This game is a bug and glitch collection

[lanszelot]

Hello,

I bought this game years and years ago.
I started playing it, but got stuck because of glitches and bugs.
I thought I would give it some time to see if those issues were fixed.
Now, after a few years, I have come back to play it, but nothing has changed.
Sometimes it's impossible to play because of the bugs. Restarting did not help at all.
I have never played a game like this before.
So I am doing the Carrier step by step with the tutorial.
The tutorial is useless. I think the developers made the tutorial for people who had played this kind of game before.
But why do they need a tutorial? What about me?
YouTube is full of tips because nobody knows how this game works. The tutorial doesn't tell you anything.
I only did the first three tutorials; the fourth is not a tutorial.
I have no idea how to play. I'm using glitches to complete the achievements.
It's impossible to play this game.
If the developers were too lazy to create a tutorial, why didn't they write in the game description that you need to buy this and that game to play PZ?
This is not fun at all. This game is so annoying.
For example, in the tutorial I had to buy a tapir. So I put it with the hippos. No, I cannot put it there; the hippos are angry.
OK, so I tried to build a new habitat. But the tapir needs water and the terrain is grey so I can't use it.
Great — how do I own a tapir? I had to trick them into digging a hole at a feeding place where I could put water.
It only took a few hours because of a glitch.
And this is just one example. I have encountered many glitches and bugs. And I'm only at the beginning!
I recorded some of them, but I'm pretty sure they're aware of all of them.

Kind regards,

 

[Nioell]

So it's full of bugs and nobody knows how to play, yet it has a super active community with countless people playing no issue and new players coming in all the time who're just starting out and hve no trouble getting into things even though they never played a game like this before...

The tutorial does tell you step by step how to set things up and make it work and it covers the basics very well. The tapir one also isn't a bug or glitch it's part of the challenges in that carrer park: some don't allow terrain modifications because you're building in a protected area so you have to build the habitats around what you have. So if the tapir needs water build the habitat to include the water that's already there and so on and I'm pretty sure the characters in the story even talk about it when you reach those places.

The game certainly isn't perfect and it does have a steep learning curve when it comes to advanced builds, but to say it is riddled with bugs, unplayable and the tutorial tells you absolutely nothing is simply not true. Just out of curiosity though: what are those other bugs and glitches that make it unplayable? There might actually be a solution for those or they might not even be a bug in the first place, like the water being unplacable.

 

[Aramar]

The tutorial might not be perfect and maybe a more basic tutorial could be useful for players who have 0 knowledge about the Planet games, but that doesn't mean the game is full of glitches and unplayable. The game works very well and there are very little bugs after all the updates. If something doesn't work the way you want it to be doesn't mean it's a big, it might be intentional, like no allowing you to modify terrain on some maps.

 

[lanszelot]

So you said I am a liar?
Ok, here is some examples:
My video about one of the bug what I told : this is my video link
And here is a video where plese read the comments, my comment there a "thank you" only, so those was not me: this is the link where you could read the comments
Please do not be blind, because you do not need tutorial.
And I can share lot of video like the first one, but I do not want to upload too many PZ bugs/glitches on my youtube.
On the second video she showing some glitches too, she telling how could we avoid and fix those glitches.
Great game if need this kind of tutorial, and in tutorial have to alert how to avoid glitches.
Not the youtubes have to make tutorial to a game, this must have to be developers work.
More than 2 hours ago suffering to crete 3 simple habitats, because of glitches and bugs.
I am talkind about fences and workzone. Nothing else. No feeder, no dronk, no toys, no plants, no terrain (of course not, because gray and cannot use it), no nothing.
2 hours the game paused, loaded back, and try to figure out how to avoid from glitches. Not fun at all.

I do not want perfect game, only playable enough.

 

[NZFanatic]

What "glitches and bugs"? Be specific. What are you trying to achieve and what isn't working?

Nobody's calling you a liar, but because you're being so vague it's hard to tell whether you're just being melodramatic or simply not understanding that you can't actually do certain things in the game.

 

[lanszelot]

What "glitches and bugs"? Be specific. What are you trying to achieve and what isn't working?

Nobody's calling you a liar, but because you're being so vague it's hard to tell whether you're just being melodramatic or simply not understanding that you can't actually do certain things in the game.

Please watch the videos, and read what I wrote, I wrote some, and shared two videos.
I not record or write all bugs and glitches, because I can write here all day.
Those examples shows what I am talking about.
1st comment - tapir example.
1st video glass bug.
2nd video path glitches and lack of tutorial.

 

[Nioell]

Please watch the videos, and read what I wrote, I wrote some, and shared two videos.
I not record or write all bugs and glitches, because I can write here all day.
Those examples shows what I am talking about.
1st comment - tapir example.
1st video glass bug.
2nd video path glitches and lack of tutorial.

So first one as I already said not a bug but intentional for that scenario level and certain items flattening the ground around them is not a glitch either but a feature to ensure there's enough room around them to be used and for the animations to play out correctly. If you want to use that as a building hack it is a totally valid thing to do but has nothing at all to do with bugs or glitches as it's supposed to behave that way.

Second one: NOT a bug or glitch but you not following the game's very clear instructions and failing to read the pop ups you get. I even took the time to play through the tutorial again (as I've done before because I never said I didn't need it in the beginning because I did and it helped me greatly in understanding the basic mechanics of the game) to confirm my suspicion and it did confirm it.

The game clearly tells you to build a donation box and highlights an area for you to build in. You go and try to change barries outside of that buildbale area and the game tells you as much in the barrier panel (first image is from your own video) and as you can see it even more clearly in my test: the barriers that are located within the area you're still allowed to build in are changable no problem, the others are blocked because you are not supposed to build there.

So again, not a bug and not the game's fault you can't be bothered to follow its lead or read the infos it gives you.

The paths can be a pain at times and we all agreed that the game isn't perfect, nothing is, but it's far from unplayable. You can do amazing things with it, as seen all over the place, when you bother to get to know the tools, read what the game tells you and look up which hotkeys to use and that is part of the game's settings and help manual as well btw. Never needed outside sources to find any of those personally, it's all right there when you bother to open and read through it.

Now since it's clear these aren't bugs at all, do you have other examples we might be able to help clear up or help the devs find and fix actual bugs or are you just gonna keep saying "it's riddled with bugs and unplayable, though I'm not gonna tell you any of those, but it's totally obvious that's how it is!" Because it clearly isn't obvious to the rest of us at all.