So the general thought on Dead Island is that it’s a decent game with a lot of bugs. It seems that Techland intends to start the fixing process early, with a day one patch that covers nearly 40 items.
Here is the list in full:
- Fixed map synchronization when player joins during map load.
- Fixed saving player re-spawn position when playing in co-op mode.
- Fixed occasional inability to complete sidequests in Laboratory.
- Improved enemy awareness (zombies).
- Fixed occasional bug with NPC’s hands bend (IK)
- Fixed spawning enemies in some quests after joining co-op game.
- Fixed showing locations on invisible NPCs.
- Fixed potential path blocker when quest “Knockin’ on heaven’s door” was completed before talking to Dominik during the “On the air” quest.
- Fixed displaying gather rings near some doors.
- Fixed enemy reaction to fire.
- Fixed enemies’ health and stamina bars in co-op.
- Fixed filtering of games in lobby.
- Volume of pickup’s engine has been increased.
- Fixed a number of issues causing game instability.
- Fixed the switching of maps upon player death.
- Fixed enemies unable to reach the player on some arenas.
- Thrown items cannot be picked up by co-op players for five minutes.
- Items from freshly opened containers cannot be picked up by other players for five seconds to prevent theft.
- Fixed animation glitch when trading with team members.
- More than one player can use a ladder at the same time.
- Fixed stomping execution animation when target’s attacked by a second player.
- Fixed the infinite respawning of shooting enemies.
- Fixed not hiding menu if players die inside a vehicle.
- Fixed item level calculation when playing New Game Plus.
- Added information about players requesting pause in co-op.
- Fixed A.I. animation glitch after fast-traveling or using a map portal.
- Added distinction between quest checkpoints and other types of saves.
- Fixed bug causing all inventory to disappear.
- Fixed reloading and kicking. After the clip goes in, the reload is a success.
- Purna can gain bonus rage from both “Grim Inspiration” and “Inspiring Kick”.
- Only “Walker” type enemies increase the extra XP of the “Combo” skill from Xian’s Survival skill tree.
- Health regeneration is disabled during grabs.
- Focus on items in shops not changing after selling or buying.
- More HP for NPCs in escort missions.
- Butcher enemies won’t spawn at all during escort missions.
- Fixed tracking after loading checkpoint.
- Increased minimum vertical distance to count a waypoint as passed for NPCs (they no longer wander back-and-forth).
Source: D’Toid
The Lone Steven
FFS, i wish Publishers would stop putting profits before quailty. The problems should have noticed and fixed during testing. If the product is bug free, the more likely people will buy it. Those without interenet connections are screwed and will be left with a broken game. I am getting fed up with seeing day 1 patches. Delay the game if need be as most gamers will understand.
TSBonyman
A day one patch wth this amount of fixes indicates a rushed game, which isn’t very reassuring.
GTRsannin
Good to know probably best to wait for a few months before getting this cause it will probably have some kind of a huge bug that will stop you from playing it anyways for a few months while you are waiting for a patch. I really don’t know why they have to ship games half finished like this kind of a huge list they should have fixed these before the game went gold
MayContainEvil
I’ll pass on this game. Doesn’t seem to expand on the emotion hinted at in that first trailer. Watching a review now and it’s full of very poor attempts at an Aussie accent, I guess that seals the deal,together with all the buggy soundly coding.
Delriach
Those aren’t the entire patch notes from what I understand. The review copy has a note that says not to publish this list because it might be incomplete.
*shrug*
yogh_wayne
As long as it improves the game, I don’t mind any patches (day one or later).
R1MJAW
So, my copy has just arrived from shop to, booted it up but got no patch … I know it’s technically not released in the UK until friday, but I would’ve thought the patch would be available as the game release today in the rest of Europe. Also tried my code for the Bloodbath Arena DLC, but it’s not available yet either.