I feel a bit deceived by Saints Row at the moment. Although I spent the latter half of last week playing and performance testing it, the worst I saw in terms of bugs, glitches and unintentional chicanery was one temporarily floating pedestrian and a few de-synced execution animations. Only after I committed this clean(ish) bill of health to writing did the game’s wider playerbase discover that it is, in fact, riddled with issues: some benign and hilarious, others irritating and game-breaking. Well fine then, game.
Some of these bug reports have come from inside the house, namely Liam and Rebecca, whose respective characters have a) involuntarily shot out their own windscreen immediately upon entering every single car and b) fallen through the world when attempting to mount a motorcycle. Then there’s former vid bud Colm (RPS in peace), who has found his feet pinned to a car roof before fading away like Marty McFly if his parents split up.
Elsewhere, redditor Bathcalves put a musical spin on some thorough broken yet perfectly choreographed character animations, while YouTube channel Skill Up discovered technical mishaps ranging from disappearing breakfasts to a catastrophic model glitch during a climactic story moment (spoilers in the video, obviously, though they’re well marked).
Deary me. Again, I saw literally none of this, and Alice Bee tells me Saints Row appeared stable while she was reviewing it, so if you’re playing it yourself you may have better luck in the bugs lottery. Even so, hopefully a patch or three is in the works, as clearly not all of these issues are as harmless as Liam capping his own windows.
Got stuck on the roof of a car.Thought blowing up the car would free me.Turned into a floating t-shirt.Saints
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