The dimensions of AAA video games today means bugs are virtually inevitable, particularly in open-world video games like Star Wars Outlaws. Whether or not it is a graphical glitch, a stuttering line, or one thing extra severe, everybody has tales of working into bugs, and generally fixing these could be problematic for builders.
In a message despatched out to Star Wars Outlaws PS5 gamers, Ubisoft has apologized to those that “had entry to an older model of the sport”, as they may be encountering points after the newest replace on PlayStation 5. Within the letter, they inform gamers to ensure they’ve up to date to the newest model (1.000.002 as of the time it was despatched), and to begin a brand new save as in the event that they proceed on a previous save they’ll “sadly face points and development blockers.”
Whereas journalists and influencers are used to points from testing video games heading as much as launch, together with needing to restart, what makes Star Wars Outlaws totally different right here is that it follows the more and more in style pattern of AAA video games to permit early entry to gamers who pay extra for a particular version that lets them play the sport as much as three days later. Thus, gamers who paid a premium to get their arms on Star Wars Outlaws only a bit earlier are shedding their development, and time spent within the recreation as a result of Ubisoft failed to make sure that the model launched was prepared for its efficient precise launch date.
Star Wars Outlaws has obtained largely optimistic critiques, together with our Star Wars Outlaws assessment by Erren Van Duine, however this highlights an issue with this mannequin of launch, the place main publishers are releasing these video games as accomplished with primarily two separate launch dates. Right here, we see these premium-paying gamers shedding saves they made throughout that point thus far. Digital Arts has used the identical interval to assist defend Madden from critiques, by not letting reviewers publish their critiques till after the early entry interval was up and it reached the second, ‘official’, launch date.
That is removed from the primary time that Ubisoft has confronted points with bugs of their video games. Most famously could be with Murderer’s Creed Unity, which grew to become infamous for its extensive number of glitches, a lot so {that a} decade later it is nonetheless a byword for it. Nonetheless, even that recreation did not attain the heights of Ubisoft’s worst bug, which got here in 2001 with Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Fantasy Drannor, a Dungeons and Dragons RPG that once you went to uninstall it, the sport would uninstall system information in your pc.
As for now, Star Wars Outlaws seems poised to hitch the Star Wars: Jedi video games like Fallen Order, and Jedi Survivor as substantial trendy single-player additions to the wealthy Star Wars online game historical past. Even whether it is making life tougher on those that tossed in some additional credit to play early.