For someone that works in QA odds are QA did pick it up, log it, and some share holder said "No time to waste and delay the game, we've set a date, it's sticking to it".
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PSA: Do NOT buy Sonic Colors Ultimate on Switch. Seizure-inducing graphics are currently all over the game.
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For someone that works in QA odds are QA did pick it up, log it, and some share holder said "No time to waste and delay the game, we've set a date, it's sticking to it".
Because Sega decides the issues are acceptable in order to get the game out the door. It happens all the time with this franchise.
whats the problem here? all i see is sonic trying to outrun a blackhole after it swallowed earth whole.
Bruh it looks like the kind of shit you would start seeing on a gaming pc when the gpu is dying
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...Now, you listen here: I PAID for those seizures and you're NOT going to patch them out, Sega! 😤
Yeah, it could easily be something done on purpose, similar to what Cruelty Squad does.
I mean it in the sense that i have never seen glitches like that lol, ddlc also does similar effects
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They trusted Sega that it was in working order, big mistake trusting Sega with Sonic.
I can only ask how has this not crashed in this state? I am impressed with this as much as I am actively horrified. I actually can't understand what I'm seeing.
I'm hesitant to throw stones in this glass house, but I think there's more to it than time given the other things we've seen, such as the game somehow being packaged with original Wii SDK tools. That doesn't strike me as a time thing.
What I'll be watching for is to see if they have the means to fix these issues. Their project seems ambitious given their existing experience. I don't think they ever did a Switch port before, and the were reconstructing an entire renderer in the process in an engine (Godot) that was not made in house. I can understand a rough launch under such pretences if they can fix it.
they worked on Borderlands Collection and Bioshock Collection, though I'm unsure if they worked on the Switch versions of those
They also did the Mass Effect trilogy with the Legendary Edition that came out a few months ago.
I didn't have audio on the first time I saw this. The fucking slurping sounds on the loading screen are killing me. Oh, God...
only Sonic fans are resilient enough to take a dumpster fire of a port and make something good with it
It seems all versions of the game have been glitchy
But the Switch one is the worst one of them.
Those seizure inducing screens make it look like Eggman is about to show up to announce he's destroying the moon(again).
Weird that it turned out like this, Sonic Colors on Wii(of all consoles) was fairly polished to what was the normal for Sonic games at the time.
But the Switch one is the worst one of them.
Those seizure inducing screens make it look like Eggman is about to show up to announce he's destroying the moon(again).
Weird that it turned out like this, Sonic Colors on Wii(of all consoles) was fairly polished to what was the normal for Sonic games at the time.
The amazing part is that sound effect is actually supposed to be there, but it just works so well. :V
More and more this feels like the actual case, people passing off broken emulator footage as console. Either that or a corrupted download / dying Switch or something. It just seems like most of the videos are coming from only a few people.
Apparently most of the seizure inducing glitches come for only one person and some have suspected it's using Yuzu or a pirated version. Still other issues like the black hole glitch and weird graphical issues are not from him and seems to be from the game itself.
That's a terrible glitch, but if the game was actually trying to do that it would be kind of awesome!
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The videos shared so far are posted directly from a Nintendo Switch.
The videos are being posted from the Switch DVR & Album via the Twitter post function. So I'm hesitant to think that's the case.
The videos are coming from a few people is more likely because of the forcibly restricted sample size, due to the pre-order bonus of the deluxe edition being you get to play it like 4 days before everyone else. (Which is frankly a practice that needs to be yeeted into the sun but that's a conversation for another time.)
Correction: Don't buy it on any console whatsoever, the game is fundamentally broken in each system in different ways.
I've just played through the first world and thankfully haven't ran into this. I have, however, seen a load of framerate drops and the loading is painfully long.
This sure is one shit port.
This sure is one shit port.
So, which are we guessing happens first?
Sega patches this out
Nintendo pulls it from the eShop
One of them is going to have to happen in the next day or two.
Amazing if this becomes Sega's version of Cyberpunk 2077.
Sega patches this out
Nintendo pulls it from the eShop
One of them is going to have to happen in the next day or two.
Amazing if this becomes Sega's version of Cyberpunk 2077.
If the label "Nintendo Switch Share" is shown below the tweet then it was posted directly from the Switch's share menu, and not from an emulator.
QA's job is only to identify bugs and issues and make them known to people higher up on the pay scale to fix them. They have absolutely no say in when a game ships or what bugs get fixed. QA gets way too much shit for things they have no control over.
Thank you for thinking that us, the people in QA have the absolute power of stopping a game from coming out just because it has bugs, it feels nice
having worked in qa for a number of years, 'where was qa on this one!?' was a catchphrase among us. there was one game that had 3,000 bugs/errors logged and 1/3 of them were fixed for release. on another, i'd logged 70 myself after working on it pretty extensively (2-3 weeks for a dlc pack), and the person in charge didn't see the reports until the due date for some reason. they asked me to check again and close and re-log everything that was still in-game, which was still 70 bugs, so they fixed what they could (right there, on the spot), which was about 10% of the problems.
there was another game that had been tested for a full month, and the team on it kept reporting things throughout the month on a single rom. apparently there had been another rom with some fixes delivered, but this didn't get sent to the qa team and they just kept working on that first rom.
because of the 'problems with the qa team', the in-house division was shut down and the work was mostly outsourced to a third-party group that would handle that work instead. i left shortly before this happened, but apparently the third-party team worked for the time they were hired and when they couldn't find 'all' the problems in the game in the time it had paid for (three weeks, i think), it caused some dispute with the publisher and it prompted a new in-house team to be hired in.
good times.
