We are not entirely sure Naughty Dog envisioned the launch day of its PC version of The Last of Us: Part I to have gone quite like this. Instead of celebratory tweets and beautiful Photo Mode dumps on social media from users, it's having to put out one fire after another. What's available on PC is said to be a mess technical-wise, with a consistent stream of "mostly negative" user reviews on Steam now stretching beyond 4,000.
Although, this viral tweet feels like the unwanted cherry on top for the developer. It's a punchline anyone can point to in order to convey just how busted the PC version is. Joel has most certainly seen better days on Steam Deck, as captured by Reddit user Zerindo.
Whether the character model looks this way throughout the whole game we don't know, but it's not exactly the angle Joel will want for future selfies. With facial hair that seems to go on for days, the apocalypse has gotten to him even more than usual. A sorry sight indeed. Let's hope he sees some better days in the future.
Of course, this isn't what Joel looks like if you're running the game on a powerful computer. However, since The Last of Us: Part I was even advertised alongside the Steam Deck in a promotional advert, you'd like to think the port would look at least a bit better than this.
Naughty Dog has taken to Twitter to ask PC users to submit support tickets on its website in order to garner feedback and work out exactly what the issues are plaguing this particular version. Having run exquisitely on PS5, the developer will want to sort these problems out promptly. A very long list of reports complains about constant crashes, shader issues, and overall poor performance. The studio even went as far as describing this port as "for PC" rather than just a simple version running on the personal computer. As such, expect patches to flow thick and fast.
[source reddit.com]
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Hilarious. Thought the point of bringing in NIXXES was to ensure smoother PC launches after Horizon Zero Dawn was a buggy mess.
If Sony want to go down this route, their vision of releasing high quality products to market must extend to their PC releases, or it will seriously damage their reputation as a publisher that can be trusted. Perhaps the damage is already done!
Looks like Joe had some LA snow. Geezes 🤣
That facial expression of Joel is exactly the same as of those who bought TLOU1 on Steam
Reminds me of the comedian Paul Chowdhry but with grey hair 😂
@Rob_230 Reality is most Sony PC ports have been excellent.
God of War, Days Gone, Spider-man, Miles Morales, Returnal were all praised. Horizon wasn't a good port. Sackboy & Uncharted had Day 1 bugs that were fixed later.
Considering the current landscape of PC gaming, which is filled with AWFUL ports and shader compilation issues they've generally done better than most.
Cos PC’s er *****. Can’t do wat a PS5 can do!!! PS5>>>>>>>>>PC
Looks like someone drew his eye brows on with a permanent marker.😂
It seems to be an unoptimised mess at the moment, one person I know is having 90% usage on the CPU with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a cpu that will run Cyberpunk on the highest settings including RT at around half that utilisation. Generally Sony have put out good PC ports but this shouldn't have launched like this
They're still making PS2 games?
@Rob_230 Yeah, it's bonkers. Sony bought Nixxes that specializes in PC ports (and pretty damn good at it) and then decided to hand this port to Naughty Dog that have literally only been making console games in the past 30 years, and for most of that time for a single platform.
@Rob_230 Nixxes didn't work on this one, but you can be pretty sure they'll be used for Naughty Dog's next PC project.
There’s a joke here involving golf clubs and faces
After 2 years of supply constraint it's time to support your console with full force. Just stop bothering with PC. The sales there was just ok at best. Nothing to write home about.
I mean... He looks better than he does in tlou2 right?
Didn't realise they'd done a PS2 port - well, they're making as many (pointless) different versions so why not, eh?
In twitter pic I saw joel face is 100% black, nd is so progressive that they changed joel race only for pc version lol. It's a bug but it's a hilarious one 😂
PC Master race though 🤷🏻😒
Looks like a goddamn zombie
Dunno why ND are doing this in-house? Even if this is necessary growing pains, seems silly to launch in this state.
It still looks more like Joel than Pedro Pascal does.
@nookie_egg too soon 🤣
@SolaceCreed sowwy
Sony deliberately released a buggy port to get people to move to PS5. Like MS will do with PS5 Call of Duty after the activision deal. According to Sony at least!
@Jenson1975
Not really in their interest to do that, since they've sunk a lot of money in to PC.
Super sad release across the board. Sounds like review code was held back too... Which suggests someone in the grapevine knew this was a likely dumpster fire. I'm glad that at least steam users have the option to do a time restricted refund.
This just really highlights the cash grab nature of remasters, remakes, and port outsourcing.
Who let Todd Howard take over the port?...
@get2sammyb Has Nixxes released any PC ports for PlayStation yet?
Do we know what games they're working on for PC?
Iron Galaxy did the port on this the logo pops up when you boot the game after 35 mins of shader compilation
Looks as much of a mess as the tv show 🤣
I love Ron Swanson! wasted bill on a love story geez I didn't see this in the game and I don't watch romance shows!
this game is in a bleak hell world.
I wanted to see bill in all the glory of a walking tank ,taking out raiders and the infected nope! Just gave us 10 odd seconds of a gun fight. This game should of been released on Xbox to days of exclusives can go ( be a lot cheaper LoL)
Well, you can't deny that view...
@Rob_230 this is what I'm saying right..I thought also they were the porting experts or was it not nixxes who ported
@DrClayman so wait nixxes didn't port this over to PC??
@0niguy No, they weren't involved at all, PC port seems to mainly have been developed internally at Naughty Dog
Godzukes! What a tragedy. Kekekekeke caw caw caw. Think I'll stick with the PS4 games.
Feel for everyone that’s experiencing this game for the first time . Such a shame , shame on you Sony for letting it get out in this state .
Well that is unexpected lol.
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