Surprise, surprise: Homefront: The Revolution has a day one patch that comes "strongly recommended" by developer Dambuster Studios. Apparently, the update offers a "range of performance and frame rate improvements". In other words, if you want the game to run as well as you'd expect, you'll probably want to nab this file before you start playing. Fair warning, we suppose.
Of course, day one patches are becoming more and more popular, with companies optimising their titles after they've been shipped. For the most part, it's a system that works, but we've certainly seen the strategy go horribly wrong in the past. To be honest, we miss the days when we could just put a disc into our console and - wait. Wait one gosh darn minute, here. Homefront is out this week? Tell us that we're not the only ones who completely forgot in the comments section below.
[source homefront-game.com, via videogamer.com]
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As someone who relies mostly on retail games, I really hate this trend of day-one patches being required to actually play the game as it should have been released. I don't have the worst internet connection but it's so far from being able to handle patches of this size. Both Uncharted and Doom's patches meant I had to wait almost another half a day before I could boot up the games I'd bought on disc.
I get that some people love this new digital age, where games are easily available to download and play the moment they become available, and where large patches aren't a big hassle to most, but as someone who lives in a field in a tiny Welsh village, we don't all have connections capable of this kind of thing.
How could I forget this game was out when it's had sooo much hype?! In fact it's had more attention than Uncharted 4...oh wait,no it hasn't.
As for the patch..how about they just finish the Damn game first and THEN send it out?
It's sad when a game can't run well by itself without a patch.
I didn't forget this game was out this week, I just didn't care.
I never understand how a game can be passed and go Gold without running properly. I can understand that a few minor tweaks/adjustments that may have cropped up - found by reviewers or in-house that got overlooked/missed, a few balancing tweaks to MP but nothing 'major'...
Been looking forward to this one, missed the last one due to selling my ps3 to pay for the ps4 lol
The best part about Homefront 1 was the MP and as this one doesn't have MP I totally forgot, or didn't care, not sure. I highly doubt i'll be picking this up.
It's a catch 22. They either release on the date advertised, but with a day one patch. Or delay the release so that they can fix whatever issues there are and release a complete game. Either way someone will be unhappy. And understandably so. If you set yourself a target to release your product but it's still not playable without patches, then that's obviously going to irk the customer. I don't mind the patches but I too have low net speeds so find I'm not playing straight away. The only fix I can see is to not be so over ambitious to think that a specific date is achievable. It's not like it's their first game so they have experience in time frames needed to produce a working game.
A day one patch that improves frame rates? How many console games with frame rate issues were ever actually fixed with patching? How often does a frame rate patch seem nothing more than a placebo.
Starting on the ps3 i began to web search the patches before downloading and also playing initialy unpatched.
Homefront 2 should be played pre and post patch to allow for frame rate comparisons to evaluate the quality of the patch.
Pathetic that is now a standard.
Guys iv'e seen game play with the day one patch and the frame rate is still horrible
Reviews are in and this game is getting panned Shame.
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