How buggy this game REALLY is?

[Mathute]

Really, I can't believe some comments calling the game "trash" or "unplayable", and I can't believe some other calling it "perfect" or "polished". I know the devs aren't really worried about fixing some bugs, but is it really that unplayable? Be honest, don't hate.

I still don't know if I'll buy it just for that piece of "we will focus on the DLC but won't patch it anymore", but I want to know the real glitches that still persist here.

[VERNICHTEN]

i just had to quit playing because randomly after dying a black box would cover 90% of the screen....all i can see are my feet. after i quit and rejoin it is fine...but then it happens again!!?? as far as gameplay and graphics go they are pretty solid in my opinion...when it works its great

[CapGanchoPt]

for me ok until now

[Fawkzi]

It used to be buggy as all hell, I'm talking enemies getting stuck in walls, falling through the map (part of the map being noclip permanently) Gadgets not acting like they should, choppy, freezing cutscenes even on high machines. the game mas just above unplayable but it's been tweaked a lot since then

Replaying it now and i have not experienced any of the stuff i used to. Combat works as expected, the map is all solid with no soft spots, the AI isn't running into walls or getting stuck, the cutscenes are perfect and the frame rate seems to be staying at around 47-59 for me (running the benchmark)

So in my honest opinion, most of the games severe, gamebreaking flaws have been dealt with, it's well worth a purchase.

[qa]

I purchased the game recently and haven't encountered any bugs yet

[Scorvian]

sometimes the AI will do stupid stuff but my biggest issue is the lag/FPS problems with this game. in some cutscenes it would drop to the single digits! my advice would be get it at your own risk or buy it on consoles but even they suffer from bugs:/

[King of Evil]

List of bugs I've experienced thus far?

-Killer Croc Flashes & No Sound (When you Batarang the explosive he starts flashing & all sound goes off. Pausing the game will fix it.)
-Flying & randomly stuck in mid air (Diving fixes it)
-Enemies stuck in walls. (During the Deadshot bossfight especially. A batarang to the face fixes it.)
-Clipping through walls. (In the church during the Black Mask sidequest part of the church is just missing & you can climb through it.)
-Enemies will sometimes see you through walls (Rare. I've had it only a few times.)
-Can't interrogate suspects. (Restart)
-Can't scan evidence. (Restart)

Problems I've experienced?

-Long Load times (Around 2 minutes. This is ESPECIALLY annoying during bossfights because every time I fail I have to wait 2 minutes to try again.)
-Grapple points you can't climb in certain spots.
-Poorly placed camera angles in some areas (Enemies will go off camera & hit you where you can't see them)
-Combat can be choppy at times (When doing a combo, sometimes batman will just stop suddenly for no reason.)
-Targeting Map Icons is twitchy difficult.
-HUGE FPS drop in Black Gate (End Game).
-Stuttering

I'm enjoying the game but these things can be frustraiting at times. It's almost like this game is a BETA. It's really buggy...

[Pocok]

I bought the game and the season pass for 7euros a few hours ago... and I regret. This game is barely playable. So many crashes in just a few hours. I know it was bad but I did not know this bad.

[Pocok]

Oh, and yea. I stopped playing yesterday after a crash and now I see ITS DOWNLOADING ITSELF FROM THE START? WHAT THE ♥♥♥?

[2PLY]

I had some issues with performance and visuals bugging out during the first 20 or so minutes, but its been smooth sailing after that (after first boss). That was really it.

Have about 5-6hours into it so far now without any problems at all *fingers crossed*

[Donoghu]

Up to now, encounter 2 kind of bugs :

1) Sometimes, texts appearings aren't showed and instead show their stings (things like "name_id_description_02")
2) On Multiplayer, I went in a game which nobody had any weapon except for one player which nobody could see. (Possible hacker or massive big desync with the server... strange thing thought is I could see other member in my team doing things normally without rubberbanding or anything. They just didn't had any guns nor could shoot.)

[Roland]

I gotta say, I bought the game recently and played through all of story and about a 3rd of new game plus. I also have most of the collectibles and side missions complete. I have only really had 2 issues. The first is sometimes enemies get stuck in the staircase in front of the foundry. The other is sometimes the combat system doesn't like to attack in the direction you press and seemlingly fly in random other directions at times.
But then again I get 112 frames per second in the benchmarks, so stutter and lag aren't an issue for me...
Generally speaking though, I wouldn't say it's buggy.

[Roboyak]

The biggest thing for me is that the combat system is far worse than Arkham City. Enemies constantly cause you to have to counter, and many times the counter doesn't even register. You can no longer cancel Batman's moves which is infuriating, and makes it so that essential moves can rarely ever be used like the ground take downs. It is very frustrating trying to string together large combinations because of all this, and unfortunately one of the best combat systems in gaming history has been cut down a notch. Also, on top of this brief description of my frustration with the combat, gliding through the city is much worse as well. There are very few points to grapple to compared with Arkham City, and even when you are facing a point that can be grappled onto, often it won't register. This makes it very difficult to stay airbourne for any long periods of time.

The biggest actual glitches I have found is that during combat the game clock will often speed up and slow down. One moment the fight is going at normal speed, and the next it is going 2x speed. When this happens it catches you off guard and kills your combo.

I loved Arkham City and played it on hard. It was challenging, but the combat was well refined and you could get better at dealing with the great numbers and variations of enemies that you faced. So far with Origins I have been mostly frustrated unfortunately.

[Unibot]

So far its fine..
The only bug I noticed and it happens often is batman spining while hovering with cape.
Also 1 time the game froze and pc restarted but it was 1 time and I cannot tell 100% that it was caused by the game itself, but who knows.

[jammin8317]

played for 99 minutes and have had to restart it twice.... My encounter with Killer Croc half way through the fight, the sound died out and after the final hit the screen blacked out yet the screen was flashing as if I was still taking hits.... I mashed the attack button and it cut to the cutscene still with no audio and then the screen blacked out and all I saw was the subtitles... Had to restart and it happened again when leaving the bat cave for the first time... Pretty dissapointed..

[lehipi]

Can't comment on multiplayer, as I haven't tried it. THAT should be especially buggy! If that is your aim at buying this game, then stay away...
If you plan to focus on singleplayer, then this is my experience:
I have only had one mayor crashbug/game-breaking-bug, but I could fix that by making the game run on DX10 rather than DX11 - my aging computer liked that a lot, and stuttering and frame rate drops all but disappeared.
As for gameplay, if you played the two previous game in the series, you are in for a shock, as the combat system is wonky and insecure rather than millimetre precise.
The story is OK and fit the developers idea of a "year two Batman", so well known villains aren't as developed as in the previous games/the graphic novels/the movies.
This game introduces more variations in boss fights and overall requires more variation in your tactics and playstyle for beating the game.
It takes getting used to, but after a winter hiattus, I find I actually like the game, not least because some of the most annoying problems in the gameplay have been smoothed out via patches.
I find the game better than average, but it is no masterpiece - too many technical problems for that.
It is an entertaining, occasionally humorous, and sometimes frustrating, but OK game.