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It's the weirdest slowdown I've ever seen, with v-sync still locked so frames aren't actually dropped sometimes it's as though you're fighting in the vicinity of a black hole. There are a few noticeable scripting and AI bugs, and more worryingly the introduction of a new deferred rendering graphics engine has apparently been responsible for an influx of slowdown. This is what happens when you pursue him. Why not do something about all this? Lu Bu. Dynasty Warriors has always had a perverse obsession with making the player trudge around (particularly if they lose the beat of a stage's rhythm) but in Dynasty Warriors 8 it feels excessive, even to an old hand. The combination of big stages and a terribly dense mini-map means there's a high chance of getting lost, even with knowledge of the environment. It hasn't prevented Dynasty Warriors' developers from trying new things, but it does mean they rarely think about tidying themselves up for new players.įor instance, Dynasty Warriors 8 suffers from a lot of issues that are nothing new to the series, like the irritating scattered survivors you see when running back and forth across the battlefield, and the fact you still spend an awful lot of time running around these huge, emptying warzones when in an ideal world you would be firing up the old chop-chop-boom combos instead. Then again, that kind of loyalty can be a double-edged sword. Tecmo Koei's massive battle series is an unsung hero of the middle tier, proving that a fanbase can sustain a vibrant bloodline throughout an entire console generation without having to compromise its central values and peculiarities.ĭynasty Warriors 8 is still very much about en-masse historical fisticuffs, where thousands of units take part in battles, the flow of which you are superhumanly capable of influencing, and thanks to a few changes - a new weapon system, new combo specials, better visuals and an intriguing new "Ambition" mode - it will continue to serve those fans very well. "8" seems like such a small number when you consider that this new Dynasty Warriors game is really something like the 35th title in its lineage.
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