Game mode: [Offline | Singleplayer] [PS4 Slim model]
Problem: [Crashes + Bugs]
Region: [PEGI]
I’ve recently gotten into this game on the PS4 and enjoyed it a lot, until an increasing amount of issues made it unplayable and extremely frustrating for me. I play single player offline only, with the decay system off. The first dozen or so hours I had no issues, I reached level 20+ and built a modest base before things started going wrong. Here’s a list with details:
-Intermittent crashes to blue screen with error code CE-34878-0
These often occur when standing around and crafting is going on in the background. Since nothing much is going on besides items being made, it might be related to how many items the game can handle being pumped out at any given time - However I only owned a half dozen or so boxes full of stuff. The game and my PS4 system have been up to date. My base at the time these started occurring was a 3-story octagonal tower, 6 tiles wide, on platforms over the water in the river.
-Structures disappearing after crash
After a crash, upon reloading the save, sometimes the structures I have built in the area are completely gone and the area is reset to how it was initially (mobs+resource nodes are back). This affects structures that have been there for many hours and multiple game sessions, so I think this rules out the reason being e.g. the game was ‘‘rolled back’’ to how it was before the last session. Thankfully this doesn’t happen every time.
-Furniture disappearing after crash
Besides structures disappearing, sometimes furniture like crafting stations and boxes vanish as well. Usually the ones that disappear are the ‘‘offending’’ stations, meaning the ones where crafting was going on at the time of the crash. Sometimes after a whole area is wiped clean due to the above issue, a few furniture items remain on the ground.
-Losing building ownership after crash
If I managed to quit without any nasty business happening and reload the game, my structures are thankfully still there. However, should a crash happen afterwards, on the next startup I lose ownership of all previously made structures and cannot snap to+build on them anymore. I checked this with the repair hammer, which shows ‘‘no owner’’ instead of my username. Crafting tables are usually unaffected and do still show my name, however sometimes this happens to them too (e.g. wheel of pain said no owner and could no longer put thralls in it). This also seems to affect thrall ownership, as I can no longer move previously deployed ones (message: ‘‘You can’t touch this!’’) or have them follow me, indicating I am no longer the owner.
-Losing general progress
Seperately from the above mentioned issues, which do not always occur, this is something that occurs after every crash. Following a crash, it appears the game is ‘‘rolled back’’ to a save from a few hours ago. That is to say levels I have gained, points I have spent, buildings built, resources gathered etc. are all reverted to how they were before the last session or two. The other issues are on top of what you already wouldn’t have because of the older save. I assume this is working as intended and like reloading a backup after some other game-breaking issue occurs.
-Losing journey progress
After one of the crashes, my journey was completely reset. The upper right of the screen and the journal showed the first steps of a new character.
-Losing emotes
After one of the crashes, possibly the same one that reset the journey, the emote list was empty. Not only were all the learned emotes gone, but also the basic ones you start with. There being no way to learn those in-game, I had to make do without. It would be helpful to have an admin command to add these to a character.
-Unable to load savegame after saving+ exiting normally.
Last but not least, the straw that broke the camel’s back and prompted me to post here. At some point between trying to figure out these crashes and fixing the damage and many related issues they caused, I thought it’d be a good idea to exit the game normally in order to save before going any further. A moment later as I reloaded the save, the character creation screen showed in the background with the message ‘‘Failed to join requested game’’, essentially meaning my save was gone. This remained the same multiple attempts later. It might have happened because of quitting and immediately restarting, with the game not having enough time to save or something similar. Thoroughly jaded at this point, I had anticipated something like this and uploaded my save into cloud storage beforehand, so was able to restore it with only a few hours progress lost this time. But this was the point where I threw in the towel in my struggle against the game.
And there you have it. I’ve had other issues such as stuttering/freezes mid-combat, five-second-lag when opening inventory, delayed sound and more, but I can deal with those. But the ones listed above have put a stop to my journey in the world of Conan - Hopefully not permanently. I would appreciate some information or an indication something is going to be done in the following months. The crashing issue in particular does not seem to be listed in the PS4 issues status thread, although with a little googling I can find that many other users experience it as well. Thanks in advance for reading this huge wall of text lads
Steps on how to reproduce issue:
- Progress in game as normal ~dozen hours in, build decently sized base in river area, accumulate items
- Craft in multiple stations at the same time
- Play for an hour or more
- Eventually blue screen crashes will occur which lead to the rest of the issues
