The Outer Worlds players will be familiar with a rather annoying bug that the developers have aptly titled ?the game thinks my companions are dead.? The bug, which has been spoiling the experience for some players since launch, marks companion quests as ?failed? because the game registers players? companions as dead even though they?re alive.
Although the bug was finally fixed last week, Obsidian Entertainment?s QA Lead, Taylor Swope, took to Twitter to pen a lengthy thread explaining why it took months to investigate the bug. Swope said that he spent more time investigating the dead companion issue than any other bug in his entire career. The QA team made many attempts to reproduce the bug but it couldn?t, leading to Swope having to locate ?every script and line of code that could possibly make the game think that a companion was dead? because no one could pinpoint exactly when the problem occurred.
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