Is the game that broken?

[Mg3gg4]

Since both Darksiders are on sale i was debating on which one to buy but upon reading some of the reviews and discussion threads on Darksiders II im not so sure anymore if i should even buy this or not. What i would like to know is if what the reviews say is true or not, is the game that glitchy and filled with bugs and full of problems?

[Kiss My Ax]

Yes this game is very badly broken.It's in need of alot of updates

[devSin]

I don't know what the reviews say, but the game does have its share of issues.

Most of them are cosmetic or performance-related, though there are some known crashing issues (almost all of which have easy workarounds).

They're working on a patch at the moment, though there's no information on what exactly they plan to fix.

The game is fantastic and easily worth whatever the current sale price. Darksiders II is notorious for its jank, but you should still be able to play, finish, and enjoy it.

[Mg3gg4]

Alright thanks for awnsering, hopefully the patch manages to fix everything and comes out soon

[Cies]

Originally posted by Mg3gg4:

Alright thanks for awnsering, hopefully the patch manages to fix everything and comes out soon

probably not, we are waiting for this patch for more than 1 year, and now they are working in the darksiders 3. And the bugs are not cosmetic and perf only, you have a lot gamebreak bugs, like missing NPCs for one specific mission, events that do not 'start, continue, finish' for some mission, random crashes, starup crash, crash in some specific actions and locations, and the auto save with only 1 slot contributes for you lose everything. I finished the original, that there were already many bugs, this one is still worse, not worth the money only for steam trade cards.

[Mg3gg4]

Originally posted by Cies:

Originally posted by Mg3gg4:

Alright thanks for awnsering, hopefully the patch manages to fix everything and comes out soon

probably not, we are waiting for this patch for more than 1 year, and now they are working in the darksiders 3. And the bugs are not cosmetic and perf only, you have a lot gamebreak bugs, like missing NPCs for one specific mission, events that do not 'start, continue, finish' for some mission, random crashes, starup crash, crash in some specific actions and locations, and the auto save with only 1 slot contributes for you lose everything. I finished the original, that there were already many bugs, this one is still worse, not worth the money only for steam trade cards.

Damn.. i was hoping that it wasn't that bad :/ Thank you for the information i think ill hold up on this one then for the future if it gets fixed

[Squeegee McGee]

So far I haven't had any crashes or issues like that, nothing game breaking yet. That being said I've only just begun the game and am on my way to the Stonefather.

Only issues I've had are some horrendous tearing issues. The beauty of this game is certainly crippled by how bad the image tearing is, and V-Sync did little to no good in getting rid of this problem.
I'm about to look up some fixes for it, if there are any lol. Regardless, getting this game and the first for $10 was a ridiculous steal.

UPDATE: Enabled Triple Buffering in the AMD control center, and turned off V-Sync. The former seems to have made a pretty huge difference, but there's still some image tearing.

[Cies]

Originally posted by Squeegee McGee:

So far I haven't had any crashes or issues like that, nothing game breaking yet. That being said I've only just begun the game and am on my way to the Stonefather.

Only issues I've had are some horrendous tearing issues. The beauty of this game is certainly crippled by how bad the image tearing is, and V-Sync did little to no good in getting rid of this problem.
I'm about to look up some fixes for it, if there are any lol. Regardless, getting this game and the first for $10 was a ridiculous steal.

i got a gamebreak in the Foundry, an npc needed to progress in this area 'Karn' just disappeared, I saw people commenting on other bugs in this same area, like the npc not performing such action to progress the mission,sad, i like this game, If at least you had more save slots and manual save, maybe that would help if any bug occurred, but losing hours of progress in a single save does not encourage me to try again, I do not understand how the game works for some people with so many bugs.

[Mg3gg4]

Originally posted by Cies:

Originally posted by Squeegee McGee:

So far I haven't had any crashes or issues like that, nothing game breaking yet. That being said I've only just begun the game and am on my way to the Stonefather.

Only issues I've had are some horrendous tearing issues. The beauty of this game is certainly crippled by how bad the image tearing is, and V-Sync did little to no good in getting rid of this problem.
I'm about to look up some fixes for it, if there are any lol. Regardless, getting this game and the first for $10 was a ridiculous steal.

i got a gamebreak in the Foundry, an npc needed to progress in this area 'Karn' just disappeared, I saw people commenting on other bugs in this same area, like the npc not performing such action to progress the mission,sad, i like this game, If at least you had more save slots and manual save, maybe that would help if any bug occurred, but losing hours of progress in a single save does not encourage me to try again, I do not understand how the game works for some people with so many bugs.

Most of the reviews or posts i saw were saying stuff like that, puzzles not activating and wandering for minutes untill realizing the game was bugged, people losing hours of progress due to a save problem, loot dispawning and many more :/ but some people say they have no issues what so every so i really don't know it's a shame that they haven't updated the game and fixed it

[dostatochno]

If you go into the Betas tab in the game's properties, you can opt into the experimental build. I believe the current experimental build has fixes that haven't been implemented in the version installed by default.

Same goes for Darksiders: Warmastered Edition

[Encleaver]

Game was running great for me for last few weeks, but today my game crashed 3 times already and after that i gave up on it(atlest for now till i can find out what causes game to crash). Maybe it's something on my end or game had secret update..who knows.

[devSin]

Originally posted by Encleaver:

Game was running great for me for last few weeks, but today my game crashed 3 times already and after that i gave up on it(atlest for now till i can find out what causes game to crash). Maybe it's something on my end or game had secret update..who knows.

You may be talking about the combat crash. Disabling damage indicators should allow you to work around that.

In general, the rules for Darksiders II are:

Make sure V-sync is turned on.
Don't Alt-Tab or use the Steam in-game overlay while playing.
Disable damage indicators if you start crashing a lot during combat.
Install the beta patch before you get to the Archon.

That should eliminate the majority of stability issues.