And, the occasional blood stain, just in case you were under any false impression that things are a-okay.
His brain scan seems to have catapulted him into an unknown place and time-there are no other humans, and the claustrophobic environment is filled with dilapidated machinery dripping with black ooze. The game truly begins when Simon wakes up for the second time. My disappointment was short-lived, though. Simon blunders through his apartment Surgeon Simulator-style, and we don’t really get enough of his personality via personal affects to make it worthwhile. My main complaint about this opening sequence is that, while it did a good job of setting up the game’s mechanics, it immediately broke immersion.
Simon didn’t seem fazed by the mishap, which could be commentary on the difficulty of doing daily chores with a brain injury, but also ended up making me recoil at his ambivalence toward his own lack of hygiene. Unfortunately he can’t really put things back where he found them-I was sort of put off by the fact that I could pick up his toothbrush but couldn’t make him brush his teeth, and then in my attempt to put it back I ended up tossing it in the toilet. You can pick up photographs and notes and just about any object, and sometimes Simon will make a comment. Here you find out how to interact with the world. The opening scene has him waking up in his bland apartment, in the present, and preparing for a brain scan appointment. Simon has suffered some kind of brain trauma due to a car accident that he still has nightmares about. I admit, I didn’t like Simon Jarrett at first. I was initially a little disappointed that the protagonist wasn’t the Asian woman I had seen in all the marketing, and instead seemed to be a generic-brand 20-something white guy. This is not the case and is in fact another known issue that we're continuing to investigate.It took me a while to get into SOMA. We're aware of players across the Windows Store experiencing pop-up messages saying that they're banned from multiplayer or communicating with other players. Error pop-ups, voice / multiplayer ban messagesĭon't worry, we haven't actually banned you.Surgery is best enjoyed with friends, but a portion of players aren't actually able to team up with their friends to play Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas. This is tied to the server issues mentioned above, but the developers are looking into multiplayer specific solutions to get this resolved across all platforms ASAP. Multiplayer issues, party disconnections and friends appearing offline.Specific server improvements have been made for PC and Xbox to allow more players into the game, and we're monitoring this on a regular basis. Most of these issues are related to our server capacity, which has been consistently overwhelmed since the game's launch on Thursday due to high player demand. It's our first big game launch on so many simultaneous platforms as a studio, and it's been a learning curve for us. As soon as the server issues were identified, we began upscaling our capacity and are continuing to make improvements each day. Long loading screens, authentication issues, black screen issues.These issues require a bit more work and attention than simply pushing out hotfixes, but here's what we're currently working on: We've all reported bugs and technical issues safely stored in our backlog, but, for transparency, we wanted to list out the game issues that are being prioritised by the development team for the remainder of this week. Launching a live game often comes with a few teething problems, and whilst we've seen plenty of funny streams, screenshots and videos of people enjoying Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas, we're also aware of some issues a portion of players are facing. You can read a bit below or click the link above to read more detailed info. So they've been addressing many of the high-profile issues that have come up with this version of the game. The developers have been working to make sure the game, as weird and broken as it feels sometimes when trying to do anything, actually operates a certain way so that regardless of how bad of a surgeon you are, there is a solution to win. Bossa Studios has posted a brand new blog entry addressing the technical issues that have arisen in Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas.