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Xbox Game Pass’ latest free AAA game received a bit of criticism from fans, with many dragging the game down for performance issues.
In case you missed the memo, The Outer Worlds 2 released this week on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Most importantly, if you’re an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber, you’ll get it as part of your subscription.
Essentially, the welcome to The Outer Worlds 2 It looks pretty positive. So far, it has a positive score of 84% on Steam, and the Xbox version has a collected score of 83 on Metacritic.
However, despite the positive reviews, there seems to be some controversy regarding the game’s performance.
Some players have noticed that The Outer Worlds 2 stutters on some platforms and takes a long time to load in some areas.
“By the time you land on the first planet Outer Worlds 2performance and stutters are starting to show,” one player wrote on This is a real optimization joke and saying they wanted to charge $80 for this.
The footage they shared, which shows a traverse around the game’s first planet, Paradise Island, does indeed show a bit of stuttering.
The game appears to run at 60 FPS, with slight glitches every 5-10 seconds. At one point, he even freezes for a few seconds before catching up.
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For what The Outer Worlds 2 stutter?
As the original poster pointed out, The Outer Worlds 2 is built in Unreal Engine 5. Although the engine has been celebrated for its graphical quality and ease of use, it is also criticized for its performance issues in large open levels.
Recent games that have used Unreal Engine 5 include Mafia: the old country, Silent Hill, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2And TRACKER 2. And each of these titles has also been criticized for performance issues, particularly in outdoor spaces.
“Ahh classic Unreal 5 stutter,” another user wrote on X. “Can’t wait to sweat hard in Halo on the legendary Alliance fight and stutter.”
“UE5 is a real problem,” wrote another. “It seems like developers don’t know how to properly optimize games with this engine, but Rest 2 And Dark myth: Wukong are some examples of UE5 games that work well. Publishers may not give developers enough time to optimize these games.
