderful" because we as humans unfortunately don't do that. If something goes bad, you bet they're showing up. Oftentimes, the good news is that the "bad things" are just misunderstandings and they just didn't know what or where their survey was, didn't know that PC gets their physical copies later, missed an update because not all of us can read or remember a hundred emails, emailed or contacted the wrong people about their question, etc.

The project overall has been successful and delivered on a great majority of what it was supposed to. Yet if even only 1% of people have a problem with the KS, that's still a thousand people, and you bet your butt they're going to tell everyone about it. Just about everyone else got it, played it, and maybe said a thing or two about how they liked it and moved on ;p

edit: Also, it would be great if people used *anything* else besides that for communication. The KS comments are a nebulous void for finding and giving out useful information. I have some great posts buried under an infinite amount of "load more" clicks, nothing is linkable, no moderation, no reporting. It only just got a "reply" function last year iirc. This can lend toward it looking like nothing but a huge pile of hopeless complaints - some of those people have been replied to before, but you'd never be able to know it (including sometimes they themselves not being able to know it, or wanting the appearance that they are not heard) because of how stuff gets buried and lost.

Patches don't show up on the Switch eShop if I remember correctly. You have to press + on the game in the main menu to see your current version and look for any updates or patches. The process should be automatic though, so odds are your version is already the latest one. It shouldn't matter if it's physical or digital.

Nintendo Pls...

I’m not excusing the subpar state in which the Switch version launched in but anyone who was expecting a 1:1 port to PS4/XB1 (let alone PC) were setting themselves for dissapointment.

I couldn’t my imagine the voices of regret if this game had released on Vita and/or WiiU because the game wasn’t exactly the same as on PS4.