Why is my game so broken??
Just as a disclaimer: My PC is modern (RTX 3070) and does not have any issues. Outside of FC4 it is completely stable. It is not overclocked. All other games and apps run completely smooth (except for Black Ops Cold War of course, which started as a dumpster fire but it slowly has been getting more stable in recent months).
I've put 29 hours into this save game and here is what is happening:
- During the Shangri La mission, The Hunt For Rakshasa, the game crashed to desktop twice. The only way that I could finish it was due to some advice from Reddit that told me to not use the camera throughout the mission. I don't know yet what will happen during the upcoming Shangri La missions as I haven't progressed this far.
- The game also crashes to desktop outside of Shangri La but this is very rare.
- At one point, the game was completely dead. No friendlies, no civilians, no hostiles would spawn. I could not take any outposts or fortresses because they were completely abandoned. No vehicles would spawn. No animals would spawn. Not even fish or birds. No random events. The only way to fix it was to start a mission and when I came back from the mission, the environment fixed itself. I have recorded gameplay where i just walk through an entirely dead world.
- Money does not spawn at the Gale homestead despite me having purchased all upgrades. It spawns neither at the shrine nor by the tree.
- The in-game car radio does not work half of the time. I know that some people say that it might not work during missions. For me, it doesn't work outside of missions either. It cannot be turned on by pressing the assigned key. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. It seems random. Sometimes I go hours without hearing the radio. The only explanation I could come up with is that some vehicles don't have a radio, but it seems unlikely.
- Loading times are much longer than during my first playthrough. When I die, it takes 34 seconds until I respawn. It almost seems like the game is trying to connect to the internet despite me playing in offline mode. I have a fast PC with NVMe disk.
- NPC's eyes have an unnatural spark as if they have little light bulbs in their heads.
- Up in the mountains, near Rukha Shikara Summit, something unnatural is coming out of the trees. It looks like a grayish ray that gets bigger as I approach and eventually spans across the entire screen, into the horizon. When I walk further away the glitch slowly disappears. Definitely looks like something is not rendered correctly and it shouldn't be there.(I'm playing on highest settings).
So, either there is something wrong with my game or my save game or this game is dire need of a patch, which I know is not happening. This is my second playthrough. I first played this a while back in 2020. I don't recall having so many issue as I'm having right now which is weird because the game didn't get any patches since then that would have made it worse. I play through Ubisoft Connect.