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Hope so, I was reading it as B-patch +7 days, but that obviously wast too hopeful.
I reckon with the B-patch the technical state of the games is now 'fine'?
Things have improved but not everything is fixed yet, still some bugs and glitches, lightning stuff mostly. Waiting for this newest patch is probably the smartest idea for the smoothest experience.
Do we know they are going to do more patches for PC? Steamdb has been showing activity for both.
I saw a tweet last week that succinctly pointed out that everything they fixed with Patch A and B was stuff Deck Nine would have known about pre-release. Only now can they (probably) look into glitches and issues that haven't been identified.
I saw a tweet last week that succinctly pointed out that everything they fixed with Patch A and B was stuff Deck Nine would have known about pre-release. Only now can they (probably) look into glitches and issues that haven't been identified.
Steamdb is still showing activity for both remasters. Hoping they drop Steam patches alongside the console 60 FPS patches.
One thing to keep in mind is they are also working on the Switch ports, which is also eating up QA resources. Well, no official word there but it's safe to say.
Especially seeing as how the original runs at 60FPS in boost mode on Xbox.
Yes, that was the main point of the remasters. However, I've seen quite a few titles supporting 60fps playback on current and last-gen consoles with Unreal Engine :)
It's probably a QA thing. I think they really don'T want to release a half-assed 60fps patch with drops or other annoyances because that would probably kill off the public perception of the remasters.
We're two months from release and I still haven't played either because I'm waiting for them to be in a good state. SE really dropped the ball not delaying these further. *shakes head* I feel bad for Deck Nine but it's quite possible with them being a contracted studio that management made impossible promises.
All those platforms and finishing off the Switch release of True Colours is a ton of work to be sure.
I played LiS 1 on the PS5 with 60 fps this weekend and I didn't have any major issues. There were 2 short cut scenes were Max was bouncing up and down but everything else worked fine.
Life is Strange was my first platinum trophy back in 2015 and now I got the platinum for the remaster as well.
Life is Strange was my first platinum trophy back in 2015 and now I got the platinum for the remaster as well.
Played through Episode 2 of the original during the weekend on PS5, post the latest patches, and... it's still kinda janky from a technical standpoint?
The 60 FPS mode screws up the lighting for me once again, so I had to turn it off and settle for 30. Some scenes are just extremely poorly lit while others are oversaturated, sometimes the framing of dialogue scenes is completely off (Max talking to the cop in Two Whale's, for instance, you can barely see his face). It's definitely better than it was at launch and I'm enjoying some of the improvements (the sound effects and mixing are definitely more pronounced than in the OG release), but the shortcomings are just too big for me to prefer it over the original. And most of all, I'm really sour to be still having issues after coughing up 40 bucks for it.
The 60 FPS mode screws up the lighting for me once again, so I had to turn it off and settle for 30. Some scenes are just extremely poorly lit while others are oversaturated, sometimes the framing of dialogue scenes is completely off (Max talking to the cop in Two Whale's, for instance, you can barely see his face). It's definitely better than it was at launch and I'm enjoying some of the improvements (the sound effects and mixing are definitely more pronounced than in the OG release), but the shortcomings are just too big for me to prefer it over the original. And most of all, I'm really sour to be still having issues after coughing up 40 bucks for it.
I'm getting to the point where I'm tempted to just play the originals. I've put roughly 600 hours across Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring, and yet these remasters are still not where they should be.
What a shit show.
What a shit show.
Finally decided to play on my Xbox and it crashed during the nightmare. :( really disappointing. Still glad I played, now onto the comic and Blackwell book
Hmm… seems like this remaster is still a mess judging by recent impressions. Would you all just recommend picking up the originals and just play them through backwards compatibility? I know the original got FPS boosted but I don't know about Before the Storm.
Today (May 6th) is the beginning of Before the Storm Episode One. Yet the remaster on PC still hasn't had a patch in 2+ months.
Good show Square Enix.
Good show Square Enix.
After 10,000 years, Life is Strange Remastered just got a new patch on Steam. 76.3 MB not expecting much. Going by SteamDB, a patch for Before the Storm Remastered is also in the pipeline. Probably drop in another 1,000 years.
The games are still rough shape and they are still actively working on them.
Not a single update on Steam so far after that tweet.
I don't know the state of things on console. If you want to play it safe, play the original release.
So are we at the point with this collection where it's worthwhile on Series X?
This just went on sale for $25.99, and as someone that just played through Life is Strange: True Colors and Life is Strange 2 for the first time but haven't played these 2 games, I'm interested in picking it up if it's decent at this point.
This just went on sale for $25.99, and as someone that just played through Life is Strange: True Colors and Life is Strange 2 for the first time but haven't played these 2 games, I'm interested in picking it up if it's decent at this point.
Yeah, I'm wondering the same. I've seen all the patches that have been released but I have no idea of what is the "true" shape the game is in...