Team Report posted today, brings up this topic 
Edit: Post merged.
Game Crash to desktop randomly after killing any bot/
Seems to have started after Alpine Unrest DLC
Is still broken after January 2020 Update
Platform: PC (Steam)
Steps To Reproduce:
Kill a bot, random crash to desktop when approaching before looting
Images / Videos:
None
Host or Client: Host
Players in your game: Single Player
Specifications:
Alienware Area-51 R5
64Gb DDR4 Ram
NVidia 2080Ti 11Gb DDR6 Ram
CPU and GPU Liquid cooled
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Intel Core i9-9980XE 3.0 GHz 18 Core 36 Logical processors
L1 cache 1.1Mb L2 Cache 18Mb L3 Cache 24.8Mb DirectX 12
By me ist the same.
Kill a bot, Crash
I cant play the game for 10min
Its so bad, i buying the Dlc. Then this Problem with the Rivals make the Game complete unplayable.
So i reported it, then Nothing come.
Then the Update. I so happy and come back to the game but its crashed again. Oh Lord
For the last 2 months the game are complete unplayable
It was on Sale on the Psn Store but honest, so i cant really recommend it any of my Friends.
So we move to another Co-op Game. Sry for this great Game 
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Yep. Only change I see is I can reload while running…before it crashes. Earlier killed three Hunters, went to loot, crash. Tonight, killed three Hunters and a bunch of Runners, got to loot. Killed a Tank, crashed before I could loot. In each case it was less than half an hour’s play. This is an improvement since just before Christmas when it crashed within minutes. I wonder if there’s a way to load my system info to my profile. It would make it a lot easier to write crash reports. The next issue after frequent crashes is disappearing kills and lots of little stuff like the warehouse windows that destruct but you can’t shoot through. I wish we could get reliable play so we can ask for improvements. I’d love to be able to fight from apartments, not just stairwells and it would be great if they replicated enterable businesses on the main island. Be nice if a rocket to a Hunter’s chest caused them to at least stagger. Every critter in this post was Apocalypse Class.
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I “solved” the crashing by killing off all the level 4 (and most of the rest) rivals.
I then got several hours of playtime with no crash.
When area level got back up high enough to generate new rivals the crashes resumed. These crashes do not trigger Crash Reporter.
This is all so stupid.
Edit to add: The crashes occur at the end of battles usually before the combat survival experience notice, but sometimes that happens and it hits after that presumably when there would like be a rival creation or upgrade notice.
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In my game, Rival leveled up without issues. It’s the Rival spawning in that freezes the game for me.
Yes indeed, I tried this, too, after my crash series started. Eliminating rivals in a region and resetting it to zero stopped the crashing until the score went up into regions where rivals are due to spawn.
And, I can’t say it often enough, there has to be a relation to the holiday event in some way, because until the December update everything worked well, and also just before x-mas, rivals were spawning in as I tried to get some of that holiday stuff.
Then I took a break until the beginning of January and everything seemed to has gone down the drain… So something happened internally in between the 22nd December and 4th January that causes massive crashes.
My first guess was something related to internal rival loot tables and timed out holiday loot or something like that. But that seems to not fit any more because of the prolonged/revived holiday stuff…
My 2 cents…
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There’s definitely something going on with crashing upon leaving/exiting combat. It’s way too common an occurence. But I think it’s safe to conclude it’s got do do with enemies in general.
I can confirm this through my testing.
Confirmed.
(20 characters)
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After 30+h on a fresh save I had 5 crashes - 2 were random, and 3 plundra related.
Rivals spawn normally.
Maybe, but… this is no Alpha or Beta so I really don’t want to start again from scrap…
And until x-Mas the game worked nearly flawless for me, a little bug or irritation here and there but nearly no crashes. Maybe one or two per month over a period of 4 months, but that’s it.
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Same feelings here. I love the game but am right now very frustrated.
SPP
I can’t even play today. I’ve crashed out of 7 MP games so far, and after 3 solo player attempts I’ve gotten about 10 total minutes of playtime. This is the most frustrated I’ve ever been with a game. This is the kind of thing that warrants a Hotfix. No one can play the game I mean WTF
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Absolutely. They should also clue us in if there’s anything we can do to lessen the problem with our systems.
It seems incomprehensible to me why they would tweak, change, or in any other way modify this game one iota until these completely game-breaking technical issues are resolved. This should be top priority above all else and only when all crashing is completely solved then carefully make improvements/modifications moving forward and preferably with a beta opt-in so these problems can get sorted before “official” releases.
It’s just common sense and good logic to isolate and remedy fundamental problems before touching anything else.
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There appears to be one other instigating factor for crashing which is opening machines for looting that have certain rare clothing items. In such cases upon opening the loot dialogue the game instantly freezes and crashes to desktop, usually not activating the Crash Reporter. So far it has always been when there was a rare clothing item in the loot. Very frustrating. I wonder what a boot with a red “L2” tag under the boot icon is because I’m never able to collect it due to the crash.
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I crash alot to, i reinstalled the game , updated gpu and still crash
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I’ve surpassed 110 hours in the game, and have started to crash on this new update. First day was fine, second day on the new update crashed to desktop once an hour. Didn’t have to be doing anything in particular, one crash was doing nothing at all, just walking around, while another was when I killed a seeker. 3rd day on the new update crashed about once an hour regardless of task.
Today I havent seen a crash yet on my problematic save. Anyone else noticing a change today?
I managed to spawn 2 rivals, one from dieing. Killed them both and spawned 2 new ones in different regions. Also managed some bigger fights, 2 harvesters, 1 apoc tank, 8-10 hunters and some 10+ dogs in one fight and didnt crash.
edit Managed to spawn 1 rival in each of the regions now, no crashes.
edit2 A 3-4 hour session completed, without any crashes today and rivals spawn and lvl up without issue.
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I would like to say that the crashes happen for me at least during or right after combat has ended.
This is seemingly so because the game saves progress in 3 ways, that I’m aware of:
- After combat
- After fast traveling to any location
- Auto save every 5 min or so. (not sure what the interval is), and this could even occur during combat which could explain why some of you crash during combat.
I am not sure why the game is faulting when trying to write to its save file, unless the save data is being stored in memory, and the memory location is changing right before the next save occurs causing the memory to throw a fault that inevitably causes a game crash and is shown as a memory error in EV.
I’ve also read that corruption of this file overtime was suggested, but I am pretty sure this is not the case. The game would not be able to load a corrupted save, which would result in bringing you to a “New game” menu instead of the “Continue” menu when launching the game.
I have a hard time believing that its caused by Rivals spawning as they appear in my game without crashing. I do however crash when fighting tanks that I’ve removed weapons from prior to neutralizing.
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