Cities like Limsa Lominsa regularly fill with hundreds of player characters showing off mounts, glamour sets, minions, and particle-heavy abilities. Even on significantly more powerful hardware, those areas have historically been among the game’s toughest rendering scenarios. Square Enix has been transparent that these locations are where Switch 2 players are most likely to see performance fluctuate, but the team says it has spent considerable time optimizing the experience leading up to launch.
From the time I’ve spent with the game so far, you can definitely feel the impact. But since these are social gathering areas or just dialogue- and menu-heavy environments, it’s not really a big detractor from gameplay. When you’re outside of the city doing quests or in an instance, it’s been very smooth so far.
I picked up playing with my level 30 Gladiator I abandoned a few years ago on PC, so it’s been a little bit of a learning curve so far. Fortunately, if you really want to, you don’t have to play in handheld mode or using a controller since there’s mouse support on Switch 2, including both USB options and the Joy-Con’s mouse mode.
