Released at the beginning of 2018, Forged Battalion is a real-time strategy game available on Steam Early Access. The game has been published by Team 17, however, it has been developed by Petroglyph Games.
Forged Battalion has appealed to the seasoned real-time strategy gamers bigtime, making them reminisce the era of the ‘90s which comprised of top-notch strategy games such as Total Annihilation, Age of Empires and Command and Conquer. At the same time, Forged Battalion adds some new flavor into this genre of games with its improved gameplay and exciting features.
The game, still in its Early Access stage, has won a strong fan base that consists of passionate gamers. Over the past couple of months, however, these players have been facing issues such as lags while playing the game, and there have been even occurrences where the computer has frozen due to the game. These issues have been occurring very frequently and have thus turned into a nonstop nuisance for the players.
The developers have responded to these numerous complaints by stating that the game is still in its Early Access stage, which means that development is still underway and improvements are being made in the light of the feedback they receive from around the globe. Petroglyph Games have also released a patch in an attempt to immediately fix the bugs. The patch has even addressed technical gameplay issues such as weapon rebalancing.
Solutions to Lags and Freezes during Gameplay
Even though there are certain in-built defects with the gameplay which the developers are constantly working upon, it might be possible that the issues you are facing may be due to problems at your own end. In case you are facing problems with graphics while playing Forged Battalion, it is recommended that you should first visit the official website of the manufacturing company of the Graphics Card installed in your computer and download the latest version of the driver. The process of updating the video card has a direct effect on the frame rate of the game. Forged Battalion offers a more captivating and interesting experience when you have more frames per second enabled and updating the drivers of the video card ensures this improved frame rate. Not only does the updated video card improve the frame rate of the game but also reduces the chances of experiencing lags significantly. You should also monitor the CPU utilization prior to starting a session of Forged Battalion. You can check this by visiting the Task Manager of your computer. In case you notice some programs consuming a significant percentage of the system resources, you should turn off those programs before launching Forged Battalion.
Be advised that special care should be taken to ensure that you only download the final version of a video card and not use the beta version. This is due to fact that beta versions are prone to be affected by bugs which might go on to compound your gaming miseries.
Proper installation should also be ensured once you have downloaded Forged Battalion. Failure to do so might result in the game not starting at all. A necessary consideration while installing Forged Battalion is that you should disable the anti-virus software of your computer before you launch the installer wizard. This is due to the fact that there are certain installation files which might be considered malicious by the anti-virus software and it will thus interfere with the installation. Also, make sure that there is sufficient free disk space on the hard drive where you intend to install Forged Battalion on.
You can also improve your gameplay experience by altering the in-house settings of Forged Battalion. The first and foremost change in the settings that you should make is disabling the anti-aliasing option. Furthermore, you should lower the overall graphics settings of the game, this will ensure an experience free of lags and freezes without significantly affecting the quality of the gameplay.