All this in UNACCEPTABLE

[*JordisonJN*]

Every game recently launched has some serious technical issues which ruin the experience... I'm personally tired! You're not releasing such a thing for free, WE PAY FOR IT, as I paid and bought also this game, and even here, there are issues making game impossible to enjoy. This is frustrating... FIX/COMPLETE your games before they arrive on market!
Then, do not complain if people find "alternative" ways to play ur games!!

[Steve]

Perhaps I can help with the issue you are having or check out our pinned post.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/515960/discussions/0/3190241719891608029/

[まあくん]

Pay now, play (maybe) a few months later when they fix the issues.
That's how it works now sadly.

[*JordisonJN*]

Originally posted by 伊太郎:

Pay now, play (maybe) a few months later when they fix the issues.
That's how it works now sadly.

I got it, after I bought BF 2042, Cyberpunk, and now this. I learned I won't buy single-player anymore, till they drop price to 90% and got totaly fixed.

[Wired Matthew]

Hey there O'Malese

Launch issues are always frustrating, and we apologise and sympathise with folks excited to play getting hit with issues that rock their enjoyment off.

PC is always such a wily beast for games to launch on, especially with such a wide range of setups, potential hardware / software conflicts and so on - there are only so many combinations that a team can prepare for in advance and for all the will and testing and QA hours in the world, you absolutely cannot compare that to the amount of hours and situations encountered by pushing a game live to people! (especially with a dev team of 10 people!)

As Steve pointed out we are tracking and narrowing down issues as we can in our pinned posts, could you let us know exactly what you're encountering at the moment so I can pass it to the tech team and see if we can get you up and running?

Thank you!

[W3RN3R]

Why don't game devs release a demo version beforehand and use that as a reference for fixing issues, so that the final release are more polished. Not criticising, just asking.

[Wired Matthew]

Hey W3rn3r!

Solid question, and this actually was something we did during the Steam Next fest, especially when it came to visual 'level' settings - it actually does help a ton with getting a benchmark of how things perform on the outlier systems (for context, especially in a small team - games will be given the heavier optimisation towards the systems that make up the bulk of the steam hardware survey, after all, that's what most players have!)

Unfortunately there is always going to be cases that don't reveal themselves til they occur, I myself on a personal level have had instances of games crashing when a specific visual effect occurs due to a factory stock overclock on a specific brand of video card - or a mouse DPI manager causing a game to frame drop massively despite displaying a solid output.

In hindsight, leaving the demo live 'fully' over the past couple months may have indeed identified some extra flags to look at, but then you end up in the dog chasing tail scenario of attempting to stay on top of newly identified issues from an old build in a demo that may not even be relevant or the same - whilst trying to actively finish the game on time!

Of course none of this makes a massive difference to the end user, at the end of the day technical issues are upsetting, and believe us as folks that play a LOT of games ourselves when we have the time - whenever a game doesn't play nice with our systems or a bug presents itself we elicit the same reaction.

But just wanted to give you a little peek behind the thoughts and process of it all there, hope it helps!

(And yes thank you all for any solid info on your issues, busy weekend for the team but we are digging away at these!)

[W3RN3R]

Okay that's perfectly understandable, with newer and older builds changing, makes sense, did not know that, thank you for replying. Game looks amazing nonetheless. Good luck!

[davidsu]

Originally posted by W3rn3R:

Why don't game devs release a demo version beforehand and use that as a reference for fixing issues, so that the final release are more polished. Not criticising, just asking.

i played the demo and pointed the issues, directx12 is too much to today devs handle

[Wired Matthew]

Originally posted by W3rn3R:

Okay that's perfectly understandable, with newer and older builds changing, makes sense, did not know that, thank you for replying. Game looks amazing nonetheless. Good luck!

You are more than welcome, thank you for the question, love answering them!

Have a good rest of your weekend!

[Puerco]

The game is pretty bugged (i get stuck in the ground and have to reset the game 3 times), crashes launching the game, etc. But the game is enjoyable, good narrative, graphics and plot.

[neoadorable]

Thanks to the OP for being passionate. Biggest problem for me is the game never closes, Steam always sees it as "running" after launching a session and then quitting. This prevents other games from running properly.

[*JordisonJN*]

I notice some pacthes have been released. Good job, gonna try game now.

[clownsushi]

Originally posted by TheHomelander:

Every game recently launched has some serious technical issues which ruin the experience... I'm personally tired! You're not releasing such a thing for free, WE PAY FOR IT, as I paid and bought also this game, and even here, there are issues making game impossible to enjoy. This is frustrating... FIX/COMPLETE your games before they arrive on market!
Then, do not complain if people find "alternative" ways to play ur games!!

The game constantly crashes, god forbid I use the run mechanic in the game, I have experienced multiple bugs and glitches. The back trigger no longer makes the camera click, it did it once. Walking through the an area (just after having to reload game due to crash) I got stuck "under the floor" while walking and had to reload yet again. The back and forth constantly to the dark room instead of being able to take multiple photos during the infrared photos is annoying, the running to find the words is redundant and annoying when she just repeats the words. And the saddest part is it's worse on the PS5 version than ps4

[Wired Jake]

I will send these issues over to the team.

[joridiculous]

Originally posted by 伊太郎:

Pay now, play (maybe) a few months later when they fix the issues.
That's how it works now sadly.

that is one reason i miss Greenlight. Devs had to get their games approved by Steam before getting on there. Now any joe can put wtf he wants up as "early access" no master what state the game is in, or "finished" games in barely early access state, like this one.
no wonder alternative methods of getting games is only more popular than ever.