Highguard players have been aghast that the raid hero shooter launched with out an FOV slider on console. Effectively, now it has one, and another small fixes to assist with its launch week woes.
“We’ve just pushed out a patch with a number of improvements, including FoV sliders for consoles, toggle options for ADS and Crouch, many video settings, and more,” reads the 1.0.4 update from Wildlight Leisure. “The team is also working on optimization improvements, they just need a few more days to cook.”
Gamers on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S can now alter the field-of-view to 110, whereas quite a few new visible settings assist PC gamers restrict rendering load to enhance framerate. You may’t but disable movement blur and depth of area however that’s coming down the highway. A gnarly bug on PS5 that was crashing the sport after leaving matches has additionally been addressed.
The primary spherical of many promised enhancements comes as Highguard struggles to hold on to its slice of multiplayer mindshare after coming to PC and console earlier this week. An avalanche of negative reviews on Steam and the collapse of the concurrent player numbers on PC aren’t promising, however I’ve additionally heard anecdotally from pals on console that they’ve been having fun with it extra as they proceed enjoying and are available to grasp the nuances of the style mashup.
Listed below are the total Highguard 1.0.4 Patch Notes:
Be aware: in an effort to launch these adjustments to our gamers as shortly as attainable, quite a few menu choices usually are not but localized in languages aside from English. Correctly localized settings shall be ready for a future patch.
Toggling into ADS then tapping Dash (shift on PC, left stick on controller) will swap your scope. That is disorienting on controller. PC gamers are beneficial to rebind scope swap if utilizing Toggle ADS. We’ll proceed to look into including this for console gamers who can’t rebind buttons but, however we are going to want extra time.
Console customers can now alter FoV to 110.
Low scalability settings for shadows and reflections are tuned for much more efficiency at the price of some picture high quality.
Low shadow setting now additionally disables volumetric fog.
Added a brand new “View Distance Quality” setting that controls skeletal mesh LODs, which might be one other helpful management to tune GPU and CPU utilization.
Gamers now have the power to toggle the next options on or off, regardless of different high quality choices:
Anisotropic Supplies
Chromatic Aberration
Bloom
Movement Blur and Depth of Discipline want extra testing to disable safely. Search for these choices very quickly.
DLSS customers now have the power to pick a DLSS preset. Extra presets and higher descriptions are coming within the subsequent patch.
Gamers can now choose Off to disable International Illumination completely.
Resolved an engine bug which may inadvertently throttled laptop computer customers to 60 FPS no matter body price settings.
This patch resolves crashes that would happen within the following situations
Numerous different bugs associated to on-line consumer presence and matchmaking have been additionally resolved.
Buddies now seem on-line accurately after accepting requests, and Xbox presence updates correctly. Main crash fixes have diminished crashes by 90%, considerably bettering stability.
Buddy standing is mounted – gamers now seem on-line accurately and Xbox presence updates reliably. Our prime crash points are gone leading to a 90% crash discount.
