Naughty Dog to Address Issues With The Last of Us Part I PC Port With Patches - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2023 / 4,410 Views

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog released the PC port of The Last of Us Part I on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Players have been complaining with technical issues and it has over 3,000 reviews that are "Mostly Negative" on Steam.

Naughty Dog has responded to complaints on Twitter and says the team is working on fixing the issues with updates and patches.

"The Last of Us Part I PC players: we've heard your concerns, and our team is actively investigating multiple issues you've reported," reads the tweet from Naughty Dog.

"We will continue to update you, but our team is prioritizing updates and will address issues in upcoming patches."

The Last of Us Part I PC players: we've heard your concerns, and our team is actively investigating multiple issues you've reported.

We will continue to update you, but our team is prioritizing updates and will address issues in upcoming patches.
— Naughty Dog (@Naughty_Dog) March 28, 2023

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18 Comments

Qwark (on 29 March 2023)

They should have let Nixxes worked on this instead. Other PlayStation ports outside of God of War are quite bad as well though, from a technical pov.

gtotheunit91 Qwark (on 29 March 2023)

Nixxes handled both Spider-Man ports, and they seem to have done a great job. I'm guessing they're currently working on a bigger port atm. Ghost of Tsushima perhaps.

God of War was a flawless PC port! Hopefully that same studio is currently working on porting Ragnarök to PC.

mjk45 (on 28 March 2023)

Sounds like it was rushed to gain traction from the TV series.

VAMatt (on 28 March 2023)

Naughty dog isn't used to complaints.

mjk45 VAMatt (on 28 March 2023)

Wonder who did the port ?

gtotheunit91 mjk45 (on 28 March 2023)

Co-development between ND and Iron Galaxy.

Kakadu18 gtotheunit91 (on 29 March 2023)

Both usually do a great job in the technical department. Iron Galaxy helped with Metroid Prime Remastered for example.
So that makes it especially disappointing.

gtotheunit91 Kakadu18 (on 29 March 2023)

Iron Galaxy has a very mixed record of PC ports. Arkham Knight being their most notorious. They ported the Uncharted collection back in October, and it was okay, but still needed a lot of post-launch work. But this port is almost up there with Arkham Knight to be their worst port yet.

But tbf to Iron Galaxy, Warner Bros forced Arkham Knight out knowing how bad of a state the game was in. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony wanted to capitalize on the success of the show in this instance.

VAMatt gtotheunit91 (on 29 March 2023)

Yeah, I think it is very likely that they wanted to launch while the show is still top of mind. Sony isn't used to having to worry about technical issues with their games. This may serve as a wake up call to them in that regard.

2zosteven (on 28 March 2023)

another game not ready!

Chazore (on 29 March 2023)

Nixxes has a really good track record with their PC ports, whilst iron galaxy has the bad track record.

Why on earth would you cheap out on one of your biggest IP's like this?.

mjk45 Chazore (on 29 March 2023)

Most likely a combination of Nixxes having a full workload and ND having previously worked with Iron Galaxy on porting the Uncharted Collection .

Chazore mjk45 (on 31 March 2023)

It's just so weird, because IG definitely has a better history with their console versions, but a bad rap with their PC ports, and Sony could have just delayed this until Nixxes was made available.

mjk45 Chazore (on 31 March 2023)

The pressure point would have been getting it out to take advantage of the popularity of the TV series.

Chazore mjk45 (on 31 March 2023)

They could have released it during the window of the show, or even when it was about to end, yet they decided to release the game after the show ended it's run.

I feel like this was just poorly timed.

mjk45 Chazore (on 01 April 2023)

Well that obviously was their intent, but then they delayed its initial release, they must have thought the extra month was enough time to fix things while still being timely enough to gain traction from the show but it ended up biting them on the ass.