Am I the only one getting horrid crashes?

[BlackDragon]

Every couple of hours, the game just locks up. Freezes in place. During play, during loading, doesn't seem to matter. It's becomming a real pain, especially when it happened right after I'd scored a Gold Medal in one of the minigames, but before it saved... plus, it's seriously messing up my Gamma/Rage Canister count, since it's hard to figure out which ones I took between the last save, and the latest crash.

Is it just me? 'cuz in that case, taking the DVD back for a new one might not be a bad idea... still, a read-error shouldn't be able to lock up the entire machine. We're not just talking about a game-freeze, after all... the Xbox Menu button doesn't work either.


I just hope there's some way to solve it - it's seriously impacting my enjoyment of the game, not to mention my collection of Achievements. :p

[laseroption]

Sounds like either a bad disc or your system. I've not heard of these issues.

[The Pants Party]

My game froze within the first 30 minutes I was playing, but it hasn't happened since. I was worried because I just spent over two hours romping around and then decided to do the "destroy an entire neighborhood" achievement, but it didn't freeze luckily.

EDIT: Looks like I jinxed myself. Saved after getting the achievement mentioned above, then spent an hour collecting landmark tokens and froze with about 10 to go. And of course the game doesn't autosave every time you get something important like every other game out there. Fuck, even Kung Fu Panda saved every time you got a collectible.

Plus, this save system is stupid as hell. You can only save AND exit the game. Can't just save the game and keep playing. So lame.

[chris chrome]

It's definitely a problem with the game itself. I wouldn't bother taking it to exchange it, maybe they'll put out a patch soon on Live....If you don't have Live, take it back to the store and raise hell, they might give you your money back. When I play the game, every couple of hours mine does the same thing. It's trying to process too many environmental objects at once, causing it to lock up.

[BlackDragon]

Guess I'm not the only one... which, really, is bad. But then again, if enough people have these issues, a patch will probably come out soon. I figured it was something like that, really - games like tehse are often pushed out the door too quickly, without enough time for proper testing.

Anyway, a good way to avoid loosing too much progress is to use the Subway system a lot - the game saves whenever you get on the sub, and it's faster than exiting.

Hmm... we really ought to head over to the official forums and let it be known that there's an issue here. Anybody know where the official forum IS, though?

[RRIKER]

My game froze within the first 30 minutes I was playing, but it hasn't happened since. I was worried because I just spent over two hours romping around and then decided to do the "destroy an entire neighborhood" achievement, but it didn't freeze luckily.

EDIT: Looks like I jinxed myself. Saved after getting the achievement mentioned above, then spent an hour collecting landmark tokens and froze with about 10 to go. And of course the game doesn't autosave every time you get something important like every other game out there. Fuck, even Kung Fu Panda saved every time you got a collectible.

Plus, this save system is stupid as hell. You can only save AND exit the game. Can't just save the game and keep playing. So lame.

You know every time you use the subway, it saves, right?

And yeah, it sucks to all hell when you get 10 canisters and the game freezes. I can't keep track like that!

I need to get a seperate save file so I can check off the gamma canisters properly, instead of wondering "did I already find it, or can I just not see it?"

[The Pants Party]

I was actually just coming here to mention the Subway thing. I have no idea why, but I woke up at like 5.30 in the morning to the realization that my game HAD been saving when I used subways. I think I only lost like ten minutes of work, not the full hour. What a relief!

[Giony]

i thought i was lucky cuz it never happened to me so far since i have been playing for a few hrs straight, but it happened just now. thank god it saved a min before :uzi:

[RRIKER]

you think that's bad? I started my game up today and lost all my save data.

If you hit the "choose storage device", back out, and start story mode, you lose it all. it saves over. The worst part is, I had 98/100 canisters.

Once I get those, I'm trading it in. I lost all my fun stuff.

[BlackDragon]

Meep! Thanks for the warning - I'll take care not to touch that 'Change Storage Device' button...

[its delicious]

I'm thinking we should just have one "Technical Issues" thread, because this game crashed on me twice while I tried to kill the SI Hulkbuster guarding Betty. I took the Hulkbuster down once (which is a pain) and when he got up for Round 2, the game crashed because I punched a building. I still got the achievement and the game credits me for killing the Hulkbuster, but I still have to beat that mission.

So twice during that mission, and three other times this game has crashed. I'm going to say I like Ultimate Destruction more, because I can play it with confidence.

[squid5580]

Yep mine froze a few times. Lost the object I was supposed to be guarding a few times (the marker would just disappear). And the jump loop when you fall into the water. Glad to see they took the time to test it before shipping. It will take alot of good scores for me to consider buying the next Sega game (don't care it was Sega who published not developed). We shouldn't have to wait for a patch when we buy a new console game. Especially for the amount of money they must lose on used sales and the year after price drop. It seems odd that they would send out a buggy game, expect ppl to wait for a patch, and at the same time try to get ppl to buy it at launch.

[BlackDragon]

I've had the 'Water Jump Loop' happen to me once, too... quite annoying, but at least when that happens, you can 'Save and Exit', so you'll never loose more than the mission you're currently at.

And as for the general bugginess, I suspect that they pushed it out the door because they wanted it to coincide with the release of the movie. Not that that's any excuse...

[its delicious]

I got severely messed up audio tracks in the U-Foes and Abomination fights. I thought the U-Foes had their own strange music! Nope, just another flaw. This game has so many, it's really hard to recommend to anyone.

[maddog walker]

i agree,this game is terrible.i gave up on it due to the constant lock ups.

[Ashande]

Mine has frozen a few times, generally just after finishing a mission - though thankfully, it hasn't happened to me before the game opted to save, yet - but even with the occasional glitchiness, I still think the game's pretty good. It's leagues above Iron Man, at least, and if one factors in that it is essentially a movie tie-in game, that'd probably shoot it's value up quite a bit.

Just my opinion. But yeah, it is annoying when it decides to freeze... mainly because I'm a lazy bastard and don't like having to get up to reset the Xbox. :)

[Skyripper]

There is a way to save. Go to options, and click 'storage device' and just redundantly pick the same storage device you were already using.

which works for me.. apparently not for some.. *points up*

[MikeinSC]

It freezes constantly. It's extremely irritating trying to do the destroy a neighborhood thing and having it fail on you.

[asmischney]

It freezes constantly. It's extremely irritating trying to do the destroy a neighborhood thing and having it fail on you.

same here, it has happened Twice! and always just as i am taking out the last block!
argh!

[Cyrus Cheever]

yeah, i've been having the same problem with mine freezing. i got the achievement for destroying and entire neighborhood and all the landmarks then it locked up on me. it managed to save the neighborhood feat but not the landmarks. then it froze again when i was dodging lightning. i was afraid my system was going down. i'm glad ot know its just the disc.

[its delicious]

i'm glad ot know its just the disc.
if it only it was the disc! sadly, it seems this problem is happening because of poor programming.

[DarkJediRPM]

The system lock up is very annoying. I've gone 2 hours with it being fine, saved, and 10 minutes later it crashes. The save system is crap too. Why the hell is there no "save and continue"?

[Bleeding Star]

bought the game today, was fine for first 2 hours or so, played bit of TF2 came back to this n suddenly its locking up every 30mins or so :/

[Andrew14man]

locks up for me too. reminds me of bully

[bhyde82]

yeah i have a new elite and i has frozen four times i rented the game from gamefly it was one of the first shipped so it had no scratches at all.

[Darkjay7991]

I destroyed a whole neightboorhood got like literally 35 feats completed. Found a comic book cover, 17 Gamma Canisters, 8 Fury Canisters, 2 Jump challenges and 49 Landmarks. OH and the Thrill-ionaire achivement. Now I ddin't know about these stupid subways so there was no way to get all the achivements I got without quiting since the buildings reset. I was about the get the 50th landmark and then it froze! 5 hours of work and play....gone. IF a patch never releases then Hulk has betrayed me, sega has betrayed me, and this game is a disgrace if it is suppose to be a unofficial sequel to Ultimate Destruction.

[ShoShoRD]

yes Im getting This Problem

[Scable Logo]

I'm having these lock up problems too, quite annoying really. It's even frozen on me when I've selected save and exit though I do think it managed to save the game before it froze heh

[its delicious]

I'm having these lock up problems too, quite annoying really. It's even frozen on me when I've selected save and exit though I do think it managed to save the game before it froze heh
The game did that to me last night. Not sure if anything I needed to save actually did so.

[Scable Logo]

I've learnt to visit the subway when I've done a few things that doesn't get saved automatically. I even visit the subway before I save/exit just in case ;)

[drakehellsing]

It happened to me like three times, first time while I was collecting the landmark tokens, it crashed, so I had to start all over again.

Second time was in a mission, not sure which one it was, but I was just running along, stuff being destroyed too, since I touched it, and it just frooze.

Third time was again, wandering around New York, I had found two comic book covers, then after a bit, it frooze again, so restarted, found one of them again on the Baxter Building, but not the other one, so i left it alone, but had to redo a jump marker too.

It's a pain, but the game is still randomly fun regardless, but finding those canisters is gonna be a pain, may have to go district by district and save between each one till I get to Central Park last, since there are only a couple in there.

[mighty1]

sucks that the crashes keep happening. this was one of those games i wanted to check out but just about everyone i talk mention how this game is always crashing. talk about ruining a gamming experience. i hope that they release some time of patch soon to fix this problem.

[SubzeroDarkJedi]

This happened to me a good few times last night while playing. First was the fight against the U-Foes for the first time and it happened twice after taking out Vapor. The second time happened while doing the sightseeing achievement after I would go to the top of Stark Tower and that locked up three times there. Funny enough though, when it did lock up that was the last one of the five I had to go to, so what I did was made that the first one to goto and it has been fine since......weird?!?!

[MikeinSC]

What I'm not getting is why Sega isn't doing anything to rectify it. Rockstar fixed Bully very quickly. Why is Sega allowing a really fun game to be ruined by massive technical glitches?

[mjpartyboy]

This has froze on me a few times, usually after I've collected a load of canisters and before I've gone to save it.

[SpyTip]

Cant say im shocked that this game not only freezes from time to time but wow what horrible lag it has. If these problems get fixed would make the game more fun

[MikeinSC]

I love the game a lot and the crashes are a massive problem. I wish Sega would fix this.

[darquesyde]

I was thinking I was crash free until I started working on destroying every building in a hood...thankfully it happened to me after only 4 buildings. Then it started crashing randomly. Glad I only rented it.

[E vee dub]

Who in the hell were the QA testers for this game? I want their job because it sure must be easy and I bet pay is decent.

Sure is a fun game, despite the very frustrating freeze-ups.

[mxwelch]

All the time and it's annoying as crap!! Usually when I'm almost done beating a boss. Looks like I won't be buying any of Sega's products.

[rdrunr89]

I read somewhere this was a known issue with the game. I rented mine and it does the same or just has some major lag time. It sucks and makes me not want to play the game anymore.

[cassadinechik]

I completed this, I got the little unlocking the achievement pause that I know we are all familiar with and then it crashed. (Few other random crashes, but nothing in too vital a spot).

So no big (no achievement, no feat), I go back in to finish it again. I now appear to be "stuck" at 960000 thousand points or so. I can't move it with destroying stuffs. Anyone have an idea of a way around this without starting again? *sigh*

[cassadinechik]

Nevermind, I found the answer that they must all be collected at one time.

[DUTCH865]

yeah the coding in this game is not very polished... you'd think they would have found out about it & released a patch by now right?!

arrrrrrrr

[DTwirler]

Mine froze twice last night: I don't remember what I was doing the first time, but the 2nd I was trying to destoy an entire neighborhood and it froze. >:o(

[SPRAYandPREYcom]

its making a lot of noise on my elite more than cod4 or oblivion i think lol

yeah mine finally froze up twice and i got to the hulkbuster saving betty level and i beat him up then it says toss him to the generators but he disappeared under a building so i couldn't grab him so i returned it