The Internet is boiling with reports of game killing bugs for Fable 2. The Lionhead RPG premiered last week with seemingly more than its fair share of glitches. As Microsoft and Lionhead work to get a patch out soon, a source that claims to be one of Sony’s Lead Quality Assurance Testers has a suggestion to cure some of players ills.
Rodney who uses the handle Rod_Five on the Lionhead Community Forums asserts that many of the bugs and glitches players are experiencing are caused by the hastily created online co-op patch.
“Now as many of you know it wasn’t until a few days before the release if it was known whether or not online co-op would make it. Now a game goes gold (off to be made into the retail version everyone plays) at least three weeks before… release… on a larger release like Fable 2, I’d bet that it went gold five weeks before release because of the larger scale of its release. So that means while the game was out of Lionheads hands they were working on the patch to add the online co-op feature, which I doubt they had time to properly test since they were on such a crunch to get the patch out by day one.”
“So, my big point is that it’s very possible that the online co-op patch created these game-breaking bugs.”
Rod_Five goes on to give specific instructions on how to remove the patch which is set to download and install as soon as you go online with Fable 2.
Forums are tricky in that it’s hard to confirm the identity and experience claimed by any poster. If Rod_Five is a QA guy for Sony, it’s ironic he posted on an Xbox 360 game and goes to show some games can cause loyal console fans to cross lines.
There hasn’t been an official response from Lionhead or Microsoft to this suggestion. Many players have responded to this thread and have recommended removing the patch in many other other threads on the forums. Although it hasn’t helped everyone, many players report they’re happy to have found a solution. One poster also pointed out that it allows you to exploit the pub game glitch again.
1 Comment to Lead QA Tester for Sony Suggests Bug Fix for Fable II
by: Serio
On October 27, 2008 at 4:32 pm
It’s not the patch, i can say that much. I’ve played coop twice now, and i haven’t encountered a single bug that has been posted. Neither has the guy in Canada i played coop with. Oddly though, it never seems to occur in the Limited Edition of the game(There shouldn’t even be a difference).