Is this game still ridiculously buggy?

[Ives]

I remember my friend loaning me his copy from humble bundle(or something like it) awhile back until it came to steam. I just remember enjoying it but hating how the bugs just ruined the entire game and made it unfun for me in the end. Is it still like this or different?

[dergefata]

Many bugs have been fixed; many remain. Some of the most frustrating ones, like hearthlings getting stuck or refusing to eat, and like buildings not completing no matter what, are still there. If you want to avoid bugs, you should probably just add this to a watchlist and try it out if it ever hits full release. It's still in alpha, and is still feature incomplete and buggy.

[Lukasi]

I've owned thia game for quite a while now, and i have encountered many bugs but never game breaking bugs like dergefata did. Its quite a fun game and i enjoy it every patch that comes out.

[truePaltrax]

nowadays the game lags like crazy still if i start a new town

[Rennoch]

hearthlings refusing to eat is an action queue issue, which was said to have been addressed in A21. before A21, the easy solution to fix that was to activate town guard mode for a split second and then deactivate it, which would reset their action queue.

[Tanyon]

I have literally experienced ZERO of these issues.. generally any issue that is created is user related. Laggy? odd.. get a better computer? The only time the game lags is when it auto saves. Not finishing buildings? Do you have the require resources including all crafted window, doors and decorations? So many people complain about the game and it's bugs? I've experienced "issues" with performance of my workers only to realize that 99% of the time they were created by me not having done a sequence properly or assigning a command properly.

[James009]

Originally posted by Darth:

I have literally experienced ZERO of these issues.. generally any issue that is created is user related. Laggy? odd.. get a better computer? The only time the game lags is when it auto saves. Not finishing buildings? Do you have the require resources including all crafted window, doors and decorations? So many people complain about the game and it's bugs? I've experienced "issues" with performance of my workers only to realize that 99% of the time they were created by me not having done a sequence properly or assigning a command properly.

That's pretty rediculious. I'm getting most of these issues, nothing gamebreaking or too terrible but you shouldn't blame the user for outstanding problems the game has.

- Even if you have a supercomputer you'll probably get lag when you get around <25 hearthlings (citizens).
- They don't always perfectly build buildings and can get stuck. Albiet, it's pretty rare, I've only seen it once and it's an easy fix (use console commands to reset them).
- Sometimes they don't automatically craft what is needed to complete a building and you have to figure out what is missing and manually build it.
- Autosave definately lags the game; it's annoying.

Regardless, the game is GREAT and has come a long way. Definately worth picking up and dealing with a few bugs and annoyances.

[Tanyon]

I dont play with more than 20 hearthlings. haven't tried. The monsters are so easy it never seemed like I needed more. Also I think if you need to reset them you can use the town hall? or whatever that alert is and I think someone said it will reset their que.. I've used that a couple of times seems to work well.

[NEQOLASER]

if you don't own a pc from future don't try :D my laptop goes crazy hot on low settings (it can run gta 5 on high settings :U no problemo)

[YetiChow]

Originally posted by NEQOLASER:

if you don't own a pc from future don't try :D my laptop goes crazy hot on low settings (it can run gta 5 on high settings :U no problemo)

GTA V compared to this game is like a cat compared to an elephant -- not only are they totally different, they're not even trying to be the same thing.

GTA V is a large open-world game where only the tiny area around you is actually loaded in (the loading extends a bit beyond what you can see... which isn't much!), and where there's maybe 100 basic NPC AIs interacting in a single scene tops but often a lot less. That scene is completely static aside from the AI interactions and a few scripted events -- the terrain never changes, the AIs only "look at" a short distance around them, and once you leave the area they get deleted. The game doesn't have to keep track of any complicated simulation; all it has to do is keep a really basic set of AIs running and run a lot of postprocessing and graphics to make it all look pretty.

Stonehearth is the complete opposite: it's a small but dense world where the whole world is simulated the whole time, with lots of basic AIs (hundreds or maybe even thousands -- wild animals, enemies, travellers/merchants) and then a few (10-50ish) advanced AIs that constantly interact not only with each other, but with the world. The world constantly changes -- terrain shapes change, which means not only are there new paths that open up but it's possible that an old path has been closed off, so the game has to keep track of all pathfinding tasks at all times and update them in near-real-time. The graphics aren't complicated, and usually not much is drawn to the screen at once; but the whole world is always simulated even if it isn't being drawn on the screen -- where your camera is pointed doesn't really matter, things don't stop existing when you move away from them.

GTA V makes your graphics card work really hard, but is a simple game under the hood. Stonehearth is a complicated game that makes your CPU, RAM and sometimes HDD/SSD work really hard -- the two games literally use different parts of the computer for their "main" processing load.

[Chaoisia]

Idk if you 2 realize but this thread is from 6 years ago.

[Tanyon]

Apparently the game was recently rediscovered and Splattercat covers it. ACE mode game-play. Basically essential at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKnCqfGfvE&t=1s