Lichdom Battlemage Runs At 1080P On PS4/XO But Is One Of The Worst Console Ports Ever

Lichdom Battlemage was recently released on both PS4 and Xbox One, and while the game runs at 1080P at both consoles, the game is ane of the worst console ports released recently.

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Lichdom Battlemage is based on the 2-year old PC version, and runs on Crytek's CryEngine 3. To its credit, the port manages to run at full Hard disk on both the PS4 and Xbox One, but sacrifices seem to have been made to attain this. Eurogamer's Digital Foundry put the Battlemage port on their test demote, and the results aren't too pretty.

There'southward no beating around the bush here - Lichdom is a game that rarely manages to deliver a frame-charge per unit north of twenty frames per second. In fact, the PlayStation 4 clocks upward an boilerplate frame-charge per unit of just 15fps across the run of play, with dips as low as 10fps. On top of that, frame-time latencies tin can be astonishingly high with some remarkable stutter. We've run the dominion over a multitude of titles since we started frame-rate testing console games back in 2008 - and we're pretty certain we've never seen anything quite every bit bad as this.

To make matters worse, if y'all're unlucky enough to play the game on Xbox One, you'll be treated to the same incredibly low frame-rate - and 5-sync is disengaged too. The terminate consequence is a game with constant tearing - and it's a level of functioning then poor that we actually found information technology difficult to look at the screen for more than a few minutes at a time. In comparison, while still very sluggish, v-sync is active on the PS4 version.

Digital Foundry wraps upward the commodity by stating that the Battlemage port should take never been released on consoles in this country. "Selling a game like this for well-nigh full price is unfair to consumers. Even so, if this looks like a game yous'd like to try, the PC version is the way to go. Accept a look at the video above to see the divergence - the console version just doesn't deserve your time or money", according to Digital Foundry'southward John Linneman.

We reached out to publisher MaximumGames, but haven't received a response.