Ghost of Tsushima Freezing Fixed, No Update Required

Yeah on twitter it seems Sucker Punch are aware and are working on it:

https://twitter.com/SuckerPunchProd/status/1785558141633020061?t=B5_CALEVNSHYh43pL40L7Q&s=19

Sony is becoming sloppy at patch implementations....

I never completed the game on release and would REALLY like to upgrade to the PS5 version, but the option is just not there on the store. I contacted Sony customer support and they were unable to help.

Is this one of those benefits that PC ports would bring to console players that I keep hearing about? Because almost 4 years in since launch I've yet to see anything fruitful from this PC push for console owners.

OMG, this is hilarious. 😂

@truerbluer why would a game releasing on pc have anything to do with console? Other then playing with friends on different platforms. Wtf are you even yapping about? Also plenty of games have cross play functionality and dont suffer from this or any other issues. The fact that its coming to pc has zero to do with bugs or sloppy/lazy programming. Thats a studio issue, not a crossplay issue. Put down the koolaid already.

@Moparhippy420 The fact that it's coming to PC has literally affected the state of the previously functional versions on consoles broken. This wouldn't have happened if the console versions were just left alone. And it's wasting more dev time fixing what was fine before instead of cracking on with a new game that's long overdue.

Absolutely amazing level of patch.... It's now stuttering every 30 seconds!!!! How did this get put out in this state!!!

This is a pretty bad look, but I'd also take phrases like "borderline unplayable" with a grain of salt from spec maximalist. Still, this is just sloppy.

@truerbluer again, this has to do with quick and sloppy work vs the fact that its coming to pc. The patch should have never released in this state to begin with. This is on sucker punch/sony. They should have never released it until it was ready. If proper testing/QA/programing was followed it would have never been an issue

@tameshiyaku I assumed "unplayable" was sensationalist when I first heard about this issue, but then I saw some of the gameplay videos and it really is a nightmare. The game can straight up freeze for a few seconds at regular intervals — as often as every ten seconds or so.

@truerbluer sony making more money from sales in an additional market will be benefiting every console player. A proportion of this extra income will be invested in helping studios with the development of more games. It will also increase the return on a title, making it more likely for the game to get a sequel or the studio to continue developing new titles.

@Neither_scene Nah that's makes too much sense. Complaining about the evil PC ports makes more sense

@tameshiyaku I'm trying to do the quest on ichi island where you have to choose between the husband and the monk.... It's absolutely broken. You can't react or parry without it freezing up or pausing mid fight. I've been on it 40 mins still can't do it under these conditions. I've uninstalled it and it won't let you start your save file without loading up the update.

Sucks, but at least they’re trying to fix it

@Neither_scene That's how a non-profit organization is (in theory) supposed to work. That's not how a for profit publicly traded corporation works. The additional sales mean more investor returns on the quarter, not more money to reinvest into other products. Sony's already told us their problem has been low margins, met with cost cutting, project cancellations and studio closures and a commitment to increase margins. The focus in on making more money for investors while spending less on developing products, not the other way around.

I still agree the need PC, because the costs of modern games has jumped the shark and now the idea of exclusives can't afford to exist. But that doesn't mean they're going to spend that revenue on more R&D, they're already over-limit on what they can spend on R&D and need to cut it back while increasing sales.

Can we get him a speech therapist?

@NEStalgia I strongly disagree with you saying that it’s only non-profit organisations that invest in r&d when increasing sales.

Nvidia, a publicly traded company, have enjoyed huge growth in sales and seen their share price rocket on the back of the AI boom. They’re spending more on r&d now, mostly AI related, despite enjoying more sales.

I do concede that Sony’s desire to spend on r&d is probably hampered by the fact that they’re operating in a fully saturated market. The potential for growth is limited and therefore the returns on investment are likely to be small. Nvidia is clearly operating in a growth market where investment is all but guaranteed to yield higher profits and further growth.

That is one way to make people buy the PC version. Make the console version unplayable.

A tax for your desperate need for crossplay?

@Neither_scene A company can identify that increased R&D will lead to more growth or reduced margin. Nvidia has done the former, but Nvidia is in a unicorn phase in a frontier market where "growth" is less about sales growth and more raw investor funding/speculation while they believe they're funding some future windfall.

Sony's already identified that increased R&D failed to increase sales and as a result margins fell, and are rectifying that. Thus the cuts. Spending $500M on the next blockbuster is likely to yield exactly the same sales their last $100M game did.

@SNARF sorry that you're having such a bad experience, as this is one of my favourite PS4/5 games.
@ShogunRok These days it's just hard to work out the severity of a situation, since unplayable has lost all meaning within online discourse.

Wtf and nobody wants cross play with hacker PC gamers btw so double wtf?!

I'm due to get back to this and complete the game again with the expansion on PS5. Been putting it off as that means it's over. Same with Echoes of the Eye, Outer Wilds. Can't bare playing the game and knowing everything. If there was a way to get voluntary memento syndrome.

People need to calm down. It's frustrating and should not have happened, but Sucker Punch has been amazing with supporting this game for years. They are on it and I have faith in them. Breathe, step away from the game, and play one of the other million games in your backlog. It won't be long until you can get back to Jin's adventure.

Just how did such a problem make it through testing?
What do you mean?
The usual pro bono testers just found the problem and reported back, you've just written about it in the article. Isn't this the established testing procedure in gaming nowadays?....

@Paranoimia Quit instigating bub...

@Shinnok789 It's a joke, you nugget. I game on PC as well.

Great, so they ruined console version for pc release. Glad to see

When crossplay was announced I said I'm not very happy for it

• because it always only brings only problems for console users (both technical and with PC cheaters).
  Sad to see I was right so much. Please SP, let PS5 players just turn off any forced crossplay and do not ruin our PS5 game experience with PC crossplay anymore. Thank you.

Oh great.., im just still near the beginning too..

I'm Jinuinely delighted about this

Some of the best engineers in the world man, you gotta love it.

So how does a fix work without a patch? Does this game have an always online requirement?

@GreywolfinCZ most "cheaters" on pc are either in asian territories, which you can avoid by playing in your region, which you should be doing anyway, or the same immature kids who are console. Also theres cheaters on console as well, yes even without modding your console, and always has been (lag switches, modded controllers and running your console through a pc anyone?).

Also the chances are pretty much 100% that you will be able to turn crossplay off, as is the case in every other crossplay game, to please the whiners.

@RainbowGazelle I mean the only way to have crossplay is to be ONLINE. This would apply to Legends since the story is not multiplayer.

Wait does that mean they made GoT always-online without telling anyone?

@NEStalgia I was just going to say something similar!

Was this hitching just for the multiplayer or the base game, too - which heavily implies there is an "always online" element to it.

@pharos_haven Was the hitching only in multiplayer? The article implies it was for the whole game.

@GamingFan4Lyf @NEStalgia I'm wondering the exact same thing.

@tameshiyaku I've restarted the game several times and reinstalled it twice but still doing it. Itching to get back to it bad 🫣🫣🫣

@SNARF bummer... Maybe it's some elaborate scheme by Sony to get you to subscribe to ps plus premium and just stream the game instead. 😉
Either way, I hope you can finish this epic game soon.