ArtisticallyChill

Last night, I encountered a severe glitch in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I happened on my second visit to Felucia. I started playing and about halfway through I checked my stats. I noticed that the first bonus objective just said: *DEFAULT TEXT and then that the 2 and 3rd objectives were not being tracked. I was hoping that by the time I finished the stage that everything would unlock. But after beating the stage, my stats didn’t register. I had 0 kills counted, no holocrons collected even though I got them all, and no force points earned for each kill I had throughout the stage. I didn’t even unlock the achievement for beating the stage. I searched the forums and found that I was not the only one with this glitch. From what I’ve read, there’s no definite trigger to the glitch and it can happen at any level. One guy got it at the second level while someone else got to the last level and it glitched. The glitch even carried over to the next stage. After the cutscene, I check my objectives and sure enough the glitch was still active (see the above pic).

It’s obvious there something wrong in the actual code of the game. I just don’t understand how Quality Assurance at LucasArts could miss this. Didn’t anyone playtest this game thoroughly before going gold? I understand that every game can’t be bug free, I can deal with minor bugs. But a glitch like this is seriously ruining the play experience for me.

I’ve emailed tech support at LucasArts and even included a link to one of the forums that discusses (rants) about the glitch. Hopefully this will force them to expedite a patch. Otherwise a lot of gamers are gonna be trading this game in as quickly as they bought it.

~ LoneWolf