Well whatever its near enough.
It seems people are confusing what the actual issue is.
The problem has nothing to do with the graphics of the game. The problem with consoles is the performance of the game. The texture pop-ins are at ridiculous levels, and makes running with your horse pretty unenjoyable (is that even a word?), as you have to literally sit and wait for the whole texture to load, for walls to load, for bridges to show up, peoples clothing to load etc. In a game where IMMERSION is the key selling point, itās a big issue.
Also the draw distance is terrible, but not as terrible as the constant texture popins. I would love for the game to resolve both technical issues, and considering how absolutely terrible they both are, I am 100% certain they can be patched up. There is no way that a Ps4 Pro and an Xbox One have such a limiation, that they canāt resolve these two issues.
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Are your expectations too high? I really didnāt have as many issues as you with it.
Have the same problem on ps4, in Ratay the buildings disapear in front on me and then they sudenly apear again, this patch is bbrokenon ps4 
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Well I donāt have a real contention with this game, as in may other posts I praise it with regards to the mechanics and gameplay as well as story. The mid gen step up consoles are not as bad with regards to what graphics the can achieve, and I can see this with various other titles out there atm that im playing and some can give a high spec pc a run for it money with how they actually look
My gripe is optimization witch seems to be the biggest issue here. I seem to find this with a lot of the smaller dev companies are having issues with the optimization on console. Funcom that does Conan exiles is having similar issues optimizing for consoles, though I will admit their game does look a lot better than KCDā¦funcom seems to have more issues with bugs. I donāt know maybe im just used to other games looking and preforming better on my ps4 pro lol Also funcom did not charge AAA pricing when they released their game. So I can give them the benefit with regards to some bad optimization and bugs, cause the game is not trying to be or passed off as a AAA title when its not. KCD is not a AAA game yet* and I do believe this should have been reflected in their pricing. Polish is defiantly lacking. Sure people can say it nit-picking, but when I pay a specific price for a game I expect to play and look a certain way. If it cant reach those standards it should not be sold in the AAA bracket. But anyway I still like this gameā¦it just looks shite sometimes.
Yup this is what im experiencing lol you said it better than me
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[PS4]
Patch 1.6 made this game currently unplayable for me which is a GODDAMN SHAME. Disappearing buildings, bridges, furniture in Sassau and Rattay (I dare not venture elsewhere). 1.5 seemed to be running fine until 1.6ā¦
Please fix these issues and for Godās sake - please speed up the inventory/skill/quest/map menu!! Waiting for that shit to load makes the gameplay feel arduous.
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Funny how people still think that this game will run as beautifully on Console than on a PC. Pop-up happens in ALMOST all Open-World games people. The consoles does not allow you to have a drawn distance as good as what you can get on a computer.
Logic as the PS4 and XboxOne has their limitations in term of processing powerā¦
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Exactly. People need to get over it. PC is worth it if you can deal with all that and the cost and Windows 10 fucking everything up. I prefer games for playability myself!
If kcd had Minecraft graphics I would still play it!
Was is it?
It doesā¦ blood on blades, and to a lesser degree now with 1.5 rain
Same. Iām on regular PS4 and I was riding out of Rattay (I rode out of the Upper Gate, but the bridge on the side. Hopefully you know what I mean. The one that leads into the town and that narrow street, not the courtyard with the guards & soldiers) and the entire city wall, bridge, and ground disappeared for a solid 10 seconds before popping-in again. It also took around a minute to load my horse (Al-Buraq) when it used to take 5 seconds.
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Iām not expecting flawless graphics on a PS4. Iām expecting the game to be optimized and run smoothly within its limitations on a PS4. Right now Iām walking into a room in Sasau and people are sitting in the air and the furniture just doesnāt pop up. Thatās a gamebreaker for me. Iām currently waiting for a fix instead of playing the game as before. Update 1.6 is a failure for PS4.
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There are bugs in Skyrim which were never fixed today, they even made it to the Switch version! Lol. So itās not that bad for an indie dev. Besides, some of these bugs can be system based.
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Weird that this only happens to me after a long session play. Save your game, restart your PS4 and give it a try to see if it fixes it.
It also depends if you PS4 is in an enclosed space where it does breath properly. Also, you might want to clean the GPU fan inside the console as dust accumulate and form a crust over time which could lead to multiple issues. You can also rebuild the database (kind of a defrag for the PS4).
Iām just throwing suggestions here, it might not help either.
Iāll give it a try. Thanks!
Found it! Thanks.
Agreed. Itās close to unplayable. I canāt play this until itās fixed. 1.5 was much better. 1.6 is brutal. Even when Iām walking, not on horseback, it still takes 30 seconds to have everything pop up. Last night, I was in Rattay, and I stood in the middle of the market for about 45 seconds and there was no market, no traders, no guards. Then slowly they pop up but I canāt play this until you guys fix whatās wrong with 1.6
Iām on PS4
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FOR You maybe, but for many of us, I believe, itās the reason we bought the game.
When I saw some of the YouTube videos in the beta version, before we could buy the game, I knew I wanted it for the graphics alone.
I still find graphics highly important and IT was the reason I downloaded so many graphic enhancement mods for Skyrim, which kept me interested in playing the game.
when you have an opinion about something in the game, be sure to add āI thinkā or āI feelā because many of your opinions are not entirely shared by many of us, and for some hotheads, it rubs them the wrong way and starts am ego battle, which is not needed here.
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fwiw, been told from WH support that popins should be better in next patch
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I really donāt believe many people bought the game for the graphics. People were taken in by the concept and rpgs elements, I know I was. Gamers expect graphics but the main focus should be the gameplay. KCD is a āreturn to formā for games, almost an anti-triple A product.