120 points

Man, “15 hours in and not a single bug.” I love Bethesda, but I feel like that’s an incredibly bold claim to make and that his definition of bug is probably a bit loose. I wish they wouldn’t make this big of a hubbub about it and just let the game speak for itself if it’s really that solid.

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I wanna hear how bug free the game is from those 2,000 hours in one save file weirdos.

Yeah the games solid til about hour…269? Then everyone T-poses and then falls into geometry.

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21 points

Yeah, maybe the 2,062 cheese wheels I have stored in my house could be bugging things out but I doubt it.

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19 points

👎 Not recommended

6,940 hours playtime

Bugthesda strikes again!

Think the game is stable? Try teleporting nothing but cheese wheels for three straight days.

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2 points

“So I killed an entire city, which caused the dead body clean up cell to overfill and explode dead bodies into the void, which first makes it rain dead bodies and then crashes the game.”

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15 points

Yeah true. Why do the talking when you can do the walking.

This actually gives me more concerns than before, which is probably not what they intended.

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6 points

Exactly. By pointing a big red arrow at the problem they’ve historically had to the point of memory it just serves to make the skeptics more skeptical and create concern in everybody else since it’s just a big “source: trust me, bro”.

We’ll just have to see.

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3 points

Honestly I dont think I will care if I see bugs, but if people are going “there arent any bugs” im gonna keep my eyes out for them.

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1 point

I’m guessing bug free just means their game didn’t crash. Or they’re just really unobservant.

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The funny thing is we kinda expect bugs, not game breaking bugs, but bugs that we understand would be there since people are about to have more than 100 hours of gameplay. With possibly over billion hours of game testing time from consumers. So there will be bugs.

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113 points

That’s such a low bar that it’s clipped through the floor.

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15 points

That’s how they do door sills!

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66 points

Least buggiest? Are we just giving up on English, “journalists?”

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21 points

I seems in general journalism has gotten worse and worse with their grammar. I honestly wonder if their editors even look at even the title before things are posted online.

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17 points

When I used to do copywriting for junk SEO, I began to suspect that my editor didn’t actually read anything I wrote and just passed it through a content uniquness filter, so I started putting in random references to HP Lovecraft stories in the articles I got assigned.

They all got published, no questions asked. For a while if you searched “Homeopathy and the Esoteric Cult of Dagon” my content was the only result

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1 point

Alas, I just tried searching that and a few close variants, and find nothing but this Memmy post.

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1 point

For a while? So are other companies now hustling in on your game.

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3 points

What are editors? — journalists probably

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4 points

I mean, an automated grammar checker should get this. Shouldn’t even require a human editor.

https://languagetool.org/

Plugging it in there catches it and suggests “least buggy”.

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6 points

I think the title is a joke about how Bethesda games are notoriously always full of bugs. Like, to the point that it’s just expected for any new Bethesda game to be a bug-riddled mess at launch.

Hell, there are still bugs in Skyrim that never got patched, even after they re-released it onto modern platforms. Not even obscure bugs, but things normal players will encounter in their playthroughs.

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13 points

He’s saying the “Least buggiest” is not proper phrasing. It should be something along the lines of “the least buggy/bugged” and it’s a pretty bad title for someone claiming to be a “journalist”.

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It doesn’t have to be “proper” if it works as a joke. It implies that a Bethesda game can’t be merely “buggy,” it must be the “buggiest,” even if it’s (paradoxically) less buggy. So, “least buggiest.”

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7 points

It’s crazy that they haven’t used things like the unofficial patch to fix their own damn game. Like they could pretty much just copy paste that shit and be fine. But no. More than a decade later and that shit is still around and even propagated to things like FO4 and FO76.

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6 points

Someone distributing it for free doesn’t mean they can legally just put it in their code and sell it.

If it is licensed in a way they can use it, they’d still have to do a bunch of testing and validation to actually do it.

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4 points

Our first public comment about Starfield being a polished game came from journalist Tyler McVicker, who’s currently under an embargo for the title.

Wow they name dropped a youtuber. Nevermind, went to my favorite source for gaming, Dexerto, aaaand it’s the same shit.

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The author is basing this claim on feedback from FIVE people who have been playing the game. If Bethseda are only expecting a similar number to play it once it’s released, then this is a useful metric. Otherwise it’s meaningless.

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20 points

The author also used the phrase “least buggiest” in the headline, I think we can guarantee there isn’t any actual journalism in the article

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1 point

It’s basically nothing more than a badly written advert.

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7 points

No worries about launching horses or trolls into orbit in a space game.

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51 points

“Redfall is looking awesome, it has Arkane’s best gunplay yet.”

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10 points

I remember this one. Don’t trust AAA developers and game journos. Wait for reviews before buying.

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