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BioShock Remastered on PC is buggy, but it’s getting fixed

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BioShock! It’s one of the last generation’s best series of games (as long as you forget that BioShock Infinite wasn’t really all that good). It’s back, in a new remastered collection of the trio of games about cities, men and lighthouses.

The first one’s still best though (narratively!). It’s also the one that’s received the biggest makeover. The team at Blind Squirrel games has a done a decent job of making the game look better, using higher resolution textures and artwork – but there’s been nothing done, mechanically to make the game any better. And on PC, it’s a bit of a disappointment. The remaster may look nice, but it’s a straight up console port, missing the sorts of options PC gamers love to have in their games.

It’s also got a fair number of bugs, glitches and issues. If you’re one of a number of PC players re-entering Rapture only to be hit in the face with crushing disappointment, 2K wants you to know that they’re on the case.

Speaking on Steam, here’s what 2K’s said:

“Since the launch of BioShock and BioShock 2 Remastered, some players have been reporting stability issues, while others have asked for additional feature support. We hear you and we’re happy to report we’re addressing this feedback soon. Whether it’s your first time in Rapture, or you’re revisiting it again, we want your experience with the BioShock remasters to be as enjoyable as possible.”Here, specifically, is what they’ll be fixing first:

  • General Mouse Fixes, including better Mouse Smoothing, Sensitivity and Acceleration Options in BioShock;
  • Additional Speaker Mode Options in Audio Settings in BioShock;
  • Improved FoV Slider Options in BioShock, BioShock 2 and Minerva’s Den;
  • Support for 21:9 display ratios in BioShock, BioShock 2 and Minerva’s Den;
  • General stability improvement to reduce instances of game crashes.

Many of those issues can be fixed through tweaking ini settings, but nobody should ever have to do that sort of thing anymore.

Last Updated: September 20, 2016

49 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    September 20, 2016 at 08:41

    So it’s another “shove it out the door & fix it later” port. Everyone loves those. Also rather funny seeing as I don’t remember any of the originals being particularly buggy when I played them.

    Also, also, Bioshock Infinite was good. 😛

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    • Dungeon of JJ

      September 20, 2016 at 08:44

      That’s also what I thought.

      And yes, Bioshock Infinite was good. As someone who came from Bioshock 1 through to that, I don’t get the hate for it at all.

      Reply

    • Skyblue

      September 20, 2016 at 08:49

      Well they’ve upgraded my Steam versions for free so I decided to re-install and re-play then read about the mouse issues so haven’t started yet, good call. Bioshock Infinite had better combat than 1 and 2 but agree with Geoff about it having an inferior narrative.

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      • Dungeon of JJ

        September 20, 2016 at 08:51

        After reading the Bioshock book I must say I enjoyed Bioshock 1 more, but as a separate game I really can’t complain about Infinite. It was a cool story.

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        • Skyblue

          September 20, 2016 at 08:54

          I enjoyed it as well but didn’t think it was nearly as good as Bioshock 1 which in turn wasn’t as good as System Shock 2 ;-p

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 20, 2016 at 08:55

            Very few are as good as SS2. 😀

          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 08:57

            But Call of Duty has fish…that swim away from you.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 20, 2016 at 09:00

            LLLLook atttt you ffffishy fishyyy, a pathetic ccccreature of meat aaaand bbbbone, sssswimming awayyy fffrrom the sliggghtest danger.

          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 09:01

            XD
            The technology blows the mind.

          • Skyblue

            September 20, 2016 at 09:02

            Hehe

          • Original Heretic

            September 20, 2016 at 08:55

            I don’t even remember SS2 that well, I just remember the feeling of awesome I had while playing it.

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        September 20, 2016 at 08:53

        I absolutely loved the ending of Burial At Sea episode 2, that made it for me.

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    • Deceased

      September 20, 2016 at 09:31

      You’re mistaken my good sir… Bioshock Infinite was AWESOME!!! O.o

      Reply

  2. Original Heretic

    September 20, 2016 at 08:44

    What ever happened to the “Do it right from the start” mentality? And I’m not just talking about gaming.
    Yeah, I get that some bugs in games are only really noticed when you have millions of people playing after release, but man, the kind of bugs mentioned here should have been fixed before release.

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    • Dungeon of JJ

      September 20, 2016 at 08:46

      They don’t care about that anymore. The hype generates most of the sales, after that they don’t really care.

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      • Original Heretic

        September 20, 2016 at 08:52

        So, kinda like fast food workers? “Oh, look, this tomato that I’m putting on the burger looks rotten. Meh, the poor bastard biting into it won’t notice, these things taste like shit anyway.”

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        • Dungeon of JJ

          September 20, 2016 at 08:53

          Exactly. XD

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          • Original Heretic

            September 20, 2016 at 08:55

            “I’m lovin’ it!”

            ….is NOT what I’m thinking while I’m convinced I’m eating old rubber shoes.

        • Skyblue

          September 20, 2016 at 08:56

          Trick is to choose wisely, go to Anat or Subway instead. At least you can see what they’re putting in your food.

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          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 08:57

            I’ll eat any crap if I’m hungry. Wisdom goes out the window then.

          • Skyblue

            September 20, 2016 at 08:58

            Lol

          • Original Heretic

            September 20, 2016 at 08:58

            Or, ya know, make awesome food yourself.

          • Skyblue

            September 20, 2016 at 08:58

            That always works as well.

          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 08:59

            No, that doesn’t sound right.

          • Original Heretic

            September 20, 2016 at 09:01

            Ok, then do it like I do, and get your wife to make it. HA!

            Though that isn’t entirely accurate, ’cause when it comes to making awesome burgers, I top her in that department. Homemade all the way!

          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 09:03

            We’re both too lazy. But we’re freaking good at ordering pizza, I’ll tell you that.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 20, 2016 at 09:03

            And you have a pizza oven!

          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 09:05

            Well, this weekend we made pizza in the pizza oven Friday night…and then Saturday night we ordered pizza in. So we do make sure to maintain a balance at least. Whether it’s a balanced diet is still debatable though.

          • Original Heretic

            September 20, 2016 at 09:05

            Pizza has all the major food groups on it. You’re good, it’s good. everything is good.

          • Dungeon of JJ

            September 20, 2016 at 09:06

            Awww yisss

          • Original Heretic

            September 20, 2016 at 09:05

    • Archdruid Kromas

      September 20, 2016 at 08:58

      The internet happened. We can fix it later and just push it via a patch. Pretty much Steams fault.

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      • Skyblue

        September 20, 2016 at 08:59

        They started all the shit in the first place with Half Life 2 #neverforget

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      • Dungeon of JJ

        September 20, 2016 at 09:00

        Valve’s fault. To be precise 😛

        Reply

  3. Dungeon of JJ

    September 20, 2016 at 08:46

    What a surprise: a pc port that was done like shit.

    Reply

    • ??????? ????? ™

      September 20, 2016 at 10:06

      Water=wet

      Reply

  4. Deceased

    September 20, 2016 at 09:30

    I have a dream that my four little children will one day play games on the best system, where the games will not be poorly ported from a peasant-first dev cycle, but developed for the power of a PC.

    Horrible, terrible paraphrasing aside – has it not occurred to these console-first dev-shops that it’s much easier to downscale than to upscale?

    Let’s recognise that games are, in essence, software.
    Then consider the following:
    How can I first write a piece of software to run on a mobile device, then expect the same experience, when porting that exact same piece of software to a PC?
    It’s madness right?
    You’d of course have to put in more effort if you first write it for PC THEN only for the mobile, but you’ll just be shaving off of the features, so in essence you’ll be doing less “work”.

    And I KNOW this comparison is on par, because a console is to a PC the same as what a mobile is to a PC – inferior 😐

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    • miaau

      September 20, 2016 at 10:54

      I stopped reading at four little children. Two is a lot in my book. 4? My wife and I would never in a million years cope. Hats off to you.

      Also, if I had 4 kids, I think I would have to give up my beloved Sedans and go SUV or something.

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      • Deceased

        September 20, 2016 at 10:58

        O.o

        Wait, no, it’s from MLK’s “I have a dream” speech 🙁
        Do I sound like the kind of guy that would be allowed to have even 1 child?! 😐

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        • miaau

          September 20, 2016 at 11:00

          I am not sure. you seem very, very stable in your viewpoints. Your name is great for tax purposes “Deceased”, no middle or last name, at the top of every form helps too. Shows you have some savy with systems and how they work.

          You SEEM like an all-round decent person.

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          • Deceased

            September 20, 2016 at 11:21

            XD

            Achievement Unlocked: “Master of Blending” 😀

            Though – Jeez man – 4 kids O.o
            I’ve got games to buy with all that college / university funds man :O

          • miaau

            September 20, 2016 at 11:31

            That worries me a lot. I want the very best for my children, as all parents do.

            Still got about 16 years before university is an option, at normal age pacing.

            My wife’s student loan was massive, I would like my children to not have that yoke as they start working, if at all possible. Although, some of friends, with wealthy enough parents, refused a cent of money and insisted on paying for varsity themselves, so that it means something to them.

            Come on business, take off and fly, Daddy wants to retire young!

          • Deceased

            September 20, 2016 at 12:09

            Yeah – Student Loans are harsh 🙁
            Even harsher – it’s not getting any better :'(

            Though, I believe you when you say you don’t want your children to go through that man.
            I can’t imagine a caring, loving parent would WANT their child to go through:
            “Oh, you’ve just graduated and you’re earning around R3.5K p/m – here, stay in this unbelievably small flat for half of your salary, pay another R800 p/m on petrol/transport, pay your medical/retirement/cellphone/etc and have fun surviving on dry bread with maybe a little can of tuna for the rest of the month”.

            ( Unfortunately, this was out of my parents’ control, so I’ll never blame them 🙂 )

  5. Kerrits

    September 20, 2016 at 10:16

    Those mouse issues were present in Bioshock back in the day. I played for all of 5 minutes before looking for ways to fix the mouse issues. I can’t fathom how they didn’t fix it in the original already.

    Infinite was fine out the box, and I actually enjoyed it more than Bioshock 1. I liked the story more as well.

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  6. miaau

    September 20, 2016 at 10:56

    I am really, really touched by everyone’s concern for me here, to make sure I can play it. Thanks peoples, you are the best !

    Everyone, just relax. I understand it works fine on the Xbox One. So, thanks for your concern for me, but I can play it if I choose to. Which I do not now.

    Thanks again for all the concern, but, like I said, it is ok, I can play it if I want to.

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    • miaau

      September 20, 2016 at 10:58

      Crisis, that comment is a bit arrogant, yes? You really, really think all these people posting are posting here just out of concern that you cannot play it? What about the principle of the thing, realising a product to a market in a virtually unfinished state? Is that not almost like fraud, knowing-lingy releasing a poor product?

      Seriously dude, arrogance is just, well as such a high level I cannot even find words to comment on it.

      Reply

  7. Pariah ???

    September 20, 2016 at 11:05

    This really seems to be a theme with 2K.

    Reply

    • miaau

      September 20, 2016 at 11:10

      yes, it does seem to form a pattern

      Reply

  8. The Order of the Banana

    September 20, 2016 at 14:38

    Lol, PC gaming… the home of shoddy ports!

    Reply

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