Thursday, 19 February 2015

Dead or Alive 5: Last Round - Day One Woes


With the release of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round on PS4 and Xbox One, woes have arisen in regards to a game-breaking bug present on the Xbox One version. The bug causes the game to freeze, meaning that Xbox One players are unable to fully play the game as the freezes are so often. It is not known what has caused the game-breaking bug but a patch is on it's way to the Xbox One version of game in order to fix the game. Users have reported that a fix is to disable throw-downs, as this somehow prevents the game from freezing.

It is somewhat astonishing that a bug so game-breaking managed to slip past QA. QA, short for quality assurance is a means to rigorously test game software for bugs, glitches and anything that is not intended to be in the game. Occasional bugs do slip into newly released games. However, game-breaking bugs such consistent freezes are usually obvious and such are fixed ASAP in development. It is an absolute wonder how such a bug could make it into the final release.

These things do happen though, its great to see that the developer is on the case for a patch to fix the issue.

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