Zhit said:
Witcher 3 has game stopping bugs. As much as I like CDPR--after a week or so of playing, I hit the Get Junior quest bug. Everyone says--reload an old save. Well I ran around for several more days doing side quests and exploring the "?". Wasn't until I visited the CDPR forums that I learned there was no work around for the Get Junior secret door bug. With no save file to revert to--I'm faced with three decisions: Start over from the beginning, wait for a patch, or return the game.
Folks have been complaining about the Get Junior bug since May, and nothing.
It always stinks when a bug you have hit goes unfixed, you can be sure CDPR are trying to fix it, some bugs take a very long time to be fixed. The Nav Mesh bug appeared in TES Oblivion (2006) that went on through both Fallouts and Skyrim, before it was finally patched in about 2012/3. Modders have been bug fixing Skyrim for 4 years and will never get them all, some bugs can't be fixed. Some can only after months of meticulous work. It stinks when you hit one, but all gamers should know to make backup saves when they can, even with games that only autosave, you can still make backups of the save.
If you don't get a fix with the 1.07 patch, it will be because no fix exists. Not because they don't care, but because they havn't found the cause. These games are complex and sometimes an unrelated change breaks something unexpected. When it's a rare set of circumstances, it will only be triggered by users doing something the testers never did.
My advice would be to start again and follow a sensible save routine in future, with all games.
Lastly just to point out that many issues have nothing to do with the actual game, though we all assume it's at fault.
I had a bad problem with Dragon Age Inquisition that affected many others, even so 99% of gamers played without major issues.
It's only those who have problems on the support sites, so it always seems as if everyone has the problem you have.
This was not being able to run the game at all, it CDT'd constantly but at various random key loading points. After 3 days I had started the game about a 1000 times, got to character creation 3 times and only once got as far as first combat.
I'd reinstalled game and drivers, tried every suggestion, every other game I ran just fine and nothing anyone tried worked.
I and all the others were convinced it was the games Denuvo DRM at fault, I still suspect it was part of the problem.
At some point when a Driver reinstall failed, I had to reinstall Windows from a Backup.
I Keep all games and Personal files on a dedicated Games Drive, so this was only Windows and Utility Programs I replaced, no part of the game was changed at all.
Yet, the game ran fine after that, I never had an issue loading it after that point. I believe my 6 month old Windows install had become partially and gradually corrupted. Nothing obvious had changed, but something crucial was different.
Maybe, a single bit, was now 0 not 1, that had caused the Denuvio DRM to trigger a CDT in the game.
Now if all else fails I will reinstall windows again.
It was annoying and no game fix ever appeared from the devs, I posted my solution and finally played the game.
It was a letdown in the end, but I finally got to play the Single Player MMO.
