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