well fam it's finally time time to play the one and only black myth Wukong now honestly I expect the PC Port of this to be pretty solid it's going to be beautiful and we're going to check it out here in just a minute but what I'm particularly interested in is the PlayStation 5 Port of the game which we're checking out later in this video because they have not shared any codes with reviewers or anything there's been a couple of like leaked gameplay clips that have come out here and there that looked pretty damn rough so we're going to try it I'm hoping they had a day one patch that just made everything way way better and this is going to be just thumbs up across the board but time will tell but honestly I can't wait anymore let's just jump right into it hit go and see where we're at now while we're playing on PC I'm going to turn on this little overlay in the top left that shows you performance I am playing this on my uh crazy spoiled rich kid computer and so it is cranked out the Wazoo and it looks like GE whz golly all man let's just take it in take it in for a sec [Music] jeez dude I love big set pieces this is like Taylor Made for me I love this kind of thing it's me the monkey boy I don't know what's going on but I'm here for it I'm here for it jeez that's that's not great you don't want to see that my master safe the scriptures that's not what I expected him to sound like not at all all I ever wanted was a life in my Mountain free from you and your socalled merits uh those high above don't trust me I understand that and they send you in those knuckleheads to threaten me to obey and serve once more I mean okay elephant in the room while he's while he's saying this I would comment on the lip sinking but there basically isn't any it's just lips moving and then and then English dialogue I get that it's probably synced for the original dialogue but still in 20124 that's abnormal I'd say to have basically non-existent lip sync it's not why you're playing a game like this but still hard to ignore [Music] holy particle effects Batman tutorial fight incoming looks like it stay back stupid he's not just any monkey he's a monkey of Merit a monkey was made Buddha once none other than me can challenge him to a doom look monkey that better be an eye on his forehead of fighting someone I've bested before here's my offer if you lose I'll take you to the celestial Court they will stay and level your Mountain but if I lose I shall certainly take revenge and they will level your Mountain nonetheless how tragic would that be huh you are one of the Court we don't need to resort to violence how about you bend the knees admit the wrongs and we can put this behind us I'm sorry the voice I'm just not ready for the voice all these years except for that pig you're the one who talks the toless tales good I am entertained speaking of entertainment wouldn't it be fun if I pluck your extra eye out for my snack and allow you to keep the other two because I'd hate to let you miss how I'll Slaughter each Mongrel of the Court those below those above and that black mut of yours come in me all of you boom now that's a transition many chances you spurned each one such ingratitude Rock Solid [Music] oh baby St Unleash Your [Music] might I don't know if I'm supposed to find it funny but I do just the voice is very very funny to [Music] me the celestial Court welcomed you foul monkey yet you remain Untamed None Shall save you now dear brother your Edge needs honing good I was in need of a back scratcher golly so I mean First Impressions obviously the game is very very pretty and where it counts in combat oh God I uh I do think that the performance is about where it needs to be I mean I'm not having any crazy problems I am playing this with frame generation turned on and dlss on and everything so I'm giving it pretty much every possible uh Advantage it could could have which is probably helping it but it sounded from the reviews like most of the problems were kind of intermittent crashing and random quality of life bugs and stuff and like lip sync not working which we obviously can see but that that seems to be more of a a problem with just the design I I don't think they bother to create a dynamic system for it but I'm very impressed by just the scale and how fluidly they're transitioning between between like different encounters and cut scenes and stuff it's crazy impressive and it's what you'd expect from a AAA game in 2024 which is kind of refreshing [Music] frankly golly man jeez D bear in mind this is the start of the [Music] game fou monkey taste my axe golly dude I love big epic setp stuff like I said at the top and so this is like cream of the crap for me I will also say if you're seeing any screen tearing it seems to be a capture issue I'm not seeing that here I have vsync turned on and everything but sometimes games will be games you know they'll just kind of do their own thing dude they're still going they're not done yet [Music] jeez dude oh [Music] Jesus do you think the Mountain's okay and so ends the last tale of Sun Wukong that tree is freaking out a hero who oh no it's a time lapse it's growing it's not a bug his feature now it's time to be birthed by the egg the Egg of life [Music] now that I mean that's an intro that's an intro the one thing is the monkey voice I was not ready for I will grant you that I did find it a little bit funny just a little I'm expecting this like I don't even know what like a rough Gruff hardened Warrior monkey sounds like but I wasn't expecting just I wasn't ready for it man I really wasn't oh no it's frozen And So It Begins okay oh maybe it's recovering I think it's recover covering okay that was scary that was scary it like was at a total standstill for a while but I it's back to running we got frames going there we go no that's a peach nowhere better than a home we to death and ever grow yeah you see what Bliss my fate shows locks around the corn seems like he just 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performance issues unless they are there but so far it's been relatively smooth for me at least and I tend to be a bit of a bug magnet if you've ever watched any of my reviews or videos before you'll know that I have a a real talent for attracting them but in a few minutes we're going to go look at that that's crazy in a few minutes we are going to go and try the PlayStation 5 Port which I've also purchased and downloaded to see how that runs because I'm hearing conflicting things on like X right now for example where some people are saying it runs great and there's no problems other people say it runs like absolute dog water so we're going to see now one of the things that they've really really pushed hard is that this is not a Souls light game and they are not trying to to treat it as one it's not like Dark Souls it's not like Elden ring it's much more of an action game than it is your standard Souls like game and that to me is perfectly perfectly fine I like like Souls light games of course but I also like action games and what that means in practice I think is that this game is going to be more approachable I think the systems are going to be simpler there's not a lot of like character building or action RPG mechanics or anything you'll gain new abilities and stuff as you play through it but they're not trying to pretend as though this is some sort of crazy Advanced RPG and they're just not wasting the time trying to get that type of system working which is incredibly difficult to do right instead they're going to present a really high production value action adventure type game and let that carry the show and I don't blame them I think that's a good way of doing it oh first boss I guess technically the tutorial was the first boss but here we [Music] are boom a bu guard slap oh he smack me oh oh baby ooh little scripted tutorial okay our friend is back bom first spell there we go already there you go should you come across any misre just point your finger at them and release this spell yeah you'll be able to hold them in place while giving yourself a breather sadly mine is but a humble trick its power will wear off within a few short moments though it's good enough against Bone Heads like this one anyway just consider it an ace up your sleeve no the ywi these days know known manners fear not teach him a lesson with your new Smack That [Music] Booty there we go bada bing bada boom Sparks I've gained Sparks that's all I've ever wanted now here's where you can see the kind of depths of customization so we have different like outfits and stuff that can be worn you can see they do have defensive stats so there will be reason to swap these out they're not just cosmetic or anything different weapons will also be uh acquirable there's different curios which are like little uh like charm type things you could imagine it like that and of course we have our old gourd which uh is is basically just healing in this case it's coconut wine is our drink that we're using right now each sip restores 33% of maximum health easy peasy I will say with dlss turned on there definitely is some artifacting around the hair at the top of his head there's little stuff if you look for it but honestly it's it's not that noticeable when you're actually playing and if that's a sacrifice you have to make for the rest of the Fidelity being so high I think it's tolerable it's it's nothing like super jarring or anything can't go down there okay and the other thing I notice immediately are the invisible walls there's areas like this where you feel like you should be able to go down but you just can't it's just an invisible wall and that's something which like I can understand why they've done it I I can understand they want to keep you on a more narrow path to lead you to certain spots but it's one of the big questions I had going into this game is what is the connect tissue between the boss encounters cuz we all agree the boss encounters look awesome all that stuff looks great that's why they've shown that every time they've shown the game but what do you do between the boss fights cuz that presumably is a good amount of time and it it seems as though that is one area where a good number of people have been a little underwhelmed um because there we go because it relies on a lot of older tropes of design with some of these more linear ooh type games that was a bad frame drop that was rough and just so everybody's aware like this is after all of the the like uh Shader compilation and everything takes place because when you boot the game up for the first time it does all of that so this isn't that Unreal Engine stuttering like with clipo protocol or anything this is stuff that's happening even after all of that's been done which makes you wonder how bad it would be if they didn't had that you know probably not great and I'm sure you get used to it pretty quick but like even here I was like oh I want to jump up there I bet there's something good but no this is this is an invisible wall you just can't continue after that so you just have to kind of turn your brain off and be like okay where do they want monkey to go not over here monkey not go over there monkey go over here you have to you really have to think like a monkey you know you have to think like a monkey it reminds me of the time I was making a video on I don't even know what but I was making a video on something and I said something to the effect of oh you just have to turn on your monkey brain and just go through the motions and just play the game you know do do the thing and somebody got so offended in the comments like actually I'm not a monkey uh I was created in the image of my Lord dude got like majorly triggered cuz I I said to turn on your monkey brain I was like I don't I'm not attacking your like religion or anything I'm just saying turn on your monkey brain but bro got triggered as hell so let's see if we can get him to show up in this video too go down in the comment section leave a comment yourself like the video while you're at it and see if you can find somebody talking about how they're not a monkey and they don't appreciate being called one I'm sure there's someone down there but okay I didn't find anything crazy cool I'm just going to continue along the path past the boss guy that we fought and self- advance and Sparks uh level up to gain Spark and awaken more abilities in spell Sparks will not be lost upon Resurrection okay cool cool cool cool now one of the other things that also triggered some reviewers was the fact that there are no maps for the game at all so even if you hit select it just doesn't do anything nothing pops up so even though these levels are fairly intertwined there just isn't a way of keeping track of it other than your own mind and once again you know if there's a number of reviewers that bring up a single point it's a pretty good indication it probably actually is a problem in practice sometimes not oh baby that was bad woof that that was that was rough thankfully combat was over but if that happened during a boss fight I'd be pretty ticked anyway I do think that you know having just played a little bit at this point I could see how that could get a little Annoying trying to go back through and figure out where you've been already but my impulse honestly is that I kind of like that choice I appreciate that they're not holding your hand and they kind of embrace the idea that you have to get to know these levels this isn't a Starfield situation where there's no maps for like a big city in a role playing game where there's also procedurally generated planets and stuff this isn't something like that this is a game with tighter level design allegedly and I think it's fair for them to expect the players to get to know the levels while they play but that opinion may change once I play more of it and get deeper and deeper in CU as we all know the deeper you get sometimes you can have regrets it's it's a thing oh what's this I love the seamless transitions look at that these little segments are just like yeah yeah just look at it take it in we did that okay now for the Sparks that we've been unlocking we can actually apply those just in the menu you can see we have different abilities and then we have spells if we go to spells you can see we have immobilized listed there and we also have different changes to it effectively so hitting an immobilized enemy with light attack slightly extends the duration of the next immobilization inflicted on them this effect can stack up to five times which is an interesting little tidbit same with this upgrade each Talent level moderately increases damage Del to immobilize targets okay if we back out and we go back to the other side which is just abilities you can see we have staff stances and Foundation if we go to Foundation this can improve things like reducing the cost of sprinting uh the stamina cost each Talent level moderately reduces stamina cost of dodging martial arts each Talent level significantly increases the engage distance of the light attack okay mobile spin moving forward while using staff spin initiates mob spin I kind of like that I'm going to unlock that one survival moderately increases maximum health okay I think that makes sense to use and then maximum stamina also increase that probably makes sense to do and then this one initiate heavy attack during mobile spin to quickly engage and stagger the enemy oo I kind of like the look of that okay and boom just like that we've leveled up some and we're ready to keep going you know some people have looked at clips of this game and have just been like I don't get it I don't understand it like why is it important to have high production value like who really cares that much and honestly it's just because I think right now A lot of people are particularly sensitive to the production value discussion because like this generation has been somewhat disappointing frankly like a lot of us have felt as though this has been the generation of remasters and remakes and there's very little originality this generation and when we we do get originality it's in a live service game that nobody asked for and even then it's not that original so I think it's fair for people to feel as though they deserve something fresh and something Cutting Edge and that's what this represents in a lot of ways it's a brand new IP from a pretty unknown Studio certainly in the west and it looks really good it seems to play pretty well and while it does seem to have some technical issues it's something that people have been wishing they could get from other big studios and and that's why I think you're seeing it pop off even right now let's pull this up and look jeez man they have 1.2 million people in game right now and climbing 1.2 million people and again just bear in mind this game released 2 hours ago and this is like updating breaking alltime Peak records as of just 2 minutes ago when I refresh it's probably going to be higher it was 1.23 well it's it's still stuck there it'll probably refresh here in a few minutes but that's that's just absolutely outrageous you do see some mixed reviews in general it's positive but there about 20% of players who are leaving negative reviews and that is because of the uh less than optimized state of the game and some people on certain Hardware are having more problems than others running it thankfully steam has a 2hour basically demo period so you can try the game and if it doesn't work for you you can just return it and not be out 60 bucks which is refreshing and I think everybody needs to put that policy in place for all stores because it instills a lot of confidence honestly in the customer when you're like hey I'm worried about performance of black myth on PS5 so either I'll buy it and then I return it within two hours easy peasy or more realistically because that's not a thing on Playstation people just won't buy it cuz they're worried about it and uh look at that and so I I think if they were to make that more standard that'd be great you can technically get refunds through PlayStation but it is far less robust a system than what you have in say steam so uh it's a little bit of a a tangent I just think steam's policy for refunds is great and everybody should copy it okay we are a fly now or correct that we're not technically a fly we're a cicada but I you get what I what I mean it's a big fly that's basically a cicada right oh another big Big Boss let's do this one and then we'll try the PlayStation 5 version of the game here we are hello good sir look at [Music] him oh he's the guy with a Trippy voice this is the non-old variant though oh I thought I dodged that guess I did not oh he's got a triple oh it goes pop pop pop I was not ready for that okay first death okay take two hello my friend let's try this again bing boom I learned my lesson I'm running far away don't tell me has four okay oh he does kind of have four oh god dude he hurts so bad run away run away farther yeah I'm not messing with that that that attack is scary it just keeps getting worse and worse what was [Music] that drink the gourd baby oh I got got okay there's the big man himself again I like his coat uh I I actually think like this might might be one of those like DPS check bosses just to like make sure you're paying attention you know just like okay no we're not we're not messing around anymore like we're here we're serious okay but there's more to the level if we like look over here there's like uh oh wait no wrong button wrong button wrong button spin your thing oh my God spin your thing there you go so this is the whole reason I brought this okay I'm I'm going to die to grunts s just cuz I do this for a living doesn't mean I'm good at it okay it's the American way okay I I dodge that that Arrow bullet whatever we're we're going to be okay it does seem like this is one of those games where going to give you kind of like a a spaghetti a a plate of spaghetti type level with tons of different little Pathways and all sorts of little bitty things tucked in different corners and there might be some bosses might be some things to find here and there but um like another monkey I see like this one Oops why don't you lay down your weapon oops okay Guang guangji what say you oh God okay we'll try this guy and then we'll we'll try the PS5 port and see how that's going my god oh okay fair enough Fair [Music] enough oh okay he can throw it he can throw it okay that's pretty good oh okay well one more time we'll try one more time cuz I I I feel like that that was just bad okay one more time okay back to it I mean I'm I'm amazed there's two pretty unique bosses very close like a literal Stones throw away from each other that's that's kind of crazy okay I got to get these like Dodge timings down cuz I do not have them down now oh that's a quick little zip Oh I thought I could hit him from there I could not oh the fire killed me okay okay monkeys burn now now we know so yeah I mean they're not kidding this thing picks up pretty good in the first like 30 minutes you're like okay it's this is like pretty chill I see why it's not a Souls like game I it's pretty easy going and then you get hit with the first two optional bosses or I guess the like third and fourth optional boss and then it gets like pretty intense so fair play but now I want to see what the PS5 version is like because they kept this version tucked away hidden from from uh the media they weren't allowed to make any reviews with it they weren't allowed to show any gameplay of these games past the chapter 2 Mark so we're going to see what that's like and we're going to do that now and thanks to the magic of YouTube and my editor Jacob we are now in the PlayStation 5 Port where we have a quality balanced and performance mode available usually like we only get quality or performance so I'm happy to see that we have three options first things first I want to test performance mode because that's what I'm hearing doesn't run tremendously well so that's what we're going to try okay here we are I mean right off the bat I can already tell that as you'd expect the resolution and frame rate is a good bit lower even on performance mode the the frame rate does seem to be sitting in the 50s or so not bad but it's definitely definitely there and the resolution I mean again I just get spoiled oh already having frame drops wow um the the resolution as you'd expect for performance mode is also quite low but PC just spoils you like that but here we go we're going to get into it now I want to be clear just because the performance mode May really struggle that does not mean that the game is out right unplayable or anything it just could mean that you need to play it more like locked to 30 on a quality mode or something again what you might have done back in the the ancient days of the PS4 but that's why we're testing it here cuz we want to see what it's actually like cuz there's been a lot of speculation a lot of people have wondered why didn't they want reviewers playing this version of the game and I mean already I can tell the the frame rate's kind of all over the place in this opening sequence it was a little bit bouncy on PC as well but even on Console in the first 30 seconds it it's getting a little bit a little bit bouncy but we'll see what it's like when we actually start to control uh Mr Monkey Man and play with him okay and here we go I will say look at those Spears like look at the people in the background like God damn oh baby okay um I'm going to be real guys this is like this is like Jedi Survivor levels of horrible FSR 2 implementations cuz if you're not familiar that game basically was a tremendous game but the implementation of the upscaling was so bad it almost ruined the game for a lot of people it just did they just couldn't play it they couldn't manage it but I will say that this is like this is one of the roughest implementations I've seen if if we just do a freeze frame okay so at any moment in the next like few seconds Jacob's going to freeze the video and I'm going to keep talking over top of it and I'm guessing no matter where he paused the video just then in that Freeze Frame you're seeing tons of very strange artifacting the checkerboarding from FSR 2 FSR 3 whatever upscaling that's not working properly the details all over the place it's just a bit of a mess and that is to a certain extent a matter of personal uh preference and taste some people have a higher tolerance for graphical issues like this where they can play a game you know running at 540p and they're totally fine even if it's running at like 20 frames and they can still do just fine I'm not one of those people I really struggle with games that don't run very well and I personally get driven absolutely mad by it and with this one of the big perks of black myth Wukong is that it is a graphical Powerhouse and it looks like it you know but this game is relying so heavily on upscaling to hit those resolution targets that everything in the background looks like it it's been smeared in butter and Vaseline and it's just such a shame cuz it does the game a disservice you know I we can do it side by side here you can see that section versus uh the same section on PC when we were playing that at the top of the video and I I mean I think it's pretty clear th this is this is a little bit rough and bear in mind reviewers were saying that the first two chapters of the game were very polished compared to the rest of the game which is why the Publishers said that they were not allowed to show footage after chapter 2 because that's where all of the bugs were that's where all of the real issues were with optimization so the fact that we are seeing this rough of console performance in the first five minutes that should tell you pretty well that there's a problem here there's something off and uh I mean I think it's it's pretty plain to see you freeze the frame at any given moment and it's it's rough if you're watching this on a phone it might not be as noticeable but I encourage you if you have a bigger display pull it up or if you have a TV maybe project this video onto your TV and just see what it looks like because my guess is when you see what this is actually looking like uh I meant to do this one you're you're going to be a little Shell Shocked by it cuz it is pretty damn rough we are capturing this video at very very high fidelity at 4K 60 at at just crazy high quality so that you can see the like these games that we make these videos on in their purest form and so if you're saying like artifacting if you're seeing weird like granularity if you're seeing really bizarre stuff like that it's in the game like you can't you can't fake it look at I mean it's a beautiful sequence it's amazing but man FSR 2 or three I'm guessing this runs with FSR 3 but FSR strikes again I'm so used to being like FSR 2 ruined it but FSR three is back with a vengeance like it's it's still stunning it's still stunning it's just after tasting the forbidden fruit that is the PC version comparatively it's a little rough but okay here we are in the actual momentto moment game play back on the ground with our new monkey man and I will say performance mode runs it seems at a pretty smooth 60 at least for now as I run around and look about and you know that might change once we find our first boss encounter but if we change the settings and we try swapping over to like uh let's go display graphics mode over to like quality and we back out this is where it's going to go back down to 30 and it's definitely going to run I keep trying to use left bumper for running instead ofstead of drinking but here like it's down at 30 if anything it feels like it occasionally dips into the 20s but that might just be cuz I'm used to 60 at this point but this might be the way to play it if the uh the news is to be believed of the really rough performance later in the game if it's like going from 60 down to 40 back to 50 back down to 30 and then up to 60 again that kind of Highly varied uh performance is just really really disruptive and it can even cause moous this and stuff so if you're experiencing that if you're playing this later and later it might be worth just going straight through rude to Quality mode and forcing yourself to play it at 30 I know that might sound like heresy but that might honestly be the better option but you know what I don't care I'm going back to Performance mode let's go baby give me those sweet sweet frames bada bing bada boom okay our first little boss boy let's try this guy on PlayStation 5 oh yeah oh he jumped while I jumped fair fair play okay I mean honestly it's running pretty good running pretty good not mad about it so initial impressions are that it seems like this is going to be one of those games where your mileage is going to vary pretty heavily and I do think it's going to change a lot as the game goes on it does seem like this is one of those games where maybe after 2 3 4 hours is where it really starts to get rough around the edges when you're well past the return period and stuff um which is why in just a minute we're going to pull up social media and see the people who have just been playing the PS5 version have gotten a little bit further than me since they're not bouncing between PC and PS5 like a like a dingus uh I want to see if people on like twitch are having a rough go of it let's see so just looking at people that are posting to X and stuff their footage directly through PS5 Shar so they're playing the game in real time and they're they're uploading clips of it you can see like in this clip from uh Joel Garcia you can see he's saying his performance has been pretty solid and you know there are still a lot of artifacts of upscaling and stuff there's no mystery there that that's what they're using but even in these later bosses this is like one or two bosses past the uh the fire guy you can see here it's still going to be there it's still going to be kind of rough around the edges but if you're able to tune it out you can probably play through it and be just fine it's not one of those like unplayable messes as far as I can tell at this point at 10:40 at night on on launch night it it launched like two and a half hours ago or whatever and so we're dealing with limited information but with that information that we do have it seems like people have been able to play for at least a few hours a couple hours to a few hours and are a ble to put up with it there's people complaining about the the upscaling and the lack of optimization and stuff but it seems like if you were really really excited for this and you were just hoping to to sink your teeth into it you can still do that you just might have to put up with some some ugly upscaling and it might look a little rough but as far as like the game play is concerned it's mostly preserved you know it's still as stupid that we're in the year of Our Lord Todd Howard 2024 and we're still dealing with poor optimization of big AAA games it's just really sucky and again it just reaffirms the idea that this generation has been really underwhelming that we get a game that's beautiful and fantastic but to achieve even decent performance it has to be upscaled with dlss or FSR 3 or 2 or whatever they happen to be using today and even then it's not going to look amazing and it still won't run great you'll still have a lot of frame drops but at least it's technically playable and it's just it's just a bummer man I wish we could get back to the age of of great optim optimization where games just ran really well and it wasn't a concern you know but in other news the game has continued climbing on the charts in terms of steam DB it is now up to 1374 million players and bear in mind this is just on Steam just to put that into perspective for you alltime top records for player counts like pubg Battlegrounds at 3.2 pal World which broke all sorts of Records back in January at 2.1 million CS2 at 1.8 L dark at 1.3 Dota 2 at 1.2 they have now overtaken Dota 2 they've surpassed Elden ring New World banana balers gate cyber Punk this game from an unknown studio for Western Gamers new IP not using Star Wars or or any other established IP brand new has come in and overtaken some of the biggest games in the world like it was nothing and you know what it just goes to show you that Gamers at the end of the day just care about the games like if the game looks good if it looks fun if it looks epic if it's beautiful people will play it people will buy it people will will be excited for it it's really not that complicated but I feel like so many the biggest Publishers in the world this this generation are so scared of taking risks because games are really expensive to make uh and and all of their risks end up being things like Saints Row reboot or fores spoken and just end up being dumpster fires so because they fundamentally don't understand what Gamers want or potentially worse they do know what Gamers want but they almost like have contempt for gamers for wanting it I mean even with something like black myth Wukong there have been attempts by Major media organizations to basically get the game cancelled to shut it down in my view in in very bad faith attempts to critique the studio behind it and I think it's just ridiculous because any gamer could tell you that this game was going to pop off any gamer could have told you that something like force spoken was going to crash and burn and yet they still will waste hundreds of millions of dollars on those projects for no return they'll just lose all that money and be like oh I really thought that one would have worked because they don't understand or really frankly it seems care for what Gamers want which is just an awesome game that looks cool looks fun to play and isn't trying to teach us a lesson about the world or or who we are who we should be it's just a game where you play as a monkey beating up tigers and bears that's all it needs to be and it looks fun and so people are buying it and having a great time not everything has to be a lecture sometimes you can just have fun playing a video game and I think that that is why at the end of the the day something like black myth Wukong is resonating with people I hope they continue to sort out the technical issues I'm going to keep playing it here on my PC and I'm going to have a jolly old time doing it and I'm sure I'm going to be talking about it on my stream tomorrow uh or today when this video goes up so come over to Luke Stevens Live Links below check it out and I'd love to chat with you about the game because I'm having a good time I'm sure we're going to continue to get patches and updates as the days and weeks go by so performance on PS5 is only going to get better same with performance on PC that's just how these things work I hope it doesn't take a nose dive I hope we don't get to the point in like five six hours of gameplay or 10 hours of gamepl where it takes an absolute nose dive and becomes unplayable but you know time will tell I suppose but with all that said I'm going to turn off all these crazy hot lights and I'm going to just play the game for fun now so wish me luck after that I'm going to go to bed because tomorrow I have to do something very intense and potentially Soul draining For Your Entertainment and that is play Concord Early Access I don't know if I have the strength to do it but you better believe I'm going to try so wish me luck that video will go up tomorrow so make sure to subscribe so you can see that when it launches but with all that said thank you for watching I love you all desperately and I'll see you in the next video hugs and kisses bye-bye and shout out to to our sponsor pair iear for the 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