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Digital Foundry: Kingdom Come Deliverance on Switch - The Most Ambitious Switch Port Yet? - DF Tech Review
- Thread starter adamsapple
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
- "One of the most ambitious ports on Switch"
- Runs on CryEngine 3. Last gen versions struggled to lock at 30 FPS
- IQ degraded, visual quality dropped and performance often worse than PS4/XBO
- Load times are faster than One S. (first boot still takes 1m 26s, which is still 1 whole minute faster than One S)
- Runs at a 30 FPS target
- 720p DRS to 540p when stressed
- Sharpening used in some foliage and can appear over-sharpened
- SSR, PoM etc are retained
- Switch version includes SVOGI. A feature that isn't present on PS4/XBO.. Runs at a low resolution but it's still impressive to see
- Tree density and geometry is a match for Xbox One
- Draw distance, shadows, texture quality lower than One S
- Empty open areas run at at 30 FPS but with frame pacing issues
- Towns, battles and cut-scenes drop to 20 FPS or lower. Generally in towns it's between 20-30
- An early barracks sequence at night causes drops to 15~16 FPS
- Runs on CryEngine 3. Last gen versions struggled to lock at 30 FPS
- IQ degraded, visual quality dropped and performance often worse than PS4/XBO
- Load times are faster than One S. (first boot still takes 1m 26s, which is still 1 whole minute faster than One S)
- Runs at a 30 FPS target
- 720p DRS to 540p when stressed
- Sharpening used in some foliage and can appear over-sharpened
- SSR, PoM etc are retained
- Switch version includes SVOGI. A feature that isn't present on PS4/XBO.. Runs at a low resolution but it's still impressive to see
- Tree density and geometry is a match for Xbox One
- Draw distance, shadows, texture quality lower than One S
- Empty open areas run at at 30 FPS but with frame pacing issues
- Towns, battles and cut-scenes drop to 20 FPS or lower. Generally in towns it's between 20-30
- An early barracks sequence at night causes drops to 15~16 FPS
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
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Krappadizzle
Member
For what it is, I think it's impressive. Wouldn't be my choice though if I had one. If you had to I guess it's ok to play that, but I feel like I would just wait for different/better hardware to play it. What devs have managed to do in general with the Switch has been impressive considering what the hardware was thought to be able to do.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Considering they got SVOGI running on Switch hardware, it actually is.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
serious question.
Are you going to play this on your 4KTV?
Are you going to play this on your 4KTV?
Horseganador
Member
Well, it looks pretty "good" for a Switch.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No, but the small screen when portable seems like it'd be a good fit, even the video says that.
Yeah, now they can brag about some acronym, while game running at miserable resolution with a miserable framerate.
MadchesterManc
Member
That screencap in the OP kinda gives me Dragon Age Inquisition cross-gen vibes 
Dr.Morris79
Member
Does the game come on the cart?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's a visual effect that was too taxing for PS4/Pro/One/One X that's present here, and the game is best played on the Switch's portable screen.
It's an ambitious port, it's just not for you.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
i dont think there are 7-inch TV sizes.
the point is. the switch is a handheld system.the "hybrid" feature was just for the marketing.
Mr Moose
Member
It doesn't seem that taxing.
Runs and looks like dog shit on Switch. What did PS4/Xbox One run at? Did they drop a lot?
Oh looks like it can run like shit on Xbox One as well.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They both also drop frames, especially in combat / effect heavy areas but not as much as Switch.
The Switch port would probably run better without the effect, the port house opting to use it when they could easily have avoided it is ambitious to say the least.
PendekarRajawali
Member
Not all games need to be on switch. Do people buy these miraculous ports?
BouncyFrag
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Witcher 3's switch port sold 700K units between October and December 2019 (3 months).
There haven't been more detailed numbers since then, but yes, people do buy these ports.
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VolticArchangel
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- "One of the most ambitious ports on Switch"
- IQ degraded, visual quality dropped and performance often worse than PS4/XBO
- 720p DRS to 540p when stressed
- Towns, battles and cut-scenes drop to 20 FPS or lower. Generally in towns it's between 20-30
- An early barracks sequence at night causes drops to 15~16 FPS
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Yeah, I've watched the Switch Up review during lunch break and they specifically pointed out that it received a patch very recently which improved the image quality substantially.
They also put out this pinned comment under the video so there's a good chance that Tom reviewed it using the old patch...
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Yes, there is a physical version available as well. However, I'm curious if it's the full game on cart since they would need to use 16GB game cartridges for this release (install size is ~14GB).
I think I'll grab it once the physical goes on sale as it comes with all the DLC and in portable mode should run and look decent enough.
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Trunx81
Member
for a Switch game, it doesn´t actually look so bad. I played hours of Witcher 3 in handheld mode and loved every second of it.
Reminds me a lot of the last days of the PS Vita, when Borderlands 2 released as a stuttering bugfest .. and I still played it. Maybe a friend of mine was right when he said a few days ago that "you are not a pro-gamer", lol.
Reminds me a lot of the last days of the PS Vita, when Borderlands 2 released as a stuttering bugfest .. and I still played it. Maybe a friend of mine was right when he said a few days ago that "you are not a pro-gamer", lol.
proandrad
Member
I got it because Witcher 3 portable sounded like a great idea. Sadly looks god awful and ran like shit. Just because they can get it to run on a switch doesn’t mean they should.
Deerock71
Member
I'm going to snag a physical copy and hope the Switch 2 accelerates the performance.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Boy bawang
Member
That's very impressive, especially as the patch even improved the game further.
Onironauta
Member
Cool port, I might actually try this on the Switch Lite if it goes on sale under 15 bucks
Dr.Morris79
Member
That's what I'm hoping. If it's all on the cart, they'll have a sale from me. Hopefully it is.
Mister Wolf
Member
It's amazing that this game has raytraced lighting.
ZVWQP-9B8TM-VH9CT
Member
this game is phenomenal on pc.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Absolute hot garbage
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Boy bawang
Member
So apparently, the day 1 patch not only improved image quality tremendously, fixed the blurry characters, but also improved frame rate. So basically, this DF video it's already obsolete.
TVexperto
Member
Boy bawang
Member
Not a popular opinion but I agree. Their "expertise" is very limited and the added value of their videos is often close zero, especially with switch game where they often review pre-launch games, as it is the case here.