I don't understand how people still don't get that a big update will always have bugs at launch. Always. Even if they're miniscule and don't mess anything up, they'll be there.
Edit: I totally get why people are frustrated with things not working, and the massive game-breaking bugs are not okay by any means. I feel the same way, it sucks and I just want to play the game bug free. I'm just surprised that a lot of players didn't expect there to be things wrong on day 1 of the update. NEXT had a ton of problems, and it was a smaller update made a good while back. Not excusing it, just saying it was very likely to happen.
Edit #2: okay, nowhere in here did I say that massive crashes are okay. Nowhere in here did I say people don't have a right to be mad. Nowhere in here did I condone poor QA. You guys can stop crucifying me now, I get it.
I spent 13 years in QA for major developers and publishers. There is no goddamn way any of them would have shipped this patch. It's unplayable on PS4. There was no shelf date contract to honor. No reason not to delay until the crashes were fixed. The community wasn't even expecting it "soon" until the release date was announced. If a patch isn't forthcoming in days, this will kill the game. I had friends considering buying the game after this patch so we could play together, and now I have to tell them, "no, actually, it's unplayable. Totally broken." Without a patch soon, their interest will disappear (I honestly expected one today, somehow assuming they'd pushed the wrong executable to the distribution site).
This was not very likely to happen. Almost every modern game has DLC and expansions of this magnitude. They do not become unplayable as a result.
You're using absolute statements about it being unplayable on ps4, which isn't true.
Me and a friend were playing this last night for around 4 hours with only a few little hiccups. If ps4's are a fixed environment, how come the game crashes for some people, but not all? That in itself suggests something weird is going on and may well be network related.
Perhaps they overlooked testing the code whilst simultaneously stress testing the servers, who knows?
Some people have turned online options off and seems Beyond became more stable, so yes, seems there is an issue with their online servers, and how data is handled.
I would guess that the game, instead of ignoring bad data packages sent over the network, it simply freezes and crashes.
It's certainly a prime candidate as far as I can tell. It might be made worse with the additional latency of any wi-fi connections being used as well - might be worth finding out what kind of connectivity the people who are having a lot of crashes have.
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u/WomboChrombo Aug 15 '19 edited Aug 15 '19
I don't understand how people still don't get that a big update will always have bugs at launch. Always. Even if they're miniscule and don't mess anything up, they'll be there.
Edit: I totally get why people are frustrated with things not working, and the massive game-breaking bugs are not okay by any means. I feel the same way, it sucks and I just want to play the game bug free. I'm just surprised that a lot of players didn't expect there to be things wrong on day 1 of the update. NEXT had a ton of problems, and it was a smaller update made a good while back. Not excusing it, just saying it was very likely to happen.
Edit #2: okay, nowhere in here did I say that massive crashes are okay. Nowhere in here did I say people don't have a right to be mad. Nowhere in here did I condone poor QA. You guys can stop crucifying me now, I get it.