Re: Star Wars Outlaws is buggy!

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:52:38 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 10/03/2025 16:33, Zaghadka wrote:

Wait. What? Why would you do that? It's Ubisoft. Bethesda has "buggy open
world" trademarked and then patented as a game mechanic. (USPO #32768:
"Open world game with annoying or gamebreaking bugs that will later be
fixed by the community")

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I know that gets said a lot but having put many hours into FO:3/NV and
Skyrim, beyond graphical glitches (wow I'm talking to a guy with no
head) I can't say I've particularly noticed any bugs that screw over quests.
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I got fucked over with the very last quest in "New Vegas"; I'd make my
choice and the game immediately crashed, whichever I side picked. So I
technically have never finished that game.

There were other glitches and whatnot throughout the game, but most of
those were fairly minor; noticable, annoying, but not game-breaking. I
think there was one where you have to raise a B-29 bomber from beneath
a lake, and it didn't rise when I pushed the button? A reload solved
that issue. That sort of thing.

I'm a bit more forgiving of that, because a) the game was developed in
a rush, and b) Bethesda/Obsidian fixed a lot of the bugs after the
fact. It's still inexcusable that games are released in such a state,
but I think we as gamers have long conceded that we don't actually
care enough to do anything about it.  But "Star Wars: Outlaws" has
been out almost half a year now and for the game to remain in such a
state is obnoxious.

Bethesda game bugs tend to be more of the emergent-behavior thing
anyway; AI doing stuff it wasn't expected to do, or the sheer
complexitity of the quest-scripts getting all a-tangled. Their games
are much more complex. Their simpler titles (like the "Wolfenstein"
games) tend to fare much better in that regard.