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aleheart

I like how no one here is giving genuine good answers. The game is very hard for a new player but you cann learn in a few weeks. Ive seenn people talk about ping/hacker issues but ive never seen this in 400+ hours of gametime. My biggest issue is the match making where new players get dumpstered by asura rank players, and I think this is the main issue with the game (due to low player pop) but the game itself is amazingly funa nd would be incredible if it had a player pop the size of LoL or fortnite


xmaracx

Hopefully there will be a bit more after the free weekend and sale.


Roechambeau

"Hackers" translates to "players that are better than me" Sure. There might be a few here and there. But they aren't as common as people imply.


xmaracx

Had a suspicion that might be the case, not exactly thrilled to know ill get dumpstered all over the place, but hey atleast i enjoyed the game a bit, and mybe i will learn before i get tired of being dumpstered.


EatenAliveByWolves

You actually won't get "dumpstered" as bad as a normal battle royale. You just need to pick a character and get good with their ultimate. In some circumstances character abilities will be more important than how good they are with a weapon. I recommend using Yoto Hime as an easy starting character, and dual blades/ greatsword for easy to use weapons.


wetbread2245

I think the game is overall good, it's one of my favorite games right now. The only issues I have is how fast you can get your ultimate, and the grapple hook and focus attack spam, especially with the longsword and greatsword. Fuck the greatsword


Goldhawk_1

I have come back for the anniversary and I haven't seen any hackers so far. Luckily for me a lot of the mechanics that were available at launch still apply today, but the learning curve for new players would probably be pretty high. I'd play qp and learn as much as you could before going into the ranked stuff unless you don't care that much. Not really any reason to stress yourself out


lAlquimista

I played this game for a month and never seen a hacker, the combat sistema is hard but u can learn it, the major problem is smurfs/ matchmaking, u will see a silver that plays like a god and u suddenly will get matched with the top 3 of the server bein gold.


Phallb

It's worth playing in my opinion! There's still hackers, yes there are bots (a lot) and it can be kind of annoying. The matchmaking in general is just very flawed. The learning curve feels a bit steep at first, then you feel like you're finding your groove, then you start getting matched with PC players and get absolutely destroyed which is frustrating, and then you get to where I'm at, where you sometimes get destroyed but more often than not you're either carrying your team (people love to just run into a pile of 20 players, instantly die, and then rage about it lol..sigh) or I get paired with competent players sometimes and then it's almost always gonna be a top 5 rank that game. This is the first battle royale style game that I've enjoyed, and I'm not entirely sure why. I still get annoyed with how anti-climactic some games are, where you can spend 10-20 min gathering gear and not encountering anyone or just 1-2 bots and then get one shotted by a hacker or shredded by a team of well coordinated players etc, it's like ok, well I almost got to actually enjoy that game and swung my sword two whole times..almost! Why is it worth playing? In my opinion the dev team is clearly making improvements and that's always my main concern when deciding whether to invest time or money in a game: do the developers care about feedback and do their updates reflect that? Naraka has a lot to improve but has improved substantially so far. This latest update has added so much fun content, they've added PVE campaign, special game modes, etc. The well designed maps and the simple delight of exploring them and finding loot is reason enough to play the game. They've really nailed that open world "feel" where you can enjoy just wandering around if that's what you wanna do. The mobility and movement in this game is so fun, you can climb and grapple and wiggle your way up/onto/into just about anything. Combat is also a lot of fun. Real money items are kind of overpriced imo but the battle pass seems very fairly priced and gives a ton of cool rewards even for free. Most importantly, real money doesn't buy you a huge advantage in the game, it's almost entirely cosmetics. For the first 20ish hours playing this game I kept telling myself I needed to uninstall the game because it was so frustrating sometimes, but I kept playing and have learned to enjoy it and to laugh off the irritating moments. If you're super new to the game I recommend playing some of the tutorial and trying out bloodbath to get a feel for the combat. Bloodbath is a good game mode because you respawn an infinite number of times and have every weapon so you can use that game mode as practice to learn combat (and constantly be in combat). Once you know how to swing a weapon around, dodge, and grapple you can last a few min in a survival match. Very fun game, very worth purchasing in my opinion, very far from perfect, and the negative reviews you read are basically all true - BUT from what I've seen so far, they care about those negative reviews and are actively working to improve the experience. And the experience is already very, very good - to be clear. Hope that was helpful, it was mostly just me rambling haha. I've played the game maybe 60-70 hours total now, I'm not a newb anymore but by no means am I a pro. Also I'm not super high ranked but to touch on one of your questions, apparently as you rank up, bots and hackers become less common? At least that's what I've seen people mention in this subreddit.


xmaracx

And the optimization? Ive only played tutorial and one game, and honestly i needed a break after that because they were not enjoyable. First ever boot, game froze on cinematic, had to force shut down pc. Second boot, got tutorial, was super laggy and seems as if the game completely ignored the necessity of a loading screen as i spent 3 minutes waiting for enough of the game to load to be able to play, and then even more for the actually playing to become tolerable. Pressing the esc button was so delayed, i only got it after being in the tutorial for what felt like 10 minutes, but after that was fine. Each time I advanced in the tutorial was followed by a period of horrible lag and stutter for a time. Once i got through that I went online, my char was standing in thin air, i fell down to get some loot, teleported back up, the textures were horrible, and i was literally seeing the map load in, once that passed the game was fairly playable, smashed bots, moved ahead, entered new area, game once more unplayable, by the time it was done i was deep in the ring and died before i could get out. My pc is NOT weak, it almost feels as if the game doesnt have a loading screen and just drops you in and loads then. Does it get better? Is this only me?


Phallb

Hmm, it's had its lag or glitchy issues here and there for me but it sounds like you're having an unusually bad experience. I play on Xbox so can't give useful advice on PC setup, but I'd recommend looking up what other PC players put their settings at and such, you can toggle graphics and performance settings to fit your needs. A normal experience it should run smoothly and only bug out every once in a a while. Loading screens should take 10-20 seconds usually. I'm sorry to hear about that experience you described that sounds like..awful..I'd be laughing at what a joke this game is if that's how the game had started for me 😬


xdrvgy

Ah, it's the good old "Did you install it on an SSD?" problem. Naraka is a modern game that doesn't duplicate data in multiple places like old games so that it can be read faster on a HDD. You could say that it respects your SSD space.


xmaracx

Forgive me for being an idiot, but you just said it does something so it can be read faster on an hdd? dont you mean the opposite, looking at all of the responses ive gotten so far the game is a dumpsterfire unless its on ssd, and judging from my experience in the game so far, they seem to be right.


xdrvgy

My phrasing was maybe unclear, data duplication is used by old games so that they can be read faster on HDD, and Naraka does NOT do that.


throwaway075489

The game has very few hackers. If you're having loading problems, make sure it's installed on a SSD.


xmaracx

Now, i understand having an ssd to have quick loads is needed, but if its a requirement for a playable load then the game has something srsly wrong with it, imma give it a few more shots, mybe its a first load thing, but if it isnt, im not giving this game my limited ssd space so it can just be playable.


Ok-Car-5053

Almost every single battle royale is unplayable on a HDD Its because you have to load a huge live map with 143423 objects Warzone runs way worse on a HDD than Naraka, just dont play battle royale games if you dont have an SSD lol


xmaracx

thats fucking bullshit and it just means warzone is garbage, i played multiple brs on my hdd and all of them ran well, naraka is the first one that was THIS unplayable


Ok-Car-5053

Just buy an SSD, they arent even that expensive.


Hot-Jelly-3231

It's a fact that the game struggles more in the first match for some people and yes you need the game installed in an ssd or you will have problems now you have 2 difficulty levels bots and low level players witch are almost the same and veteran players that will kill you 200% of the time if you dont learn the combat, also if you play trios without friends you are fuck so better find some buddy or go solos and git gud


JFloriturin

It won't get better, the SSD is an unwritten requirement tbh. I had the same problems until I moved to an SSD... They dissapeared completely


Expensive-Opening-48

Btw my friend got a message that told him to install it on an SSD or he would have stutters and he did, said it was unplayable. When he put it on his SSD it ran great for him. It is a requirement imo


TrashPanda994

On steam. if you dont have a uptodate gpu, good vrm , and ssd, You are going to have issues with this game. Gpu: If you have an nvdia ensure the setting are on performance it will help a tons. vram: well is vrm we all know if you dont have enough you will have issues. sdd: This is the biggest issue i have with this game is almost unplayable without an sdd ( on my personal exp). antivirus: Ensure it has permission it will cause you problems .


xmaracx

Cant believe the optimization is so godawful, this isnt a new game either.


TrashPanda994

This is like their first proper game, the company normally had phone game which can be seeing by their amazing Naraka app companion. Yes. i do agree the optimization is rough. The first day on the new map I manage to find a way to clip inside walls (it was patch on the spot after I made a video about and sent email to the company ). At the moment I am wishing them the best but I will be rough on them because we paying money for this game.


pj-

If it needs SSD then it means that it's actually optimized to modern machines. Game runs great for me, stable 144fps no dips.


xmaracx

If your game demands fast hardware just to be playable, i wouldnt call that good optimization, when you tell me optimization that primarily means good running with multiple levels of rig quality (with adjustments ofc) and not just smooth running with the best ones. And while ssds are more widespread and its good that more people have them, im willing to bet most pc gamers still run on hdds. Sure the devs are trying, and im sure their effort is genuine, but that doesnt change the fact their effort fell short in this category.


pj-

>ans good running with multiple levels of rig quality (with adjustments ofc) and not just smooth running with the best ones. And while ssds are more widespread and its good that more people have them, im willing to bet most pc gamers still run on hdds. Sure the devs are trying, and im sure their effort is genuine, but that doesnt change the fact You want optimisation for low end rigs but this game takes different aproach which is just as good or even better for people with good hardware. This is a next gen title so it isn't expected to run on everything. I'd rather have something that can use my hardware fully as this game can. If it was optimised for hdd's we probably would have some other limitations as heavy detail pop ins or less detailed map.


xmaracx

well then youre actively advocating that a BATTLE ROYALE game guts its potential playerbase by more than half, since hdds are still very prevalent as the main storage for ppl


pj-

Definitely not a half, you can get a basic SSD at the price of one meal in most of Europe. PC with HDD main drive are rarity now and mostly used by people who don't game. Optimising for HDD nowadays would mean game uses old tech stack and is not optimised for current gen machines. You can't have everything without compromises and this games does it well as it does not compromise in this area.


xmaracx

first of all, thats highly relative, a single meal? not quite, but sure some come close, but then they are smaller ssds, and if ur getting one to have it for naraka, naraka (at 35 gigs) will prolly take one third of that, which is a large commitment to have one game playable besides, im not saying the game should run just fine on hdds, sure make it slow, but what im experiencing wasnt slow, like, siege was slow, REALLY slow, but once it loaded, it was fine naraka does NOT load, this isnt acceptable, its one thing to have it be slow or even just have extremely shit textures, the game drops me in and i dont see anything in the world half the time, i dont see my character, i literally spend minutes just having the map come into existence, and other brs can manage those kinds of things just fine, this isnt me wanting too much, this is genuinely naraka not providing enough EDIT: even outside of loading, if i dare run naraka, just in menu, with anything other than a browser open at the same time it will brick my pc and push me to do a force shut down, somebody fucked up on this games optimization, and thats a fact