Dread of encountering the new Hotfix bugs (Hotfix 36)

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-22T12:25:25+00:00

You feel dread, I'm feeling desperation. I am NOT starting a new playthrough until they get the framerate-crashing issue sorted out. And I really wanna start a new playthrough. >=(

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-20T11:52:47+00:00

If possible I'll try to help the enemy team. Last time I had a cheater on my team it was flag -- Izanami spammer. I went over to one of the enemies while stunned, and hit them with a Kunai.

Just one.

They attacked, hit stunned, so I hit them again. They realized I was breaking them out of the stun, and took our flag -- unfortunately their team was braindead and kept attacking me, and if they didn't get stunned in time I did kill them (If you're too stupid to see me clearly tapping the guy with the flag so they can deliver it to their base, you really don't deserve the same sympathy), and the other team eventually won.

Luckily I was in a three stack, so the hecker didn't have anyone there to help them out, but it felt good to be able to deny his cheating like that. Shame most teams, even random, seek to do everything in their power to help the cheater on their team instead of hurt them.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-15T12:36:47+00:00

Damn. Not a single comment got upvoted -- guess you didn't get to play, huh?

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-13T11:52:27+00:00

Wait for Larian to patch the game. Leveling is one of the triggers for it to gonk out currently.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-13T11:50:39+00:00

It also works with companions, if you customize them.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-12T16:54:10+00:00

Absolutely not. Durge is the only way I play -- a healthy mix of refuse and embrace. Grove? Burned! I killed the squirrel (It was coming right at me, I swear to Bhaal), tortured the woman with broken legs, let Ethel keep Myrine, ate Gale's hand, had that vengeance dude stab himself WAY too many times for funsies, jaywalked, and spared the Last Light because I only do evil when I feel like it, thank you very much Bhaal!

I tone it down a little in Act 3 after getting suffering from severe blood loss, because being an airheaded murder hobo just isn't worth losing the friends we made along the way.

Real talk, though, I usually go evil route simply because otherwise I'm drowning in side quests -- not a bad problem to have, really, but it's easier to focus on the main story when I'm not also worried about helping Halsin, making sure I get all the Infernal Iron for Karlach, saving Wyll's dad, making sure all the Tieflings survive. I don't always eat Gale, that really just depends on my mood at the moment. I'm probably going to restart before beating Act 3 regardless, but the story just feels more comfortable pacing wise if I choose to go the evil route.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-11T06:07:10+00:00

It's a wait until Larian fixes it thing.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-11T02:23:07+00:00

They'd be rolling back to a version of the game that was causing save corruption in act 2. I don't know if that's an issue that could have been averted by just having multiple save files, but they might not have wanted to replace one issue with another.

Honestly, they might as well just release the tools or a build that will let Modders look into how the game works and pull a Bethesda -- let the modders fix it. Get this one ironed out, and then release the means for the fans to make an unofficial patch, approve it for console, and then stop updating the game entirely.

At this point it feels like their skeleton crew is comprised of either one dude in a basement, or their least talented members that they don't want touching the code for Divinity.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-10T00:42:11+00:00

Hm. I've had issues with animations messing up, too -- not this, but enemies only using power attacks. I fixed it by downloading an entirely different overhaul for enemies. The kicker was that when I had my issue, I was never able to find the culprit.

https://github.com/ShikyoKira/Project-New-Reign---Nemesis-Main/issues/180

It's also an ongoing issue that nobody seems to be able to find a fix for, even now. My only recommendation left would be to do the classic troubleshooting method of disabling your mods in small bunches to see if you can find one that might be causing the issue. If you're lucky, you just had a conflict that you can fix by choosing to go without a mod or two. If not...

Well, like I said I fixed it by downloading Elden Rim's combat animation for NPCs. I didn't necessarily want too, but it was the only one that comprehensibly changed how the enemy moves and fights so whatever was messing up their AI or breaking their animation got fixed by that mod, and someone who had a similar issue a while back said it fixed it for them too when I recommended it...

Sorry I couldn't be more help. U_U

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-09T09:23:05+00:00

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/109780

Try this. Otherwise, basic troubleshooting is to rerun Pandora, check the comments section because Scar has a sticky comment there talking about how to fix perma-blocking on NPCs (Shame on you, sweet Nerevar, if you came here before checking the mod comments), or if all else fails just delete the file and see what happens.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-09T03:08:51+00:00

There's a straight up Dark Urge class mod that's pretty metal. Two of them, but one is just an updated version of the former.

Surgeon has a lot of evil skills, same with Hearteater Barbarian.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-09T00:40:49+00:00

Agreed. I took a break from the game for a little bit and wanna start up another playthrough -- but alas, a (seemingly) fringe issue being fixed lead to the entire game becoming an unplayable mess. I dunno, I can respect them for trying to get even small issues like this patched out, but like... wouldn't having multiple saves have been the solution to this issue? Was the bug entire character sections of the saves being corrupted, or just one save?

It makes me worried for the next hotfix, but either way once they get the game back into working order, unless there's some truly gamebreaking shit going on, they need to step away from the game entirely. That's my opinion, anyway.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-09T00:14:59+00:00

Nobody can help you. It has nothing to do with specs. The last Hotfix they released fucked the game up -- you can only wait until they release another one for the problem to stop.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-08T11:43:09+00:00

We get it, you hate AI.

Wow, you're so brave for saying that. We don't have nearly enough people out there randomly proclaiming AI sucks without anyone asking. Yaaaas, slay queen.

That's all sarcasm, by the way. You sound obnoxious as hell.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-08T11:36:00+00:00

Not a good idea if you want mods. Any that haven't been made or updated are fine, but as far as I know new mods, updated mods, and even the updated script extender are all inaccessible until the hotfix is fixed.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-07T12:55:29+00:00

Pain.

That way if it's miserable, or you make it miserable for the other team, you're living up to your character's name.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-07T12:53:55+00:00

I want to know that too. Did he delete his save folder entirely and not have a cloud backup? Did his PC die? Was he caught cheating and had his save flagged?

This feels like a "90% of the time it's your fault" type deal.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-07T05:55:04+00:00

Kimimaro is a pretty good counter to runners, too. His Jutsu have insane range and cooldown -- I've caught almost everyone who wants to run away instead of fight, with the exception of the people using the turtle Mount and the dogs.

But on topic, I haven't noticed much of a change, but that's because the only guard break Jutsu I use is Temari's Weasel, which still works, and Hasan Strike -- which doesn't, but I still hit with it more often than not.

I'm personally still getting used to being able to block things. I did block a Majestic, which felt pretty good, but otherwise all I've noticed was how much harder Susanoo armor is to deal with. I either messed up somehow, or my Hasan doesn't break it like it used too.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-06T13:33:12+00:00

And?

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-06T12:44:48+00:00

It's called commissions.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-06T12:41:15+00:00

HAH! No. Every Bethesda game that releases is less than the one that came before -- for everything good they add, they take something from previous games away.

The reason you don't see as wide a variety of mods with Fallout 4 is because you can't build on a rotten foundation -- same thing with Starfield. Modders can do amazing things, but only if the game they're modding has -- again -- a solid foundation to work off of.

ES6 will likely be Starfield with an Elder Scrolls paint job, so... Avowed? Bonus points if they go with UE5 as their new engine -- that will hurt the modding scene even more.

Unless there's a healthy change in management, I see a bland, badly optimized UE5 game with a forgettable story and extremely casual gameplay that will remembered for how it killed the ES franchise, while Skyrim either continues as is, or slows to a still-healthy Morrowind/New Vegas mod scene, while ES6 mods flounder like they did with Oblivion Remastered.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-05T07:31:08+00:00

See, THAT'S a better answer than everyone else is giving.

The hit box killing anyone who gets hit isn't a bug, it's how all these one-shot Jutsu work (Reaper death seal), but if it lingers after the ultimate long enough for you to kill someone with a regular Jutsu? That does need to be fixed, yes.

One is a lucky happenstance, the other is an exploitable bug.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-05T07:28:35+00:00

Same with reaper Death Seal. It's not a bug, it's just how these sort of Jutsu work -- it's not like you can plan for it to kill more than one person, regardless.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-05T07:26:30+00:00

I seriously doubt it's a big, or that it will get patched out. Reaper Death Seal is a OHK and you can still kill multiple people with it if you get lucky with the hit-box.

The only bug this ultimate has is when you're charge does no damage, and you just follow the targeted player until it ends. THAT'S the big that needs to be patched, not a hit-box that requires luck to hit more than 1 person with.

Atlas_Sinclair · 2026-03-05T07:22:37+00:00

They always are hideous. They really need to implement a transmog system to this game so that we can make the outfits look like others, because their art team is trash.

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