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Dear Fat Shark,

There are a decent amount of us on Xbox, who actually, and regularly play weaves. We enjoy the variety, the challenge, and sense of completion in doing them. What we do not like are the constant crashes of the weaves. We have been doing weave 77 of this current season for almost three hours now and the crashes are unbearable. If we so much get more than five enemies on screen our games all collectively crash, not just one or two of us but all of us.

I know there are a lot things happening in weaves, with the difference amounts of particle effects, and other things happening on screen, it can be hard for the console to process. All we ask is maybe tone down things happening on screen, maybe spawn less stuff in at a time. Maybe not give us 30 archers and ten banners at once, spread them out better, maybe tone down the particle effects a bit to ease to strain.

None of us mind losing, or wiping for three hours on a weave just due to sheer difficulty or our own bad playing and judgement. It's part of the fun of learning the weaves and overcoming them. The constant crashing is unplayable though, and really needs to be addressed.

Our community is small I know, but with the game coming back to gamepass, I would love to see it grow, but that just wont happen with things being in the current state that they are in.

We would love for things to be perfect, but we know that it is an unrealistic expectation. Things like specials spawning directly in front of you, or not making any sound, not getting back stab noises, need fixing as well, but I feel like like the dlc and game mode we payed money for shouldn't be almost completely unplayable. Most people on xbox that I know, who do not play weaves, do not play them due to the crashing, not the difficulty or just not enjoying the mode itself.

So please, we love this game. We love the combat, the world building, and the characters that you've created. We want this community to grow, we want Dark Tide to be successful and have a large community as well. We know we are not forgotten, we understand that getting out updates on console is more complicated than on pc. We just want to be able to enjoy the content we paid for and love.

So if any of you fatshark devs read this, please pass this along. And if any if you ps4 guys feel the need to add anything add it. PC guys, keep your inferior comments out, seriously none of us care

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about 4 years ago - /u/fatshark_tazar - Direct link

The console team is a very small team so we rely a lot on external testing and community feedback to find stuff like this. We have a crash reporting tool but some crashes never get uploaded for a variety of reasons or gets "hidden" by looking like something else. Out of memory crashes, for instance, can look like basically anything if you don't know what to look for. If you find reproducable crashes or something that consistently doesn't work right please report it either here or to https://support.fatshark.se/ .

When you say that it crashes; do you mean that the games shuts down for everyone and you get transported to the OS or do you get booted to the keep? Does it only crash for the one hosting the game? Could you please PM me your and your friends gamertags so I can try to find your crashes in the crash reporting tool.

I'll look into weave 77 today to see if I can reproduce the issue myself

about 4 years ago - /u/fatshark_tazar - Direct link

Originally posted by dirtycochise

Thanks for the response I found out it was weave 79 not 77 that was crashing us so badly, but it is a total game crash that closes out the game completely. I will PM you our gamertags

Great, thanks

about 4 years ago - /u/fatshark_tazar - Direct link

Originally posted by dirtycochise

Thanks for the response I found out it was weave 79 not 77 that was crashing us so badly, but it is a total game crash that closes out the game completely. I will PM you our gamertags

The patch we set live this morning should improve stability in weaves by quite a lot. Happy weaving! :)