Gray Zone Warfare: 60 Days Later 

That stuttering is insane, I thought something was wrong on my end just watching the video.

Not gonna lie I spent 100+ on this and played for about a week. It’s practically still unplayable due to performance, super human NPCs, bugs, lack of content etc. - generally a cool concept for a game in my opinion still.. hope it gets the attention it needs!

The main issue with this game for me was performance. I can run Tarkov at ultra settings, but have to run this game at lowest settings with FSR on ultra performance and frame generation on? Unreal.

Already 120hrs in this game. Hrs fly by whenever I start this game, end up doing multiple quests, teaming of with strangers or stuck in some bush because a whole squad of enemies players dropped in. So far a really good experience. Needs work for sure, but the core mechanics and experience are solid

Stuttering is also based on location, some areas in getting 80+ frames, but you get to tiger bay and ….

This is why you don't talk shit until you walk the walk. Waiting for them to fix the 1 tap bush AI personally. Still waiting.

6:41 wtf are these noises bro you always do this lol

I've had such a good time on this game. The community has pulled me out of my shell, i had such a hard time talking to people due to anxiety. I feel so used to it now because grayzone pushes you to chat. Made 4 new friends, helped new players because i have so many keys and have maxed out vendors. I hope this game, doesn't just fail. It has so much potential.😊

Patch 2 now confirmed to drop tomorrow.

"In terms of like a report card report for Gray Zone Warfare 60 days in" *Cums* 6:34

Im a bit sad that after 2 months no significant updates have really come. There's been some small teases just over text but I'd really like more info on what's happening and what exactly the next big update will feature. (I don't consider patch 2 to really be significant as there honestly doesn't seem to be much difference or anything really *new*) Regardless, I love this game, it is a great foundation for a game that could be really awesome. It really needs some optimization and content though.

Squad a AA game with a very strong player base almost 10 years later

One issue I run into is that anytime there is a patch, hotfix, or you update GPU drivers the stuttering comes back. A little research indicates that this is due to the shaders recompiling, which some say can take up to an hour to fully cache. In my experience, it is usually about 15-20 minutes for the stuttering to go away. I'm not saying this to make an excuse for the devs (IMO this is a problem that should be fixed), but I found that loading into PvE and waiting for a bit usually solved the stuttering.

It looks like I woke up right on time.

This is why i don't buy games day one anymore. This game will maybe see some marginal improvements to performance but I doubt it will be enough to bring most of those players back in.

Good vid, good info to know. Looks like I’ll be waiting for the first major update or one that they really dig in and fix performance

It's because there's always something new to learn or a skill to work on. My favorites are games that have sort of short to long term goals that award in game unlocks. That's what keeps me around

I still have high hopes long-term as long as they dont significantly drop the ball and listen to the community.

Spent a whole bunch of time in it, but nothing keeping me there right now, unfortunately

There's nothing to do. PvP is nonexistant. Quests are locked behind keys you can never find. There's nothing to go do other than literally the quests.

Judging by the most recent reviews on Steam, it seems that the devs earned a lot on their initial hype and BSG ef-up to not care much about the game or their audience anymore.

GZ Surprisingly a very friendly community. The game is awesome give it time.

Performance is not my issue. There just no reason to play it over alternatives with the exception of for the graphics. Tarkov has a better mission/loot system and options, dayz is superior in every way but gunplay and graphics. To me this could be a perfect hybrid combo of my two favorite games. Dayz/tarkov. Just needs more loot, things to do and a ton of system overhauls. Has the potential and the ground work to be amazing.

bro at first I thought the stutters in your game was my internet causing your video to fuck up lmfao. Had no idea the games performance got that bad. Ill continue to keep an eye on the game and hopefully come back to play when they have their shit together a little more.

This is what happens when you push your half finished game out the door to capitalize on drama and hype.

Big fry, I just found your channel thru greed of man but I love watching your videos, they are super entertaining and not completely boring unlike other channels who do the same.

Anyone playing The First Descendant...? Hopefully the player base will remain strong for a while..

I KNEW IT!!! Every time a game is hyped....it sorely under delivers!

Time sure is flying by

I have a lot of hope for this. The developers are active and engage with the community. The more the community participates in tests, the more we provide, the better the devs do. This game has the potential to make a strong name for itself. I want to see that.

Your going way to easy on them BigFry.

I dunno if they have a texture buffering cache but if they added that in like warzone has it then it'd immensely decrease the stuttering and improve optimization issues you and many others were probably experiencing.

good news, whatever they did recently, after initial spawn and a helicopter ride, the stutters gone. Atleast on my system. AMD Drivers 24.6.1. Most players probably walked for now, title still in the libraries so may come back after another update and jump to (if ever) release from pre-release. A good one to keep tabs on... love the weapons and movement.

thats crazy, my build is a 7800xt and 12400k and i push 200fps in base and 120-160 most places, 100-120 in tiger bay and FN

I’m really enjoying the game a lot. Just started last week. I was having stuttering issues as well. Going into nvidia control panel and turning power settings to maximum performance and manually selecting my GPU for the game fixed all that for me. When you do that it, forces your computer to use your graphics card. Before that, my CPU was running at 85% and my GPU was at 20%. After, my CPU was at 60% and my GPU was at 80%. Just if anyone else is having the issue. Also, the new update apparently fixed FSR. That was also causing hitching for me. Switching to DLSS helped a lot as well. I have a Ryzen 7 and a 3050 getting a solid 70 frames all around.

The updates did not change anything about the performance or ruberbanding, therefore we will need to be patient for at least one year. ❤ I don't use DLSS and FG input latency is horrible; I got 70-80fps (4080-7800X3D).

2:39 I like how, you try to explain that to people on their crappy subreddit and they’re just completely ignorant of it

Squad is the only game that keeps me playing. Literally.

I play the game, the update they just dropped helped fix a bunch of issues and I feel the game is better. I have a 4080, 32g of ram, and a ryzen 5950x. I also have 2tb of ssd (not sure if this could also affect performance). I personally have been able to enjoy the game, big issues I see (at this exact moment, post the recent patch) are lack of content (they need more guns, gear, loot, ect.), a need for cheating reporting systems, and a general overhauling of the ai. Those big three things for me would turn this game into what I hoped Ghost Recon Breakpoint would have been.

I hope I can come back to this next year- even if it's a low player count- and this be a fun game with less issues

I bought this back around launch. Tried to play it one time but I was drunk and couldn't figure out what to do so I havent come back to it until watching this. Honestly, a little surprised. Performs pretty well on my rig. Was actually dare I say smooth. Minimal stutters. IDK what to tell ya. Tried to do the first quest. Got to the second checkpoint and got my PP slapped. I actually kind of like the gunplay. Still run into random bullet sponge enemies and that definitely breaks the immersion. But I can actually see myself coming back to this if I can find a decent squad to play with.

I play Everyday with a 4060 TI 16 gb at medium settings getting 60 FPS very consistently. Probably have stutter issues 20% of the time, I absolutely love this game and I hope it continues to improve and grow. Not sure why you were having so many issues.

The way the character holds the gun still looks so horrendous

I always ran into an issue where my character would spawn "Giving head" it was odd at first but I got used to it.

6:40 wtf was that XD

I have had zero issues with performance, even after patch two. I have settings for medium and I only see frame drops or rubber banding when I meet up with people outside the base. Even then it's not that bad. I can tell there's a difference in the game since the patch and I've enjoyed it much more.

4 days ago I played it for about 6 hours and it was smooth with no issues on my older system, but hardly could find more than two players to PVP with and our faction didn't even have 10players.

The game does have something and hope it gets better also for some lagging are you talking about for server in general or the the lag with FPS stuttering cause with my build with a 3070ti with Ryzen 7 5800x3d no OC but having my cpu undervolted like -25 or -30 to help with Temps and don’t lose any proformace and I do use a program called Lossless scaling on steam for like $5 or $7 and if you get the settings set up right you’ll fix a lot of the fps issues cause for me the game ram like shit was getting like maybe 90-100Fps at the highest but wasn’t always steady and low 40 or 50 but with this with the right settings I got it to stay at 165 at the highest and maybe the low like 120 so, doing this will help out with FPS and maybe stuttering and I use it with almost every game know and it feels great

i have a 3060 and ryzen 5 5600 and i get around 40-60 fps but no stutters like that. You have a 40 series card, did you turn on frame gen? my friend with a similar pc as yours and he gets over 100fps and no stutters.

set the game to TSR instead of FSR, DLSS or XeSS and you'll get stable frames without GPU crashes (they'll be low frames, 60 or so), this has worked since day 1.

ive logged 174 hours as of rn, yeah this last week has been rough, and i don't have a system near on your level, but i tend to play joint ops, and damble in PVP when i need more storage space(usually just go rambo outside sawmill and don't care about losing random crap). It seems when a server is at a high pop, that's when i had the most issues, if i got lucky and managed to find a server that had at least just me online for my PMC, smooth as butter, no random crashes etc etc.. however on populated servers its much more prevalent, and most of the time, my game crashes when I'm attempting to recover my body. Wish it would just be free loot for who ever, but majority of the time that kit is just fancy pixels where ever the AI decided to turn on the aimbot. i was just going to get on and have youtube pop open whenever i turn my PC on so I'm very early for my BFtv video this time around. I have an 3070ti, 5800x3d and 32 gigs of ram. and have to play with fov all the way down, no DLSS or else. but other than that i can keep everything on medium with the usual corpse run being where ill get the game crashing/dc'd. that part is hella annoying.

I completed the whole game + played 50 more hours. 200 hours. Everything fine. Sometimes rubberbanding but it's like once or twice an hour. I have stable 80 FPS (without framegen) on 6700XT. All quests worked without a problem. This lagging is a server problem. GZW have problems with servers but all you need to do is just switch server. 200 hours of fun costed me 80 bucks. In my opinion it was worth it.

Tried out last month >I literally wasn't able to move forward with a fucking 4060 without drops to 1 fps and whole textures falling apart >On low or high it killed my pc, only was able to make it run on medium >Without dlss or dlaa i was barely able to make it to the menu, with fsr it was running less shity and really pixelated (like playing lethal company) until we got dropped from the heli and my game went to 140p 20 fps This game looks like battlefield 3 and 2 kid at best and runs like nothing else before because this was the first game I wasn't able to play at all. fastest 30 euro back.

Taking another poop again, little late to the video but keep up the content!

Just a grain of salt depending on what they mean by 900 000 copies. Did they remove the refunds? I did refund the game for now because it's not there yet. I might come back but they have to do better for the price.

Those frames is crazy work

Just announced the next patch releasing tomorrow - hoping for server and AI fixes for sure. I also played last night and a lot of the servers were especially laggy. I tried a few servers and eventually found a good one with minimal issues. Agree on your complaints but I still have a ton of fun playing. It's basically all I have played for 2 months. Running an RTX4090, 64GB DDR5 RAM and 14900k at 7680x2160 and getting 80 frames regularly with drops to ~70 on helos and when ADS with optics.

2500 players in the game right now, on JULY 4th. A US holiday. I haven't played since June 21 and won't bother again until I can stop donating my gear to one-shot AI in newbie zones...

I’ve been playing the game regularly and the rubber banding has been relatively gone, the game will run your CPU over your GPU at the current moment so definitely check that out in your task manager

I’m not remotely worried yet. As long as they’re not dropping new content before fixing the foundational issues like performance, it means their priorities are in order and it’ll get there one day, provided they’re motivated. People see the potential in this and they’ll come back, whenever it’s time.

It looks like you are using FSR Frame Gen, which is broken with Nvidia cards. I have a 4080, and DLSS Frame Gen is smooth as butter. I haven't played the new patch yet, but besides being revived and dropped under the map, things are running smooth. Many friends play this, with 1080ti, 3060, 3080, AMD 6650, 7800, all running pretty well, given the lack on major optimization for lower end cards, you can maintain 60fps on medium settings.

Will there be an update to this now that their most recent patch claims to fix most of the issues you covered in this video? Ill be tuned in and cheers either way brother!!

I would say it's definitely different experience per person. Me and my friends play live servers, and haven't tried the test servers yet. For the most part it runs smooth. We occasion have issues, but we either switch servers, adjust settings, or make sure we have updated drivers and stuff. Sometimes mine will have issues with everyone else playing fine, and others ill be fine and someone else might have an issue. Overall though, we have a pretty smooth time. From my teammate with a 2080ti, to my 4090. A few times it was un playable but come back the next day and everything is working again. Rubberbanding still occasionally but not as much as it used to. We usually bounce between US central and east servers and it runs fine :/

The Twisted Path has made a series of big changes after the release, so it can be roasted as well! Did you try it again?

Performance is main issue. If that is solid ill try it again. My 3060 with a ryzen 5 should run it fine but its unplayable for me

Bigfry I recommend lowering your graphics and low/medium to get better frames...There are hundreds of youtube videos talking about how to fix crashing, performance issues, etc. Your probably getting low frames because it looks like you have your graphics on the max it can go. Most people who play this game (Even people with beast of computers like yours) still play this game with the lowest possible graphics you can put in the game. Personally I would rather have better performance then a good looking game. I have a Geforce RTX 2060 with an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU and I get around 45-50 frames at a given time... I run the game with every graphic on the lowest it can go... Is the game playable--YES, Would I like to get the same performance with better graphics--Also YES. But unfortunatly you have to sacrifice one thing for the other. My recomendation to you Bigfry is to play around with your graphics settings and figure out what works best for you getting great frames with still having decent graphics...:)

Did you play around with the graphic settings to try and get better performance. Just switching to performance and DLSS made a big difference for me

I really wanna get it but for the price and the performance issues it’s not worth it I bought Ready or not for like 30$ and I’ve had 0 performance issues with the game Ik they are quite different in scale but I still think price wise this game is on hold for me until it starts running better

Im running a RTX2070 and an AMD 3800XT, I run Medium Settings, my avg FPS is maybe 48fps in the game. It stutters a little here and there, the rubber banding isnt horrible, it's way better then say PUBG 5 years ago. I have roughly 88 hours in the game now and Im loving it. I think your expectations of a Pre-Alpha game are too high. If it was unplayable, I wouldn't be playing it so much, I'd go back to Helldivers or Hunt Showdown...

Mark on twitter literally said during the first week of launch that there is was a problem of "High resolution texture pack enabled by default" and 60 days later THEY STILL HAVENT LET US DISABLE IT! This performance is so bad and they aren't even focusing or saying anything like what the heck

Gameplay feels like Groundbranch.

I enjoy gray zone warfare. Normally stuttering and such isn't bad at all for me. My biggest worry is how they will keep players engaged long-term. What about the gun fixes, too and if alot of people are having performance issues that's not cool.

I didn't have time to play last week but I enjoyed the game more than other tactical shooters

played for well over 100 hrs solo and in a group. It has issues but by and large the gameplay is fine. There are some video issues here and there. My frame rate is fine. My group play a lot of early access games and this by far is well fleshed out. Still needs improvements but again it is EARLY ACCESS

I had the opposite experience, first week was unplayable and now it runs great for me. 3070Ti 32gb Ddr5 RAM Ryzen 7 5700x

You gotta retry it now. It’s most definitely playable. In the last 2 weeks since the update happen I was actually able to play about 100 hours of this game. Sure it lags once in awhile. Mainly going to tiger bay but it’s definitely 50x better. I played in the public test servers and it was shit. But when it actually released it’s been the best the games been

OMG. I though MWIII/Warzone servers were BAD!!! This makes those servers look pristine!

i am a little surprised by your experience. i dont have the issue you had, and we have essentially the same rig. i did have stutters on a game. i backe dout and rejoined. also, validating the game files works. im not mad because i have 200+ hours in it so far. now, i did pay for all of the DLC gear, but i am enjoying the game

Game runs pretty smooth on 7800x3d and 4080s with 32gb of ram. Sticks around 90fps in heavily populated areas in 1440p

people still get tricked by good graphics lol

i play in US-WEST servers, i have an i9-12900ks, 32gigs of ram, and a 4070 TI, 5120x1440 240hz ultrawide, and im getting around 97-107fps map wide (Max Settings). no server issues other the occasional server hiccup for a split second every half hour or so. i hit the 80 hour mark earlier today, ive unlocked everything other than lab rat level 3 so there isnt much desire to keep doing quests and i cant help my friends because their computers struggle to keep the game afloat. as of right now, im waiting for them to release a Day-Night cycle and all the promised attachments along with that update. i really enjoy this game, cant wait to see what the devs do with it. kinda sucks my friends cant run it though, otherwise id still be playing helping them with quests

I love it man love the reports need one on tarkov

I've had so many issues trying to play this game I otherwise enjoy in PVE mode. Horrific frame stutters during gameplay, especially firefights and a bug where aiming down sights CRASHED THE GAME! Unplayable, but I want to play!

Funny enough it ran pretty well for me on a 2080. I was running 30-60 fps but I never had studders or anything major. Really enjoyed the 20 hrs I put into it but Arma reforger allows me to do the same thing without the bullshit.

Stutters and crashes have mostly been minor for me and not very often. Ive genuinely enjoyed my time in this game so far and cant wait to see what they add in the future. ive also heard it helps to turn the anti aliasing to anything but FSR

They really shouldn’t of launched into EA. Should’ve done more beta and alpha testing.

4070 laptop 12900K 32GB RAM, no FPS drops (stable 60 lock), minimal stutter, occasional visual bugs (fuzzy distant trees), no quest item glitches, no crashes or disconnects. Playing both PvP and PvE servers, Europe East, 500Mbps internet speed with 24 ping.

Is that stutter from the game?? I thought it was youtube screwing up at first. How can you play it like this?? edit: ahh you mention it 2 minutes later ha. Crazy performance issues

Haven't watched the video yet at the time of posting this comment, but ive been keeping an eye on their updates and god they are slow I know they are testing it in beta servers and what not but things like the slow infil/exfil are seemingly back burnered and it think this mentality is gonna kill the game. that 200 hotfixes the first week i feel like was already in the works pre launch and they just wanted kudo points. Not to mention all this focus on slow bug fixes with no meaningful updates to any content like guns, areas, mission oof.

Played a lot the first week and got it to average around 100- 140fps but the random disconnects was what pushed me away. But please do another video like this in another month

This game rocks, I was fully addicted to it when it came out, the only real reason I’ve stopped playing is because once you reach tier3 traders it kind of feels like you run out of things to do, PVP is exhilarating but there isn’t enough loot variety or scarcity yet to keep you playing, and PVE well, I think the AI is the roughest part of the game… that being said once they iron out the AI and gameplay loop in terms of reasons to keep grinding I fully expect to come back and spend a lot of time in this game, EDIT: I finished my time w the game before this recent patch breaking the game, yeah no shot I’d play right now, but everything else I said I stand by

I was playing the game at 20fps sometimes but still enjoyed it. The thing that made me stop playing was the people and lack of quality of life changes. Still no in game squad chat?

I must be one of the lucky ones. On day one it was a stuttery disaster and I decided to wait it out a month or two but the past week I came back and it's been a mostly smooth and enjoyable gameplay experience. Maybe it's my server/region that is lucky. I'm hooked on the game now

Most of the time with extream stutters its means the server is about to shit itself, jump server and it should be smoother. That is what I have noticed. there is also some settings that you need to have enabled n such

I was an avid played of Shadowgun Legends, the mobile game that was their main moneymaker before they abandoned and sold all their mobile games to DECA. I know none of you give a shit about mobile games, but you should know how out of their depth Madfinger Games is here. SGL was a Destiny clone on mobile, which I thought was cool as hell. Their dungeons and missions were actually well designed and challenging. There was plenty of content to keep you playing at the beginning. But things started falling apart when they kept delaying the release of the third planet/final act of the campaign (never got released after 7 years). Then I noticed that even though they were releasing new weapons and events consistently, the majority of new weapons were reskins of existing ones. Worse yet, even the legendary (highest tier) weapons, which generally were new gun models, used all the same reload animations. All ARs reloaded the same. All Burst Rifles reloaded the same. All snipers reloaded the same, etc. This never changed. The shallowness of the game’s engine became apparent. You would think that’s just a mobile thing but no. Shadowgun Deadzone, their previous multiplayer online mobile shooter, did not have this problem. Eventually even events became scarce and soon they were just recycling the same events year round. This is currently all that DECA is doing with the game. The game never got the final act of the campaign and it never got any new dungeons except for two a couple months after release, when it looked like they were still trying. The game also still does not have proper controller support after Apple changed their controller implementation on iOS in 2019. I don’t have any hope for this game to turn around because I know how this studio is. They couldn’t fix game breaking bugs for months on end. They seemed incapable of doing anything within the engine they developed, almost as if they lost all the talent that knew what to do with it. When I saw the trailer for this I just laughed. I knew they were out of their depth then and I’m not surprised it has turned out like this.

It’s currently fine/has been fixed with stuttering. I know my driver update for nvidia wasn’t good, went back to older version and is fine now.

I think a lot of us are waiting for big patches that will adress issues like perfomance (stutters and crashes especially), rubberbanding, strange and inconsistant ai behavior, stuff like "Couldn't save your current progress, womp womp you've lost 10k gear because servers are bad". Personally I'm waiting for more raw perfomace improvments, I've played 50 hr and had a blast, but now my quests are in locations like Tiger Bay and my fps there is atrocious. I sincerely hope that this game will get through all of these issues and become much better than right now.

The game honestly runs fine for me. Ive got a 3080 and 5900x. play in 1440 with 130-140 fps. medium settings. Stutters are few and far between.

I really want this game to succeed. My fingers are crossed, I hope they know alot of us will return if they can tighten it up in the next year.

The stuttering goes away the second time you go back to an area. It’s an issues with their resource caching, just play another time or two and it’ll self right.