How playable is the game on Xbox One right now?

[Oddysee]

I haven't played since about mid way through Game Preview.  When I saw it got a full release, I was going to jump back into it.  However, I read it was a bad launch with multiple bugs including crashes and save game loses.  So, with the already released patches, I was wondering how playable the game is on Xbox right now?  Would I be fine to start playing again or wait for more fixes?  Any info is appreciated.

[Ape88]

Uh, just started up the game with a new play of wintermute... Instead of subtitles for the cutscene at the beginning it said some weird stuff... Looked like file names.

This as of the 23rd of august... Ugh!

[GorillaDust]

I've been playing on XB1 since Aug 1. Played Wintermute for the first 10 days or so, until I was blocked by a story-halting bug (can't pick up bear pelt), which the devs claim was fixed in a patch I had downloaded before encountering it.

I switched over to Survival mode while I wait for news of another patch as I don't feel like restarting Wintermute in the hopes that a new save file will fix the bug. Survival mode has always been the most important part of the game for me, and I knew story mode wouldn't compare. I have well over 400 hours sunk into survival. I have had no problems at all with Survival mode during my Interloper playthrough in the last couple of weeks.

The game runs fine technically on XB1: I have experienced no save losses, and no more crashes when exiting buildings as there were before the very first patch. In general, the game runs well on Xbox - it seems most people haven't been stopped by a bug like I was. There were some weird things in Wintermute that a lot of people are complaining about (no voiceover for >50% of story mode interactions, heat-seeking wolves, weak dialog writing, minor bugs and irritations, a general feeling of inadequate QA testing). But the core gameplay is still best-in-genre, the world is beautifully designed and survival mode is the most addictive game experience of the past two years for me. And it cost us $20.

Jump in, you'll enjoy it. Don't let the whiners or minor bugs turn you off - TLD is still a fantastic achievement in independent game design.