You know, I've played my fair share of buggy games before, but I've never been as frustrated as I have been with this port of 1.3, and let me tell you something, I used to play a game called Lord of the Rings: Guardians of Middle Earth. That game had a bug called the "Gold Mode Glitch" in which, when you loaded the game it would load up in the free trial/demo version. You had to repeatedly close and open the game again, and again, and again, and hope that the Luck Gods we're on your side. Eventually, the developers released a patch to fix the problem... And it only made it worse. Players had developed a few work around, and the patch made the glitch more likely to occur and prevented the work around from working.
In time, players figured out another work around with a 100% success rate, but, for a long time, people had to spend up to 20 minutes just closing and starting the game, simply to get the right version. They never did fix that glitch, by the way, it still exists to the best of my knowledge.
Anyway, this console port is atrocious. I don't know if anyone is proud of the work they did on this, but they really shouldn't be; they should be ashamed.
So far, I have experienced the following:
1) For almost a week after the update my friends and I couldn't even play because of a glitch that prevented us from loading into the worlds we had made. We asked around online and looked up several different methods of fixing them to no avail. Luckily, one ofy friends had to delete the local saved data to fix something to do with a different game, and it also fixed Terraria. So we all did that and now we can play.
2) Corrupted worlds/characters. You know, you log into the world and it doesn't load, you just see black blocks, or maybe poorly rendered backgrounds causing you to have to quit and reload and hope it doesn't occur again.
3) Invisible bosses/enemies. This is a fun one. Sitting there, fishing for crates and, suddenly I'm taking damage! Radar says no one is around but, I'm being attacked. Or, hey, let go fight Eye of Cthulhu! Eye of Cthulhu had awoke! Taking damage, but he isn't there. That's always fun.
4) Similar to the above, but invisible players. How the hell are we supposed to show off our crazy dyes and good vanity combinations when no one can see each other?
5) Multiplayer map data being deleted. I play with some friends, and some of us can't keep any map data. We explore the world, map gets updated, we save and quit, and when we come back, all of the exploration we did is deleted. We have to re-explore the world each time we play simply so we can use the map.
6) Deleted content. So I'm playing for a few hours in my single player world and I find some cool things, get some rare items from the Angler rewards. Go to bed, go to work, and after work, buddies and I hope on to play. Load into the multiplayer game and... The that I had in my inventory is no longer there. Those rare items? Gone. Go back to my work and search frantically, nope. Game saved all the building I did on my house but all the stuff in the chests I moved around is gone too.
Wasn't too horrible because it was mostly low level crap, but who knows how long till I get another Sextant and Fisherman's Pocket Guide.
7) Overwritten worlds and deleted worlds. Yeah, the world I've been working on to build up is all gone now. I had probably 1/3rd of a minecart skybridge built across the world, I had some proto-farms built for the coming hard mode. Gone. Yay!
It got overwritten with one of the multiplayer worlds we play on. Best part? It didn't even give me the entire ing world! As in, I take off to go do a fishing quest in the corruption and... http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pumba315/video/44426707
Turns out, something like 80% of the world was deleted and all that's left is this vast nothingness. Now all I need is a dead horse named Artax, and a luck dragon named Falcore, and I can pretend to be in the Never Ending Story of Glitches.
8) Duplicating/ghost enemies. You swipe a demons eye and suddenly it splits into two enemies then you swipe one and now you have 3 and it keeps going. Each one deals.damafe, but if you kill one they all banish and you only get one creatures drops. Similar to this an enemy will appear and if you attack it or it attacks you, it is vanishes. You still take damage if it hits you though. If you ask another player if they saw that, they will tell you nothing was there.
9) Glitched events. A goblin army is approaching from the West! Quick, build a little bunker and we'll wait for them!
...
...
...
Where the hell are they? It's been 5 minutes? Can't get Tinkerer without an invasion, which means no workshop or reforging. Great.
Happens with pirates too.
10) Probably more that I can't be arsed to remember right now. I know there's tons of little glitches that occur, like ghost fishing, items not being consumed when you place them, the D-pad not saving etc.
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Why the hell am I even still playing this game? It's a huge mess and I just feel frustrated and angry all the time. The multiplayer connectivity is worse now then ever before too. Servers disconnects and lag are terrible. We almost never had a problem with lag or disconnects before 1.3, but now it's a big issue.
I feel like Bethasda could say, "Our games are known for glitches, but at least it's not Console 1.3!"
In time, players figured out another work around with a 100% success rate, but, for a long time, people had to spend up to 20 minutes just closing and starting the game, simply to get the right version. They never did fix that glitch, by the way, it still exists to the best of my knowledge.
Anyway, this console port is atrocious. I don't know if anyone is proud of the work they did on this, but they really shouldn't be; they should be ashamed.
So far, I have experienced the following:
1) For almost a week after the update my friends and I couldn't even play because of a glitch that prevented us from loading into the worlds we had made. We asked around online and looked up several different methods of fixing them to no avail. Luckily, one ofy friends had to delete the local saved data to fix something to do with a different game, and it also fixed Terraria. So we all did that and now we can play.
2) Corrupted worlds/characters. You know, you log into the world and it doesn't load, you just see black blocks, or maybe poorly rendered backgrounds causing you to have to quit and reload and hope it doesn't occur again.
3) Invisible bosses/enemies. This is a fun one. Sitting there, fishing for crates and, suddenly I'm taking damage! Radar says no one is around but, I'm being attacked. Or, hey, let go fight Eye of Cthulhu! Eye of Cthulhu had awoke! Taking damage, but he isn't there. That's always fun.
4) Similar to the above, but invisible players. How the hell are we supposed to show off our crazy dyes and good vanity combinations when no one can see each other?
5) Multiplayer map data being deleted. I play with some friends, and some of us can't keep any map data. We explore the world, map gets updated, we save and quit, and when we come back, all of the exploration we did is deleted. We have to re-explore the world each time we play simply so we can use the map.
6) Deleted content. So I'm playing for a few hours in my single player world and I find some cool things, get some rare items from the Angler rewards. Go to bed, go to work, and after work, buddies and I hope on to play. Load into the multiplayer game and... The that I had in my inventory is no longer there. Those rare items? Gone. Go back to my work and search frantically, nope. Game saved all the building I did on my house but all the stuff in the chests I moved around is gone too.
Wasn't too horrible because it was mostly low level crap, but who knows how long till I get another Sextant and Fisherman's Pocket Guide.
7) Overwritten worlds and deleted worlds. Yeah, the world I've been working on to build up is all gone now. I had probably 1/3rd of a minecart skybridge built across the world, I had some proto-farms built for the coming hard mode. Gone. Yay!
It got overwritten with one of the multiplayer worlds we play on. Best part? It didn't even give me the entire ing world! As in, I take off to go do a fishing quest in the corruption and... http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pumba315/video/44426707
Turns out, something like 80% of the world was deleted and all that's left is this vast nothingness. Now all I need is a dead horse named Artax, and a luck dragon named Falcore, and I can pretend to be in the Never Ending Story of Glitches.
8) Duplicating/ghost enemies. You swipe a demons eye and suddenly it splits into two enemies then you swipe one and now you have 3 and it keeps going. Each one deals.damafe, but if you kill one they all banish and you only get one creatures drops. Similar to this an enemy will appear and if you attack it or it attacks you, it is vanishes. You still take damage if it hits you though. If you ask another player if they saw that, they will tell you nothing was there.
9) Glitched events. A goblin army is approaching from the West! Quick, build a little bunker and we'll wait for them!
...
...
...
Where the hell are they? It's been 5 minutes? Can't get Tinkerer without an invasion, which means no workshop or reforging. Great.
Happens with pirates too.
10) Probably more that I can't be arsed to remember right now. I know there's tons of little glitches that occur, like ghost fishing, items not being consumed when you place them, the D-pad not saving etc.
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Why the hell am I even still playing this game? It's a huge mess and I just feel frustrated and angry all the time. The multiplayer connectivity is worse now then ever before too. Servers disconnects and lag are terrible. We almost never had a problem with lag or disconnects before 1.3, but now it's a big issue.
I feel like Bethasda could say, "Our games are known for glitches, but at least it's not Console 1.3!"