#game crashing

Crk crashed so this was stuck on my screen for like 5 minutes.

There's a current crashing issue that Crin has narrowed down to saves with mermaids with tattoos (either on just their mermaid form or on BOTH the mermaid & human form--human form ONLY is not impacted).

You may experiencing crashing on any of the following situations:

Mermaids with cc tattoos, then removing your cc tattoos from your mods folder.

Mermaids with game tattoos, then disabling the pack it comes from.

Mermaids with game tattoos from packs you don't own (aka placing a mermaid from the gallery in game)

What you can do:

If you're testing for something, test on a save that doesn't have mermaids with cc tattoos.

Or remove the cc tattoos from the mermaid, save, and then test.

Don't disable packs before ensuring mermaids in your save don't have a tattoo from that pack on.

Don't download mermaids off the gallery that use packs you don't own.

Game crashes cause lost progress and build frustration in players. Frustration with the game is one of the biggest factors in causing players to drop the game. As such, the frequency of the game crash is directly proportionate to how much they affect the game. For example, if the game crashes 100% of the time on boot, player retention drops to zero because nobody can play. This is why most game crashes are forbidden during the certification process - the platforms don't want crashing games associated with them either.

Game crashes are typically declared Priority 0 showstoppers when it comes to how important they are to fix for this reason. We never suffer a game crash to live while we can isolate its cause and fix them because we know that whenever a player runs into one, it will ruin their current game experience. If you've got four million COD players playing concurrently daily, then a one-in-a-million super rare crash is still happening roughly four times per game those players play and not only ruining those players' game, but also potentially having knock on effects for their teams.

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