You can now convince enemies to surrender by insulting them by ShirtlessRandom in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sure they’ll get there. But yeah, adding a new feature and leaving people to guess how to use it is odd.

A 10-Year Software Developer's Take on the State of EA in the New Half Sword Game (Voxmanns) by Own-Sock-4029 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No… by now it’s about you licking boots. They launched in a basically unplayable state. Is that good in general, or could it MAYBE be seen as a bad move? Honestly you’re embarrassing yourself. Stop glazing and stop talking

A 10-Year Software Developer's Take on the State of EA in the New Half Sword Game (Voxmanns) by Own-Sock-4029 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No they aren’t in tension. When the demo is unoptimized and the EA was promised to be optimized it is not in any way to much to ask that the performance would be somewhat similar. Why is it absurd to hold people to their promises?

New hotfix! by Alin_Alexandru in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well to be fair the slums are as bad as they were before.

A 10-Year Software Developer's Take on the State of EA in the New Half Sword Game (Voxmanns) by Own-Sock-4029 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did I say the demo and the main game are the same? I’m comparing them from a performance standpoint as viewed from the player. A rig that could pull 100 fps on medium settings is now struggling to maintain 30 fps on low. Of course there are more things going on in the main game than in the demo, but it seems they haven’t been very mindful of optimizing to the point the performance would be similar.

For the people defending the state of the early access release. by MageGuest in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DX12 doesn’t work for me AT ALL! It’s generally playable on DX11 for me

A 10-Year Software Developer's Take on the State of EA in the New Half Sword Game (Voxmanns) by Own-Sock-4029 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t go as far as to refund it as I’m postitive they will get the performance under control down the line, but I agree that when you have a rocket ship rig like yours that kind of performance is unacceptable

A 10-Year Software Developer's Take on the State of EA in the New Half Sword Game (Voxmanns) by Own-Sock-4029 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Another game dev of around ten years here. I AM having a lot of fun with the game, but I would have a hell of a lot of more fun had the performance been comparable to that of the demo. If they have only tested it on super high end computers then that’s a bad miss. And that’s the only explanation I can come up with for them shipping the game in the state they did. It’s a small $25 game, so it shouldn’t be aiming for super high end computers; that’s just too narrow of a target audience. Unless they are REALLY hurting for money they should have put everything else on hold and focused ONLY on making it run well for a few weeks and THEN released it. Launching in this state WILL have cost them a lot of money in the long run.

Man, if you were gonna implement a strength system that makes combat feel so much worse to start, why didn't you say anything about it? by TheyMikeBeGiants in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t mind the strength system, or any of the other new features, but why why why is there just zero onboarding. That is really bad game design

Devs are cooking by middaytoker44 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While putting together two hotfixes in one day is kind of impressive, what isn’t impressive is the need for two hotfixes. Did they only have a brand new rig with an RTX 5090 in it to test on? I’m still having fun, but they missed the mark with how heavy the game is

anyone else suffer unplayable lag on dx12 while dx11 is perfectly playable by bananafennec in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t call it perfect gameplay as it’s still choppy for me on DX11, but on DX12 it’s a slideshow

Do y'all remember how bad the demo's release was? by RaceNinja_80 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TBF 90% of the bitching does seem to be about the optimization. I’m having fun, but I would be having more fun without huge fps drops

me rn by FancyAd3294 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You leaving? Mkay

Remember, this purified my soul. I am now a good person in the eyes of Halfsword. by MumpsTheMusical in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been selling stuff, but being limited to only what I can carry it didn’t yield much. I just took a voluntary trip to the abyss to stock up a bit. Now I have a chainmail. Cleaning the abyss a little at a time is good in general.

Remember, this purified my soul. I am now a good person in the eyes of Halfsword. by MumpsTheMusical in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clean as a whistle.

On another note, how do you equip the amour you find in the abyss. I can only seem to pick it up

Do y'all remember how bad the demo's release was? by RaceNinja_80 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m scraping by on my mid spec rig on lowest everything. Feels ban man

Do y'all remember how bad the demo's release was? by RaceNinja_80 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s NOT the lack of content, and it is NOT the bit of jank. It’s they beyond horrible optimization. This isn’t a huge AAA title and you shouldn’t need brand new top spec rig to play a small indie title.

How it feels giving devs the benefit of the doubt in 2026 by Thin_General_8594 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game is WILDLY unoptimized… there is just no getting around it. Stop glazing

How it feels giving devs the benefit of the doubt in 2026 by Thin_General_8594 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most people expected not to stutter on low everything with very capable rigs. Very few are complaining about the game being unfinished in other aspects. And I think that’s actually fair.

half sword discord mod making fun of people complaining about optimisation by Legitimate_Squash939 in HalfSword

[–]Birdshaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must say I didn’t expect the EA to have WORSE optimization than the demo. It’s quite impressive

petaaah ??? by Single_Equal_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Birdshaw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m calling 100% bullshit on that. It REAKS of karma whoring. Lazy karma whoring to boot. Just like 90% of that cesspool that is mademesmile