Where do I start... there are several different massively problematic bugs with the game that prevent me from being able to progress the story any further. I've already had to start the game from scratch once and lost about 30 hours of play time. Next time I am forced to restart the game, I will be putting it down for good. For now, I'm going to wait to hear from a Ubisoft developer before I play any further - I'm terrified each mission I start may break the game again and force me to start from scratch.


Here are the main issues I am getting.

1.) The first Yogi and Reggie mission breaks the game

If I undertake this mission, once loaded, the screen is 100% black. I can hear my footsteps but not see anything. If I throw c4, I can see the white icon for where it is but that is all. If I kill myself or 'load from last checkpoint' the graphics return, and I am stuck inside a buggy map of what looks like half of an arena, however all the NPCs are frozen, the map is totally missing, and I have a small area I can walk around which is otherwise floating in the clouds. Bizarrely, summoning animals still works, though in this ghostlike, surreal arena map (if you can even call it a map) you cannot abandon the mission. Restarting, quitting and replaying, or any other combo I tried just starts off the with Reggie and Yogi drug scene again where the characters are introduced, and I am loaded straight back into the same black screen of death / incomplete arena map. I had to restart my game and lost days of playtime thanks to this error. Almost didn't bother playing it again.

2.) The second Longinus mission (involving travelling to the Himalayas) breaks the game.

Fortunately, I can abandon the mission, allowing me to continue playing. The problems is exactly the game as 1.), whereby I am loaded into a pitch black map where I can hear myself walking around but not do anything else. Restarting from last checkpoint brings the graphics back but loads me into thin air below the map, whereby I fall, die, re-spawn in thin air again, fall and die again, unto infinity. This particular issue seems very pervasive.

3.) Falling through the map seems to happen often

This has happened to me about 20 times, especially when landing on the ground from a parachute or hand glider. I often seem to smack straight through the ground and, all of a sudden, I get about 30 seconds of looking at the map from underneath as I fall through infinity. It's been about a decade since I fell through a buggy map in any game, so this seems like a pretty weird issue to still be having.

4.) Enemy soldiers often spawn right in front of me

In several Karma events, I've noticed the enemy units / soldiers spawn out of nowhere right in front of me. This is hardly game-breaking but is still pretty weird. Anyone else get that?


Issues 1 and 2 are effectively preventing me from playing the game any further. I have liberated all of Southern Kyrat's bell towers and outposts, but done basically none of the story-line missions. This is because they seem to have such a strong tendency to load me into ghost-maps, and as in the case with Yogi and Reggie, I'm worried they will be inescapable. break my save point, and force me to abandon the game entirely. I was so excited by this game, now I'm gutted and wondering if I should advise others against getting it. Please review my suggested solutions and let me know what the developers intend to do.


RECOMMENDED FIXES

Make any mission able to be abandoned from any point. This would have at the very least saved me saving to start a new game from scratch.

Allow save points throughout the game that can be returned to. This would prevent against broken checkpoints / never-ending death or mission failure loops.

FIX THE GHOST MAPS - Why in the Yogi & Reggie Missions in the arena, and the Longinus mission in the Himalayas, am I loaded into partial map designs / given black screens of death with only audio? This seems to be the most critical, game-breaking, shameful bug in the game. I really hope there is an update ASAP that repairs this. Because as of right now, the game is un-playable, and I have lost all confidence in its stability. I paid money for a game that I can only play a small segment of. Has anyone else encountered these crazy phantom maps? Please please please get back to me with some kind of tangible fix you are working on.


Happy to send Ubisoft screenshots, video of what I'm encountering, or any kind of debug report that can document the issues I'm having. Let's get this thing fixed.