We announced just last week that popular post-apocalyptic sandbox title Fallen Earth had been released on Steam. Well, opening that can of worms seems to have taken its toll on many of the game's more populated areas, causing performance issues and crashes for some players. Needless to say, GamersFirst is not about to let that fly.
In fact, GamersFirst's Napalm stopped by the game's official forums earlier today in order to notify players of some small tweaks that are being made to the game in order to solve these performance issues. For starters, Embry Crossroads and all starter towns are being moved onto "much, much beefier hardware," which "will have an immediate impact, and should decrease the amount of lag that players are seeing in those areas." Improvements are also being made to server memory management, and the studio is even upgrading to a "more capable branch of the xScape engine" that should hopefully allow the game to handle a higher number of players in any given area. For the full details on the improvements, just click on over to the official announcement below.
Reader Comments (6)
Posted: Feb 27th 2012 6:12PM nimzy said
Oh man, you should just see their starting areas right now. Piles of dead NPCs and hordes of players standing around desperately trying to finish their starter quests. Wait times of 20+ seconds for actions to complete.
And the annoying-as-hell "pay us money" nagging button on the UI that never goes away...
And the annoying-as-hell "pay us money" nagging button on the UI that never goes away...
Posted: Feb 27th 2012 6:13PM Unshra said
I tend to log in every now and then just to mess around, normally all the starter areas are ghost towns. However I logged last night on one of my characters who was in the Burbs after seeing how active the help channel was and found the burbs rather packed with players it looked like the first day Fallen Earth went online and about as laggy. :p I think it's good to see FE getting new members and hopefully the upgrades will make their experience more enjoyable.
Posted: Feb 27th 2012 6:18PM Vinzix said
Not like FE is demanding that much, haha.
Posted: Feb 27th 2012 9:37PM Juicer said
Hopefully they fix the problem with NPC's rubber banding around. I still find the action a little slow paced, maybe an upgrade could speed things up a bit.







