Video video games are onerous to make. These bizarre, complicated items of intricate interactive software program take years to make and may generally break in very bizarre methods. For instance, gamers of Powerwash Simulator on Xbox seen the sport began crashing so much once they’d hop on-line with others. And whereas a patch is coming to repair this nasty bug, the momentary answer from the builders at FuturLab is a bit foolish. In line with them, to cease the crashes, all Xbox gamers want do is keep away from wanting on the solar.
Powerwash Simulator is an excellent, stress-free recreation about…effectively, utilizing an influence washer to scrub stuff. (You must have guessed that from the identify.) It’s been out for a bit on PC through Steam Early Entry, however solely noticed a full launch yesterday, when it additionally made the leap to consoles through Xbox Recreation Go.
However there’s that a problem the place the sport crashes when gamers attempt to clear the world collectively. What might or not it’s? Maybe the servers aren’t working? Possibly the sport’s web code is damaged? Or perhaps it’s even a problem with the way in which the sport handles information over a community connection?
Nope! In line with Powerwash Simulator’s official Twitter account, the true offender behind all of the crashing on Xbox is the sport’s use of lens flares, which seem if you lookup on the digital solar. As I mentioned, video video games are bizarre and sophisticated issues. Even sillier and weirder is the dev’s answer for this concern: Simply cease wanting on the solar a lot, you weirdos.
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FuturLab admitted this “isn’t a great workaround” and apologized to gamers for any inconvenience this bug has induced. The devs say the problem with lens flares was caught at “the final second,” presumably earlier than the sport shipped. Fortunately, in a follow-up tweet from earlier today, the devs confirmed a hotfix for this photo voltaic hiccup is within the works. It’s due someday subsequent week.
Kotaku has reached out to FuturLab concerning the state of affairs and acquired this assertion:
We all know what it’s, are working as quick as we are able to to get it to gamers and have a repair that we hope to get out by the top of subsequent week.
Within the meantime, fortunately, you’ll be able to nonetheless play Powerwash Simulator solo to get pleasure from its stress-free cleansing simulation in excellent concord with that fiery orb within the sky.
