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Surprised at old device performance.. so here's a suggestion
Manthro
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Wanted to weigh in on a huge surprise with regards to game performance on my ancient backup device, a Samsung Galaxy s5 Neo...
My Moto Z is getting repaired and I didn't even think this phone supported the game... But it does so I downloaded it. I fully expected it to run as smooth as a slideshow.... How mistaken I was!
Sure, the graphics are rudimentary and many of the effects, details, and particularly colours on heavy ranged attacks are extremely scaled down or missing...
But!!! The game runs BUTTERY SMOOTH on this old crapper and it doesn't overheat at all. I dunno what voodoo the dev team did to improve performance on old android devices but I am amazed.
This brings me to my suggestion. Dev team, you NEED to provide manual control of graphics settings. It's clear that the game correctly detected and adjusted detail to suit my device capabilities, but it is obviously not true for other devices... as evidenced by the constant complaints on the forums about crashing, poor input recognition, etc.
It ALL stems from devices getting taxed beyond safe limits by the automatic performance settings. It is clearly not calibrating properly across all devices. Devices overheat as a result, things get screwy, players get frustrated and quit or stop spending.
Please, give us manual control of detail settings. Even if it's a basic "low, better, medium, great, maximum" scale.
It will quite possibly save this game over the long run, and you will make many many players very happy, and clean the forums of a large portion of the repeated rants on this exact subject.
I know I asked a lot of you in making Waspinator an AM boss and you delivered ... Make this one happen as well. Your legions will once again thank you.
Peace.
Manthro
My Moto Z is getting repaired and I didn't even think this phone supported the game... But it does so I downloaded it. I fully expected it to run as smooth as a slideshow.... How mistaken I was!
Sure, the graphics are rudimentary and many of the effects, details, and particularly colours on heavy ranged attacks are extremely scaled down or missing...
But!!! The game runs BUTTERY SMOOTH on this old crapper and it doesn't overheat at all. I dunno what voodoo the dev team did to improve performance on old android devices but I am amazed.
This brings me to my suggestion. Dev team, you NEED to provide manual control of graphics settings. It's clear that the game correctly detected and adjusted detail to suit my device capabilities, but it is obviously not true for other devices... as evidenced by the constant complaints on the forums about crashing, poor input recognition, etc.
It ALL stems from devices getting taxed beyond safe limits by the automatic performance settings. It is clearly not calibrating properly across all devices. Devices overheat as a result, things get screwy, players get frustrated and quit or stop spending.
Please, give us manual control of detail settings. Even if it's a basic "low, better, medium, great, maximum" scale.
It will quite possibly save this game over the long run, and you will make many many players very happy, and clean the forums of a large portion of the repeated rants on this exact subject.
I know I asked a lot of you in making Waspinator an AM boss and you delivered ... Make this one happen as well. Your legions will once again thank you.
Peace.
Manthro
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So far devs did nothing. Hope your's will gain traction.
For sure. This is by no means the first time this has been suggested, just thought I'd try and bring it back into the "most wanted features by players" list.
Would be, by far, the most impactful feature they could provide in the next update. More important than relic templates/loadouts, more important than revamped rewards, and dare I say.... Currently even more important than new content/game modes.
This should be top priority right now, in my opinion.
This confirms that the game can be played with lower graphics... it's just that there's no manual control over that.
Same game played on my iPhone 7 Plus, it heats up within a minute and I have to use (NO JOKE HERE) ice packs to keep the device cooled.
Please Kabam, please give us the option to lower the graphics so it avoids the device heating up and all. Enough with the "turn to the blind eye/silent treatment" already. This is an issue since Day One. We don't care who is at fault, but we just want a better user experience. And right now, you guys are not delivering that if the devices heat up to degrees where it literally too hot to hold. Please don't blame the devices because other games (that require a lot of graphics as well) do not heat up. And proof is there that the game can be played without heating up when the graphics are downgraded.
Your move Kabam.
Nah, mine is rock solid. Had it for two years since release, just had to replace the battery on it yesterday.
Any bot with a mod on it (AM, Special Missions) causes my game to panic and lag like crazy. When an opponent activates a heavy or a special attack, my phone lags and catches up only to me getting beat down on. It makes it impossible dodge.
Using an iPhone 8.
Less the Load on CPU and Ram
Then the developers/designers will say, “Why did we spend 80% of the development making this nice eye candy when we could’ve just made it simpler and focused more on streamlining/bug fixing/optimizing the game?” (yeah, I threw that in there).
And the marketing guys will say, “Why do we have all this promotional/marketing material showing the great graphics of this game when everyone’s YouTube channel shows it with very basic graphics?”
Yeah, not going to happen.