I am giving up on the technical state of the game (PS4 pro) | theHunter: Call of the Wild | Page 1

hollow spear Mar 20, 2023, 5:19 PM

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I really loved and enjoyed the game for some time now. But unfortunately I must say it is one of the worst console ports (I am guessing it was ported from PC?) I have ever played.

It happened now twice that the game loses progress after closing and loading it.
Again I lost hours and hours of scouting, hunting and exploring.

I just don‘t want to repeat the same quests or hunts over and over again after already generously glancing over the many bugs I have encountered and reported and that have not been addressed, including even progression bugs.
Or the fact, that even smaller fixes take months to be addressed like the small gap down at the binoculars (which is not a problem itself, but shows the cadence in which issues are solved for the players or worse what role QA plays in the development process).

But I am not writing this as a software engineer but as a gamer and I wanted you to know that the gaming experience was really beautiful but is ruined by the technical state of the game even after so many years of development.

Thanks for reading and greetings from Germany!

Markus

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Of course I am not the only one: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1086784957600514138

old dust Mar 20, 2023, 5:21 PM

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This update has been plaguing everybody with crashes and progress losses. It definitely isn’t just you

hollow spear Mar 20, 2023, 5:23 PM

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I have talked to support before but no fruitful solution was proposed. I thought the easiest thing to do with so many complaints not just now but over time would be to let us create manual saves. That would probably be a lot easier than finding the problem, but that also was not an option it seems

hollow spear Mar 20, 2023, 5:27 PM

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old dust This update has been plaguing everybody with crashes and progress losses. It def...

BTW: I have not even installed the recent update because I was afraid to lose progress again. Now it happened just before the install 🤪

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And maybe just to emphasize how frustrating all of that is I want to add that I have bought maps I have not even played because I wanted to keep them for last. I guess I will never find out

old dust Mar 20, 2023, 5:29 PM

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Yeah the state of the game is awful, we need to push bug fixing as a priority for devs. It sometimes feels like they don’t even bother testing the game out for consoles before an update releases. Its ridiculous

hollow spear Mar 20, 2023, 5:33 PM

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I have no idea how agile software development works in the gaming industry but whatever is done with this game is highly problematic and from the outside it seems like a systemic issue of the software development process 🤔

I am just saying this to shift away blame from the passionate developers that are doing their best 🤓

old dust Mar 20, 2023, 5:36 PM

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It’s completely understandable that there are bound to be bugs with each update, that’s inevitable with any game. But to see the game in such a broken state after each and every single content drop is getting frustrating

#I am giving up on the technical state of the game (PS4 pro)