Dead Or Alive 5 is the Latest Glitch-tastic Game Release

Day-one release bugs in video games are becoming a common problem. In the past few months, we’ve had big games like Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Dying Light, and The Order: 1886 ship with multiple glitches. Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is the latest game to join that list, and developers Team NINJA is trying to put out fires all over the place on its official Twitter account.

The first problems, reported on Friday, were that the Xbox One game would freeze if throwdown challenges were turned on, and that Mad Catz fightsticks – the controller of choice for many beat ‘em up fanatics – were not working with the game.

Concerning the former, Team NINJA advise keeping throwdowns off until the issue is fixed, while Mad Catz are putting the blame for the latter firmly at the feet of the game’s developers:

“Mad Catz have been made aware that our Xbox One Tournament Edition 2 Arcade FightStick is not currently compatible with the Xbox One version of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. Mad Catz would like to assure the fighting game community that we have contacted Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja, and we are all working to find a solution. It should be noted that controller compatibility is something that is largely out of our hands and needs to be implemented on the developer side. Now that this issue has been brought to all our collective attention, we will do everything we can on our side to ensure that our FightStick will offer full compatibility with the game. It is our understanding that at this time NO specialty controllers / arcade FightSticks from other manufacturers will work on the Xbox One version of DOA5: Last Round. Please continue to check Mad Catz social media for further updates.”

Team NINJA responded with the following statement, insisting the two were working on the problem together:

“It should be noted that controller compatibility is something that is largely out of our hands and needs to be implemented on the developer side. Now that this issue has been brought to all our collective attention, we will do everything we can on our side to ensure that our FightStick will offer full compatibility with the game. It is our understanding that at this time NO specialty controllers / arcade FightSticks from other manufacturers will work on the Xbox One version of DOA5: Last Round. Please continue to check Mad Catz social media for further updates.”

Last week, an update for the Xbox 360 version of Dead or Alive 5 triggered the deletion of saved games for some users. Players of the German, Italian, French, or Spanish versions of the game who try to complete the tutorial mode have had their save files vanish.

Problems with the game have become so numerous that Team NINJA has put together a handy chart that lists all known issues with the latest Dead or Alive game. Let’s hope they don’t need to add to it any time soon.

Source: Kotaku