Arrowhead Studios CEO Shams Jorjani has told players on Discord that "performance optimization will take months of work to achieve more significant improvements" in Submarine Diaries 2.The newly launched version 4.1.0 update is a step in the right direction, containing "more than 200 bug fixes" and dozens of optimizations, but Arrowhead Studios has always stressed that not all problems can be solved with a patch or 60 days.
Because of this, Jorjani confirmed that the studio "has more patches to come," and that Arrowhead Studios won't be able to return to their desired "new normal" until those patches are released.This most likely means that they will not be able to launch new content for the time being - Jorjani has made it clear that War Bonds will not be launched in October because they "choose to focus on improving the quality of the game first".
Players on the PC side are still reporting performance issues such as delays and crashes, and Giorgiani admitted that crashes are "deep problems that are still being resolved."In addition to significantly optimizing performance, Arrowhead Studios also plans to reduce the file size of the PC game.
Giorgiani said that the 4.1.0 update has reduced the file size of the PC game by "9GB," but "there won't be any big changes until Arrowhead Games finds a way to deal with mechanical hard drives."The studio is exploring the possibility of removing mechanical hard drive support, but for now this is only an option and not a firm plan.
Although this has resulted in delays in new content, Arrowhead Studios is still making the right move by choosing to optimize the performance of Deadpool 2 through more patches.Fortunately, Arrowhead's next game won't be using the old graphics engine of Submariner 2, which accumulated a lot of "serious technical debt" and made the PC game almost impossible to run properly.
The 4.1.0 update was the first step in fixing performance issues, but unfortunately it didn't bring back a large number of players.As shown on SteamDB, the game's peak number of players was 62,498 on October 5, and had dropped to 33,057 by October 23.Players may return to Submarine 2 when new content is released, but it is important that when players return, the game needs to be in the best shape so that they will stay, or at least not have a bad experience.
Arrowhead Studios has not yet confirmed what the postponed new content is, but it may be a large number of photon enemies mentioned in previous leaks and originally planned to be released at the end of this year.In addition, there have been previous reports that a super weapon will be added, its function is basically equivalent to the Death Star in "Star Wars", but it is still uncertain when this weapon will be launched, or even whether it will be launched.
