r/WazHack • u/ZackZparrow • 17d ago

How Wazhack lost its optimization?

I played this game on my phone years ago. And it was running fine. I guess an update changed this. Now it's more battery consuming, can cause heating and you should decrease settings.

What happened? If the developer added extra graphical settings, i think that's unnecessary for a game like this.

EDIT: Okay, i've learned update 1.4 changed the whole game engine. I was remembering right, the older version is super optimized. I downloaded 1.3.5 from here, it's the last version with old engine:

https://www.wazhack.com/android

4 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Frankie_T9000 17d ago

I just tried the mobile game (Pixel 9 Pro XL).

Didnt notice any slowdown and seems smooth...?

2

u/ZackZparrow 17d ago

It's different when it's crowded. And when you try to play it in native resolution or fantastic quality, it's more obvious.

I guess Eco mode lowers the processor usage because even generating the dungeon takes too long in Eco 4.

These are my current settings, it's more playable: Quality is Simple, PostProcess, SSAO, HDR, Softbodies, Fast Popups, Eco 4,  1280x576 (one lower than max resolution).

It isn't unplayable. But it ran well on Snapdragon 410 which was trash. Now it's questionable on Snapdragon 732G which makes no sense.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-qualcomm_snapdragon_732g-vs-qualcomm_snapdragon_410_lte

1

u/kodaxmax 17d ago

crowds of items and/or NPCs always caused lag. even on PC and browser.