Just a few days ago, Volition has released the latest Saints Row game, which sees to kickstart the franchise once again. Unfortunately, while the game itself shows some promise, it’s marred by a multitude of bugs! Some of the Saints Row issues can crash your game, some will impede your progress and more.
Below is a list of Saints Row bugs that we’ve experienced during our review playthrough, as well as a list for platform-specific issues.
Saints Row Issues and Bugs:
- Frozen NPC
- Game crashes
- Mission bugs that require full restarts
- Vehicles bugs that make them unusable due to the zoomed in camera
- Not being able to exit vehicles
- T-posing
- Not being able to shoot or interact with the world
- UI bugs that make parts of the UI disappear
- Pop-in issues
Here’s video footage of some of the bugs we encountered:
AI bugs:
Sandstorm blurring the entire screen and weird effect on buildings:
Over on the game’s subreddit, the community compiled a list of issues that are platform-specific.
PC Specific:
| Bug | Full Description | Platform | Relevant Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launcher Error | Epic won’t let the game start normally | PC | Mash Enter or try this |
| Clothes Bug | Clothes won’t load and lead to infinite loading | PC | — |
| Forced FPS Capping | FPS randomly caps at a certain number | PC | Enable V-Sync |
| Controller Bug | Haptic Feedback and Mapping malfunctioning | PC | This may help |
| Co-op not working | Disconnects player 2 shortly after connection is established | PC | — |
| Game soft locks during some missions | Enemies won’t spawn when they are supposed to | PC | — |
| FXAA Bug | Enabling FXAA forces a bad film grain artifacts on textures | PC | OP report |
| Restart from Checkpoint | Infinite loading issues after restarting from a checkpoint during mission fail. | PC | An SSD won’t fix this one |
| Closing the game | The game may hard freeze when trying to quit it. | PC | Task Manager might not come to the rescue here… |
Xbox Specific:
| Bug | Full Description | Platform | Relevant Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cut Scenes Issue | Cut Scenes seem to be causing controller issues while leading to visual bugs, eventually | XBX | — |
| Accessibility Bug | Changes either can’t be made or don’t show an effect in-game | XBX | Post highlighting the issue |
| Mission Error | Truck never begins driving during car chase | XBX | Be Your Own Boss: Defend the Truck |
| Empire Table | Empire table can’t be accessed | Xbox | Restart the console |
| Voice Bug | Character voice changes after each time loading the game. | XBX | — |
| Boss Glasses | Glasses are completely fogged up on the boss, glasses on NPCs are unaffected. | XBX | Shows up fine in the style menu but… |
| Co-op Bug | Co-op crashes the game and returns the party to the dashboard at the end of mission cutscenes. | Xbox | First encountered during the intro |
PlayStation Specific:
| Bug | Full Description | Platform | Relevant Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Character Creator | During the opening character creator, selecting “body scars” or “body details” causes the menu to lock up. | PS5 | Seems to just affect the initial character creator. |
| Modesty Settings | When changing modesty options the nipple visibility option would revert to the default censor when modifying another option. | PS5 & PS4 | A workaround, if you will |
| Adaptive Triggers | Adaptive triggers are not working and constantly turning off in the options menu. | PS5 | — |
| Take me to Church | Doing this mission forces an infinity loading screen, at times | PS5 | Keep trying and it may eventually work… |
| Perks | If you enter this state, you will be unable to progress challenges, as such no perks will be unlocked | PS5 | Workaround Fix |
| “Game is not fully downloaded” | When completing the prologue mission, after customizing for the second time, an error pops up stating “cannot progress until game is fully downloaded”. | PS4 | Keep trying and it may randomly work |
| Random Teleportation | Occurrences of teleporting across the screen randomly while driving | PS4 | — |
| Weapons Bug | Weapons will not fire nor will the weapons wheel show up in combat | PS4 | Apparently, getting running over helps… |
| Bring up the phone | Opening some menus in the phone causes the screen to freeze | PS4 | — |
| Opening Sequence Audio | Entire opening sequence plays out with the audio de-synced | PS4 | Resolves itself when you are in the open world. |
We’re hoping Volition can turn things around with a patch or two.
You can check our Saints Row review right here.
Most of the “specific” bugs are present on all systems. I’ve had almost all Playstation specific bugs happen on Xbox and pc.
Ditto. The last game I played that was this buggy, was Cyberpunk 2077, and at least that didn’t constantly crash on me, or lock-up entirely simply because I had the audacity to shoot back at an enemy. This game needed at least two more years.