Why has Horizon Worlds become so buggy??
OK, I looked to see if anyone has posted about this. Over the past three weeks, this app has gotten BIG TIME buggy. I don't know if this is because of a software update or what, but it needs to be fixed because the platform is becoming unplayable.
Worlds like Bunky's, Gatsby's, Earthbound Cosmic Beach, etc constantly crash and kick players out. The lag in some of these worlds is absurd - even when only 30 people are in the world, the lag makes gameplay impossible because the physics get all jacked up.
The Horizon Worlds dashboard takes forever to load thumbnails, making browsing for Worlds a battery vampire. Because we're constantly getting kicked out of worlds that crash, half our headset battery life is spent on load screens returning to worlds.
Other players I've discussed this with have experienced delays on rewards/points updates, or profile pics not showing up on in-world scoreboards. At Bunky's, knocking over all the bowling pins - even when the throw is dead center down the lane - won't count as a strike. Another time, I threw straight down the lane and the two right-most pins tipped over then froze, so it didn't count as a strike. The laser pistol is ungrabbable half the time, making it impossible for us to play target practice.
I originally thought it was a problem with my headset and/or internet connection; but I've mentioned these issues to at least five or six other people and they ALL report similar problems in the past few weeks. A few nights ago, Bunky's crashed completely two different times, kicking everyone out.
Other times, clicking to visit a world in the dashboard will make the chime, but won't actually DO anything. Yet other times, attempting to visit a world will cause Horizon Worlds OVERALL to crash and put me back at my "home virtual environment."
I realize this tech is still pretty new, but this is patently absurd for a corporation this large. I've had my Quest 2 since 2023 and NEVER had a single issue playing Myst, Riven, Brinks Traveler, Ocean Rift, Richie's Plank Challenge, etc. I started playing Worlds about two months ago, and for the first month and a half, it may have crashed once. Now it crashes several times a night.
So what gives??