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Article #75349Q4: Buggy and annoying...
From: Doomy22
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:45
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:45
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After Doom 3, I was looking forward to this game but the bugs are so annoying that I've just uninstalled it and given the game to a friend (to annoy him ;-) The squad AI frequently leaves you being blocked from your path by members of your team - in one case this was in a doorway (with the door half closed, showing clipping artifacts) so there was no way to progress other than loading a previous save point. After that the problem was always in the back of my mind "don't stand here too long in case the dimwits block it up!" The sound turns into static when too much is going on. This also affected Doom 3, but other games I play such as HL2 and FC have not had this problem. The Tram level (this is what made me uninstall) can become impossible to complete. I made the mistake of using the DM gun on the horde of aliens outside the robot room that repairs the tram tracks. This was my second attempt, as I was swarmed on the first attempt and killed. Anyway, I noticed that there were far less enemies when I did this, but went ahead and enabled the robot, went back to the tram and... nothing. There was nothing left to do! No way back to my squad teammate, the tram had no interractivity. The level was just in limbo. I could have just cheated my way through I guess, but I'm sick of companies releasing buggy software and charging us to test it for them. I'm hoping HL2 aftermath will have better quality control!
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