Stellar Blade Suffers From High Input Lag, Developer Recommends Enabling Game Mode On TVs

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Shift Up's upcoming action adventure game, Stellar Blade, suffers from a high amount of input lag.

[Sonic1881]

I wonder would they have to delay the game to fix that?

[Cacabunga]

This would have happened many years ago.. nowadays devs are allowed to release games not finished

[Rynxie]

Don't worry, it will also suffer from being a crappy game. People who bought it will also suffer for being thirsty for waifus.

[shammgod]

Demo was great. I immediately preordered digital deluxe and a physical copy. Cant wait!

[SCW1982]

This is the Lies of P of 2024, nothing about this will be a crappy game. It plays awesome.

[ravens52]

If you use the word "waifu", your probably one of the people your talking about lol.

[CrimsonWing69]

What do you have against attractive female designs? Does it hurt your feelings about who you’re in a relationship with?

Like, I’ll never understand how an ugly female portrayal nobody mentions “Waifu,” but when it’s something attractive it’s like such a problem for them.

You’d think ugly female portrayals would be more offensive, but nope. Nobody bats an eye. Suddenly, it’s an attractive design and you have Waifu this and Waifu that like it’s some terrible thing.

People are weird as f*ck. Like the only “controversy” behind this game is they made an attractive female and for some reason we have Cardi B singing WAP on stage in more revealing clothes simulating sexual acts on stage, but that’s ok and brave! We have celebrities on the red carpet exposing their butt cheeks and nipples and it’s such an amazing designed dress. You have a game character that’s attractive and suddenly everyone’s a f*cking Waifu loser for appreciating it… this world needs to give me a break with this sh*t.

I miss the good ol’ days when nobody made a stink about any of this. The only reason I can see someone getting offended by this is due to low self-esteem or you’re a prude, otherwise who cares?

[Charlieboy333]

@ Rynxie As opposed to you who walks around with a Baywatch babe on each arm right? You are drowning in hot ladies over there.....your thirst is quenched!

Not!!!!

[Charlieboy333]

@ Crimson "I miss the good ol’ days when nobody made a stink about any of this" Yeah, it all started to go downhill in this world when they gave the mental patients a voice and people ( just as mental ) actually took note of there opinions.

Might as well ask a serial killer what he thinks about human rights. Or ask a cannibal his stance on veganism. Yet here we are......literally having to deal with the warped and hypocritical
opinions of a small group of crazies with the sane people worried they will offend them ( not me, they can all fuck off ).

[Rols]

Stop being a whiny little SJW b@#ch!

[VariantAEC]

Waifus? This is a Korean game. Also the demo was good.

[clevernickname]

Delayed keyboard and mouse input on the dev's workstations.

[GoodGuy09]

Ouch, for a game where it's high action and timing is key.

[BLow]

How was the demo? Did you play it?

[Pyrofire95]

It's pretty cool. The way the game teaches you new abilities is spaced out nicely so it's not all thrown at you at once and meanwhile you're getting all this cool setup for the story and setting. I do notice how long it takes for an attack to start after you hit the button and hope that's fixed. Movement does feel a little stiff and that might be because of the delay as well. Aside from that it looks like it'll be a fun game and a bit more of a Souls-like than I thought it'd be but I like those so that's fine by me.

[ravens52]

I had zero problems with the demo on my portal. She doesn't cancel out of a move to block and it takes a sec to get into blocking stance. I thought thats the way it was designed but maybe not.

[VariantAEC]

I didn't feel any lag. I did feel like High-Fi Rush was lagging but only when the circle appeared on screen and then it became obvious that something wasn't right. Level 2 has a on rails segment that requires pressing "X" at a specific time so Chai pulls up away from a red crate... no matter what the "X" button did not do anything at that specific point. I just had to dodge every other crate and get hit by all the red crates. Of course you can not adjust the latency in the options menu except from the title menu... go figure. I was about to readjust it before I managed to avoid all the non-red crates. Plenty of other segments where the circles appear and when they overlap my input registers just fine. I didn't notice any latency issues with the Stellar Blade Demo.

[Barlos]

Didn't notice any lag at all in the demo

[Babadook7]

Me neither. I was pretty impressed with the gameplay. But if it is there and gets fixed that would be even better.

[dumahim]

Yeah, even with HDR and visual mode, it seemed fine. Maybe the timing window gets smaller later in the game or something. What I played seemed plenty of time to react for me, even without game mode on.

[CobraKai]

I had no clue either. I’m not playing on game mode on my TV and didn’t notice

[Einhander1972]

"Stellar Blade Suffers From High Input Lag"

This is factually untrue, the developer was telling them exactly what the problem was which was the setting on their TV presumably.

Anyone can play the demo themselves and see that this is not true.

[bloop]

I have an LG CX with game mode turned on and noticed considerable lag. It took me about half an hour of playing to adjust to it. I wouldn't say it's game breaking, but it should be a lot better and hopefully they can get that response time down with a few patches.

[bloop]

Eh......... Sure Einhander 🤨🤷🏼‍♂️ What a bizarre response. I'm not really sure how that correlates to what I said there, but anyway. I died once on my playthrough fighting the boss on top of the parking lot, and for the record, I thought the demo was fantastic and I hope it does great numbers sales wise. I did experience noticeable input lag though, which I'm sure the devs could improve on, but you just go ahead and stick your fingers in your ears there 🤨

[Huey_My_D_Long]

I would just ignore children like Einhander. Unfortunately responses like his are just way too common nowadays

[Babadook7]

I played the demo again just to test for myself. I have a C9 with game mode on and filmed the response time in slow mo. The claim in the article seems legit actually; I saw from 10 to 16 extra frames before a reaction to the attack button. I didn't notice it before hand, and it's not a big deal to me.

[porkChop]

The demo is an older build though. Just because the demo doesn't have input lag doesn't mean the final game doesn't either.

[Einhander1972]

We're all playing the same demo, including the person who made the video...

Seriously what a ridiculous statement.

You're so determined to damage the sales of the game you imply that somehow an issue that doesn't exist in the demo is going to exist in the final product.. and you say it seriously...

I can't even believe the amount of misinformation that is constantly being spread, like here we have a developer saying it isn't true, Yet here you are essentially calling the developer a liar based on one no name persons claim on youtube. People have been playing the demo and no one was talking about this problem before the media started spreading this fake story, and anyone can play the demo themselves and see it's not true.

[porkChop]

I'm not trying to damage anything, calm the fuck down. I thought the actual game was out already because everyone has been talking about it. You're so determined to defend some game from randos on the internet that you'll go on some dumb tirade. It's not that serious. Go outside and breath some fresh air ffs.

[Pyrofire95]

I played the demo on my tv which has very low latency, I've played lots of games there, I know how it feels. There is 100% a pretty long time between you pressing a button and Eve performing an action.

[--Onilink--]

Claiming something is factually incorrect while providing 0 facts to the contrary…why am I not surprised by this kind of comment

Its literal testing and video recording on the topic…its hard not to call that anything BUT factual

Also, TVs without game mode (which you dont actually know if they had on or not), have about 90ms on latency, this was 240+ (plus a known UE issue that developers need to correct on their end).

Not everyone is affected by input lag (just look at how many people prefer to play at 30fps), but its a factual statement to report that the game has higher than average input lag. There is nothing wrong with calling out potential issues, especially before release, so they can then try to fix it sooner

[Michiel1989]

fps has nothing to do with input lag.

[--Onilink--]

@Michiel

Yes it does… its literally linked to the render time.

A lower FPS means higher frametime, 33ms at 30fps (in avg of course)

If someone is measuring click to photon latency of 100ms at 30fps, then you know 33ms of those 100 are directly tied to the render time and then work out where the other 67 are from.

If you measure those same 100ms at 120fps, then its only 6ms of render time and you have 90+ ms on latency to account for from other sources

Knowing the average FPS is essential to discussing input latency because each Performance mode would already have an inherent amount of latency involved just by its render time

[TreMillz]

The game doesn't suffer input lag at all lol, also the dev told them why they were experiencing it, not a fix for it.

[Pyrofire95]

It does have a long delay between a button press and action starting on screen. I don't know why people are trying to gaslight the situation, I experienced it first hand. I know what kind of delay my TV has and I know how to use Gamemode. It's not even a subtle delay, I would guess nearly 150-200ms which is sluggish, especially in a soul-like or, what SB has been compared most to, Nier Automata. Nier is responsive AF.

[YourMommySpoils]

Team X trying their hardest with this bs to bring the game down.

[Michiel1989]

or some people are legit experiencing some issues, but hey we can always call that hating right so we can keep the illusion alive.

[YourMommySpoils]

No illusion. No hating. There is no input lag. On Balanced mode and I've challenged boss plenty of times without issues. So just as I said.

[Michiel1989]

exactly, YOU didn't experience any issues. Doesn't mean that others had the exact same experience. There's been so many games where plenty of people had issues one way or another and my experience was completely smooth, but I don't go saying that the game is flawless just because I was lucky enough to not run into issues.

[Elda]

I saw no problem with the demo. A day one physical purchase for me.

[SCW1982]

There is no input delay, this plays more like a Souls game with very precise inputs. This is not a hack and slash like Bayonetta or DMC. GIT GUD

[VariantAEC]

Stylistically, it is reminiscent of Bayonetta.

[Inverno]

If y'all just Google the issue you'll see plenty of posts talking about the input lag. Game isn't even out and people go full fanboy defense force jeez.

[MrWood]

I would have to say that the parry is very slow. The weapon swings outside of the parry seem fine though. The parry starts immediately but EVE is slow to bring the sword up at the height of the parry, so the timing is a little before it hits instead of right when the hit lands. I think this is what has people thinking that there is a delay.

[mastershredder]

Clearly tested wide and far. Stellar QA team.

[MetroidFREAK21]

I hope that's not on the retail disc build...

[DarXyde]

There's a bit there, which really isn't ideal for this kind of game.

It would be to their benefit to sort it out before launch. Still playing Rise of the Ronin and Rebirth. I think we can (and should) wait.

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

would this be an issue if you played on a monitor?

[VariantAEC]

Probably not, I play on the ancient 1080p SDR PS3 3D monitor from back in the day.

[Pyrofire95]

I play on a very low latency screen and yeah, there's a lot of delay from the button press to the attack starting. It could be a design choice but I think it doesn't feel ideal. I want the character to react as I do and not have to consider if I think there'll be an opening or enemy attack in the next 200 milliseconds.
Edit: I'm seeing a lot of gaslighting trying to happen. Seemingly from people who haven't played the Demo. There is, without a doubt a big delay between button press and Action on screen. I have played games on my TV before, I know how it feels. FF7Rebirth is very responsive which I just stopped playing to play SB. It's night and day. SB has input delay.
I never not have Gamemode turned on. This is not display lag, it's input lag or engine lag, not the Screen.

[Good-Smurf]

Really?
I played a bit of the demo and didn't notice much of an input lag at all let alone huge amount even on mode that prioritizes resolution at 30 fps.
And I didn't play the game with Game Mode On, my TV are pretty dimmed and flickery with Game Mode On.

[jwillj2k4]

Lag just makes the booty jiggle longer.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I did notice slight input delay while trying to cancel an attack to guard but I thought that was the way the devs designed the game. The demo sold me so I’ll be picking it up day one.

[VariantAEC]

Dodge instead. Pretty sure that's how I survived the boss at the top of the parking garage.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I use a bit of both. I parried the boss for an easy win. I’m a vet Souls player who’s more of the parrying type.

[KrillinShine]

It seems like it varies from person to person in how perceptive and sensitive people are to input lag, similar to frame rates.

I'm quite sensitive to both, and did notice a fair amount of input lag on a BenQ GL2580H - which is known to be a very low input lag monitor and I have no input lag on any other PS5 games. Hopefully it's ironed out in the full game.

[SoloGamer1]

i didnt experience that at all.. the demo is amazing.

[Notsofast]

People need to play the Demo overall; the gameplay is good, and for the souldboune fans anybody who played Eldin Ring should give it a chance for me it feels like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice combined with Devil May Cry In nier Automata Universe if you like a game with a challenge pick this up

[Blad3runner00]

How about you just fix the input lag? Stop releasing broken products
Not that I played the demo, as I don't like getting spoiled with games. Always want the first time to be a fresh experience.

Nevermind, just read the article. Seems like it was a TV issue.

[VariantAEC]

Totally a TV issue.

Spoiler alert below:

타키(위 배너에 있는 여성)는 지옥 다이빙 후 첫 1시간 만에 사망!
Just resist the urge to translate this and you won't be spoiled.