After spending two hours trying to get a game for three people going (the absolute atrocity that is the Random Map Generator will definitely be discussed in another entry), the game crashed on one of our computers. The player could not get it to close, so he restarted his computer. When it came back on, he tried to restart the game, but it gave him this crazy error message (which I will include a picture of very soon.)
The game seemed to think that it was STILL RUNNING on his computer, even after it was restarted. It also no longer recognized the disc as a Heroes disc anymore. He has uninstalled it twice, removed all his maps and player data, and restarted his computer, and it still gives him that obnoxious message with terrible grammar.
Heroes no longer works on his computer because it crashed and he had to restart. He will be trying other ways to fix this, but has already spent an hour fucking with it.
Another issue happens on the computer of another player: once the disc is in her computer, it cannot be taken out unless she restarts her computer and ejects it right as the computer starts up.
This game tries very hard to be completely incompatible with computers, which, oddly enough, are the machines that run it.
Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Glitches
Here's another reason Heroes V is an awful experience: the programmers couldn't be bothered to fix some of the worst bugs and glitches.
For instance, one fine example is the time I didn't start with a fucking hero at all.
Everyone else had a hero and didn't believe me that I didn't have one. However, where my hero's face should have been was a black square, there was no hero hidden in my city. I didn't start with a goddamn hero for no goddamn reason. I even chose one in the multiplayer lobby. And to top it off, the "bonus" I chose was a random artifact, which of course I didn't get because I didn't start with a hero that could carry it.
The first thing I had to do, then, was waste some gold on a substandard hero that I didn't even want.
This seems like a basic, easily-preventable bug. But it happened nonetheless.
For instance, one fine example is the time I didn't start with a fucking hero at all.
Everyone else had a hero and didn't believe me that I didn't have one. However, where my hero's face should have been was a black square, there was no hero hidden in my city. I didn't start with a goddamn hero for no goddamn reason. I even chose one in the multiplayer lobby. And to top it off, the "bonus" I chose was a random artifact, which of course I didn't get because I didn't start with a hero that could carry it.
The first thing I had to do, then, was waste some gold on a substandard hero that I didn't even want.
This seems like a basic, easily-preventable bug. But it happened nonetheless.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)