Rebellion has announced that Aliens vs. Predator is receiving a patch on Monday, receiving a number of stability and multiplayer glitches. Considering how many problems there are, I hope that this is one update of many more in future. In any case, here’s the full list of fixes that will occur when the update goes live next week:
General
– Stability improvements to address rare and infrequent hangs
– Implemented a workaround for missing audio issues with certain hardware (SoundBlaster X-Fi, Realtek onboard, etc.)
– Fixed save games being lost or corrupted if connection to Steam is lost or if user switches to offline playMultiplayer
– Fixed XP being incorrectly affected by offline play (though only in the local stats; this will be corrected next time you connect to multiplayer)
– Fixed other players sometimes appearing to have the wrong weapon or continuing to fire indefinitely after dying
– Fixed rare issue where players would be temporarily invisible
– Fixed some selection of servers and players in menus sometimes being incorrect
The patch doesn’t mention fixing problems with lag, nor does it offer any solutions for connection drops and hosts quitting the game. The game certainly has more technical issues than this patch mentions, and I have to say I’m actually quite angry about that considering all the ruined potential this game has. Still, Rebellion and Sega seem unaffected by the negativity, with the publisher promising some new in-game feature announcements very soon.
AvP PC patch out Monday [Videogamer]
Published: Feb 25, 2010 11:30 am