What a mess

[Monarchco]

I launch the game, get into the tutorial, and after the tutorial finishes and I'm shot up in the rocket, obviously about to hit a loading screen or something, my entire PC goes black and hard crashes. How odd, I'll give the game the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was a fluke crash. Though I haven't seen a system crash in months.

So I start my pc back up, load windows back up, go into steam, start the game, and am on the bridge of my ship. I then go to the map, find a planet, find a mission with 2/4 people, and am met instantly with a message "failed to connection". I go, "how stupid, but whatever, I'll play solo then" - so I navigate to a different mission, and then right as my ship goes to hyperspace, presumably a cutscene or so - my PC goes black and hard crashes AGAIN.

This is two hard crashes in 5 minutes from this POS game, and a failed network connection. I wish I had bought this game on steam and not on GMG, so that I could refund it. What an absolute nightmare of a "game" - who knows if it even is a game. Right now its just a "how much can I damage my computer and my windows install with these horrific system-wide crashes" - simulator.


Edit: Even better I can't even leave a negative review because steam isn't tracking my playtime whatsoever. No play time? Can't leave a review. Steam probably isn't tracking my playtime because this absolute piece of filth hard crashes my system before my steam client can even tell the steam servers that I've played X minutes.

[Monarchco]

I launched the game, and then closed it so that I could get steam to recognize some playtime so I can leave a review and warn potential buyers of this crash-generating heap of trash. Oddly, steam still shows me playing the game several minutes AFTER closing it down.

I scanned task manager, and there's nothing there.
So I did a good search.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/anticheat-gameguard-hides-its-process-and-doesnt/3374e65c-f944-4ad7-8c1f-5a56de798426
OH LOOK. THE POS ANTICHEAT HIDES ITSELF AND KEEPS RUNNING AFTER A GAME IS CLOSED UNTIL THE ENTIRE PC IS REBOOTED.

I am so angry right now. I've been scammed with a completely unusable product, and to boot I've had malware injected onto my computer that is scraping files and reading my entire memory (which means it can see what I'm typing here, it can see me typing passwords, etc) potentially DAYS after the game was last run.

[Difi]

Man experiences troubles at launch and expects games to work flawlessly without a single hitch in 2024

[Monarchco]

Not even steam can shut down this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anticheat.

https://i.imgur.com/O72raNB.jpeg

I told steam to shut down the game, and now steam has been stuck on "stopping" for 5+ minutes straight. - Because the anticheat refuses to shut down even after the game has long sense shut down itself.

[Monarchco]

Originally posted by Difi:

Man experiences troubles at launch and expects games to work flawlessly without a single hitch in 2024

"experiences troubles" Dude how deep is sony's stick down your throat?

Do you see my game library? I've never seen a game this bad before.
My PC is powerful enough I just brute forced and had zero issues with cyberpunk 2077 at launch. What other recent high profile games have had problematic launches? I've got over a hundred early access games in my library, and they ALL work better than this trash, which is NOT early access.

Hell, even spacebase df-9 works better than this, because it doesnt nuke my entire computer anytime I run it.

[Difi]

Originally posted by Monarchco:

Originally posted by Difi:

Man experiences troubles at launch and expects games to work flawlessly without a single hitch in 2024

What other recent high profile games have had problematic launches?

Payday 3 is a good example

[Monarchco]

Originally posted by Difi:

Originally posted by Monarchco:

What other recent high profile games have had problematic launches?

Payday 3 is a good example

I don't know anything about payday 3, but I don't buy games with a 28% review score.

This game deserves to have a 28% review score, but apparently is propped up by you sony fanboys.

[The Dess 2023 GOTY Edition]

Game only crashed twice for me and that was before the patch.

[Difi]

Originally posted by Monarchco:

Originally posted by Difi:

Payday 3 is a good example

I don't know anything about payday 3, but I don't buy games with a 28% review score.

This game deserves to have a 28% review score, but apparently is propped up by you sony fanboys.

What is with the SONY argument? The game isn't even made by them, the dev team is 50 people strong and they have already fixed several crashes and matchmaking issues in just 5 hours from launch.

Frankly, if you don't like the game, you can have fun playing one of your 100+ early access releases that you gloat about. I've experienced two crashes in my 14 hours playing this game already, not a single freeze or frame drop.

[Monarchco]

Originally posted by The Dess 2023 GOTY Edition:

Game only crashed twice for me and that was before the patch.

steam is still saying I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ playing the game because this anticheat won't ♥♥♥♥ off when the game is closed.

1) This isn't game crashes. This is crashing my entire system. This is the functional equivalent of yanking my power cable while my pc is on. This is a MAJOR issue. If a game wants to crash itself, that sucks but whatever. If a game wants to completely destroy my computer, thats a problem. This is a small step below New World destroying GPUs.

2) These crashes were 30 minutes ago.

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Originally posted by Monarchco:

What other recent high profile games have had problematic launches?

Since you didn't really specify your definition of "recent"... lets start with:

-Cyberpunk 2077
-Battlefield 2042
-Lost Ark
-New World
-The Day Before (though that was an outright scam)
-Starfield

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Originally posted by Monarchco:

This is a small step below New World destroying GPUs.

New World didn't destroy any GPU's. The manufacturers outright stated that they had a bad batch of cards make it out of the assembly line and into stores. They even recalled them and replaced them at zero-cost to customers.

[Monarchco]

Originally posted by <3 Beepy <3:

Originally posted by Monarchco:

What other recent high profile games have had problematic launches?

Since you didn't really specify your definition of "recent"... lets start with:

-Cyberpunk 2077
-Starfield

Both of those worked perfectly fine for me at launch because my PC can brute force through their optimization issue. (The others you listed I didnt play).
And both were optimization issues.
Neither game was completely nuking operating systems causing the entire PC to crash.

Originally posted by Difi:

Originally posted by Monarchco:

I don't know anything about payday 3, but I don't buy games with a 28% review score.

This game deserves to have a 28% review score, but apparently is propped up by you sony fanboys.

What is with the SONY argument? The game isn't even made by them, the dev team is 50 people strong and they have already fixed several crashes and matchmaking issues in just 5 hours from launch.

Frankly, if you don't like the game, you can have fun playing one of your 100+ early access releases that you gloat about. I've experienced two crashes in my 14 hours playing this game already, not a single freeze or frame drop.

Oh great its the "works on my pc" garbage.

And yes. There's tons of early access games with smaller teams making better games for cheaper.
Palworld? Early access. smaller team. 25% cheaper. Actually works.
V rising? Early access. smaller team. half the price. Actually works.
That's just two examples.

Palworld is infinitely more stable than this garbage, and its an early access game that released what? 3 weeks ago? This is a FINISHED, COMPLETE game, not early access.

[We.Are.Simulated]

lol you are delusional. V Rising had a ton of issues at launch, I know, I played it. You also complain about people making "works on my PC" garbage comments but you literally do the same thing when talking about games that worked for you.

Most online video games launch with major issues. It is not unreasonable that this game has some problems right now, and you should have known that this could happen. They are clearly working on these problems and if you can't accept this very obvious reality with the laundry list of games that launched with major issues, you should just stop buying games on day 1 you utter dunce of a human being.

As someone who has been able to play the game. It is excellent. Well worth the 40 dollars and once these launch issues get ironed out they have the foundation of a great game here.

[Monarchco]

Originally posted by We.Are.Simulated:

lol you are delusional. V Rising had a ton of issues at launch, I know, I played it.

Tell me more about how V rising was trying to brick computers, or had its anticheat running for hours or days after the game had shut down, still logging every single keystroke, analyzing every single program, and reading the entire system memory.

Originally posted by We.Are.Simulated:

comments but you literally do the same thing when talking about games that worked for you.

No. Those games worked for everyone. You might have been looking at a slideshow, but it wasn't CRASHING YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM and SPYING ON YOU.
How did you not comprehend the point I was making?

The fact a powerful enough system could just brute force its way through each of those titles proves clearly that those titles are no where remotely as bad as this. You could have a NASA supercomputer and it still wouldn't bypass the problems in this "game". In fact this game would simply do its best to destroy that million dollar supercomputer.

Originally posted by We.Are.Simulated:

Most online video games launch with major issues. It is not unreasonable that this game has some problems right now, and you should have known that this could happen. They are clearly working on these problems and if you can't accept this very obvious reality with the laundry list of games that launched with major issues, you should just stop buying games on day 1 you utter dunce of a human being.

All I see you saying is "how dare you expect a game to not blatantly spy on you or try and destroy your entire computer"
The words I would love to say to you would get me banned. Instead I'll just report you for insulting me.

[Monarchco]

PS imagine being so upset that someone is having a completely unplayable experience in a game you love, that you decide to give every single post that person makes a jester award LOLOL.