Life Is Strange: True Colors is a graphic novel-style adventure game from Square Enix’s European Subsidiary. It was released in its entirety on 10 September 2021 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Stadia, and also, coming at a later date for the Nintendo Switch.
It is the fifth installment or sequel in the Life Is Strange series, and the third main title in the series, succeeding Life Is Strange 2 from 2018. The series is famous and receives critical acclaim mainly for its stories and dramatic branching plots. It is an episodic story game that hooks players in, mainly for the incredible, emotional and also, unpredictable story. The main story featured in this game focuses on Alex Chen, a young woman who can experience the emotions of others, as she tries to solve the mystery behind her brother’s death.
Gameplay Overview
Life is Strange 2: True Colors is a game where the story is told in third-person view. Players control the main protagonist, Alex, and explore, uncover mysterious things and also solve different puzzles. Likewise, players make difficult and consequential decisions throughout the game as the story can change drastically based on players’ actions. The game takes place in the fictional Haven Springs. Players communicate with NPCs in the location using a branching dialogue tree.
The main character, Alex also has psychic empathy power and as a result, can perform telepathy. Consequently, the psychic power allows players to discover NPCs’ emotions and when Alex communicates with them, it creates a ” Nova ” that transforms the world around her to reflect the NPCs’ emotions. As a result, players have an opportunity to figure out what is wrong and try to comfort the NPCs.
Coming to the main topic of this article, the game is facing complaints from players regarding some bugs that may be game-breaking.
Life is Strange 2: True Colors Low-Level Fatal Error
As is the case with many new releases and early access games, some bugs and glitches need fixing. There are players’ reports that Life is Strange 2 has bugs that crash the game.
- The game crashes when changing clothes.
- It also has a bug where the graphics disappear, leaving only inscriptions when doing a restart.
- Changing clothes in the picture with a cat also crashes the game with an error.
Do note that these bug reports are sourced from the players’ complaints on the Steam Community page. Some of them are in the above pictures. One Steam Community user used the following settings to avoid crashes. Have a look at it down below.
Set the graphics to Lowest, set fps lock to 30, set resolution to 1024×768, turned off subtitles, played in Windowed. DX11, RT off.
Players are currently waiting for the fix to arrive from the developers. There is currently no official announcement of a fix. This article will be updated if any update announcement arrives in the future.
