BioShock: The Collection Finally Received Its Important PC Patch

2K finally released an update for BioShock: The Collection on PC, addressing issues such as mouse acceleration, crashing at regular intervals, and mouse button mapping.

Thankfully however, 2K has now fulfilled its promises to release a BioShock: The Collection PC patch. Available now, the update features a large number of fixes for both BioShock and BioShock 2, such as an adjustable field of view (75 to 130), fixes for mouse button assignments 4 and 5, adjustable mouse icon size that will also scale with resolution, resolutions of 21:9 are now supported and the UI also supports two modes (stretch or centered) at these resolutions. Also, both games have received "miscellaneous bug fixes" as well.

Even though most players seem to be reporting a huge improvement in the game's performance, others say that certain issues such as mouse acceleration and the default settings problem (including difficulty settings resetting each time is closed) are still present. Additionally, frame rate drops are being reported, especially in combat, making BioShock: The Collection one more PC release to experience frame rate controversy beside Mafia 3 PC.

The patch is definitely just a first step in making the game to run as it should on PC and 2K does encourage players to keep reporting problems to its support team. But although 2K's attitude in regards to fixing the problems as well as the short amount of time it has taken for the company to address the issues are a plus, plenty of PC gamers will be interested as to why once again a major release on their platform has had so many problems at launch.

Other games that suffered from the same major PC problems include No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Division and Batman: The Telltale Series. Many will be quick to note that while none of these games had absolutely game-breaking issues, the graphical troubles and crashes experienced by gamers, even weeks after launch, are certainly unacceptable.