I keep hearing the code words banana split, and banana pudding used on defense during the prep phase. What could they mean?
For context this is is custom matches when we make the mistake of putting the two most experienced players on the same team.
I love this game and the original, so it pains me to say that it wasn't ready for release. They needed to take some time to fix all the bugs first. The first bug I ran into was that I couldn't interact with the weapon cleaning and building tutorial windows. The next bug I encountered was when I put a side saddle on my over under shotgun. When I would remove rounds from the saddle, it would close the shotgun, which made it harder to reload. There were a few other minor bugs. All the decorative items I brought to a safe house disappeared, but my healing items stayed. After I got to Romashka Cooperative it wasn't long before the game breaking bugs started showing up. The three main issues are saves, spawns, and anomalies.
Saves
Sometimes when I load a save, things will be different from how they were when I saved the game. Sometimes they can be fixed by loading the save again, and sometimes they are permanent. This can happen the first time I load a save or after I have loaded the same save multiple times.
Sometimes, some of my equipment is missing, one time I healed up and waited for the healing to finish to save. When I loaded the save, I was at the health I was before I healed, and the healing item I used was gone. I had a time when my tablet was on the ground, which is weird because you can't drop the tablet. As soon as you let go of the grip button, the tablet goes back to its holder, even if your hands are nowhere near it.
I have had multiple times where I saved outside of a POI, and then died to mimics inside when I went to attack it. After reloading and dying again and again, I loaded the save, and now additional enemies were surrounding me. There were 3-5 of them, 10-20 yards away. They were never there before. Once this happens, they will always be there when I load that save.
Spawns
There have been many times when I go to Romashka Cooperative from the facility where I started taking fire and or got charged by fragments, the instant I loaded in. I haven't got chance to move yet, and I cannot see because of the fog.
I have been shot at by mimics at the edge of the map that are inside the fog, where I can't see them, and I have had them stand inside reflectors where they can shoot out, but I can't harm them at all.
I have had areas that I cleared of enemies this tide be filled with enemies the next time I went through them.
Anomalies
When a save is loaded, the anomalies will occasionally load in at a significant delay. So you can be walking along, and an anomaly loads in with you inside of it.
Reflectors can completely block access to a building, or worse, spawn in a way where you can get in but not out.
Dandelions can spawn in doorways. Even when that doorway is the only entrance to a room, and even if that room has an objective in it.
There have been many times when lightning fields (not the cube) have engulfed the objective or have blocked all paths to the objective.
Lightning fields often don't respond to probes. You can throw a probe, follow it after nothing happens, and then die to a lightning field that the probe hit but didn't trigger. I now throw a spread of 3 probes every time I want to move to a different spot in the blue particle fields, and this still happens.
There was one time I was standing there thinking about where to move next to navigate the particle field, and the act of doing nothing set one off and killed me.
I don't think this is a bug, but it is a problem. The lightning fields have a much larger AOE than the triggering zone. This has two effects. The first is that if you set one off it is going to do way more damage than any other anomaly because it takes a while to get out of it. The second is that even if probes did set them off with 100% relibility, you could throw a probe, move to it, them trow another one and die because the probe set off one in front of you that you were in the AOE of but had no way of knowing that.
Conculision
These are serious issues that reduce the enjoyment of the game significantly, and I hope they get fixed soon. I will be submitting official bug reports now that I have gotten my thoughts together.
It is my opinion that the game should have had some more development time before launch, to fix bugs and implement some features that are missing, like the shooting range, mod support, gunstock compatibility settings, and some additional enemies.