It appears that the patch has fixed many of the issues, though a handful of recent Steam reviews complain that the frame dips still make this a jarring experience. We've got a patch that will be available in a few hours to improve performance, with a number of additional updates on the way. We're aware that some users are experiencing stuttering issues on the PC. 'We are working on further optimisations in the days ahead.' 'After updating, you may see temporary stuttering in the game menu the first time you launch the app,' Striking Distance wrote.

The studio released a patch to address the PC stuttering on Friday.

It should be noted that not all of these are over its performance-some just don't like the game itself. It causes such bad hitching that some have called the game unplayable, leading to a review bombing on Steam that has seen 45% of people give The Callisto Protocol a negative rating. In addition to being limited by single-core performance, the Unreal Engine 4-powered PC version suffers from major shader compilation stutter. Xbox and PC owners have not had such a smooth time. The best version of the game-the one without any significant performance issues-is on the PlayStation 5.

The Callisto Protocol has received several pretty good ( PC Gamer) and very good ( Eurogamer) scores, as well as some decidedly average ones ( GameSpot). The developers have now released a patch to address these issues, though this all feels depressingly familiar. Its reception from critics has generally been better than average, but that's not the case on Steam, where the PC version has been getting review bombed for its abysmal performance even on the most powerful machines. In brief: Many fans of Dead Space had been excited about the arrival of The Callisto Protocol, a spiritual successor to the horror series that first arrived in 2008.

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