Electronic Arts/Koei Tecmo Games announced on February 22, “Wild Hearts]Delivered a correction patch for the PC version. This patch fixes some bugs and improves performance.
“Wild Hearts” is a hunting action game developed by Koei Tecmo Games studio ω-Force. The stage is the fantastically expressed medieval Japan, Azuma no Kuni. In this land, beasts that have evolved uniquely through fusion with nature have expanded their power, and now most of them are about to be swallowed by the beast’s realm. In order to restore the old life to Azuma’s country, the main character throws himself into battle against giant beasts while making full use of the ancient technology “Karakuri”. This work supports cooperative play with up to three people, and cross-platform play is also possible.
On February 22nd, a bug fix patch was delivered for the PC version of this work. Fixed an issue where unintended caps were set on certain CPUs according to the patch notes. It also fixes an audio issue that caused some sounds to be delayed or not played. It is said that the sound not playing problem was causing a load on the player’s CPU, and a series of fixes have improved overall performance. There are also other bug fixes and adjustments, such as an issue where save data may be corrupted on the save/load screen.
In this work, advance play is carried out for subscription service EA Play / EA Play Pro subscribers. At that time, PC version players reported that the frame rate was insufficient and that the screen stuttered. In response to this, an official thread was opened on the Electronic Arts forum to solicit user feedback. At the same time, EA’s community manager posted a notice on the overseas bulletin board Reddit. This is the form in which this patch was prepared after such correspondence.
The community manager reported the situation on Reddit for this patch distribution as well. On the other hand, in the same thread, there are reports that no improvement is seen even after applying the patch, and it seems that performance issues still remain depending on the environment. The person in charge has told each report that it will be shared with the development team.
According to the community manager’s Reddit report, the aforementioned audio issues and save/load screen issues will be fixed for PS5/Xbox Series X|S next week. We will continue to explore and resolve performance issues in future updates.
“Wild Hearts” was launched as a new hunting action game by EA and Koei Tecmo (ω-Force).On the review aggregation site MetacriticPC versionhas a metascore of 78,PS5 versionhas earned a certain evaluation with a metascore of 79. In particular, the battle system that makes full use of karakuri is said to bring a slightly different gameplay to the original hunting action game, and it has been well received.
On the other hand, in the Steam user review, at the time of writing this article, it has a “pros and cons” status with a favorable rate of 46% out of about 4580 reviews. There are some reviews that point out the lack of optimization. There were many requests to improve the performance of the PC version, and the development team was aware of such problems from the beginning of the play and was working on countermeasures (related article). Future responses will also be a focus.
『wild heartsis available for PC (Steam/Epic Games Store/EA App)/PS5/Xbox Series X|S.
