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Do you have an example of a bug that prevents quest completion? I've been lucky enough to not run into a single one during my 100+ hours so far and I've been trying to do every quest. I worry that these things keep getting said without people actually experiencing them. I have several friends playing on PS4 without the reported crashes. Not saying you haven't, I just don't have any direct knowledge of the issues that have been reported and when it is, it's very hand-wavy.

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On PS4 I ran into a bug near the end of "The Pickup" mission where Jackie gets stuck inside the All Foods building. The next objective is to talk to him, but once you exit the building you can't re-enter or call him. I had to go back to a previous save a few times. Sometimes the game just crashes and I have to restart the console. There have been some other bugs that I just found funny, like once I was driving and all of a sudden the car was stuck hundreds of feet in the air and I fell and died when I got out. I've been enjoying the game though and the bugs haven't really bothered me too much, but I see how they could.

The crashes seem like the worst problem. I imagine that is really frustrating on console. Thanks for sharing.

Games like this tend to have bugs that I can't understand. I recently played through an identical mission a friend of mine was having problems completing. In his game, on a different PC, the game crashes every time he initiated the quest. In mine, it worked without a hitch.

There's so many differences between our savefiles and our system configurations that the bug could be a combinatorial explosion of things without access to source code.

This is super common in videogames. When some significant amount of people are experiencing bugs with a game and you're not, you should defer to the judgement of the ones who are having problems.

I only ran into one bug that prevented quest completion. Near the beginning of the game, there is a quest where you and Jackie have to pick up some equipment then fight your way out of the building. On my first attempt, Jackie got stuck in combat because he didn't recognize a dead as enemy as being dead, so he wouldn't leave the building for me to talk to him and finish the quest.

Here’s one right off the top of Google search: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/game-break...

Ah, that Disasterpiece one sounds unfortunate. As both a QA tester and quest scripter I can imagine how that cases was potentially missed though.

Is that one you've experienced gabereiser?

Once but a refresh from an older save (and doing things in proper order) worked the second time.

I viewed such a bug on a Twitch stream. Avoiding spoiler details... The streamer was completing the Delemain (sp) questline and had to roll back to a save just before the decision at the end due to a softlock that happened in the scripted sequence after.

There's one quest line which makes you wake up naked without your stuff.

If you trigger the exit dialogue before picking up your stuff, the quest line gets stuck.

That's the only actual showstopper I encountered in 60 hours of gameplay.

I've had a few bugs where scripted events fail to trigger. Nothing game breaking, it's usually solved by loading the last save.

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