Does the DLC update bugs affect you still if you don't own the DLC?

[Krookzior]

I recently thought about getting back into playing this one but kept hearing a lot of noise and documentation about the rampant bugs with the DLC, so yeah as the title says.

[nul]

Originally posted by Krookzior:

I recently thought about getting back into playing this one but kept hearing a lot of noise and documentation about the rampant bugs with the DLC, so yeah as the title says.

There was a patch that (hopefully) fixed most of them.

But regardless if bugs are fixed or not, yes, the update doesn't care about whether you own the DLC or not.

The big reason is that nowadays, since games can just update, all of the code and content is crammed into the game whether it's singleplayer or not, and the DLC serves as as an 'unlock code' to let you use the DLC specific content.

The smaller but still very valid reason is that RoR2 is a multiplayer game. Having the same base code whether or not a player owns the DLC means that players without it can still play with players that do have it.
The way it's handled in RoR2 specifically is that only one player in a lobby needs to have the DLC to enable it for everyone for that run. Though players without the DLC will not be able to choose the DLC characters still.

[Apollyon Pal]

Originally posted by nul:

Originally posted by Krookzior:

I recently thought about getting back into playing this one but kept hearing a lot of noise and documentation about the rampant bugs with the DLC, so yeah as the title says.

There was a patch that (hopefully) fixed most of them.

But regardless if bugs are fixed or not, yes, the update doesn't care about whether you own the DLC or not.

The big reason is that nowadays, since games can just update, all of the code and content is crammed into the game whether it's singleplayer or not, and the DLC serves as as an 'unlock code' to let you use the DLC specific content.

The smaller but still very valid reason is that RoR2 is a multiplayer game. Having the same base code whether or not a player owns the DLC means that players without it can still play with players that do have it.
The way it's handled in RoR2 specifically is that only one player in a lobby needs to have the DLC to enable it for everyone for that run. Though players without the DLC will not be able to choose the DLC characters still.

I know some people are not huge fans of this system but honestly I like it quite a bit. The way Binding of Isaac handles its DLC for example is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ atrocious, if you don't own the DLCs that released before than whatever DLC you own just will not work. Bought Repentance because it's the new big DLC? Better make sure you bought Afterbirth and Afterbirth+ first, otherwise it's completely useless.

[Marshmallow]

I do not own any of the DLC, and I can say this much from personal experience: The base game has a lot of game-breaking bugs in it now. The big patch they put out to "unify the code base" broke a tone of things. Teleporters spawning in unreachable places has happened to me, Loader's broken physics, and the most egregious one I keep experiencing is loading into a stage with no interactables. I'm talking no chests, no shrines, no drones, no shops, NO TELEPORTER. Nothing, just an empty map I can only escape by returning to the menu. I have yet to get a run last past Stage 7 before I encounter this softlock, and sometimes it crops up as early as Stage 2. Game is barely playable even without DLC.

[Boiledteabag]

Its not the dlc, its the patch.

[Apollyon Pal]

Originally posted by Marshmallow:

I do not own any of the DLC, and I can say this much from personal experience: The base game has a lot of game-breaking bugs in it now. The big patch they put out to "unify the code base" broke a tone of things. Teleporters spawning in unreachable places has happened to me, Loader's broken physics, and the most egregious one I keep experiencing is loading into a stage with no interactables. I'm talking no chests, no shrines, no drones, no shops, NO TELEPORTER. Nothing, just an empty map I can only escape by returning to the menu. I have yet to get a run last past Stage 7 before I encounter this softlock, and sometimes it crops up as early as Stage 2. Game is barely playable even without DLC.

They put out an update two days ago that fixes most if not all of these issues

[Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Apollyon Pal:

They put out an update two days ago that fixes most if not all of these issues

Stages not spawning interactables is still very much an existing bug. I can't vouch on the Loader issues as I have simply avoided playing her, and have resorted to mods to deal with some of the others.

[Shotgun Bird]

Yes. Definitely Yes.