I would like to first say that I enjoyed the open beta greatly *after* I switched to PS5, and as someone who loves Dragon Ball FighterZ and other ARKsys titles, I had a good time. The PC version of the open beta however, was running at 50-58 fps during battle regardless of graphic settings, and online matches against PC players were horrid even after switching to PS5. I was hoping that it was just beta growing pains and that the full release would be different, but I was wrong much to my disappointment. Despite blowing the recommended system requirements out of the water, I couldn't hold a stable 60fps despite my best efforts to change every setting that i could find, and this is *after* the PC performance adjustments they announced on social media. The game does run "better" than the open beta on my hardware, but the range pf 58-60fps with random fps drops still isn't good enough for the game to properly function as expected. Unfortunately for a fighting game, not being able to hold the 60fps framerate is a death sentence across the board when these games are so timing centric and responsiveness is paramount. The online experience suffers greatly from this, as the net-code will target the "true game state" of the player experiencing performance problems, creating one-sided connection issues for the player that can hold 60fps with no drops. I cannot recommend this game in good faith, and strongly recommend waiting until they fix this. Some people are saying "It runs fine for me, must be your PC bro!" but after my experience with Monster Hunter Wilds, I sincerely doubt the legitimacy of these statements. This statement also doesn't explain my experience with other games with higher hardware requirements, or even ARKsys's other fighting games. If you would like to test your luck to find out if your god's favorite person, Steam's refund policy is an incredible insurance policy to find out if you experience these issues on your hardware. Just make sure to thoroughly test within the time-limit of 2 hours. As for me, this killed a lot of excitement of a game I was looking forward to, and I am currently debating whether or not buy the PS5 version, or skip entirely on both platforms. So to summarize, the horrible technical issues with performance blocked me from enjoying the "game" part of the video game, despite my hardware objectively, being more than capable of running this game.
