@carlosroxWow, I did not expect that at all. I mean, Panic Button have been ambitious and everything, but considering Bethesda is publishing...
Downloading the patch now! Can't wait to see if they've fixed my audio problems.
EDIT: Well, damn! They seem to have done one hell of a job with this patch! I should probably wait for the official patch notes, but as far as I can tell
- The game loads quicker from the home menu than it did before.
- The audio problems I had, primarily with the glory kills, are gone. Now my only problem is that my TV speakers can't handle all the glorious bass, but everything coming out of the game seems to sound perfect now. Gonna have to hook my old amp up to the TV again, I suppose.
- The game seems to run more smoothly. Played the first level, had no framerate drops. Went to Argent Energy Tower since that was the first place I had major drops in. Encountered the two first summoners and didn't notice any issues. Went into the first mass battle and only noticed a couple of hiccups. Went into the last mass battle, where everything used to go to shit for me before, and things were stable. Sub 30 fps framerate at that point, but stable. I can deal with that, considering that was the worst part of the game for me, performance wise. I mean, it's like a minute of sub 30, tops. I can deal with that.
Not sure if this is true or not, but if I'm to hazard a guess they've gotten the variable resolution to do more work now in order to keep the framerate stable. Seemed to notice the detail on the enemies and weapons popping in more noticeable now, during the busiest scenes, but on the flipside everything seemed to look sharper and run better during 'normal' gameplay. Gonna have to try the handheld mode next!
- Gyro controls. Amazing. That precision, man!
Well, time to play this game some more and adjust the score in my collection! It's gonna be a nine-point-something now! Had I been a reviewer I wouldn't adjust my score, but for my own personal collection's review scores I'd say this has earned itself a big raise now.
EDIT 2: Hahaha, played the same sections in handheld mode, and it ran almost identically!
I did have a few framerate drops during the penultimate mass fight in the tower, but not one single framerate drop during the summoner battle, and the level climax ran at the same steady (albeit low) framerate as in docked mode.