Lords of the Fallen (2023)

This page is for the 2023 reboot. For the original 2014 game, see Lords of the Fallen.

Lords of the Fallen (2023)

Developers
	HexWorks
Publishers
	CI Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 5
Release dates
Windows	October 13, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	75
OpenCritic	73
IGDB	72
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, RPG
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Lords of the Fallen

Lords of the Fallen
Lords of the Fallen	2014
Lords of the Fallen (2023)	2023

Lords of the Fallen (2023) is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and RPG game in the Lords of the Fallen series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when a shortcut is made directly to the executable, with the -EpicPortal command appended to the Target. Deluxe Edition also available.
GamersGate		Deluxe Edition also available.
		Deluxe Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming		Deluxe Edition also available.
Humble Store		Deluxe Edition also available.
Steam		Deluxe Edition also available.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

No microtransactions information; you can edit this page to add it.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Starting Boost	Pre-order only.
Dark Crusader Starting Class
Legendary Pack	Artbook, Soundtrack and 3D Model Viewer

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\LOTF2\Saved\Config\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1501750/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\LOTF2\Saved\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1501750/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings

Graphic settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Scales with the Texture quality setting.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA with no option to disable.
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 2.2, DLSS 3.1 DLSS Frame Generation is supported but has been disabled since launch. To enable add "-DLSSFG" as a launch command.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		If the option can't disabled or is greyed out, check Disabling V-Sync for a potential fix.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		FPS cap can be set to 30, 60, 120, or unlocked.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)		Software Lumen Global Illumination and Lumen Reflections. "Reflection quality" and "Global illumination quality" is implied to use hardware ray tracing when set to "High" or "Ultra" when neither do.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 5 page for more details.

Field of view (FOV)

Custom FOV
Download the CE table along with Cheat Engine. Attach the script to the game process. Activate the Cheat Manager script when game is at the main menu. Activate Create Console, and open it with ~. Use FOV 90 or other values to change the FOV.

Enable virtual shadow maps

Greatly improve shadow quality at a low relative cost.

Virtual shadowmaps are UE 5.x specific technology that renders high resolution shadows to a virtual texture. By default the game opts to use older cascade shadow maps technology at a very low resolution, supplementing them with distance field shadows. Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\LOTF2\Saved\Config\Windows\Engine.ini. Add following lines to the file: [SystemSettings] r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable=1 Save the file and launch the game. By default VSM tiles are cached as the system tries to detect which tiles need to be updated. Detection algorithm can fail to pick up on small (relatively to tile surface) objects moving out of a given tile, causing smearing artifacts as previous tile is not invalidated properly. This behavior can be fixed by disabling caching via r.Shadow.Virtual.Cache=0 command, which will incur extra performance cost. If caching is left enabled, extra performance (at the cost of extra VRAM usage) can be gained by enabling drawing dynamic objects to separate pages via r.Shadow.Virtual.Cache.StaticSeparate=1

Input

Gameplay settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Slider from 0.01 to 10.0
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Only one pre configured setting.
Controller sensitivity		Referred to as Camera speed
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		Supports DualSense and DualSense Edge with haptic feedback, but haptic feedback only works when wired to PC via USB.
PlayStation button prompts		To ensure the PS5 button prompts are displayed for DS4 controllers, see Force PS5 button prompts.
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth), , ,

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Force PS5 button prompts

By default, the PS5 button prompts only appear when using a DualSense controller.

Modify Game.ini
Open Game.ini in the game's configuration file folder. Add the following lines: [CommonInputPlatformSettings_Windows CommonInputPlatformSettings] DefaultGamepadName=PS5 bCanChangeGamepadType=False Save and close the file.

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  Controller preset

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  Keybind options

Audio

Sound settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Music, Effects, Voice and Environment with sliders from 0 to 100.
Surround sound		Dolby Atmos supported.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian				Fan translation by ZoG and Team RIG
Spanish
Ukrainian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		Co-op, Versus

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Set game start map to actual main menu.
Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\LOTF2\Saved\Config\Windows\Engine.ini. Add following lines to the file: [/Script/EngineSettings.GameMapsSettings] GameDefaultMap=/Game/World/Character_Creation/LVL_Char_Creation.LVL_Char_Creation Save the file and launch the game.

Disable Easy Anticheat

Run the game without EAC.

This may not work for platforms other than Steam. This will effectively disable all forms of online play as the sessions will fail to make an EAC handshake. Pre 1.1.217: As of version 1.1.217 the game client detects presence of steam_appid.txt separately from EAC and will refuse to start when the file is detected. Go to <path-to-game>\LOTF2\Binaries\Win64. Create steam_appid.txt Paste following text into the file: 1501750 and save it. Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\LOTF2\Saved\Config\Windows\Engine.ini. Add following lines to the file: [EpicOnlineServices] EnableAntiCheat=False Boot the game using LOTF2-Win64-Shipping.exe located in <path-to-game>\LOTF2\Binaries\Win64 Post 1.1.217: Go to <path-to-game>\LOTF2\Binaries\Win64. Create a bat file with any name. Edit the .bat file with any text editor and add following lines: set SteamAppId=1501750 set SteamGameId=1501750 start LOTF2-Win64-Shipping.exe Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\LOTF2\Saved\Config\Windows\Engine.ini. Add following lines to the file: [EpicOnlineServices] EnableAntiCheat=False Boot the game using the created .bat file.

Issues fixed

Disabling V-Sync

In the event VSync cannot be disabled, it's likely because Frame Generation is enabled, even if it's greyed out.

Configure DLSS
Enable DLSS Disable Frame Generation Disable DLSS again Now VSync can be toggled. This is likely only an issue on 4000 Series Nvidia cards.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise, OGG Vorbis, XAudio2
Multiplayer	Epic Online Services
Anti-cheat	Easy Anti-Cheat

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 2600	Intel Core i7-8700 AMD Ryzen 5 3600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	45 GB (HDD)	45 GB (SSD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 590 6 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 AMD Radeon RX 6700 8 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible
Other	Broadband Internet connection

A 64-bit operating system is required.