PS5 slowdown in mid Chapter 4 onwards

Yes, they need to address this slowdown.

I need them to at least acknowledge that they know about the performance issues on consoles and that they will be addressing it. As of right now, nothing has been said other than PC, which I know is also suffering, in many cases much worse, but this is still an important issue that they need to formally address.

Update: It has now become completely unplayable. The response is too sluggish. I can't enter an input to roll, dodge or put down a spring katakuri fast enough in response to a kemono attack to avoid it. I get hit every single time. Despite reading the move, and seeing a friend I am playing with evade and move out of the area with plenty of time and speed, I'm still stuck in slow motion trying to stow my weapon or initiate a roll as I am comboed by the kemono. This leads to a miserable experience where I am getting a hit or two in, taking every hit, and constantly healing, requiring my friend to do most of the heavy lifting. It was not like this in chapters 1-3. It is technically playable, as I can move around, but my movement is really slow. I arrive to fights 15-30 seconds behind anyone else and cannot dodge anything. Input feels like I am fighting through molasses and it is a miserable experience.

Also Playstation 5 player here. It is definitely getting worse and worse, in chapter 4 I've now had 4 mighty lavaback fights where it is constant slowmo going on. It feels like moving through quicksand or stuck in a swamp. Loving the game so this is really souring the overall experience when the game has gotten progressively worse the further you get. I have definitely experienced both the soundglitch (when all but the music disappears) and the slowmo in both online and solo hunts. Really hoping for a patch now :/

It's a fantastic game, the performance is the only thing holding it back.

Playstation performance has already been less than stellar from the get go. But at least it was playable. Definitely not 60fps which is what we should expect honestly.

But after reaching Chapter 4 the game SIGNIFICANTLY slows down. The to the point where it sometimes becomes unplayable because it is just way too slow for you to be able to react to the Kemono's attacks or set up combos. In multiplayer you might as well be playing microsoft powerpoint it is that slow.

Fix this game that clearly needed more time in the oven. It is genuinely a really fun experience. But these continued framerate issues ruin it.

Can't compete with Monster Hunter if your games don't work 🙂

I can confirm patch 1.0.5 makes it much better. I just played a couple of deadly volatile hunts and its much better than before

Same. I agree that it is now much better than it was before. When hosting, I believe there is a little bit of input lag, but that could just be latency. Slowdown seems (thankfully!) to be mostly addressed.

@EA_DavidThanks to you and the dev team for such a quick turnaround on this! The game went from amazing, to nearly unplayable, back to amazing again. It was very concerning to see that much slowdown come out of nowhere, but I'm glad it was a manageable fix for the platform.