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Nope! According to Powerwash Simulator’s official Twitter account, the real culprit behind all the crashing on Xbox is the game’s use of lens flares, which appear when you look up at the digital sun. As I said, video games are weird and complex things. Even sillier and weirder is the dev’s solution for this issue: Just stop looking at the sun so much, you weirdos.

FuturLab admitted this “isn’t a great workaround” and apologized to players for any inconvenience this bug has caused. The devs say the issue with lens flares was caught at “the last second,” presumably before the game shipped. Luckily, in a follow-up tweet from earlier today, the devs confirmed a hotfix for this solar hiccup is in the works. It’s due sometime next week.

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Kotaku has reached out to FuturLab about the situation and received this statement:

We know what it is, are working as fast as we can to get it to players and have a fix that we hope to get out by the end of next week.

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In the meantime, thankfully, you can still play Powerwash Simulator solo to enjoy its relaxing cleaning simulation in perfect harmony with that fiery orb in the sky.