Shortly before the launch of Marvels Spider-Man 2 on PC, many gamers questioned why neither Sony nor Insomniac made an effort to promote the release with a proper marketing campaign, with theories ranging from the underwhelming performance of God of War Ragnark on PC discouraging the studios to spend additional money on ads to Sony testing whether their ports even need promotion in the first place. Now that the game is out, the community has identified another potential reason for the lack of fanfare and, unfortunately for Spider-Man fans, its not a pleasant one.InsomniacDescribed concisely as good game horrible port by many, Marvels Spider-Man 2 launched on Steam to Mixed reviews, with only 56% of players giving it a positive rating. Much like the 2023 port of The Last of Us, the bulk of negative feedback revolves around the games abysmal optimization and a variety of bugs and glitches that, for some, make it borderline unplayable even on high-end hardware.Some of the performance issues highlighted by the community include frequent crashes, framerate drops, lighting and shadows bugs, audio bugs, missing textures, broken DLSS, the game freezing, T-posing characters, characters becoming naked in cutscenes, character models missing limbs, heads, and whole bodies, GPU overheating, long loading times, visual glitches, and the game mixing up the square and triangle prompts in QTEs, just to name a few. Given the extent of these problems, the general advice among gamers is to hold off on purchasing until Nixxes Software, the studio responsible for the port, ships a patch or two to address the issues.As for the games performance (the other kind), Marvels Spider-Man 2 has peaked at just over 18,000 concurrent users on Steam, which might still go higher after all, its been less than 24 hours since the launch, and weve got the weekend ahead of us but given the track record of Sonys PC ports, even if it does, it will likely see a sharp decline in the coming weeks, compounded by the technical issues at launch.Speaking of Sony, yesterday, the company announced its plans to remove one of the most frustrating and widely lambasted features of its PC ports the mandatory PSN requirement from some of its games, including Marvels Spider-Man 2. However, an interesting caveat remains: one of the main reasons gamers dislike PSN region-locking still persists, and even without mandatory account linking, Marvels Spider-Man 2 seemingly remains unavailable for purchase in 136 countries and territories, according to SteamDB.Dont forget to join our80 Level Talent platformand ournew Discord server, follow us onInstagram,Twitter,LinkedIn,Telegram,TikTok, andThreads, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post Marvels Spider-Man 2s PC Version Gets Mixed Reviews on Steam Over Technical Problems appeared first on CG SHARES.