News Hogwarts Legacy - announced for 2021

Cacher · Sep 16, 2020

THIS LOOKS BETTER THAN FFXVI

NarohDethan · Sep 18, 2020

prudis said:

But she will still cash in, soooooo

Acidote · Sep 18, 2020

It was the best looking game of the show for me along with Dark Souls. I'm definitely picking it up, but not at 70-80€ or whatever they price it at, that's for sure.

Paul · Feb 9, 2023

Anyone playing this? I wonder if there is some fun to be had for me who never read the books (I grew up with Geralt of Rivia instead) and only seen two movies (and liked only one).

I do like open world RPGs, so maybe there is something to enjoy here.

LEANIJA · Feb 9, 2023

Paul said:
Anyone playing this? I wonder if there is some fun to be had for me who never read the books (I grew up with Geralt of Rivia instead) and only seen two movies (and liked only one).

I do like open world RPGs, so maybe there is something to enjoy here.

yes, five hours in, its an excellent game so far. Love exploring everything (spent like two hours just running around the castle finding secrets and whatnot) and the attention to detail is amazing. You might wanna wait a bit until they patch some of the kinks, I had some weird slowdowns/fps drops and some crashes that I think would point to memory leaks (similiar to the crashes I had with Horizon Zero Dawn, they would appear after a while, as if the game loads in too much and eventually it gets too much. But if you have 32GB of RAM, it might be fine.

I havent read the books and barely watched the films but it is very enjoyable so far – and aye, I love open world RPGs as well. I did hear it gets somewhat more tedious later, so thats also something to keep in mind. But as I said, so far its pretty fantastic.

Some screenshots – settings are on low/medium mostly (with FSR upscaling). it IS a demanding game.

Prodigy · Feb 10, 2023

Paul said:
Anyone playing this? I wonder if there is some fun to be had for me who never read the books (I grew up with Geralt of Rivia instead) and only seen two movies (and liked only one).

I do like open world RPGs, so maybe there is something to enjoy here.

Yes, playing it. You don't need to have read the books to enjoy it I believe. Great open world, lots of quests, new gameplay/combat are always opening up the more you play. Just a good open world rpg.

Dandy · Feb 10, 2023

I'm having a lot of fun with it, now that I somewhat alleviated the performance issues I was having. The game ran fine during the tutorial level, but as soon as I got to Hogwarts the FPS dropped so badly that it was basically unplayable. It would sort itself out, and then after 2 minutes it would be chugging again.

I don't know what I did that fixed it, as I tried a lot of things - turning off ray tracing and vsync, updating DLSS to the newest version, new Nvidia drivers, and then finally disabling control flow guard in Windows(this one was the one that seemed to have the biggest impact). Now the game MOSTLY runs decently, though occasionally it chugs still.

I have a 3070, a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X and 32GB so it should be running better at High.

Li Kao · Feb 10, 2023

This does not bode well for my 2060 Super.

LEANIJA · Feb 10, 2023

Li Kao said:
This does not bode well for my 2060 Super.

I suggest you wait and see, maybe check what others with the same specs report. I have a 3060 Laptop card (paired with a AMD Ryzen 5 5600H and 16GB RAM). The 2060 Super should be faster than my card.
I think a lot of people are running into RAM-related problems. And what Dandy pointed out, the Windows Control Flow Guard, I saw people mention, as well. But since Im playing on Linux, I cant try that

So I hope they will patch it to run better.

xinek · Feb 10, 2023

I'm really hoping for a performance patch, as most of my PC is 5 years old aside from the video card. By that time, maybe it will have a decent sale.

fantomena · Feb 11, 2023

I caved in and got myself a copy of it, I really shouldn't since I don't have the time, but the little I managed to play so far was really good.

LEANIJA · Feb 14, 2023

So I installed the game on my old(er) Windows (10) PC, which has a 1070 Ti (I forgot which CPU, but I built it in ...2017? ...it also has 16GB RAM), and it runs....just fine there!
Unfortunately on my 3060 Laptop it continues to have problems, with frequent slowdowns and crashes, so it might be a driver issue? Linux NVIDIA drivers are not exactly the best; and my best guess is that Valve can (and does) fix Proton for AMD-based systems first and foremost. A bit of a shame, but it good to know I can play it like this without problems. This might also soothe some people who feared it might run like shit on their systems.... it might not.

But otherwise, the game continues to be great. I played for around 25 hours now and keep learning spells and discovering stuff (including just now getting my broom to fly around - which is fund, of course!)

LEANIJA · Feb 15, 2023

The Skyrim Together team is working on a multiplayer mod:

HogWarp, multiplayer mod for Hogwarts Legacy, early access available to Patreons. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tiltedphoques Discord: https://discord.gg/3uGzdhYfNB

Gamall Wednesday Ida · Feb 15, 2023

Performance-wise, on my 3070 + 5900x + nvme, it runs fine-ish until it decides to slow to a crawl. And I mean, 5 - 15 fps. It does that very regularly. Something wonky with loading, I think. (I put everything on Ultra except ray-tracing)

The same occurs on both Linux and Windows, though it's more tolerable on windows so that's where I play it. The performance tax for Proton seems at about 20+% in general, and particularly intense during the slowdowns.

The game is quite good; lots of attention to detail and nice organic setpieces. The room of requirements is really well done. There are still main mechanics that I haven't unlocked, but it looks like a lot of thought went into most of the systems.

However, it's not really an RPG, imo. Not in the Baldur's Gate / NWN / .... sense. You get few choices, and they don't matter, generally. You can't really project a consistent personality through your character.

I'm sure there are several endings or something, so some choices matter, but that does not suffice to make it an RPG.

It's a good open world action-adventure game. So far.

LEANIJA · Feb 16, 2023

Gamall Wednesday Ida that is an apt description of the game, yep. action-adventure with RPG elements. you get some traits you can pick with talent points but its not a huge talent tree or anything. I unlocked this when I was already level 20+ because I ignored the main quest for a good while and instead just explored the open world for hours (also a lot of fun to do

)

its strange that you have the same slowing-to-a-crawl problem on Windows too (although its more like 15-20 for me; 3060/Linux). Soooo why does it run so much better on a 1070Ti then, I wonder. Its weird.

Li Kao · Feb 16, 2023

Did you people see a difference with the recent patch ? I heard the perf are worse now ?

LEANIJA · Feb 16, 2023

Li Kao said:
Did you people see a difference with the recent patch ? I heard the perf are worse now ?

I personally didnt see a difference, no (played yesterday on my PC/1070Ti, no noticeable difference. didnt play on the Laptop/3060 to test there)
looking through the steam forums, i saw plenty of people saying it runs great, and plenty that say it runs bad, its one of those unpredictable games, I think.

Prodigy · Feb 16, 2023

Yeah this wasn't performing well on my PC (my cpu sucks), so bought it on PS5 which has ended up running better at 30fps than on my PC.
So far really enjoying it, just unlocked skill system and did the broom flying class. will now start doing more side missions as I felt incomplete without flying being available.

Gamall Wednesday Ida · Feb 16, 2023

LEANIJA said:
its strange that you have the same slowing-to-a-crawl problem on Windows too (although its more like 15-20 for me; 3060/Linux).

To be clear it's about 15-20 on windows, but the drops are much more violent on Linux, sometimes as low as 5 fps. (same hardware).

There's obviously some big optimisation problem underneath all this, and Linux is hit harder when the manure hits the rotating device because of the Proton overhead.

I haven't tried lowering my settings (I'm on ultra everything except for ray-tracing, DLSS Quality).

It may simply run better on your 1070Ti because you use lower settings?

On the plus side I have had a single crash, on Linux, leaving the room of requirements.

Re: talents: same, I was high level when I unlocked them. There is no respec, and you can't unlock everything in a playthrough, which is refreshingly old-school.

Unfortunately the enemies scale in level with you, which is less old-school and a system I loathe, as it removes most of the point of having "levels" in the first place.

It is probably for the best that I lack the time to write a full rant about that, today

Li Kao said:
Did you people see a difference with the recent patch ? I heard the perf are worse now ?

What patch? I see nothing:

Hogwarts Legacy - Steam News Hub

Updates, events, and news from the developers of Hogwarts Legacy.

store.steampowered.com

Unfortunately I'm quite busy at the moment, so no gaming whatsoever before the weekend (and I have a pile of terrible papers to grade. yay).
I hope that by the time I come back to that game, there will be a proper perf patch; it really really needs it.

Li Kao · Feb 16, 2023

This patch.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hogwarts-legacy-february-patch-notes/

Gamall Wednesday Ida · Feb 18, 2023

New patch includes memory leak fix:

https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes (17th feb.)

I've yet to test whether it changes anything wrt performance issues..

edit: a very short test sufficed to produce a slowdown in Hogsmeade, and then a crash while loading a previous save (on linux). It's quite possible there are improvements; I went back to a zone in the Forbidden Forest that was murder before, and seems to load well now.

LEANIJA · Feb 21, 2023

I still need to try that patch out on my Laptop (Linux, 3060), but it ran just fine on the Deck earlier without any problems; and also on Windows, same as before.

Meanwhile, I continue to enjoy the game a great deal

Gamall Wednesday Ida · Mar 8, 2023

New patch:

https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes (8th of march)

Tested quickly on Linux: frametime graph in Hogsmeade still looks like a saw, between 8 and 60ms. It feels terrible.

I'm not really playing anymore because of the choppy performance, and because the level scaling is really really bad and there is an excess of "collect 85 x" copy-paste quests that become very old after a bit.

The combat abilities, once the enemies are turned into terminators by the level scaling, would be a much better fit in a NWN-style "pause-and-select" system. In real time, the need to juggle 4 sets of 4 cooldowns that cannot be individually keybound makes things terribly awkward. And if you don't use combos and rely solely on damage spells, killing anything takes forever.

I still got 33h out of it, many of them quite enjoyable, which is a lot for a modern AAA game that I never even heard of until it was out.

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