Stealth feels unintuitive – you can snap to cover with a single-button press, but when you emerge from cover or finish a takedown you’ll be left standing rather than crouching, which has messed me up a couple of times. Aiming feels sluggish and fairly unresponsive (not helped by a wonky targeting reticule). If you want to see more, check out this YouTube compilation (credit to CrowbCat):įrom a gameplay perspective, Mafia III doesn’t feel great to play. There are more bugs being reported than I have outlined here, these are just the ones I have personally experienced. Aside from the aforementioned vehicles that occasionally ignore solid objects, takedown animations sometimes glitch out – Lincoln will sometimes phase through his enemy and attack thin air while the bad guy reacts as though he has been hit. The first patch, it seems, was simply deployed to allow users to unlock the games framerate – regardless of the fact that the game can’t manage a stable FPS anyway.Ĭlipping issues have also continued throughout my play time. Even with settings turned down and locked at 30fps the framerate is an issue, whether in smaller environments or out in the open world.įorums are being littered with other users reporting similar problems.
MAFIA 3 WONT START PC
Mafia III’s PC port seems incredibly poorly optimised. It’s also worth noting that the targeting reticule is off centre, not even pointing at the same place protagonist Lincoln Clay points his gun.
What should have ended with a shotgun blast to the back was simply an awkward, immersion shattering moment.
Except instead of providing any sort of difficulty, he simply walked into the room with his shotgun extended, ignoring me completely despite the fact that I was stood out in the open, having rushed forward to grab a new weapon. That was when they even bothered with me at all.Ī badass wielding a shotgun was, I assume, supposed to be the high point of that levels challenge. During the first mission my enemies in open combat kept walking slowly towards me, allowing my the perfect time to shoot them in the head. The AI does not seem particularly competent during on-foot sections of the game either. Hence why there is no sound in the above video. The sound in the opening section also stuttered quite badly. This has continued throughout my play time with Mafia III The AI truly could not handle driving, something that it has managed in other open-world games dating back a decade and more. It wasn’t a confidence-inspiring opening to the game. In the above video one car drives into another, passing into it as though it were a ghost car, then the game suddenly remembers how the laws of physics work and both cars explode. One moment a car is a solid object, the next it’s not. Cars phase through each other and other objects in the environment seemingly at random.
Mafia III also comes with some severe clipping issues. They also keep crashing into each other.Īnd that’s if they even manage to hit one another in the first place. Cars would constantly drive around in circles with no idea which way they were supposed to go. That wasn’t even the worst thing I noticed about Mafia III during that opening drive, as you will have seen if you clicked play on the YouTube video embedded above. No matter what settings I changed the game continued to chug. Nevermind going above 30fps, during the driving sections of the opening mission the framerate regularly stuttered and hitched – I couldn’t even get the game running at a stable 30fps. While I’m not a big fan of the developer of publisher withholding that information from its customers before the game was released.Īs it turns out, a lack of framerates has been the least of my problems.
MAFIA 3 WONT START PATCH
Hangar 13 promised (and delivered) a patch to unlock the framerate over the weekend. I personally wasn’t too fussed with going above 30fps. I understand why this upset PC gamers, as the whole reason for gaming on PC is to have more options and a better graphical experience than on consoles. Just after the game was made available it was discovered that the PC port was capped at 30fps. Mafia III released last week to some controversy. We promise not to make a habit out of it. So consider this our Mafia III review-in-progress. However, with Mafia III being in the state it’s currently in, a review-in-progress seems apt – if only to try and stop people from buying a game that clearly was not ready to be launched. We play games and we review them when we’re ready to pass final judgement on them, not a moment before. We’re not the kind of site that rushes to get impressions of games out as fast as possible.
We don’t normally do this kind of post here at Words About Games.
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