Post by alanfeems on Mar 23, 2017 16:42:41 GMT
Okay so I get that people are upset about a number of issues regarding cosmetics and gameplay that subtract from the game - but let me tell you about a serious issue I've encountered.
I started my first save file with my Ryder (male) and things were going along pretty well. My fiancee decided that she was curious about the game and wanted to start her own save with her own Ryder (female) and I happily showed her how to create a new save file before I had to run out the door for a meeting and left her to customize her character and begin the game.
While I'm in my meeting I start getting messages from her saying "My character is sitting INSIDE of another character during a conversation!" and "Why are some things floating around like there's no gravity and everyone else is acting like things are fine??" and then finally "I think this game is broken... it says there's a malfunction I need to find but I don't have any option to do so."
Now my fiancee isn't a regular player of video games so I tried my best to subtly text her back during my meeting to offer advice but it was hard for me to tell if the glitches were mostly cosmetic and she was just having issues with the controls that kept her from progressing or if there was a bigger issue. When I got home we fired it up and sure enough everything was exactly as she explained. It seemed as if simultaneously Ryder was sitting on a bed and another character was on a bed, and simultaneously things were floating and firmly on the floor, even the giant machine that malfunctions as the first mission objective seemed to be simultaneously broken and operating perfectly. At that point it occurred to me that maybe there was actually some sort of bleed over from my own saved character and sure enough that seemed to be exactly the case. Her journal had all of the same completed and active quests as my character and even her game completion percentage was exactly the same as mine - despite the fact that I had played for several hours and she was still at the point in the story where she was first coming out of stasis!
Fortunately my save file wasn't negatively affected by hers, but somehow her character's progression and my own had somehow been fused in a very bizarre way and she wasn't able to progress because the game simultaneously told her that she needed to scan the machine to progress and also that there was nothing to scan. Needless to say I'm very frustrated by this as I've been trying for years to get my fiancee to develop an interest in video games and this is her first experience - not to mention that I spent good money on this product with such a huge issue that alpha and beta testing should have identified.
Has anyone else encountered anything like this? I'd love to compare notes - and especially solutions if anyone has any.
I started my first save file with my Ryder (male) and things were going along pretty well. My fiancee decided that she was curious about the game and wanted to start her own save with her own Ryder (female) and I happily showed her how to create a new save file before I had to run out the door for a meeting and left her to customize her character and begin the game.
While I'm in my meeting I start getting messages from her saying "My character is sitting INSIDE of another character during a conversation!" and "Why are some things floating around like there's no gravity and everyone else is acting like things are fine??" and then finally "I think this game is broken... it says there's a malfunction I need to find but I don't have any option to do so."
Now my fiancee isn't a regular player of video games so I tried my best to subtly text her back during my meeting to offer advice but it was hard for me to tell if the glitches were mostly cosmetic and she was just having issues with the controls that kept her from progressing or if there was a bigger issue. When I got home we fired it up and sure enough everything was exactly as she explained. It seemed as if simultaneously Ryder was sitting on a bed and another character was on a bed, and simultaneously things were floating and firmly on the floor, even the giant machine that malfunctions as the first mission objective seemed to be simultaneously broken and operating perfectly. At that point it occurred to me that maybe there was actually some sort of bleed over from my own saved character and sure enough that seemed to be exactly the case. Her journal had all of the same completed and active quests as my character and even her game completion percentage was exactly the same as mine - despite the fact that I had played for several hours and she was still at the point in the story where she was first coming out of stasis!
Fortunately my save file wasn't negatively affected by hers, but somehow her character's progression and my own had somehow been fused in a very bizarre way and she wasn't able to progress because the game simultaneously told her that she needed to scan the machine to progress and also that there was nothing to scan. Needless to say I'm very frustrated by this as I've been trying for years to get my fiancee to develop an interest in video games and this is her first experience - not to mention that I spent good money on this product with such a huge issue that alpha and beta testing should have identified.
Has anyone else encountered anything like this? I'd love to compare notes - and especially solutions if anyone has any.
