Comprehensive list of issues experienced PS4 post-1.05 patch (unplayable)
If I join trials it disconnects either my opponent giving me a free win and XP, or it disconnects me and sends me back to the PVE world. The PVE world is a mess. The music overlaps and glitches out as if someone put it in slow-motion with lots of artefacts and glitchy noises slowing down the tracks, so the music is often broken.
When fighting NPCs my attacks 7/10 times start to do nothing and the enemies reset and the players that were around disappear completely.
I got a gold absolver trophy out of nowhere when approaching the main hub and then my camera froze and it let my character run off into the distance without trailing me; I had to quit.
About 20 times I've been unable to respawn with the time going to a minus value like "-200 secs until respawn" this generally means I have to hard quit the entire game.
At the beginning of the game the loading screen colours are glitched out and dark, they don't fade in so it's not a stylistic thing.. they just suddenly pop into full contrast/colour.
When the world desyncs and players/AI start to disappear, this is prime time to fall through the level.. if you jump off a cliff or into water, you can start to walk around - I've been off the map completely more than 3 times now.
I've seen clones of myself when the world is desynced, i.e a character wearing my clothes with my gamer tag spawned on top of me for a while then disappeared and I was frozen, this happens a lot when I can't respawn.
Spawning stuck in meditation animation leads to me literally floating through the world at the pace of running but in a sitting position. This also happens but only my shards spawn, and my character disappears so I am invisible on my screen.
Tried switching to invitations mode to alleviate the PVP issues, nope: loads for infinite amount of time and pressing circle to close won't work so I have to hard quit, meanwhile Wintory's soundtrack is now fizzing loudly with distortion in the background worse than before.
At the start of a trial (I am yet to properly complete more than one or two real fights as there's always a D/C) I can see my shards separate from my body in the opening fighter introduction.
Pop-in everywhere
If I pan the camera around my character, his mask has an ugly texture that appears outside of it.
If I lock onto the clone of me that appears, I cannot retarget him... my camera remains fixated on him. I need to wait until he disappears.
As I type this, I have respawned stuck in place where the clone was... when I try to run around it moves my character but not the one that's in third person which is stuck, it now moves the clone around. I can upload footage of this if you have any interest in learning more.
That's all for now. I did pay 30 euros for this and I would actually class it as pretty unplayable, regardless of what any damage control fan says. Here's hoping this list reaches the right person.
When fighting NPCs my attacks 7/10 times start to do nothing and the enemies reset and the players that were around disappear completely.
I got a gold absolver trophy out of nowhere when approaching the main hub and then my camera froze and it let my character run off into the distance without trailing me; I had to quit.
About 20 times I've been unable to respawn with the time going to a minus value like "-200 secs until respawn" this generally means I have to hard quit the entire game.
At the beginning of the game the loading screen colours are glitched out and dark, they don't fade in so it's not a stylistic thing.. they just suddenly pop into full contrast/colour.
When the world desyncs and players/AI start to disappear, this is prime time to fall through the level.. if you jump off a cliff or into water, you can start to walk around - I've been off the map completely more than 3 times now.
I've seen clones of myself when the world is desynced, i.e a character wearing my clothes with my gamer tag spawned on top of me for a while then disappeared and I was frozen, this happens a lot when I can't respawn.
Spawning stuck in meditation animation leads to me literally floating through the world at the pace of running but in a sitting position. This also happens but only my shards spawn, and my character disappears so I am invisible on my screen.
Tried switching to invitations mode to alleviate the PVP issues, nope: loads for infinite amount of time and pressing circle to close won't work so I have to hard quit, meanwhile Wintory's soundtrack is now fizzing loudly with distortion in the background worse than before.
At the start of a trial (I am yet to properly complete more than one or two real fights as there's always a D/C) I can see my shards separate from my body in the opening fighter introduction.
Pop-in everywhere
If I pan the camera around my character, his mask has an ugly texture that appears outside of it.
If I lock onto the clone of me that appears, I cannot retarget him... my camera remains fixated on him. I need to wait until he disappears.
As I type this, I have respawned stuck in place where the clone was... when I try to run around it moves my character but not the one that's in third person which is stuck, it now moves the clone around. I can upload footage of this if you have any interest in learning more.
That's all for now. I did pay 30 euros for this and I would actually class it as pretty unplayable, regardless of what any damage control fan says. Here's hoping this list reaches the right person.
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My powers are now gone in Online mode. I logged out and in but only my sword shard icon appears. Note: powers seem to work when I enter a trial (again, these trials always end in disconnect) but not in PvE online. I tried to switch to offline mode but my powers are still gone.
Update: I can equip other powers but I have lost my healing and shockwave abilities now for good.
I'll be passing these reports to the team to have a closer look and see what can be done, so if you managed to capture any pictures or video, or if you have further details on replicating the issues, would you be able to put links or further posts into this thread also? It would really help to better understand the situations you've been experiencing.
While I can't guarantee a direct reply, I'll make sure that this is brought to them. Thank you again for taking the time to share these bugs with us, and please accept my apologies for the trouble they've caused!
Cheers, anyway. I'll update you with video soon.
As for your question, the team are working on the connection side of things as well and looking for ways to give a more consistent experience, along with investigating and testing. I don't have much to provide beyond that at the moment, but they've been made aware of the possible exploitation of it as well, thanks for bringing it up!
Once we get more info on any progress that's been made, we'll make sure to post what we have when we can.