Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun Scores A Physical Switch Release

The fact that no outlet has gone into the absolutely dreadful performance of this game is really, really annoying. Honestly, its the kind of thing that would have stopped me from buying it in the first place. Just imagine IF A REVIEW HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT. And ,I'm sorry, but there is zero chance someone would not notice it from tens of minutes of play. Its like people reviewed it and didn't actually play the thing or something.
It gets down to single digits when a bunch of baddies spawn, but if you want to see it on demand, just shoot a chandelier.

@LikelySatan Wow, I’m glad I held off buying it (mainly down to no gyro). You’re right, I’ve not seen many complaints in reviews about frame rate, what a shame!

Have you tried the Quake II remaster? That is 99.9% locked 60fps and looks stunning to boot!

If it doesn't run at 60fps on the card, I don't want it

I was planning on getting this physical version before I sold my Switch awhile back. Favorite game of the year next to Grisaia: Chronos Rebellion.

@LikelySatan I had it on my Switch and now my laptop. No issues and I've beaten in 3 times.

@JustMonika I'm going to upload some footage to YouTube and get back to you. Of course I believe you because why would you lie? That's dumb. It's so strange. It almost looks like all of the settings go to the faux retro look when it gets busy. Does that make sense? I will just upload something.

@Kintypoo121 of course, lol. I absolutely adore Nightdive and Quake. 1 is more my speed, but the work put into 2 is to be admired. I would've paid a wholllle lot more for it too. Currently playing through the Machinegames campaign. It's pretty excellent. If a little too heavy on tanky enemies for my liking.

@JustMonika https://youtu.be/M5KO5qEr2KQ?si=7mc8qEbpNvE-bmDX

@Kintypoo121 see the video above from my Switch.

@LikelySatan did the drop in framerate cause the animations to slow down and the sound effects to drop in pitch?

cuz i dunno, looks like ya just slowed down the video

unless shooting a chandelier causes the entire game, including sfx and animation, to slow down

@Pupuplatter this is what happens when you shoot a chandelier and often when a big group of meanies spawn. I'd rather you didn't reply if you are going to accuse me of shenanigans.

@LikelySatan in that case, i'm calling you a liar. you slowed down the video.

that's not a frame rate drop. you just slowed down the playback. that's why the animations are slowed down and that's why the sfx drop in pitch.

@Pupuplatter dude play the game, shoot a chandelier, and shut up. That's a sentence I made.
I don't even know how to slow down a video,lol.

@Pupuplatter Some games skip the frames they missed, others play all of them but slower, so he didn't necessarily manipulated the video, and if you check around the end of the following one, you can clearly see frames dropping to 20 fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXNjtFBXki8

@JagGentlemann why are you a lying liar???
Thanks.

@LikelySatan Who are you calling a liar? I was defending your point.

@JagGentlemann I was being sarcastic. I'd never say the words "lying liar" otherwise, lol. Just gobsmacked this person thought I was creating fictions. About this Warhammer 40k boomer shooter. In the comments section. On Nintendolife.
I was just trying to be helpful, lol.

It was fun for about an hour and then felt pretty bland. Needed a little something else to make it great besides being a serviceable FPS with cool pixel graphics. But alas graphics mean more than gameplay today.

@LikelySatan Dumb question, but have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game? I am surprised more aren’t complaining if it’s like that! Could be a bad install, maybe?

Yeah, Quake 1 feels like an arcade shooter, so fast and fluid! Both 1 and 2 are amazing ports.

Looking forward to seeing more from Nightdive! But I had hoped to also hear about them fixing that broken Bladerunner port…really wanted that, loved it back in the day on PC.

@Kintypoo121 I have not, but I mean it's the Switch so I've checked updates and it says we good.
I'll do that.
....but I also think the chandelier thing is kinda hilarious.

@LikelySatan Haha yeah! Reminds me of back in the day, when I’d shoot explosive barrels in games on my low-end PC and cause it all to turn into a slide show!

Yep, all performance analysis I'd seen on Switch looked poor. It's not Doom on Saturn bad, but it's far from good enough for me to buy the Switch port.

Glad I’m reading the comments here on 40k Boltgun. I will now avoid it.

wasn't this announced ages ago? I've seen it on my regular shop since like 2 weeks ago.

Huh? Little slow on the news! I already have my copy in hand

@Kintypoo121 I played an hour or so today, and it was framey af on an old save but seemed to correct course the next level? Im at a loss here.

@Jacoby I think the Switch version might just be jank..

@LikelySatan It does have occasional frame drops, even the Steam version on my laptop locks up sometimes. I just meant it didn't deter from the immense fun. I mean this is the most fun I've had with a game in years.

I'm not overly bothered by the frame rate personally, I still play N64.

@JustMonika
On PC it has some of the most obnoxious shader compilation stutter I’ve ever seen, I hate DX12 and Unreal Engine 4 with a passion for making this a persistent problem on PC and now it’s being followed up by Unreal Engine 5 where performance and image quality goes to die for both consoles and the majority of PC users.

@JustMonika I'm enjoying it now a lot more that the audio seems to have stopped lagging. That was killing the game for me initially. Cool. So I can play it and watch the Civvie11 video now.