The game itself is good, but as you can see from my negative review, that's not enough to save it from the state that the game is currently in for PC players. With my hardware, I was not one of the players heavily affected by the poor PC optimization at launch, at least on single player or local modes. Obviously with the nature of the rollback netcode and how fighting games work, the online was not good because other players were having performance issues. PS5 players I matched with via crossplay, I had no issue with.
ARC SYSTEM WORKS released a patch a few days ago from the time of writing to address the poor state of the PC build, improving performance across the board. Everyone's consensus is... yes, it has improved performance for PC players all around, but the damage is done. Many PS5 players turned off crossplay, so matchmaking takes longer. The hype for the game that was there in that first week dissipated so quickly because of their inability to ensure this had a proper release.
For me, actually, I have been experiencing crashes related to the shaders in the game after the patch. Even in just trying to play the game's survival mode, a fun concept where you fight teams of 4 followed by a boss and then gain passive abilities to keep going, I crashed probably eight times. I got to Round 17, and I lost, and I said I'm done.
If my friends want to play it, sure, we'll play it on Parsec via my account! It's a good time. I am unlikely to fund the game further as Sony has made their stance very clear. This should've been a home run and instead I generally regret buying this game before it inevitably goes on sale for the upcoming holiday season.
Also, this is not an endorsement to do anything illegal, but users are reporting that the cracked versions of the game are running with much better performance on builds below the minimum recommended specs. So all of this was Sony's fault for wanting to push the PSN logins and probably generally make the game fail so their marketing data shows that the PC version was not as profitable compared to the PlayStation version. It makes sense that they'd favor that, their players are paying for every month of service to play online.
All this to say, TLDR, Sony sucks, game cool, game plagued with issues, Deadpool's Japanese VA is DIO (positive), and I regret my purchase generally.
