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[Kotaku] Brace yourself, Fallout 4 is a Bug-Apocalypse

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Originally Posted by Jim Sterling
Which brings us to the less savory matter at hand. It's time to talk about bugs - Fallout 4 has them, and I'm not referring to Radroaches. Being a Bethesda open-world game, you might be inclined to expect glitches and, well, those expectations will yield frustrating fruit. Pretty much everything you've seen impact Bethesda games of the past can be seen here, from a handful of potential quest bugs to wacky A.I. pathfinding and a number of physics-based anomalies. I'm also not sure whether or not an early story mission become unbeatable on a test file, because I'm sure the raiders I needed to kill weren't spawning.
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Originally Posted by phabio
I've been playing a review copy for over a week, and just discovered last night that a particular quest NPC not offering quest completion wasn't the result of my not completing a quest. Instead, I came to realize (after it happened with another NPC) that any time I have two completed quests for the same NPC, turning in one totally breaks the other. This wouldn't be such a problem if the one weren't the core Brotherhood of Steel quest line, and the other from the core story.

As it stands, I'm more than 60 hours into the game, and feeling like the whole experience is now a wash. :/
 
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Originally Posted by Boinz View Post

Like I said, happily awaiting a patch.
But how long the awaiting will be? Can't believe major game maker still maintain that business practice of shipping broken game. Yet, the game will be a massive one day record sale and nothing will change.
 
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Originally Posted by Sir Amik Vase View Post

If it has the same level of fanboyism that Skyrim had people will treat the bugs like features.
Of course - it's Bethesda and Fallout. People will make excuses and forgive. It's not like it's a Ubisoft game.

It's even okay to pre-order, because "we all know it's gonna be good".
 
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Originally Posted by andrews2547 View Post

No surprise really. Everyone was expecting it to be full of bugs at launch.
People are upset that people buy these "broken" games. They should have tested every possible combination of hardware first. And there is no patch yet because it's not fully released yet(like the patch every other game needs)
 
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I've never played a bethesda game before. How long does it take them to 'work out the kinks'?
 
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Originally Posted by sub50hz View Post

Unreal expectations, a core tenet of the PC gamer elite.
/sarcasm

Every game has issues at launch. Most are worse than this...people just like to fling poo.
 
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Well, duh! It's a Bethesda game! It wouldn't be one if it didn't have mess loads of bugs. I'll wait until the GoTY edition. By then modders should have taken care of most of the bugs, since I don't expect Bethesda to do so. The Unofficial Skyrim Fallout 4 Patch should take care of those. lol
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Originally Posted by keikei View Post

I've never played a bethesda game before. How long does it take them to 'work out the kinks'?
It really depends on when the modders fix it. lol.
 
#20 ·
This is why i wait for GOTY editions
 
#21 ·
Funny how they announced a month ago that the game went Gold. Hilarious! What a bunch of clowns! I realize that in most cases Gold mean the development/content is complete, but come on...What have they done in this last month? And are they really expecting people to believe that they didn't know about these bugs?! Of course they did! They just figured they'll release the game to cash in and try to fix it later.
Pathetic developers are pathetic! State of gaming nowadays is in the toilet! And some people will defend them to no end, even though all they care about is money and laughing all the way to the bank.
 
#22 ·
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Originally Posted by white owl View Post

/sarcasm
My detector is malfunctioning.

In any case, as long as it's not as bad as New Vegas was on launch day (it was a stuttery, crash-to-desktop mess that made me realize the value of F5), it'll probably just be moderately annoying at worst. I don't get full of hatred for buggy games like some other posters here, and I certainly don't think it's necessary to wage a 30-page holy war about it, since it's... a game.
 
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Originally Posted by Leopard2lx View Post

Funny how they announced a month ago that the game went Gold. Hilarious! What a bunch of clowns! I realize that in most cases Gold mean the development/content is complete, but come on...What have they done in this last month? And are they really expecting people to believe that they didn't know about these bugs?! Of course they did! They just figured they'll release the game to cash in and try to fix it later.
Pathetic developers are pathetic! State of gaming nowadays is in the toilet! And some people will defend them to no end, even though all they care about is money and laughing all the way to the bank.
Technically gold means that you have a build that will burn into DVDs. In any case there is nothing wrong with day 1 patches, between going gold and release day the QA process goes on. Most likely they knew about those bugs,or the most important of them and they were deemed "Known Shippable" (yes I work in the games industry for a big company, bigger than Beth actually and it happens all the time)-

R9 290X, running the game on 1440p it stucks at 20fps, splash screen, movies,cutscenes, everything, I suspect it is radeon specific, anyone else having the same issue? Any workarounds?
 
#25 ·
"Journalists" who report bullcrap like this should be given a permanent gag order. Oh my god? ?!?!?! A GAME HAS BUGS ON RELEASE? HOW DARE IT! Better spam this all over my crappy website to get more views and money.
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Originally Posted by Kuivamaa View Post

Technically gold means that you have a build that will burn into DVDs. In any case there is nothing wrong with day 1 patches, between going gold and release day the QA process goes on. Most likely they knew about those bugs,or the most important of them and they were deemed "Known Shippable" (yes I work in the games industry for a big company, bigger than Beth actually and it happens all the time)-

R9 290X, running the game on 1440p it stucks at 20fps, splash screen, movies,cutscenes, everything, I suspect it is radeon specific, anyone else having the same issue? Any workarounds?
Give it a week, AMD will have better drivers and Fallout 4 will have 2 patches already.
 
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Originally Posted by TheHorse View Post

"Journalists" who report bullcrap like this should be given a permanent gag order. Oh my god? ?!?!?! A GAME HAS BUGS ON RELEASE? HOW DARE IT! Better spam this all over my crappy website to get more views and money.
It's Kotaku, not sure what else you should expect from them. Kotaku is known for their click bait gaming articles. Not to mention the false information and and blatant exaggeration.
 
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