Bandai Namco has fixed the infamous 15fps bug from the Gamescom 2025 demo. The Tarnished Edition runs at a stable 30fps and adds two brand-new classes.

Three developers who attended the closed-door tech demo describe a fully rebuilt lighting pipeline and a deliberate shift toward AI-assisted procedural generation.

Three builds tested, from $1,000 to $3,000, with the real trade-offs between VRAM, inference speed and framerate.

Forty hours in, a denser map than ever and a handling model that finally balances simulation with immediate fun.