Please smooth out PS5 performance

It's a good thing I'm a bit OCD about having random karakuri littering my map so I delete them whenever I run across them lol, hopefully my good habit will help me come the later chapter.

I'm experiencing a lot of slowdown in late ch 4 fights on the PS5. Was perfectly playable, despite some drops in framerate, up until now. However, the increase in enemy aggression and speed, the lack of openings between monster attacks, and the required super fine timing of perfect dodges or katakuri setup is completely made more difficult by the fact that fights are now in slow motion by about a 30% drop in speed. Timing is very hard or impossible to pull off, as monsters seem to still go through their movesets regardless. Timing for fusion katakuri is harder, due to the button input not recognizing input strings. This especially happens in multiplayer, but also solo. It is not just a multiplayer problem, because while I have soloed the whole game thus far, I have also been oop farming from the start. It is now becoming unplayable in this chapter. I think it has to do with enemy moveset speed. PLEASE address soon!!

Yeah, this is worrying since I just started Chapter 4. I really hope this slowdown is just a bug with their code and they can fix fix it with an update.

Them not talking about it, instead just bringing up save issues or "rare" crash is also worrying. I hope someone who have some influence with the dev can get this info through to them that consoles need a performance patch also, not just PC. It's the reason why I keep bumping this topic just in the off-chance some random person on the dev team is reading through the forum.

Coming into Chapter 4 on the PS5, the game is approaching unplayable for me as well. Eternal slow motion in combat, multiplayer or solo. If it has to do only with extra katakuri on your map, I'm not sure why the problem is suddenly popping up in multiplayer games as well, unless other people are also experiencing the same issues, and I am just getting that slowdown and lack of responsiveness due to the map of the host (which is not always a console player, but often a PC player).

Also, Chapter 4 is when most people start throwing down multiple shrines for resource gathering. I'm wondering if they are somehow eating up performance resources in some way.

Clearing katakuri off the maps may be a way to get performance back, but ironically, katakuri on the maps were a draw for the game. My maps are fairly free of clutter, as I never host. If katakuri are causing this slowdown all of a sudden, in my case, it would seem to be dragon katakuri causing the issue.

Whatever it is, maybe there needs to be the equivalent of a cache flush, or a button on the map to clear all basic katakuri, with further options to also clear specific dragon katakuri, if this will help. I don't knwo what it is honestly, but suddenly, after the game performing well through Chapters 1-3, its a slowdown fest in Chapter 4, and sort of miserable to play, when you combine that with the amped up speed of monsters and the need for precision timing.

Edit: I hosted a game for a couple of friends and I didn't experience slowdown. I'm back to thinking that it has to do with the karakuri in your map, as I cleaned mine up a little bit.

There's a lot of footage out there of people with the game going slow motion especially when they reached the Mighty Kemono in Chapter 3 or 4. I don't know if this is a bug, memory leak, or some other kind of bottleneck that you were talking about, but this has still not been fix since launch, and that's just unacceptable for the amount of money you're charging for the game, and console pay just the same amount as PC users.

Dev or community manager, if you're reading this, please acknowledge that it's not just some "rare" crash or save issues on consoles, that there is a slow down issue with performance and that you at least know about it and that you are actively working on it.

Seems like the devs have thus far refused to acknowledge any performance issues on consoles whatsoever. 

Can confirm terrible problems in chapter 4. The game is now unplayable for me, whereas in chapters 1-3 it was really pretty good and I had no complaints. I cannot respond in time to any kemono attack, as it feels like I am moving through molasses. I take every hit, every combo, and have to heal constantly, because controls are unresponsive. I see my friend moving around quickly, but my character is in perpetual slow motion, and kemono just capitalize on that for the most miserable experience. I run between fights in slow motion, arriving 30 seconds or more after anyone else. Combos take forever and a day to get off. There seriously needs to be a response to this.

Just wanted to add to this conversation as well. The game is heading towards unplayable now on Ps5 - I have a save with about 45 hours played and the slowmotion bug is happening more and more frequently. Inputs get enormously delayed, building fusion karakuri is almost impossible and dodgeing moreso. Really hope that this gets the attention it deserves and patches are on the way.

This is especially noticeable from chapter 4 and forward. Both solo and online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNx6dddwWkU&t=719s

Yeah, it is not an isolated issue, and it is pretty much unplayable. I could make a video of it, if the devs request it, but I am not a YouTuber. Rurikhan talks about it here:

The farther people get on the PS5 version, the more people will see of this performance issues, this is something that people should be vocal about. Even Digital Foundry got it wrong because they didn't make it far enough into the game, stating that the framerate is okay, but obviously they only played the first chapter.

I will keep getting this topic to the top in hope that more people see it and start a conversation about it. The more exposure this gets, the more the dev will have to do something about it, so I hope people will keep mentioning this to them on Twitter and here. If they don't acknowledge it, then the best thing to do is to keep bringing the noise.