How to destroy obelisks?

[Raen]

I just encountered obelisks for the first time. I need to destroy 3 of them. However, I've exhausted all my mana on one of them and it's still standing. They do flash red when being shot, so I assume that's what I need to do? But I've been shooting at one for like five minutes (while simultaneously fending off enemies) and still nothing. They also don't have a health bar, all I see is the progress bar for destroying the 3 obelisks, which is still at 100%.
What am I missing?

[WaaghMan]

Hi! Indeed Obelisks should be destroyed by shooting at them. While they don't have a health bar, they should slowly break down as you keep hitting them, and the top bar should decrease (for example if one obelisk is at 50% health and the other 2 are intact, the bar will be at approximately 80%).

If their health didn't decrease at all after five minutes, something definitely went wrong. Could you please post the contents of the log file so we can take a look?

Log file: If you are having issues, there is a log file located on C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Milkstone Studios\Ziggurat2\Player.log . It may be of help to pinpoint the issue.
On the same folder you'll also find logs of previous sessions, with the format Ziggurat_log_YYYYMMDD_HHMM.txt

[Raen]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

Hi! Indeed Obelisks should be destroyed by shooting at them. While they don't have a health bar, they should slowly break down as you keep hitting them, and the top bar should decrease (for example if one obelisk is at 50% health and the other 2 are intact, the bar will be at approximately 80%).

If their health didn't decrease at all after five minutes, something definitely went wrong. Could you please post the contents of the log file so we can take a look?

Log file: If you are having issues, there is a log file located on C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Milkstone Studios\Ziggurat2\Player.log . It may be of help to pinpoint the issue.
On the same folder you'll also find logs of previous sessions, with the format Ziggurat_log_YYYYMMDD_HHMM.txt

Okay. The bar definitely didn't change. Had to retreat to continue the game.
Player.log: https://pastebin.com/3a3BjreW
Player-prev.log: https://pastebin.com/e7PHaMVy
Ziggurat2_log_20220725_2345.txt: https://pastebin.com/5r3nDkCP
Ziggurat2_log_20220726_1919.txt: https://pastebin.com/RVtFFnKm

[WaaghMan]

Thank you for the log files.

While there's nothing unusual on the log for the Obelisk session, there's another log for a previous session showing a crash in a boss fight, with a warning regarding game data corruption.

We'll try to reproduce the obelisk problem, but please try to verify the game files or redownload the game (save data will be fine) to make sure they're not corrupted.

[Raen]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

Thank you for the log files.

While there's nothing unusual on the log for the Obelisk session, there's another log for a previous session showing a crash in a boss fight, with a warning regarding game data corruption.

We'll try to reproduce the obelisk problem, but please try to verify the game files or redownload the game (save data will be fine) to make sure they're not corrupted.

Yes, it indeed crashed right during the cinematic of the boss spawning.
Also, after I retreated and started another mission, suddenly all enemies were invincible. I had to restart the game.

[WaaghMan]

That's doubly strange, as no bugs at all have been reported in a long while, so please try redownloading the game.

[Raen]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

That's doubly strange, as no bugs at all have been reported in a long while, so please try redownloading the game.

I did. If no bugs were reported some time, maybe it was just a rare occurance. The crash, I assume that was because I had to pause the game for a while and the PC went to sleep while I was away. Games tend to not like that.