Freeze on loot

[Big Rizzle]

Honestly driving me crazy. I've had to load a save probably 8 times now because whenever i loot a barrel, sometimes the game locks all of my movements and i have to restart the whole game. I've had 20 minute runs restarted multiple times because of this.

[Jencent]

Same.

[2795859819]

Most annoying bug I've encountered.

[DeterminedCamel]

I keep getting this as well; I've dropped the game until it's fixed. Saving is too precarious in this game to warrant playing through a bug like this.

[Hoshi]

Yeah. It also seems to like to prevent you from changing targets in combat, I've noticed. Just, all of a sudden, you'll only be able to target one thing in combat, rendering fights unwinnable.

I've had like four freezes now, each time losing about 30+ minutes of progress, and just now had a fight suddenly decide that I'd only be able to target the torso of one enemy. It's unplayable like this.

[Big Rizzle]

Originally posted by Hoshi:

Yeah. It also seems to like to prevent you from changing targets in combat, I've noticed. Just, all of a sudden, you'll only be able to target one thing in combat, rendering fights unwinnable.

I've had like four freezes now, each time losing about 30+ minutes of progress, and just now had a fight suddenly decide that I'd only be able to target the torso of one enemy. It's unplayable like this.

I'd double back and check if your mouse was in the center of the screen. You can apparently choose limbs that way for whatever reason. If that's the case, just move it out of the way,

[Hoshi]

Oh wow, really?

Huh. Still, the loot freeze is p. ♥♥♥♥, but I'm probably going to keep trudging on regardless, at least until I wiggle past where I'm stuck now.

[orange~]

This sounds very bad. Sorry about the inconvenience! Do any of you know if this is a new 'feature' with the latest update or if this existed before too to the same extent?

The loot system hasn't changed much apart from some additions in the latest update where the game checks if you're in the need of certain items. I'm wondering if there is something in these systems that cause crashes...

Sorry again about this!

[DeterminedCamel]

Originally posted by orange~:

This sounds very bad. Sorry about the inconvenience! Do any of you know if this is a new 'feature' with the latest update or if this existed before too to the same extent?

I only purchased this game after the most recent update, but I did a run through playing the vanilla Fear and Hunger difficulty without this issue, and as the Knight. It's only on the harder difficulties that I've encountered it and I've been playing as the Dark Priest this time. Hopefully that helps.

No reason to apologize for it; bugs are bound to happen after all and at least you're still polishing the game.

[Hoshi]

Originally posted by orange~:

This sounds very bad. Sorry about the inconvenience! Do any of you know if this is a new 'feature' with the latest update or if this existed before too to the same extent?

The loot system hasn't changed much apart from some additions in the latest update where the game checks if you're in the need of certain items. I'm wondering if there is something in these systems that cause crashes...

Sorry again about this!

I'd suggest just playing the game for a few hours orange. You'll encounter it eventually. As far as I know, it seems to occur most often when looting boxes, rather than barrels. Maybe make a version with a debug map that's nothing but boxes to try to reproduce it?

It's happened to my friend twice when streaming in my Discord, as in, *right* now, and he's playing as the knight. I've encountered it on every other load or so playing as dark priest. Both of us are on the regular difficulty, not hard mode or T&S.

[orange~]

@Hoshi, Yeah I've put at least 20-30 hours to the Terror and Starvation mode alone in this update. The problem is that the game doesn't crash or freeze on me. For whatever reason, the game has very rarely crashed on me through all these years of its development, despite it happening to some others on regular basis.

I'll simplify and streamline the loot system and see if it works. That's my best bet as there doesn't seem to be clear rule to these freezes at the moment.

[Hoshi]

It's not crashing though. It like, freezes. Like, the music continues to play, the game is still "running", but it's like the next window to tell you what you got from the box doesn't actually show up, so you can never exit the "looting" state.

Like it'll say, "You search the box" or whatever, then instead of it telling you what you find, it just sits there and nothing happens and you can't get out.

EDIT: Also, hunger still decreases when the game is stuck that way, so the game is definitely not hard crashing or locking up, it's just... not progressing the dialogue.

[Farrari17]

I found the same situation happening to me exactly has Hoshi describes. After the latest update, I have only played the new terror and starvation mode with Enki and I've noticed this happening, especially in the city. I have yet to play on a different mode with a different character. The game keeps running, but you can't move forward in the dialog box to find out what you found and you can't pull up the menu or move.

[Shaman Chief Nyima]

Originally posted by Farrari17:

I found the same situation happening to me exactly has Hoshi describes. After the latest update, I have only played the new terror and starvation mode with Enki and I've noticed this happening, especially in the city. I have yet to play on a different mode with a different character. The game keeps running, but you can't move forward in the dialog box to find out what you found and you can't pull up the menu or move.

Needless to say, this is pretty much the same story, rather i am playing as the Mecenary. I've reached the point where searching for loot is not worth it because it could lead to a potential soft lock. It's a game breaker if i don't manage to save my game far into the campaign.

[Ratzfire Storyteller]

Been having the same issue and it driving me nuts, can't search anything or the game might freeze on me.

[Kilroy]

Confirmed, this is still a thing, although rare. You get the usual "searching for something useful" prompt, but dont any loot from the object and cannot move or open menu, but time still passes: torch goes out, hunger sets in, etc.