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Kotaku UK: Sonic Mania on Switch is slightly borked
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Vital Tundra
Member
"Borked" means broken.
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
Haha seriously. People pining to the kids to get the thread title change. What the hell.
smashballTaz
Member
But how are the aesthetics of the Sonic Mania icon graphic?
SinCityAssassin
Member
For this new page, I might as well remind that these bugs are being worked on and are already addressed by Whitehead on twitter.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
The home button works fine. So does the screenshot button.
Other than the fact that they take five goddamn seconds to respond apiece
I mean literally five whole seconds
Other than the fact that they take five goddamn seconds to respond apiece
I mean literally five whole seconds
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
You could almost say it's slightly borked.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
Indeed
zenspider
Member
Me too (well, the power button). Was using the Pokken controller and tried to put it to sleep with the power button while docked. Had to pull it out to sleep it.
zenspider
Member
Mobile as fuck.
CharminUltra
Member
I don't see why the term "slightly borked" engenders such a hostile reaction here. It sounds like a minor issue and it's described as such. It's an easier headline to digest than "Sonic Mania on the Switch is super incredible, but some people (NOT ALL) are having minor issues (even if you can call them that) with the home and screenshot buttons that DO NOT IMPACT THE AWESOME SWITCH PORT IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY. GOD."
OrbitalBeard
Member
If it were just the headline, I wouldn't have much of an issue. The first two sentences of the article are what make the whole thing annoying for me.
"Sonic Mania is out, hooray! Unless you've got it on Switch, sadly."
There's better ways to inform people of these types of issues. One could easily read the opening and get the impression that the Switch version has serious problems.
You can inform people in a more responsible way. It's not hard.
mullet2000
Member
Is everyone ignoring the word "slightly" in the title or something? Jesus.
Informing people about issues takes precedence over the hurt feelings from pointing them out to of fans of this version.
Informing people about issues takes precedence over the hurt feelings from pointing them out to of fans of this version.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Thank you. I'll wait for the patch before I go in hard.
FutureLarking
Member
The word "slightly" was patched in post facto.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Most people don't read beyond the headline.
Hot Coldman
Banned
It just crashed for me on PS4 when I went to the online leaderboards. FWIW.
yeah its really borked lol. ffs what a title.
I've already seen a few posts saying "I heard the switch version is fucked"
I've already seen a few posts saying "I heard the switch version is fucked"
backflip10019
Member
PS4 version is slightly borked.
ichigo kurosaki
Member
I noticed a weird bug on Switch (probably affecting the other platforms as well) where:
1) if you have your console set to one of the supported languages other than English (e.g. Spanish) and
2) you set the game to English from the options menu
You then go back to the title screen and the prompt to press a button to start playing will turn to the language you have the console set to after the 1st time it shows up. The rest of the game will still be in English.
/random
1) if you have your console set to one of the supported languages other than English (e.g. Spanish) and
2) you set the game to English from the options menu
You then go back to the title screen and the prompt to press a button to start playing will turn to the language you have the console set to after the 1st time it shows up. The rest of the game will still be in English.
/random
Diablohead
Member
I saw this crash yesterday on a stream also, PS4.
floatstarpx
Member
I've found that there's a bug where I get crushed between the moving platforms on Chemical Plant zone, even when they aren't actually close enough together to crush Sonic... has anyone else seen that?
So, where's the ps4 is slightly borked article?
KratosEnergyDrink
Member
Its kotaku, another dumb clickbait article like they usually produce these days. Sadly they lost all of their reputation in the past 3 years and it seems to get only worse.
How close? I remember being crushed if the distance was just Sonic's height in the old games. Happened in a few wierd spots.
So far I haven't experienced any of the in game problems, just noticed the home button taking a while to work on the Switch version.
floatstarpx
Member
it's a bit more than his height... happens in the bit where you're jumping up the moving platforms as the water rises. I get it by jumping on top of the lower platform while they're moving horizontally (not vertically)- so it's like it lets me in the gap, and then crushes me as the other one passes overhead. seems odd, because really he should get pushed sideways in that situation, not get crushed.
Off-Kilter
Banned
frankie_baby
Member
Absolutely disgusting............ thread title
Ah yes, the game is slightly entirely broken beyond repair.
The title was clickbait-y, there is no way to read 'bork' and think that it is only a minor easily fixable problem.
funkystudent
Member
Yeah had weird system button delay happens to me.
Not exactly game breaking but I hope it gets patched
Not exactly game breaking but I hope it gets patched
frankie_baby
Member
Its not even a "problem" its just a niggle
You're right, I was being overly generous, as everything still works, it just takes a bit longer than expected.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Diablohead
Member
one of eggmans traps
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/08/15/sonic-mania-has-an-irritating-home-button-bug-on-switch
They've even put another article out with a more reasonable title, but still left the click bait one up
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/tag/nintendo/
I mean they're both next to each other in the Nintendo section
They've even put another article out with a more reasonable title, but still left the click bait one up
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/tag/nintendo/
I mean they're both next to each other in the Nintendo section
Toadthemushroom
Member
Definitely not borked. Just seems to interfere with the OS, there's a slight delay in suspending the game. But you know the OS is trying to do it normally because upon resuming you see the game for a split second at the point where you pressed home, before it jerks back to where it actually got suspended. Odd.
As for other bugs and issues, they don't seem to be specific to the Switch version of the game. The Ars Technica review noted a few bugs, and I found one myself yesterday: In chemical zone, if you're below the sets of four moving cubes and Tails is above, the cubes stop moving completely. So I got trapped near the entrance to the bonus stage. They wouldn't move out of the way.
Either way, I hope Tantalus is able to fix the issues with suspending the game.
As for other bugs and issues, they don't seem to be specific to the Switch version of the game. The Ars Technica review noted a few bugs, and I found one myself yesterday: In chemical zone, if you're below the sets of four moving cubes and Tails is above, the cubes stop moving completely. So I got trapped near the entrance to the bonus stage. They wouldn't move out of the way.
Either way, I hope Tantalus is able to fix the issues with suspending the game.
Deadpool_X
Banned
It is just sluggish for me. I hit the power button or home button and it takes like 4 seconds to respond. Annoying, but they'll patch it out.
It's weird that so much of this thread has been people being overly defensive about the word "borked." It fucks with the OS in a way that breaks the home and power buttons in a minor and insignificant way but regardless they are broken. Definitely is "borked." Does it stop you playing the game or the game being awesome? No, not at all but that's not the point.
I've had it just not respond at all sometimes which is even more annoying than the delay. I wonder what it's doing that even causes this.
Azure Dream
Member
The Switch version didn't seem to be part of the original plan, so I'm not surprised it has the most bugs creeping in. That being said, I played through the entire main game, and the only bugs I encountered personally were the Home and Screenshot lag (but they still worked), and some super-minor things like "2P Tails can get stuck if he airlifts Sonic to a specific place." I didn't notice any frame drops or anything. That's not to belittle the people having problems, but thankfully it's not across-the-board.
fleshrender
Member
It is borked, I mean the home screen icon doesn't even have the game logo text on it, how will I even know it's a Sonic game?
Game ruined.
Game ruined.
Jonneh3003
Banned
And they failed to acknowledge Whitehead claiming fixes are in the works. Article does a very bad just of informing.