I feel compelled to update my… “review.”
I did end up finding out why the game would crash when i pressed enter at the “press enter to continue” screen. The game hates my main xbox profile and if i pick that profile, the game will crash instantly. I had to create a brand new xbox account with a brand new outlook email (this is their strategy to expand outlook email use i guess).
I want to stress that nobody at the developer or microsoft did shit to help me. They never answered any contact attempt i made and nothing they posted anywhere was any help. There is zero support for this game.
What eventually led me to the answer was spending 4-6 hours of research. Since recore is not popular finding an answer searching for recore itself was impossible. Eventually i found the answer from a forza thread.
I’m not sure whether this is Comcept’s fault or microsoft’s fault. Likely the direct blame is microsoft since it happens in other windows 10 games as well apparently. However, as the customer i blame Comcept for this because they choose to use xbox live and because they implemented it.
Also as a developer i am ashamed by the programmers at comcept and at microsoft (specifically windows store). Every single error i encountered was a generic “something has happened” error with zero details to diagnose the problem. Even looking in the event log produced generic results of one of their libraries faulting. They took zero effort in order to help people diagnose problems during development.
Anyway, i didn’t find the answer immediately, so i tried a lot of things. One of the things i tried was uninstalling and installing again. Big mistake. Windows store left crap behind that made installing again impossible and of course the error windows store gave was the generic “something has happened” error that we all love so much. I had to manually remove the old files before it would work. I learned this from trial and error.
SO how is the game? I like it. If i experienced no problems at all, knowing what i know with about 1-2 hours in to the game, i would give it a 7.5/10. The advancement isn’t super complex, but it is interesting. The gameplay (both gunplay and jumping stuff) are fun. The story, while not Torment, is interesting. This would have been a great $40 game.
But i did experience problems and going by the support forums (which nobody answers or looks at other than despairing customers), there is a chance i might experience game breaking bugs later in the game. Given the developer’s lack of support so far, it is reasonable to assume that if there are problems later in the game, they will never be fixed. Also obviously if you experience any problems, do not expect support.
Even though i’ve only played for 1-2 hours, i already experienced a situation where a mission trigger left me stuck, forcing me to reload from a checkpoint (which thankfully was very close).
So even though i like the game, I cannot recommend it to anyone until it is very cheap. I want to reward the developer for releasing a game that i genuinely like, but i don’t want to reward them for releasing a game too early and then not supporting it. Even worse, they have done this two times in a row now.
