It’s very much so affecting high end devices, and you should probably stop thinking otherwise If this is ever to be fixed. I’m on an iPhone 11 and had hitching issues today. The hitching doesn’t happen every game but the massive frame drops do, and they get worse upon encountering other players. I’ve seen my frames hover between 51-60 and drop to 35-40 for long periods of time as action intensifies, and for very brief but crucial moments, even dropping single digits?! I can only wish I were exaggerating here.
I play with low graphics/reduced 3D res/0 ping/~50% brightness/no other apps open/75% available storage, background app refresh/automatic updates/location services/notifications all off, and put my device in front of a fan to prevent overheating. Matter of fact, my entire squad plays on devices with the processing power & memory of an iPhone XR or BETTER, yet we’ve ALL been experiencing insane frame drops and occasional games with screen stutters (when stuttering does occur in a game, it tends to plague us persistently all game long). I’m the only of my friends who ever reports anything, but we take this game seriously and all monitor performance very closely. There’s more than an obvious degradation in performance vs. season X. Maybe the new map is too demanding, ie the running rivers? unnecessary animations like falling leaves? Whatever it is, the performance difference vs. season X is obscene.
Lower end devices probably have it much worse (I can’t even imagine), but there is DEFINITELY something wrong with performance platform-wide for mobile, regardless of device, and problems began in chapter 2. Optimization is taking way too long. People spent hundreds of $ upgrading to new devices for better game performance (all for what?), and epic is worried about fixing $5 cosmetics. The season is almost over- where are the priorities?
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