Bart Harley Jarvis defender. Technical Designer at @Obsidian, working on The Outer Worlds 2. This is a personal account; I don’t speak for them. He/Him
Dec 12, 2019 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
We released patch 1.2 of #TheOuterWorlds today, and it includes a fix for the dreaded "the game thinks my companions are dead" bug, which I believe I spent more time investigating than I have for any other individual bug in my career (1/18)
The gist of the bug was that, for some players, a companion quest would be marked as Failed in the quest log, with the reasoning that the companion was dead -- despite the fact that the companion was very much alive and well (2/18)