#game issues

for some reason some of the sound effects don't play??? Everything else seems to be fine, but I for some reason can't hear things like Max's "Weeeeeeee!" when he gets flung into the air by Sam

Don't get me wrong I had issues before, but now it's like I can't last 10 minutes without my game getting really slow and glitchy (to the point it's like freezing up) till eventually kicking me out within the next few minutes. I typically could play at least 30 minutes before ever having any issues before, and that wasn't even all the time. Usually I get through my game time with some minor freezing before getting off naturally.

Beau throwing hands in this picture represents how I felt last night.

Update: *waves a white flag* Puts all my mods back into the game and most of the old saves. Even after removing the mods, reinstalling the game, and updating my graphics card the damn kiss still doesn't work. So. I. GIVE. UP!

I only have the kiss on Anna so, after weighing all the pros and cons, I'm just going to keep my mods and progress. Given Anna's game was started waaay back when the full game dropped, and all the patches she's been through, I wouldn't be surprised if perhaps the kiss only glitched with just her. Cautiously optimistic Larian will fix the kiss for everyone eventually. Until then I'm just going to just play and try to enjoy the rest of the game.

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Previously:

(Just venting here. Feel free to ignore it.)

Yesterday, after I noticed we got hotfix for patch 4, I decided to load up my oldest save with Anna and tried to kiss Astarion. As usual, since patch 4 dropped, I got nothing. Frustrated, I changed Anna's hairstyle back to her old default one and tried to kiss him again. Nothing. I then created a new save and closed the game. After I removed all my mods I loaded up that new save and discovered I can't even click on anything now.

"Great, just fucking great!" I mutter to myself as I created another save after removing all the mods. I then shut down the game, booted it back up, and reloaded the "fresh save" in the hopes that would fix it.

Nope! Of course, it did not work. Again, I couldn't click on anything. I next tried to make a new game. I got the infamous half-a-dozen naked guys around the Dragonborn Durge chilling in the astral area bug. Never in my life have I been so disappointed at seeing so many pixel dicks at once.

So yeah, at this point, I'm pretty sure I've lost everything. Still, I try not to cry about it. Instead I look at it as a chance to start fresh. To widdle down all my Tav's and Durges I made to my top favorite five. Plus since I made a habit of taking lots of photos during character creation I figured, "Hey at least I can easily recreate them and this time avoid some of the mistakes I made in the past."

Silver lining and all, right? Before uninstalling, I did try to verify the integrity of the game's files, to no avail. So, I bit the bullet and reinstalled the game. I did back-up my old saves, but I doubt they will work even after the reinstall.

My only complaint is the waiting. It's been well over 15 hours, and the game has still not finished downloading. I'm currently at 61%. Yaaah for potatoe download speeds. If this reinstall doesn't work, I might cry then. As I'll have to uninstall again, dig into the folders, and make sure all files have been purged.

Due to this headache, I think I'm going to run a vanilla mod-free game for the foreseeable future, which sucks because at least two of my fav Tavs/Durges use mod heads.

Problems I Have With PSO2/NGS Right Now 

Both Games 

- Some players aren't able to run the game any more and if they are, not very well.

- Some players experience horrible lag (it's worse in NGS). 

- Loading screens for both games is too long.

- Have to play through a certain amount of NGS before you can access the base game even if you had played it already (not ideal for players who can run base game fine but struggle with NGS). Plus, you have to do it with all your characters. 

- Over-reliance on gacha garbage.

New Genesis

- Stutters a bit. 

- Eventually freezes and has to force close. 

- Players have been running out of things to do that aren't repetitive. 

- Gets boring real quick.

 - Never had a schedule for urgent quests

- Battle power is dumb; it's not immediately obvious how to bring it up and it just ends up being a stupid way to pad out the length of NGS. - Not respectful of a player's time. 

- A bit too difficult to level up (it's tedious and not fun).

PSO2

- Mission Pass is gone making the menu option completely useless (same with leftover Mission Badges). 

- Fresh Finds Shop is gone. 

- Free players can't get access to the Personal Shop as easily. 

- No more schedule so players can't prepare for urgent quests ahead of time.

- No more concerts or movie showings. 

- No more campaigns. 

- Lack of players participating in urgent quests or any other quest designed for multiplayer. 

- New graphics are too bright. 

- Bonus keys show up way less frequently.

- FUN scratch doesn't get you any good items anymore (mainly just the same themes and cosmetic crap I have too much of already).