Uncharted 3 beta PS3 crashes continue despite Patch 1.01

Sadly, it looks like Patch 1.01 hasn’t fixed the crashing and freezing issues players are suffering from in the Uncharted 3 beta, with a worrying number of participants reporting that their PS3 is locking up completely and requiring a hard reboot.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Mine froze every time I played last night. Like 8 times, no joking. It played fine earlier in the day though, so I don't get it. Every time it froze I was doing something different also.

[zootang]

It is a beta. What do you expect?

[BreakNeckSpeed]

Well the purpose of a beta is to test the game. You can't test a game if it freezes all the damn time. It sounds like a problem with the game engine more so than a server side issue. Hard locks aren't normal.

Ah well.. ND have until October to get their shit together, hopefully by then the MP isn't as broken as it is now.

I've been on the connecting screen for the past hour. SMH!

[kza]

to actually be able to TEST it!!

[koehler83]

@BreakNeckSpeed

If you're having issues, don't waste your energy telling the readers of N4G. Go tell Naughty Dog.
That's the point.

"My system is freezing" is a useless and unhelpful statement. What version of hardware do you have? What kind of internet connection? What kind of display/audio equipment? HDMI? Component? Composite? Where are you freezing? Are you playing in 2D or 3D? Single player or Splitscreen?

Answer all those questions and post it to the ND forums. Try helping rather than complaining about your lack of entitled gameplay.

[BeaArthur]

Honestly I'm sick of this "it's a beta" excuse. The point of a beta is to test the gameplay in order to find glitches and balance issues. This doesn't function, making actual beta testing nearly impossible. So enough with excusing the poor net coding by saying "it's a beta".

[Emilio_Estevez]

Thanks bro, I had no idea! /s

I am aware of Beta's as I have particpated in many. Can't exactly test a game if I can't even play through a single match without it freezing.

I do have confidence in ND though, I'm sure they will fix these issues, just wonder how long it will take.

[6wl]

Tbh, reporting system information is probs less useful on a console than say a PC. Its unlikely that specific hardware is directly causing the issue.

As for a crashing game, any number of things could cause it. Net code, a single QNAN somewhere, renderer draw limits, a line of code thats not thread safe.

Worse, there could be several crashes in there, so narrowing it down might be tricky. Hopefully ND have got some good logging going on server side, without a good stacktrace / callstack it might be tricky.

Best advice, just try and give as much info as to what was happening in game at the time. Had a certain animation just finished, a certain weapon or explosion triggered, sound effect - basically, anything that could be considered a pattern or cause.

[SupeerSteebbi]

I expected a playable beta.

[joab777]

It is a betabut there's one thing I haven't reallyseen talked about. When the psn came back online, they gave everyone a months free subscription to psn +. About a quarterof my friends paid for psn + but they all have it nowand most of them downloaded this beta. So, the initial numbers they were expecting probably tripled. Couple that w the fact that its summer and many of us have played through our AAA titles and r looking for something to do, and naughty dog most likely wasn't ready for the numbers. Also, U3 is a much more anticipated game than U2, & its been boasting about its multi,so...its reasonable to expect issues. Crysis 2 had none of theseissues and put out a demo that was unplayable. Maybe it shoulda been limited to infamous 2 pre orders, cuz now i have a worthless cose

[MaxXAttaxX]

NOT a multiplayer demo labeled as "Beta" as other games.
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@socomnick
Are you serious? Naughty Dog may have been new to MP back in UC2 BUT they actually got it right and gameplay is better than many other games out there!
So GTFO here with that bs.

[Bereaver]

Weither zootang is a 1 bubble troll or not. He speaks the truth. A beta is a beta. Failure is a part of testing.

[rajman]

Its all the traffic from everyone trying to connect causing all of this, because y'day (before the beta hit EU & US) I downloaded it off the HK store and played it for about 4 hours and not once did I get a disconnect or any kind of bad lag/freezing..it was near flawless. But as soon as the beta kicked off in the EU & US thats when I started to get connection problems and massive amounts of lag and freezing.

[Crazyglues]

Yeah this is sad, the beta was totally unstable for me too, which just seem strange because even though it's a beta, I wasn't expecting this..

I expected it to be much more stable.. Let's just hope they can fix whatever is happening here and get us back to testing..

Customization seems really nice.. shoot not yet right needs some serious work to make it fun again..

-But Naughty dog is a top developer so I'm sure they are looking at everything and tweaking away..

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[DarkTower805]

A beta isn't only designed to find glitches and bugs in gameplay, it's also to test server loads and stability. Even when your ps3 freezes during gameplay, you are helping out IF you post your issues in a ND or playstation board. Again, the whole purpose is to iron out these issues before the demo and retail release.

[dc1]

You get the prize DarkTower805!

You are spot on!

[evrfighter]

Your talking about actual betas and not marketing betas.

Uncharted 3 unfortunately for you guys is a marketing beta.

[StanSmith]

I've not had a single issue in game etc. until it was opened up to EU & US account holders. The only thing that was an issue for me was it would reset my console when i tried to quit & go back to the xmb.

[TrevorPhillips]

Everytime I press start it says “Error initializing session manager” :(

C'mon ND, I want to get back into the beta!

[koehler83]

It's a beta people. We don't need to hear about the problems with a damn beta. It's NOT NEWS!

[DarkTower805]

People do need to hear about the problems, specifically ND. How else would these issues get addressed?

Some people do need to drop the self entitlement attitude though and learn why a beta is called a beta.

[jokia005]

“Error initializing session manager”

[Crystallis]

there are a lot of people in the beta, hopefully the issues can be sorted out soon. I want to play the beta so bad.

[extermin8or]

Jesus it's a beta and I had no issues except as I wrote this after clicking update and my ps3 restarted so I take that back but it is a beta...

[Killman]

I can't even download the damn patch. It resets my PS3 at the 'Please wait.....' screen. I have never had a patch do that, and this has done it three times.

[StanSmith]

I've had that on other games before. The way i get around it is when the patch screen shows, wait 30 seconds before accepting it. This method has never failed me yet.

[Killman]

Thanks, I will try that.

[jaybob]

it was freezing every match i played last night! But i suppose thats why we have beta's.

I haven't played it today hopefully be playing it all night tonight.

[Motorola]

1.01 Fixed all problems i had. NO CRASHES and NO FPS DIPS. Its fine now

[thekiddfran]

The co-op is amazing!

[dc1]

The co-op is great!

They took the Kill Zone 'quick multi mission mock up' and threw it in a 3 man co-op. I had a ball playing it last night.

By the way: it only froze on me once. Its a beta and the best way to load test is to have it played by 100s of Thousands of folks at one time. It will be right by November.

[thekiddfran]

I was playing it today and it didnt freeze once for me!

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I got the patch about 2hours ago, and once installed I just got connection errors every time i tried to push start for the beta. At least last night I was able to get to the menus and such to mess around with options even though I couldn't connect to a game. Now literally I am locked out of the beta with the errors.

[undercovrr]

The question is when DOESN'T an online game these days crash and freeze on release

[CaliGamer]

Some of you really need to get some sense, since the BETA began many of you here said the purpose of a beta is so YOU can test the game, that is incorrect. The main purpose of a beta is for the DEVELOPERS to see what will happen with increased loads on servers, game engines, basically improving the product. A BETA test is not a trial of a game.

ND owes you nothing until the game ships and we all pay for it. If you don't like the BETA, don't play it, simple.

Just be happy you got an opportunity to assist in making the game better and quit the bitching.

Excellent explanation can be found at this link ( http://forums.riftgame.com/... swear, as much as some of you spend on the internet, is surprises me how little you know about your favorite hobby. Very sad.

[Jdoki]

What? Surely not? A BETA test throwing bugs? Unbelievable! Off with Naughty Dog's head!
/s

If only people didn't feel a beta test was some sort of entitlement to play a game early, rather than, y'know actually reporting bugs... maybe we'd see a lot of higher quality launches!

[wenaldy]

Well said, bubbles...

Meant to be replied for CaliGamer..lol

[waltyftm]

Just had my first game of Co-op and loved it, No problems found so far.

[montyburns000]

uncharted multiplayer sucks balls, i finally got to play last night after 6 hard resets and didn't bother playing more than one game.

gears3 MP shits all over this, looks so much better too. whats with the graphics? it looked like shit, uncharted 2 beta looked better. oh well I know what game ill be playing after both campaigns.

this falls under one of the worst betas i have played, right next to FFXIV

[steve30x]

In all honesty if you expect a beta of a game to run perfectly then you have no clue what beta testing is all about. Beta testing isnt al about having an early play of the game , its about testing stability of the game code and reporting bugs or game crashes. If you dont expect bugs or game crashes (no matter how often it crashes) then you shouldnt be beta testing.

Only the people who dont have any clue about beta testing will disagree with me. I was a beta tester for a game called Project Torque for two years and had to deal with crashes and bugs galore. Its not all fun and gameplay you know.

[YodaCracker]

The Gears of War 3 beta ran almost perfectly. I played it from April 15 - May 15 and never had any issues.

[steve30x]

Oh wow one beta ran perfectly. It doesnt mean that all betas will run flawlessly.

[InFAMOUS1]

I have yet to have any freezing... Been playing steady since yesterday.. I had issues last night with the PSN signing in and out but other then that, no problem at all...

Oh and stupid team killers in co-op arena... BOOOOO

[Beastradamus]

Mine froze three times in a row last night. I wonder if they will replace your PS3 if it breaks because of crappy software.

Here's my impressions if anyone wants to know.

[Tapioca Cold]

You're scum. Drug references in your stupid video. Man, this gen is just full of whiners.

Play your beta girls. None of you deserve it.

[Beastradamus]

I'm a medicinal user. Calling me scum is a bit much. I'm just making people laugh. No need to be such a jerk.

[purple105]

I feel bad. I play it for a few hours and take break and come over here to see all these people talking about how it sucks. I hope ND fixes it, then everyone will see how good it is.

PS: Don't try playing it like it's COD. Using teamwork really helps and makes the game much more enjoyable.

[MachoMoustachio]

After downloading update 1.01, I had no more lag or system crashes.

Just some tweaks to make matchmaking a bit quicker would make me happy.

Keep in mind, this what betas are for.