Yesterday's surprise release of Death Stranding Director's Cut on Xbox Series X|S has proved extremely popular over the past 24 hours, but something you should be aware of is a Quick Resume bug that's plaguing the game at launch.
As shared by Windows Central's Jez Corden, the bug involves not being able to save the game after you resume a play session with Quick Resume. There's some kind of conflict there, which could ultimately lose you hours of progress.
The good news is that publisher 505 Games is already on the case, and has notified the development team about the issue. You can also turn off Quick Resume to avoid any problems like this - which involves using the "Quit" option every time you've finished playing the game, instead of just doing back to the dashboard with the Guide button.
Here's what we advise you do:
- When you're finished playing, press the Xbox Guide button on your controller
- Hover over Death Stranding in the list that appears, and press the Menu button (the three lines)
- Scroll down to "Quit" in order to exit the game without using Quick Resume
Hopefully we get a permanent resolution in the near future, as Death Stranding seems to otherwise be off to a very strong start on Xbox! It helps that the game is 50% off at launch - bringing it down to just £17.49 / $19.99 right now
Have you run into this Quick Resume bug with Death Stranding on Xbox? Tell us in the comments.
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As always Quick Resume is great... when it works. But there's still some things to iron out as it still occasionally causes issues. Though it seems to depend on what games you play, as some have no issues at all. Lucky you.
When quick resume works its a very nice feature but when playing a game like Cod Blops 6 then its just bad. Wish developers could turn that off if it doesnt work with their game (maybe they can, I dont know...)
I don't like quick resume at all I always just quit out of games anyway
I've had problems with quite a lot of games on quick resume Ubisoft games in particular don't seem to work well with it.
I do hate that QR seems to have so many issues with a bunch of popular games (especially online ones) that have never been fixed. Microsoft need to give you the option of turning it off on a game by game basis as a default console feature.
Oof.
I think witcher 3 had a similar bug on X1 where if you didn't close the game fully before going into standby you couldn't save
@PhileasFragg I think they can or do somethi that forces it, because I'm playing Shadows of Doubt and Quick Resume is very much not a thing.
QR is great. I wish i could turn it off permanently on select games like cod. I remember how bad it was on a release and how it awesome works now. Of course people just keep the narrative that it works bad but honestly in last 2 years i dont remember a single issue with QR except online games like cod. Its very surprising to load a game from cold start of xbox that you launched 2 weeks ago and return immediately to the exact same moment where you stopped in the game. Truly next gen feauture that needs just a bit of ironing.
I love QR. Only issue I've ever had is with always online games. That isn't MS fault though. Some games don't lend themselves to QR because of game state settings.
@themightyant
I love quick resume. One of my favourite things about the SeriesX, vs PC, PS5, or well, any other console.
It always surprised me when I'd hear people complain or not like it, as it's worked perfectly for me in almost every game I've tried, even old 360 games etc.
In fact it was a real surprise and annoyance recently when I realised Judgment didn't use Quick Resume.
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