While Heavy Rain is receiving accolades left and right for being a watershed title in the videogame industry, some gamers have been having issues while playing the game, such as audio stuttering, character movement difficulties, and complete game lock-ups and crashes.

Developer of the game Quantic Dream is aware of these problems, and is currently working on testing a patch to fix some issues, and then get the patch through certification.

The problem is, it sounds as though the patch isn’t intended to directly fix the issues reported by users, but will instead address “a range of minor issues which could be contributing factors.”

From a post on the PlayStation forums by Senior Community Development Manager Sam_Protagonist:

“The latest news is that the game patch has now completed development and is currently in the final stages of testing. While a fixed release date is not currently available we are expecting the update to be released very soon.

“As mentioned previously, this patch is not [targeted] purely at the issues reported in this thread but does address a range of minor issues which could be contributing factors.

“Given the small percentage of players affected by these issues and the difficulty that has been had in reproducing them here we’re optimistic that this patch resolves your problems but cannot guarantee that this will be the case.

“As ever, once there is more news I’ll update you all further, however in the meantime we appreciate your patience in this matter.”

It could very well be that the issues addressed in the upcoming patch will fix the issues reported by frustrated Heavy Rain gamers, but the post doesn’t sound very optimistic…

In the meantime, and while we wait for the patch, read El33tonline’s review of Heavy Rain, why don’t you!

Source: PlayStation Forums