Platform: PS5
PSN tag: profjpeg
The issue occurs in the Harugasumi Way map around the town ruins and the river, including the underground area with the sap and crystals.
Happens with or without fighting a kemono and just running around. Fighting a kemono doesn‘t seem to make it worse.
Can‘t say when exactly it started happening, but it wasn‘t always like this, so for the first 2 days since release it was okay at least (CET timezone).
The problem happens any time I am in my Harugasumi Way map. If I visit the map via a visiting hunter NPC from Minato (those NPC versions of other players that give you hunting requests) there are no problems. Also, changing the graphics mode to „prioritise resolution“ seems to lessen the problem, at least it is less noticeably.
The game slows down immensely. And not in a dropped frames kinda way. It basically goes into slowmotion mode. Every runs like I am moving through gelatine and even opening menus takes a second until it registers.
No clue how anyone can reproduce the problem to be honest. I tried deleting all karakuri in the area but that did not help. Uninstalling and redownloading the game also did not help.
I made a tweet and included a video which I can‘t upload as attached file here, so here is the link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/profjpg/status/1628672493668925440?s=61&t=tmCa4W8r6DoHEF-5usP6pw
You can see the slowmow effect especially when I pick up karakuri thread. Like walking through molasses.
Best wishes,
profjpg