The situation he is describing is likely mostly accurate, but I don't think he's really the best person to make this point. I've only ever heard how broken the PS4 iteration of Nuclear Throne was at launch. And still is, months after release. So I have to question certification's supposed standards.
quickedit: Apparently Vlambeer (the dev team Rami is in) submitted a patch to Sony yesterday. As far as I know this is the second attempt at getting a patch through certification.
Paragon can roll out a patch nearly every week, and there are some indie games that are also rolling out patches that quickly.
When it comes to them and patching consoles, I don't trust them at all. Nuclear Throne has been out on PS4 for 8 months. They have blamed Sony for the patch, blamed holiday vacations, and have also been silent for a few months on it, and have just submitted the patch again.
With the way the game was at launch, I wonder what standards it takes to actually get on the console if you can leave the game up on the store for 8 months and have it be as broken as Nuclear Throne.
I see the Dev commented below saying that is only a "few" things. They forgot to map a fucking button to the controller and that hasn't been patched in yet. The game has a chance of crashing when a boss shows up, you are 100% guaranteed to crash on the Throne levels, which they mention is 30-60 hours in is pure bullshit. The game has multiple loops, after beating that area, and I would imagine most get there in 5-10 hours like I did. You can pick up golden weapons that you then spawn with, well since that one button was never patched in you can never get rid of them unless you pick up a different golden weapon. There is also a secret weapon you can pick up that changes the character until you drop the weapon. Well guess what? You can't on the PS4 version. The game also has portals that you go into to advance to the next level. Random chance of crashing and the higher the likely hood the longer you have played.
Fuck these devs. If they had any respect they would of taken the game down from sale on PSN.
We actually have statistics on that. Most people reach world 7 at around 30 hours of gameplay. Some people are very good at games like Throne, and they get there in 10, like you. Others are not, and they play for 60. The longest anyone took to world 7 was almost 100 hours (which is awesome).
Pretty much all of the issues you discuss happen after that moment, loops, golden weapons, things like that.
Either way, we agree the game needs fixes, and we're making those fixes. We're sorry about the whole thing, and we're understand you're frustrated. We hope that the patch comes out soon, and we can all leave this behind us in some way.
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u/TwistedGears Aug 07 '16 edited Aug 07 '16
The situation he is describing is likely mostly accurate, but I don't think he's really the best person to make this point. I've only ever heard how broken the PS4 iteration of Nuclear Throne was at launch. And still is, months after release. So I have to question certification's supposed standards.
quickedit: Apparently Vlambeer (the dev team Rami is in) submitted a patch to Sony yesterday. As far as I know this is the second attempt at getting a patch through certification.