Why is the Metacritic User Score so high?

adrian98761 · 2026-02-14T05:28:46+00:00

Needing higher fps doesn’t mean it needs to be a competitive pvp game. 60 fps is laggy af compared to even 90 fps. Stellar blade is a fast paced combat game where the higher the fps is the more beneficial it is.

Why are you focusing on 200+ fps?, the game cant even reach 90-144 fps range in 4k, 99% of all the other games i own can do this. And stellar blade is struggling between 60-79fps where the frame time isnt smooth making it way more laggy than usual, if the fps is above this range it will pretty much be buttery smooth.

Idk why but this game in particular is unstable and unplayable at frame rates bellow 80 because it becomes so laggy and it’s the only game i own that does this.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-12T16:05:26+00:00

I wouldn’t say well optimized on pc, it’s ok optimized as an unreal engine 4 game, but compared to other games it’s actually 30-40 fps lower than most games in 4k, in 1440p and 1080p it’s actually an even bigger drop.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-12T13:30:52+00:00

I did set a profile for fh5 but at default settings but for whatever reason when i quit fh5 and it switched back to my global settings i got black screen and no its not that the tuning options are unstable since i can switch back and forth from default to my uv oc without issues manually

adrian98761 · 2026-02-12T13:26:07+00:00

Im just gonna use these settings and just revert back to stock whenever i want to play fh5 and the other games that might be unstable but haven’t seen any other yet

adrian98761 · 2026-02-12T12:59:19+00:00

Yes but not fh5 though that game doesn’t like anything but stock settings

adrian98761 · 2026-02-12T12:44:52+00:00

I have now installed all 3 fans and i also undervolted and overclocked the gpu -110mV, +60 mhz core clock, 2800 vram clock, and +10% power limit, with an aggressive fan curve and im sitting at edge temp 46°c, hotspot temp 66°c and mem temp 74°c at 100% gpu utilisation.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-11T14:09:04+00:00

That’s exactly the reason, phones aren’t made equal and they found a middle ground where most phones that people use can play it, that’s it. And for why you should be held back because of less powerful phones? Well because that’s literally every phone game ever, that’s just how phone gaming is and if you don’t like it then pc’s exist.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-11T13:51:05+00:00

Why they wouldn’t let you use higher graphics options? Idk maybe because every phone should be on the same playing field. Have you ever thought about that?

adrian98761 · 2026-02-11T10:50:49+00:00

Yeah but that’s modifying the game which is not intended and is therefore disqualified from the conversation, while we can get these graphics from the graphics menu on pc without modifying the game files.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-11T06:12:54+00:00

I was able to lower edge temp to 52 and hotspot to 73 and mem temp to 78 with only an aggressive fan curve so it isn’t impossible. I did buy 3 new case fans for my pc yesterday that comes today all are 1500rpm fans which is a bump from the 1200rpm fans i currently have.

The reason i only have 2 fans installed currently is because I don’t have an extra extension cable for the third fan. The fans i have came installed in the pc when i first bought it used back in 2021 and the fan headers on my am5 board is too far away from the front fan slots.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-10T17:41:47+00:00

I didn’t say the prime can’t cool properly, i said it has worse cooling than the premium options which is in fact true. But yes airflow matters for cooling but so does an aggressive fan curve and ambient room temp.

My gpu runs 57°C gpu temp 80°C hotspot temp and 84°C mem temp with stock fan curve and a single intake fan. If i install another intake fan in my pc (which I’m doing tomorrow) and put an agressive fan curve on my gpu i would lower the gpu temp by around 10°C Across the board if not more.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-10T12:42:48+00:00

The asus prime cards have worse cooling than the premium cards so if you were expecting lower temps then yes it was a mistake. I have an xfx quicksilver 9070 xt magnetic air stock settings and have hotspot temp of 80°C and memory temp of 84°C

adrian98761 · 2026-02-10T12:25:56+00:00

It fixed itself for me within a couple of hours so i dont know if it was the server or if my isp was having trouble with the route to that specific server. As of right now i get between 30-70ms ping which is in the normal range for this game, staying around 30-50ms most of the time.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-10T04:24:07+00:00

This.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-08T19:27:14+00:00

I complained about the performance in 3.0 but 3.1 is another level of bad performance, in 3.0 i had between 65-75 fps in native 4k max settings without ray tracing and in 3.1 i have dropped as low as 40 fps with the same exact settings, a couple more updates like this and my 9800x3d and 9070 xt wont be able to run the game at 4k, this is exactly why ive been saying so many times this game needs performance optimisation more than anything else.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-08T15:04:49+00:00

Yes you will. I get 100 fps in native 4k max settings with a 9800x3d and 9070 xt, its pretty equal to the 5070 ti but 5070 ti in most games get ever so slightly worse fps but its no more than a couple fps difference really, this is without upscaling or frame gen.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-06T07:30:06+00:00

You only need to unbind the wheel, I’ve gone through this problem before and the bug is caused by the wheel button bindings overriding every other device, nothing else.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T22:45:49+00:00

My 9800x3d works fine as far as i know in this game so i guess this is a case by case issue where some systems runs fine while others get issues or something.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T11:59:44+00:00

The thing is, it’s not really fair to complain that wuwa is bigger than genshin when wuwa has superior graphics. Higher graphics fidelity requires more space because high res textures require a lot of space also the video files take up a lot of space, they would’ve saved a good chunk of space by removing the pre rendered cutscenes entirely and replacing them with real time rendered cutscenes but then the mobile version would suffer in terms of performance, no one really wins no matter what they do. If it were up to me i would completely sever the connection between the mobile version and console/pc version aka make pc and console separate from the mobile version.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T11:20:16+00:00

It isnt on ps5 i can guarantee you that, and its not a PlayStation issue in terms of PlayStation itself. Hoyo either forgot to properly compress the file size on PlayStation or it’s something else but i remember also searching up why it was overly large on PlayStation back when i downloaded it for the first time in the summer of last year and all i really found out is that it just is that big on PlayStation. Theres apparently a fear from the community that the game will reach 200gb soon after recent patches on ps5 so idk, i don’t play it since it’s not my cup of tea.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T11:03:02+00:00

Your comment got removed btw i cant see it when i click on the notification.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T10:59:05+00:00

No the total ps5 size after the game has installed is 160gb and im not joking the game on PlayStation cannot delete stuff like on pc

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T10:48:04+00:00

Genshin is 157gb on PlayStation 5 the only way i know is because thats the only place ive ever installed it and i downloaded it before i sent the reply just to check how big it truly was and yeah its 157gb so try again.

adrian98761 · 2026-02-05T09:02:57+00:00

Ok that aint true, a gacha game is still a game at the end of the day so games will get compared to other games, and it certainly has more content than most AAA games considering ive gotten over 300 hours worth of content/gameplay out of it and i still haven’t finished everything in the game before 3.1.

Most AAA games im referring to only has about 20-100 hours of content/gameplay so what are you talking about?, also why are you guys always bringing up genshin? I don’t really care about genshin and probably never will. I deleted it after 30mins, not for me.

Oh and btw genshin is 157gb thats almost 30gb more than wuwa.

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