Developed and Published by: Arc System Works
Date of Release: June 5, 2018
Price: $49.99
Back when it was announced, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle brought the hype meter to stratospheric levels. It was an amazing concept, take three of the major fighting series from Arc System Works' stable, and add in a healthy dose of RWBY. You got your peanut butter in my chocolate! OMFG what could possibly go wrong? Apparently abaolutely nothing if you purchase the console version which is at this moment getting rave reviews. However...
Well here we are! BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle is at last out for the PC! Huzzah! Unfortunately the PC port is a steaming pile. First and foremost among it's myriad of problems is the simple fact that if you are rocking an Nvidia GPU the game will automatically lock your framerate to half of your monitor's refresh rate, resulting in a slideshow for most people. So far at the time of writing, after three patches this still has not been fixed. The game also completely ignores aspect ratio, so if you have a 16:10 monitor you get a stretched image with as of right now there is no option to compensate for. On top of that the netcode is completely broken, with massive lag even on a perfectly fast internet connection.
It's fairly sad then that the state of PC ports these days seems to be to just crap out a broken unfinished mess as a full-priced "finished" release, and then expect the customers to basically bug test the game. It's been seen so many times lately, and it has become quite a disturbing trend. Here's hoping that people will start voting with their wallets, and companies take notice. Can I recommend the concept of BBCTB? Yes I can! Can I recommend the PC port in its current state? HELL NO. Avoid like the plague, and go play some Centralfiction for now.
