Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's DLC Has Performance Issues, Surprising No One

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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet definitely isn't the most polished game that Game Freak has ever produced. In fact, it was the avalanche of performance issues in the base game which caused the title to become the lowest-rated mainline Pokemon game, despite it having one of the best stories in the series. Game Freak has been dishing out the occasional patch to steady the ship, but it seems as though it hasn't learnt its lesson with the recently released Teal Mask DLC.

Surprising absolutely no one, players who have jumped into the Land of Kitakami are running into some performance issues, with pretty nasty frame rate drops being the most prevalent. Check out the first impressions of the Pokemon DLC on Twitter, and it won't be long before you find someone sharing a strange clip of themselves running into a frame rate drop or graphical glitch.

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One of the worst examples comes from popular Pokemon YouTuber Lewtwo, who shares a couple of instances where the frame rate drops to around 15fps whilst riding around on Koraidon. The first instance has Lewtwo running up to a small pond, while the game seemingly struggles to deal with the textures. Lewtwo's game even crashed for a few seconds before going back to the previously atrocious frame rate.

Another content creator, this time ScottFalco, shared a clip of a glitch that Scarlet and Violet early adopters will be all too familiar with. They share a clip of them jumping next to a random building before another player nearby quickly grows in size and turns into a horrible abomination that would have Slender Man quaking in his boots. What makes this glitch more bizarre is that it was very common in the base game on launch