A game that encourages speedrunning shouldn't crash so often

Sometimes when you open the pause menu, Miriam's head model doesn't load properly and the game gets stuck.

Sometimes when you read a book or talk to an NPC, the game immediately force-quits.

Sometimes when doing absolutely nothing in particular, the game will just freeze if it feels like it.


These crashes seem to be unpredictable and inconsistent. Some people haven't seen any crashes at all, while others run into them almost all the time.

For me, my PC version has frozen for no reason 6 times, I've had the headless Miriam crash 3 times, and experienced the bookshelf crash once. On the Switch version, I have crashed once just from trying to talk to Dominique.


When speedrunning a game, the player's skill should first and foremost determine how well they perform.
But if the game can just decide to crash and kill your run for no reason, that's an incredible frustration, and one that really shouldn't be happening.

I really think, for upcoming patches, before improving framerate, performance, or anything else, the absolute number one priority is make sure the game never crashes unexpectadly like this. A crash here and there might be tolerable, if annoying, for a game with constant autosave. But for a game with specific save points and an entire Speedrun Mode, crashes this frequent are absolutely inexcusable.