Yes it’s a waitinggame. but i can’t help testingthings… 
looking at my windows update history 1 update came in 12th of dec and another 13th, that also corresponds with when the kernelbase.dll was last changed and my own problems started.
This is called survivorship bias. Players with this problem can’t really play the game b/c it crashes every 5 minutes, thus they are out of stats. I was playing it since day one and now I just can’t
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So far today 3 crashes on Xbox in 30mins.
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Tried rolling back those 2 windows updates, got the older kernelbase.dll version back but crashed again after 5mins.
Piicked the game up yesterday. Worked fine for about 4 hours but as soon as i got to this V something bunker it turned into a crash-fest, chrashing about every 5 min.
Is there going to be a solution or at least quicksave option soon, cause otherwise i would kindly ask steam for a refund since its absolutely unplayable.
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First off what device you play on? If you have a PS4 I can help you. The game has flaws but Devs are working hard on fixing its issues. There are always ways to get around situations. We will provide assistance, is it Vesslan? @G3DD0N sometimes the frame rates drop because of the rending process of the bunker. I got around this by having a friend join my session and helping me complete it.
@G3DD0N the game has flaws but give it an honest chance while devs work things out. It’s truly a fun game and if you look past its issues it’s quite a unique game to play and immerse yourself in. If you need any assistance at all feel free to contact us and we will assist you to the best of our knowledge. I hope your luck gets better as well as the gameplay mate. Hopefully this helps.
PC, thought that was obvious given that I mentioned Steam
Yes, thats the one.
No frame drops for me (I9, M2-SSD, 32GB ram, RTX 2080TI ROG STRIX). It just sends me straight to desktop every 5min
TY, tried troubleshooting for about 3 hours before i got to this post and now it’s kinda obvious that the game itself is the problem. we can just hope for for the best.
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Agreed, we apologize for your experience. Hopefully it does indeed work in your favor friend.
Started a new savefile and I’m almost at Salthamn without crashing now. Lets see how far I get =)
Most of us have been there, sorry it’s happening to you too now. I bought the game two months ago and I think my crashing starting at Vesslan bunker too. Strange! It’s totally random and on all platforms at this point there doesn’t seem to be anything anyone can do. I was pretty disappointed to wait all November and then the big update we were waiting for didn’t fix any of the crashes. Now waiting again an entire other month for another big update and… we’ll see… Can’t wait forever. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played but the crashing really ruins it, for sure.
Running in borderless window mode instead of dedicated full screen for some reason seemed to help a bit, but I don’t know. Yesterday I crashed every 2 minutes, or whenever I went to a particular mission location. Today I’ve played several hours between crashes. Totally random.
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I wouldn’t be mad about the crashes if there’d just be a Fallout/TES styled quicksave option or maybe even a timed autosave so you wouldn’t lose all your progress. But the way it is right now it feels like i wasted money on the game and that the game keeps wasting my money in the form of time. Like seriously just lemme keep my progress and it’d be fine or at the very least way less infuriating.
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Hello & welcome to the forums & the game. I am on Xbox & though this is very annoying & as a streamer who is trying to promote the game it is also embarrassing right now with all the crashing. That said the game has a development team that does care about the game & a fix I am positive will be coming soon.
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Decided to start a Xezr HC savefile. Almost cleaned out the Starting zone now, spawned 2 rivals. Killed one of them. No crashes yet.
I started crashing a lot again last night after a few days with not many. It seems related to certain locations for sure, and something to do with rivals. Once I made it through a particular mission I could go back to the areas where it was crashing and no more crashing constantly. Something about the machines in mission locations, how they spawn, the scripting, I don’t know, just fails. So after that I was still getting random crashes so I eliminated every single Rival in the game and then I went hours and hours with no rash. Then one Rival spawned and I started getting crashes again. Gotta be a Rival factor to the crashing or it’s one heck of a coincidence.
Seems I have about 90% chance of crash anytime I try to explore Markbacken. If there are one or more tanks there it will definitely crash as I try to move through the streets.
Unfortunately killing all the rivals didn’t get me much Winter wear either because it just kept giving me the same item color combos over again. Now I’m out of rivals and probably won’t get the purple fancy fur coat I was hoping for.
But yes G3DD0N it’s pretty disheartening. I can’t tell you how much of it I’ve been through. I would spend maybe four hours stealthing my way into a bunker with tanks and tons of dogs and all that and I was very low level with junk weapons. So I would have to sneak around and be very patient and pick things off from a distance. I’d try to lure individual machines around because I couldn’t survive more than one on me at once. I wasted my skill points on hacking because I thought that would give me a way to succeed but oh how I wish I could reclaim those two points. I’d use up all my ammo that took me hours and hours to pilfer, and I’d have the last enemy down to a few percentage points of health or maybe even had killed everything in my way and I was within steps of whatever thing I had to do to progress the mission and it would crash. Or I’d be in some long protracted battle and actually survive, maybe even kill a rival, and then it would crash before I could loot the destroyed machines. Really awful. Two months of this with no end in sight.
Certain areas are worse than others so I kept at it and went through periods of not as much crashing. I made it pretty much through the whole game at this point that way or at least as much as I can since some of the missions are bugged and can’t be finished. So I’m stuck there. The game is so addicting to me that I just keep at it no matter how miserable the crashing and progress ruination makes it. I can totally understand why it wouldn’t be worth it to someone if it hasn’t really hooked them yet. For me its the only thing that scratches the itch.
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Ps4 Pro ’ me ’ , Ps4 base ’ the Wife ’ i have made many reports here and PSN since game launch , i and wife have had many crashes from day one till now and more frequently since Rivals update , i dont bother reporting here anywore since it happens so many times i just send the PSN error as it happens . i do hope the development team realise that this is making most of us not want to start the game up ,
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Truthfully the game does run harshly but the devs try to balance requests as well as the games overall stability. They have a lot on their plate and I assure you they are doing their best to improve the overall experience for the community. The game just came out not that long ago, it’s expected to have errors and will for a while. Give them some time to work things out. They haven’t failed me yet in regards to improving the quality of the game. Yeah it pisses ya off at times but in all truth it’s honestly a fun game and a challenge in itself. I enjoy it despite the trial and error.
I would expect this if the game was marked early access but it’s not. I’m not all that confident at this point that the resources are going to solving these instability issues. I’m just not seeing the evidence. It’s heartbreaking really and I hope they realize how important it is. No amount of lip service will fix it, only fixing it. It really is a gem of a creation which is why people care so much who can’t play it. I’ve never seen anyone bashing the game, just bellyaching because it won’t run properly and they really want to play it. People get accused of attacking the company but nobody that I’ve seen wants to see this ship sink they just want to play it. The passion is a good sign. They have an incredible property here they just have to put the focus on the engine for a while until they figure it out then they can look forward to the cash flowing in for years… sequels… merchandising… the works… Just stay true to what they did here… ignore the detractors who want to turn it into every other game… stay true to the original theme and design… and they are looking at one of the top franchises of the next few years if they so choose. Just hope the project designer sees the worth of it enough to put the resources into stabilizing it so it can get all the love and attention its design deserves.
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No, that’s what QA is for. We shouldn’t expect this level of bugs from professionals and we shouldn’t pretend it’s ok. As much as I like the game, Avalanche have an embarrassing history for launch and patches / updates here. Remember the free play event?
I genuinely wish they would do that, but the DLC suggests they blinked.
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Yeah u re right, my first rival spawned once i got near the bunker and the crash-fest started
Do a C/O Alpha/Beta or slap an early access tag on it if you aren’t able to fix your shit but need the money i.o. to continue. But the game is a fully released title that already gets DLCs. It’s expected to run flawlessly and just have some minor bugs.
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