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Q4: Buggy and annoying...

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From: Doomy22
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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