The Saboteur is unplayable

[ErikG96]

One of the best open-world games I have ever played remains "The Saboteur" (2009).
For those unfamiliar with the title, it's a WWII third-person shooter, set in Nazi-occupied France.
You play as an irish mechanic who helps the french resistance, while wanting personal vengeance for the murder of his friends by Nazis.
While it has aged a lot in terms of graphics, it's still a great game.

Anyhow, this game is not available on Steam - and I doubt it will ever be - so I bought it for 5 bucks on Origin.
After editing the config file to allow full HD resolution (in my case 1920x1080), I thought I was good to go.
The game has some 360-controller support and it feels pretty ok.

So I started the game, watched the intro cinematics and got to actually play.
Suddenly, the controller's buttons go all haywire, performing strange and illogical feats; when pressing the R2 button for accelerating my car, it instead turns the camera angle.

I went into the control options to see if anything had changed, but nothing looked out of order.
However, I also immediately noticed that minimal touch on the controlling stick sends the pointer flying and it's nearly impossible to change the options due to this.

So in short, while the 360-controller works and responds in itself, it seems really unstable and jittery, doing all sorts of weird stuff for no obvious reason.

This game is - at least in my case, but in most (since it's primarily a console game) - best played with a controller.
It can ofc be played with mouse and keyboard, but that would make it a lot tougher and not as enjoyable.

I have no idea why this happens tbh.
My controller works fine in everything else and the batteries are relatively new.
No other visible technical issues in the game, but these controller problems makes the game unplayable.
It gets kinda hard driving a car to an objective when the camera keeps panning off to the side as soon as you accelerate... ^^

Any ideas what to do?
I was really looking forward to re-playing this old favourite. :(

[Incarnate]

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

That game was awful..

Matter of opinion I guess. It's definitely better than the early Assassin's Creed games it was modeled on. People kept telling me Black Flag was awesome, however I noticed AC had clunky-a$$ controls where sprint, jump, and climb were all bound to the same button. Nothing worse than running too close to a wall and accidentally climbing up it. On PC the AC games are borderline unplayable.

Also, If I remember correctly, there is also something like twice as many ways to assassinate targets in The Saboteur than in Assassin's Creed, which is hilariously ironic. Kicking guys to death, tossing dudes into a fire places, snapping necks, or crushing people with falling debris never gets old.

And it had no stupid Animus fragments or that Abstergo crap, which by itself probably makes it superior.

[AdahnGorion]

Messaggio originale di Incarnate:

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

That game was awful..

Matter of opinion I guess. It's definitely better than the early Assassin's Creed games it was modeled on. People kept telling me Black Flag was awesome, however I noticed AC had clunky-a$$ controls where sprint, jump, and climb were all bound to the same button. Nothing worse than running too close to a wall and accidentally climbing up it. On PC the AC games are borderline unplayable.

Also, If I remember correctly, there is also something like twice as many ways to assassinate targets in The Saboteur than in Assassin's Creed, which is hilariously ironic. Kicking guys to death, tossing dudes into a fire places, snapping necks, or crushing people with falling debris never gets old.

And it had no stupid Animus fragments or that Abstergo crap, which by itself probably makes it superior.

I don't think AC games are good. They are simplistic, have shallow story (they really do) No consequence from actions, they however have.. Open world and grinding.

Those two things can be alright, but its to much of the same without innovation.

[Incarnate]

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

I don't think AC games are good. They are simplistic, have shallow story (they really do) No consequence from actions, they however have.. Open world and grinding.

Those two things can be alright, but its to much of the same without innovation.

Innovation, not so much. You come for the terrorism simulator and stay for the classy jazz soundtrack.

[ErikG96]

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

Messaggio originale di Incarnate:

Matter of opinion I guess. It's definitely better than the early Assassin's Creed games it was modeled on. People kept telling me Black Flag was awesome, however I noticed AC had clunky-a$$ controls where sprint, jump, and climb were all bound to the same button. Nothing worse than running too close to a wall and accidentally climbing up it. On PC the AC games are borderline unplayable.

Also, If I remember correctly, there is also something like twice as many ways to assassinate targets in The Saboteur than in Assassin's Creed, which is hilariously ironic. Kicking guys to death, tossing dudes into a fire places, snapping necks, or crushing people with falling debris never gets old.

And it had no stupid Animus fragments or that Abstergo crap, which by itself probably makes it superior.

I don't think AC games are good. They are simplistic, have shallow story (they really do) No consequence from actions, they however have.. Open world and grinding.

Those two things can be alright, but its to much of the same without innovation.

The AC franchise has anything but a shallow story.
It's one of the most expanded and detailed mythos' you'll come across these days.

[AdahnGorion]

Messaggio originale di ErikG96:

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

I don't think AC games are good. They are simplistic, have shallow story (they really do) No consequence from actions, they however have.. Open world and grinding.

Those two things can be alright, but its to much of the same without innovation.

The AC franchise has anything but a shallow story.
It's one of the most expanded and detailed mythos' you'll come across these days.

I assume that is sarcasm.. hahaha

[ErikG96]

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

Messaggio originale di ErikG96:

The AC franchise has anything but a shallow story.
It's one of the most expanded and detailed mythos' you'll come across these days.

I assume that is sarcasm.. hahaha

It's not. ^^
Can you elaborate why you find it shallow?

[AdahnGorion]

Messaggio originale di ErikG96:

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

I assume that is sarcasm.. hahaha

It's not. ^^
Can you elaborate why you find it shallow?

I can try to list a few points if you want, that also touch other areas

The story is not very good and tbh its pretty predictable (doh often if in games like these)
The AI is awful, they are simplistic and don't interact well in the world (common OW problem)
Its linear, gives you a false feeling of choice.
It has a 100% focus on "lets kill some Nazi's" theme and its the selling point
It has huge techical problems.
Combat is simplistic and in many ways the same old same


Don't get me wrong, its good at what it tries to be.... your standard "console like" false openworld with linear progression and simplistic combat.. Its a model many other games before and after use, some people like it and I guess it can be decent sometimes..

But this game just had to much techical issue, simplistic story and Ai for me to think it was not awful



But I see valid points for other people.. Some people like that shallow open world gameplay style.. Just look at how AC do.

[ErikG96]

Messaggio originale di Darkie:

Messaggio originale di ErikG96:

It's not. ^^
Can you elaborate why you find it shallow?

I can try to list a few points if you want, that also touch other areas

The story is not very good and tbh its pretty predictable (doh often if in games like these)
The AI is awful, they are simplistic and don't interact well in the world (common OW problem)
Its linear, gives you a false feeling of choice.
It has a 100% focus on "lets kill some Nazi's" theme and its the selling point
It has huge techical problems.
Combat is simplistic and in many ways the same old same


Don't get me wrong, its good at what it tries to be.... your standard "console like" false openworld with linear progression and simplistic combat.. Its a model many other games before and after use, some people like it and I guess it can be decent sometimes..

But this game just had to much techical issue, simplistic story and Ai for me to think it was not awful



But I see valid points for other people.. Some people like that shallow open world gameplay style.. Just look at how AC do.

I think you misunderstood... I wasn't asking about Saboteur, I was asking you to elaborate on why you find the AC-story shallow.

[Samwise]

Messaggio originale di finkleroy:

Messaggio originale di Samwise:

Its so heartwarming when big game gets released and is treated like ♥♥♥♥. As are the customers for buying broken mess like that.

Iirc, the game developers forgot ati gpu’s exist and it didnt/doesnt support any of them.

Got nothing helpful to say, im just here to ♥♥♥♥ on the quality work.

As I said, EA shut down Pandemic immediately after the game launched, so the developer was unable to fix any bugs at all. The issue here is with the publisher, EA, not the developer, Pandemic.

Aaah, my bad. Shouldnt be blaming the developers, but EA instead. I can only imagine the frustration of the people who worked hard to create that game, and then not being able to fix/finish the game. Its such a waste of man hours...

[grgg_wllm]

Messaggio originale di finkleroy:

I know this thread is old, but my reply may help someone at some point, so I'll post anyway. The only way to fix this bug is to launch the game and gain control of the playable character before turning on/plugging in your 360 gamepad. There's also a bug that prevents the game from properly running on PCs that have a CPU with more than 4 physical cores. I don't know if this bug has been fixed in the Origin version of the game, but it definitely has been fixed in the GOG version of the game. I also ran into a strange bug where the game would not launch because I had my documents folder set to a folder on an external hard drive. I changed it back to the default location, and the game has worked fine ever since. Sadly, EA shut down Pandemic right after they released The Saboteur, so Pandemic was never able to fix these game-breaking yet easily-fixable bugs. I hope this helps.

I loved this game but ran into the same problem with the camera and the pointer on the options screen while using with a controller. Did you say the GOG version doesn't have these problems? The game was a basic open world game like the other poster said but I really liked it and wanted to play it again.

[VclScore]

Thank you guys, this thread actually saved me. I thought it was a PS4 controller compatibility issue and was struggling for 2 hous to find a way to bypass it. It didn't occur to me that the game was bugged, because who the ♥♥♥♥ leaves such a bug in their game unfixed??? Then I remembered it's an EA game...