10 Video Games That Were Horribly Broken At Launch

SEASON 3 COMPETITIVE PLAY Competitive Play's second season will end on November 23 at 4PM PDT (November 24 at 0:00 UTC), and the third season will begin on November 30 at 4PM PDT (December 1 at 0:00 UTC). During the week-long off season, you'll still be able to queue for matches using the Competitive Play ruleset, but your skill rating will not be affected and no Competitive Points will be awarded. We've also made a few adjustments to the skill rating system for season 3. Players will be distributed more broadly across the skill tiers, which means that your season 3 rating will probably be lower than the previous sea


That philosophy not only extends from the game's design and multiplayer, but also deep into the themes and characters of Overwatch itself. The game's shining optimism and diverse character designs run deep throughout the experience. More than anything, Overwatch brims with character and charm - Blizzard somehow took a talking gorilla, a sassy time-bender, a shotgun-toting reaper ( who has made for a hilarious parody Twitter account ), and so many other weird, wonderful characters and made them all feel a part of this shared universe and established wo


Allows players to adjust targeting sensitivity on Mercy’s Caduceus Staff beams



Developer Comments: Mercy’s Resurrect has always been very powerful, but it often forces her to sacrifice herself to use it well. There have been changes in the past that attempted to help her in this area, but haven’t done enough to solve it. This change means that once she uses the ability, she will always survive long enough to be with her team ag


As millions of players tried to get online, the games servers were quickly overwhelmed. Many people couldn't log in, some couldn't even get to the character creation stage, and a few found issues with activities such as jobs and ra


Billed as an explosive finale to Rocksteady Studios' Batman: Arkham trilogy, Batman: Arkham Knight has been making the headlines for all of the wrong reasons these past few weeks. The FPS game Maps worked fine on consoles, but on PC it was an entirely different story. Immediately upon launch, PC Arkham Knight players began to report huge framerate issues that persisted whenever Batman mo

But playing the game, and exploring its supernatural lands proved to be quite difficult for PS3 players. This was down to an issue in which the game's cache quickly fills up after just one hour of playtime. The longer someone plays Skyrim on PS3, the more that will fill up and the more the game will slow d


Enemy shots no longer need to travel a minimum distance before they can be blocked



Developer Comments: Previously, there was a minimum distance a projectile had to travel before it could be destroyed by Defense Matrix. This made it nearly worthless in situations where an enemy was right next to your teammate, such as when Roadhog hooks your ally. This change removes that restriction so Defense Matrix should now reliably destroy projectiles regardless of how far they have trave


Bethesda did know about the bug , but it's one that they thought that they had fixed prior to the game's launch. Thankfully, it was fixed once and for all with a post-launch patch, but not before causing a lot of headac


Skyrim is another game that was expected to have some bugs. The PS3 and the Xbox 360 weren't exactly creaking yet, but the game is big and beautiful and it operated under the idea that 'if a player can see it, they can go to

Bastion takes 35% less damage while in Configuration: Sentry or Tank



Developer Comments: The goal of these changes is to move some of Bastion's power from Configuration: Sentry to Recon, while keeping its sentry mode a strong option, especially versus tanks and barriers. Overall, Bastion should feel stronger and more flexible with these chan


Discover brand new ways to play Overwatch in the Arcade. Choose from a variety of regularly rotating game modes, maps, and rulesets that don't quite fit into Quick Play or Competitive Play. Whether it's 1-on-1 duels, 3-vs-3 skirmishes, our alternating selection of brawls, or special rulesets like "no hero switching," you should have no problem finding a game that fits your mood. Experience is earned just like any other mode, but you can also earn Arcade-specific rewards, like Loot Bo


_Earlier this year, DualShockers revealed our 2016 Game of the Year Awards from both our readers and staff , including the overall GOTY (which was Final Fantasy XV this year for both readers and staff), Biggest Shocker!, and many mor


Fixed a bug that occasionally produced incorrectly colored health bars when spectating Custom Games


And that's it. A new trailer was also released to celebrate Sombra's launch -- you can check it out be


Like Diablo 3 , SimCity was designed to be 'always online,' so it was bad news when players found themselves unable to connect to the servers and actually play the game. This persisted for several days and EA was forced to disable several gameplay features (including leaderboards and achievements) to fix thing, but even then, some noted that there were other issues with the g