[BLOG] Enemies Hurt More At 60FPS In Vanquish PC Version

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[BLOG] Enemies Hurt More At 60FPS In Vanquish PC Version

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Game bugs come in many shapes and sizes. You've got the funny, the annoying and the frankly absurd. This one falls into the last two, more the second than the third though.



Vanquish's PC version has been discovered to have a strange bug that involves the framerate you play the game at. If you play at 30fps you take less damage from enemies than if you play it at 60fps. No, really. So if you've been wondering why you've been struggling while playing the game on your higher-end machine, this gives you a nice excuse to legitimately blame the game for once.



This weirdness was discovered by NeoGAF user .:Wesker:. who tested out this with one of the tutorials, recording his results for all to see and they're pretty clear cut. An effect that triggers upon hitting low health activate after six or seven seconds of taking damage while playing the game at 30fps, while it takes only a couple for the same effect to kick in during gameplay at 60fps. That certainly seems like something isn't quite right there. While it's not been officially recognised yet, the theory is being supported by a decent amount of anecdotal evidence in the thread and other players are reporting the same results when they test it out too.



It's not the first time though, Valkyria Chronicles also had a similar issue and that was patched eventually, so now the bug has become known and reported we can probably expect Vanquish will get a similar fix soon. Until then, it might be best to wait a little while to play the game if you don't want to play at a lower framerate.



Or you could see it as an extra challenge and just get really good at the game. If you're that sort of a gamer.



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