We've been receiving wide reports of crippled performance, freezing and CTDs. While we have kept optimization on our list of things we'd still like to improve on throughout EA, the issues being reported are beyond the scope of "bad optimization". We are tracking these issues as some sort of packaging/distribution level bug and we will be patching the game as soon as we find and repair the cause. We apologize to everyone who had an abysmal launch day so far, it's not the performance level we had stabilized pre-ship or we would not have shipped in this state. We hope you'll give us a chance to repair the current build and show you what we can do.
Thank You
Update 01/24
We have patched the FPS issue and are sending the patch for additional testing before uploading to Steam. We appreciate your patience. We are still tracking the cause of the CTD issues on start up. If your CTD occurs after the prologue, please try skipping the prologue with the ENTER key and see if that helps.
Update 01/28
Just checking in with everyone, we really appreciate the patience and support as we work on our first patch. Things are going quite well. We have managed to boost FPS quite a bit in testing, being a UE4 game it is going to be a challenge for older CPUs, but we'll give you as much optimizing as we can. Obviously it will be an ongoing process, but its our goal to optimize more with every build.
We're also adding a main menu scene that will allow players to change the game settings before running which should resolve many of the CTDs being reported.
This upcoming patch will be the planned Build 15 so it will include more than just patches for the Day 1 issues, including some additional questing, updated menus/UIs, additional settings, and more. We're aiming for a Tuesday 01/31 ship date for this patch/build but we'll continue to answer questions and update on the issues here.
Update 02/11
We are packaging and uploading the patch to Steamworks so you folks should have an update in your library very soon! ːsteamhappyː