Letter from the Team - August 26th

My personal wish for next Letter from the Team would be: We looked over our existing QA process and took actions to improve/re-implement it.

No offense guys, I/we love this game and all the stuff you are creating, but your QA process sucks. I simply can’t get how it is even possible to do a release with so many serious bugs… Simply can’t. Through my 20+ years IT career, I saw lot of :poop:, but at least the QA stopped the worst of it. Always.

You CAN better. I believe you CAN.

Thank you :pray: :sweden:

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:+1: thank you, i think so too

Before this bigg update my game dident crasched that often but now it happens more often and even If I play alone i never hade this problem If I played Alone i hope there whill be a fix soon i have reinstal the game and so but noting works fore a longer time its just a temp fix

The game is still crashing 4-6 times within 2 hours till I give up and call it a day but now my side missions are missing in my log, there be 1 mission top of the log screen then 4 spaces below it til I get to the ones that are completed, it’s all blank, I counted the slots and it seem 4 side missions are not showing what they are and to do and where to go and this is also makes the game not fun, please fix soon.

I play on Xbox Series X

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Let’s be honest; the game went from overly buggy before the update to extremely buggy and crash happy after. With all due respect, as i do understand the small dev team conundrum, your words seem disingenuous as soon as you mention a single hotfix. This game is so broken that even the people who come out in your defense whenever someone says something negative, even when factual, arent defending this. I rarely post due to this so its somewhat amazing to see. Some of these bugs were WORSENED by the update but not CREATED by it.

A single hotfix cannot solve this. This game NEEDS, more than anything, for you to put new content on hold and instead focus on a series of updates that fix problems and maybe some tweaking, like you started with crafting. What good is new content if it isnt usable? There are bugs and issues from launch that still exist. The infinite tick crash started close to two years ago I think? The new content is making the game worse, and I believe the vast majority of players would prefer regular bug fixing updates to new content right now.

I love the feel of this game when traveling the northern farmlands. Until i find a door that shuts the wrong way, unlootable crates, etc. These could be fixed and the players would love it! We would even help! Make a thread asking us to report things that need fixed and we would be happy to assist. PLEASE just think on this.

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This “series of bug fixing patches” has been requested so many times at this point. I doubt it will ever happen.

Every time they seem to get rid of last update’s major bugs, they introduce new “content” that just breaks it even more.

If there is some sort of difference between the people who bug fix and they people who create new content, they really need to speak more or something. Whatever is being done now is so clearly not working that anybody could see it.

I am extremely curious about what the issue even is. We are told all the time that the dev team works extremely hard, I have talked to one or two and they seem perfectly capable. However, something clearly is not working. One expects the game to evovle, if slowly, not take half a step forward, 2 steps backwards, and then sometimes trip.

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Game is working fine for me, 1 crash in 15hr approximate playtime on Win10. Thanks, Devs, for all your hard work!

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There already are some big threads for reporting issues in the world. If you find some, add them there.
For anything else it’s up to us to report them.

Many of the issues already are reported multiple times and the mods try to communicate them towards the team, if they are serious. We just have to give all information regarding the issues to help them. Just complaining about random crashes doesn’t help.

Although I agree with you (bugs first, then content) I don’t know if we or the devs have influence on the teams tasks.
As far as I know there are members that are responsible for bugfixing, and some are responsible for creating new content.

I don’t know how the communication works, but often it seems that these teams don’t talk to each other like

Team A: We create new control points!
Team B: Oh, wait, there are serious bugs on them we are working at. Let us fix them first.
Team A: Ok, we’ll move the releasedate, tell us if you’re finished. We’ll work on new vehicles/weapons/locations in the meantime.

At some point there just has to be a descition to move personal from one team to another to fasten the processes.

“just”…

I’m playing on series X solo , I’ve not had any crashes yet, all I notice is a complete mess of collectibles and XP being given in areas I’ve visited an age ago, this is pretty frustrating as you collect the same collectible that is already in your log, and gain no new XP, anyhow am hoping these and other issues are fixed, it kinda ruins the emersion I love !

I’m playing on xbox single player. massive crashes still make game unplayable. Why? This condition has been amplified since the last update.

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I wish they fix this game, I no longer can stay in the game long enough to play without crashing 4-5 times an hour. I love this game a lot but saddens me very much I can’t play the game.

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I get it…
I havent even updated the game, not worth it, it could even damage my console having so many crashes one after another.
Maybe in a few months its better, who knows? :neutral_face:

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I have a Xbox one and rarely crash. When I start to see graphics/frame rate decrease I goto a safe house and save then restart console. Also I have the game running on an external 1TB fast SSD drive.
This works well for me. The game is very amazing despite a few quarks here and there.

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Exactly, just play other games, or play GZ older version without updating.
Im not risking my PS4, cant even find a new one for sale or the next gen version! (but that is another issue not related to GZ).

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After todays new hit fix update, the Troll Toll quest take down the big machine, the big machine is not showing up, so this has not big fixed.

I’m still very disappointed, I like completing everything there is in this game and this side mission is stopping me to do this.

This issue wasn’t listed on the patch notes.
I can even remember, when it was reported the last time.

But you can read something about it here:

I just created a new character 2 times and each time still no big machine is spawning.

What if you create a new character and wait (do something else) for about 4 real hours (in game) until you take the next try?

That’s what helped often with issues with loot boxes.

I’ll give that a try, I’ll create a new character again the wait at the safe house and let 4 hours in game time go by then relig out and back in then run over to see if big machine has spawn.

Thank you

Well that didn’t work, oh well I’ll just have to skip this side mission, maybe down road it may fix itself.