Posted on: August 23, 2021
Mandraxon
Verified ownerGames: 470 Reviews: 1
A Terrarium for Bugs
The actual game itself is great, but I can't recommend this in good conscience. I ran into three game breaking bugs in the course of about two hours. Firstly, the game hard crashed during a combat sequence in Mission 6 (My Brother's Keeper). This hard crash actually caused my PC to black screen and completely restart, during which the PC had to do an internal scan to check system integrity and my UEFI boot order got changed, causing my boot times to increase from less than 30 seconds to almost 5 minutes. That took some tinkering with to fix. Secondly, this hard crash caused my save files to become corrupted. So, clicking on "continue" instantly crashed the game, with no crash log or error message. As a result, I had to use mission select to reload my progress back to the beginning of Mission 6. And then comes the third game breaking bug. The reload took away any abilities, mods, materials, and levels that I had gained during my playtime of Mission 6, but it did not reload the loot boxes in the area. As a result, I was unable to gain any of the materials and mods that I should have been able to gain when replaying the early part of the levels. Moreover, because it wasn't truly a full reload, I wasn't able to correctly proc the side mission, "A Matter of Time." I was able to start the mission by talking to Horowitz, but I was not able to enter the Oceanside Motel because my level progress had somehow been saved and not overwritten, and because the puzzle was already solved, it would not progress the mission, so Wells would not show up and I was unable to continue with this mission. I was actually having a ton of fun with Control until these bugs. But until they get addressed and patched up, I can't recommend that anyone buy this game.
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