Dead Space is Buggy!

[Spoden]

Hey guys, I just wanted to see if anybody else has been having the same problems as I have. I've been playing the Dead Space Remake for quite some time now, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this: every single time I try to play this game, I find a brand new bug that I have never seen before. I cannot escape it. When I try to play the game casually, I break the game. When I try to speedrun, I break the game.

How often do you guys run into bugs while playing this game? I'd like to know if everybody is experiencing this or if it's just me.

[Lithurge]

I'm only a couple of hours in but haven't noticed any bugs so far, what exactly are you experiencing?

Edit
Just played a bit more, forgot the body parts could be a bit 'floaty' and some ropy physics on the dead enemies sometimes. So yes I am seeing some bugs, but then I seem to remember seeing the same on the original version.

[potato]

nope, three playthroughs, no bugs

[Spoden]

Also, I'm not trying to say the Dead Space Remake is bad in any way. Dead Space 2 was my favorite Dead Space game for a long time, but DSR has been so much fun that I actually think it's better than Dead Space 2 in a lot of different ways. But recently I've noticed a MAJOR influx in the amount of bugs that I've been experiencing, so I just wanted to see how many other people are experiencing stuff like this

[Spoden]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

I'm only a couple of hours in but haven't noticed any bugs so far, what exactly are you experiencing?

On my VERY first play through, during the first 15 minutes, there's a corpse that falls out of the broken tram next to where you find the stasis module. After repairing the tram and I started making my way back to the tram control room, I found that dude's corpse T-posing up in the air. I have tried MANY times to replicate the bug to no avail.

In Chapter 2, you can actually vaporize the battery? I'm not entirely sure what causes it, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Nicole's hologram. I haven't tried to replicate it so I'm not entirely sure what the exact cause is, but I have had it happen to me 3 times as of right now. When the battery disappears, it is a softlock for your run and you have to revert back to an old save before you entered the room. Leaving the room and coming back will not respawn the battery.

Sometimes when trying to pick up an item with kinesis it simply will not move. Another strange kinesis bug that occurs is when you try to throw spears and such at necromorphs and they simply bounce off instead of impaling them. I believe the cause is picking up objects and throwing them too quickly.

There's another bug that works in your favor and I find it quite amusing. If you are holding a spike of some kind with kinesis, it doesn't matter where it is when you throw it, it will always impale its target. The spike could be stuck behind a door and you could throw it at a necromorph and it would still kill them despite the fact that there is a solid door blocking it.

While using the flamethrower, if you punch the limbs off of a charred necromorph there is a small chance for their limbs to break off and suddenly elongate for some strange reason. These broken body parts can be so stretched out that they poke through walls.

While running in certain areas you may find yourself getting stuck on invisible geometry. This bug occurs most frequently on sloped surfaces.

Items will clip through walls or the floor in many locations. There are too many locations to name, but there is one GUARANTEED item clip in Chapter 2. Inside of the room where you find Nicole's hologram (Morgue route), there is an elevator that connects directly to the Morgue with two medium-sized kinesis boxes sitting next to a box on the floor. If you shoot this box or stomp the box, the item inside WILL, 100% of the time, clip straight through the floor never to be seen again. For you to actually pick this item up you need to move the box, then break it.

When air vents are broken, they will drop vent blades which can be used as weapons while thrown. However, these vent blades are broken about as easily as a stick of spaghetti. I cannot tell you how many times I've been in the middle of combat just for a necromorph to lightly kick a vent blade and shatter it, it always makes me so sad to see it happen because that just means I can't conserve ammo like I wanted to.

During my first playthrough, at the very end of Chapter 11 when you meet with Nicole's apparition in an attempt to get the shuttle back, I found her T-posing. I didn't think to get a screenshot at the time because I was in a Discord call and I was distracted.

There are MANY more bugs, far too many for me to name. Some of these bugs are so absurd it has me at a loss for words.

Here's a link to two more bugs that I've experienced:
https://youtu.be/hJJ64lGJRHg?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/oyy3qRt0Hck?feature=shared

[Max]

Ive got an annoying mouse bug where sometimes my guy lowers his gun/ stops aiming for a split second when I look around quickly. It makes using some guns like the ripper impossible.

[BreckyFast]

Mine keeps crashing

[Lithurge]

Wow looks like I've got off lightly so far, like I say all I've seen at the moment are the weird body physics ones.

@Max could be an issue with your mouse button failing. I've had one where everytime I scrolled a web page down using the bar on the side of the browser it would lose contact where my finger shifted slightly on the button because the contact was worn. It was a well used mouse.

[burumanet]

I loaded the game on the latest Steam Deck and it has already randomly crashed on me twice. Frustrating. Save often.

[BreckyFast]

The fact that this hasn't been patched should be something Digital Foundry hopefully along with the players should hound EA/Motive on this extremely broken and subpar PC port. This isn't acceptable. I feel like once 2024 rolls around without an update then it's official, the game was abandoned in less than a year.

[Spoden]

Originally posted by BreckyFast:

The fact that this hasn't been patched should be something Digital Foundry hopefully along with the players should hound EA/Motive on this extremely broken and subpar PC port. This isn't acceptable. I feel like once 2024 rolls around without an update then it's official, the game was abandoned in less than a year.

I'd say I like the Remake more than the original, but there most certainly are far too many bugs. I'm honestly surprised it's as clunky as it is.

[Falleax]

I fairly consistently encounter audio delay bugs that last for a minute or so before fixing itself, some models take a comically long time to load in, a cutscene didn't load two other characters in so Isaac was just talking to himself while staring at a window all by himself, it was kind of funny though.
Also this makes my PC really hot, no other game does that.
Other than that it seems mostly fine.

[SparqBeam]

Fake news, i never experienced breaking bug

[Deedog]

in the first 1-5 chapter i got hit with a few game breaking bugs.
Actual glad waited on sale

[PJthePlayer]

I have completed the game several times with 100% achievements unlocked and I encountered zero bugs.

[burumanet]

Originally posted by Cyborg:

Fake news, i never experienced breaking bug

Just because your system is running the game smoothly doesn't mean that's the case for everyone. I'm only in Chapter 3 and have already had the game completely crash on me four times so far, and that's on the latest 1 TB Steam Deck. Not even an older system. Having to go back and re-scavenge areas because the game decided to brick is not fun.