The honor of the first post-release Steamchart is mine 🫡

Like a rite of passage. Welcome to the pile, Tokon.

The DOOD in shambles, how will he defend playing the game to his favorite website?

So yeah, the PC port isn't fixed. Marvel Tokon is Arcsys' first Unreal Engine 5 game IIRC, and it shows. While they mostly had good UE4 PC ports with all their previous games such as Strive, Granblue or DBFZ, they clearly have problems with Tokon.

I'm gonna try to explain it to people who are not tech literate at all. What is a stutter/micro stutter? To put it simply, there's software you can use that displays a frametime graph whenever you play games. That graph shows you how smoothly your game is running. Ideally, for locked 60fps games, you want your frametime graph to look like that. The flat line indicates that your game is running smoothly. Enters Tokon, and this is what the graph looks like in this game while just standing still. Other examples from other players. You can clearly see the spikes, and each one of them corresponds to a stutter in game.

You may be wondering what that looks like while playing? Here's a good example on video. Basically, look at the traffic lights (or any other static background element) while Cap is going from side to side. You will notice these little skips that correspond to stutters that happen at a regular interval. Now, some players are admittedly more sensitive to stutters than others, however these aren't particularly small and they affect everybody. You can say "fine on my end" all you want but this is the reality of the PC port.

But that's not all. You may think this only affects you, but no. Every single stutter corresponds to dropped frames, and dropped frames equal rollback issues. This is a HUGE reason why the game feels like shit to play online. Everybody on PC is dropping frames no matter what PC they have, and it affects the online play.

Again, I can't stress this enough. You could be running a 5090 with a 9800X3D at the lowest settings and it'll still happen. No, doing the full shader warming step doesn't solve this issue, it's completely unrelated. It's a problem that Arcsys have to fix on their side, you can't do anything about it. You could use your own framerate limiter, such as RTSS, Nvidia and others to display a flat frametime graph. However, it doesn't actually solve the issue. Do the same test of running from side to side while looking at static background elements and you'll notice and the stutters are still there.

But hey, at least the multi-layers of DRM and anti-cheat managed to delay datamining and mods for ~1 week?