The Pale Beyond Bug Reporting PATCH: 1.2.2.00

[Bellular Studios]

Hey Captains,

Here's a list of the latest fixes we've made:

- Fixed a bug where Tinned lemons were healing scurvy, but crew were remaining invalid. Invalid crew with no afflictions should have the invalid status removed when loading into a save.
- Better UX, explaining the Save Tree, and it’s ability to let you access locked saves by deleting the saves above it in the tree branch.
- Popup when returning to the Main Menu to remind you that quitting mid week will loose your progress for that week of the expedition.
- You can use the Ctrl key on keyboard to skip quickly through lots of dialogue without accidently choosing choices. (Same as B/Circle on controller)
- Dogs replenish after the Ice Splitting event.
- Fixed soft lock if you held E to advance the week after locking down for winter at the furnace
- Various Misc Bug Fixes.

Known Issues we’re prioritising for 1.2.3
- Any remaining Issues with setting sail on the lifeboats
- Errors in the resource UI regarding dogs, being incorrectly calculated in the number previews.

As always, thanks again for taking the time to submit bug reports and send us feedback!

[Commander Enix]

Steam deck OS Ver: 3.4.4

Game Ver: 1.2.2.00

Error when filling out the crew for a 2+ person task using people from multiple tabs.

Using D-pad/L-Joystick to navigate the current crew tab and bumpers to change tabs.

Expected: Highlight/Preview characters and navigate new tab with D-pad/L-Joystick

Bug/Issue: Only the crew in the tab you begin to populate the task from are navigable via D-pad/L-J. and when you change tabs during crew assignment no crew is selectable via D-pad/L-J.
Often even the original tab is no longer navigable upon returning to.

Scenario: 1 sailor 1 engi and 1 scientist are available to get assigned to gather coal. After applying the sailor to the task the only way to add the others is tapping them via touchscreen.

[seally25]

ISSUE/TITLE
Kurt will remain stuck on the screen if you knock on the doctor's door several times.

OS
Windows 10

Build Version
1.2.2.00

STEPS
1. On the morning of week 2, follow Kurt after the conversation.
2. Knock on the doctor's door several times until Kurt's dialogue is exhausted.

Note: This does not happen once you've talked to Kurt about the ice pack since Kurt no longer appears in the dialogue.

RESULTS
Kurt will remain stuck on the screen when the dialogue finishes. All navigable icons are still clickable.

EXPECTED
Kurt to not be stuck upon the screen.

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ISSUE/TITLE
If you exit to the main menu while the map screen is open, the arrows for changing the week of the map will remain stuck on the main menu.

OS
Windows 10

Build Version
1.2.2.00

STEPS
1. Open the map screen on any day once it's available.
2. Hit ESC.
3. Exit to Main Menu

RESULTS
Arrows for navigating the map "week" (near the top left) appear on the main menu. This seems independent of the week the map screen was on.

EXPECTED
No superfluous navigation arrows to appear on the main menu.

[Forevermuffins]

ISSUE/TITLE
People who shouldn't be there (for various reasons) are in fact in the second vote

OS
Windows 7

Build Version
1.2.2.00

STEPS
-Went into the cave song and dance etc and on the deck for the vote I see...

RESULTS
-...the kid I punted off at last port! I assume this might be an issue for other crew members as well.

EXPECTED
There to be an accurate depiction of the crew status in this pivotal moment.

*also some of the options as for dialogue in that scene went off the screen for the third choice

[Templar184]

ISSUE/TITLE
Unable to put wounded crew in medbay

OS
Windows 11

Build Version
1.2.2.00

STEPS
- its as simple as it sounds I can't drag and drop the wounded sailor into the medbay, have tried double clicking as well and that doesn't work either

- additionally its only the crew member wounded in the steam blast when the boiler has the water hammer incident that can't be put into the medbay, I can still drag and drop crew that are frostbitten, freezing etc


RESULTS
Wounded crew stays on the left hand side of the UI

EXPECTED
Crew should be able to be put into the medbay

[corisai]

ISSUE/TITLE
Broken status effects.

OS
Windows 10

Build Version
1.2.2.00

STEPS
- new game after updating a game.
- going up to week 4 with 1 sailor wounded due boiler event (Hammond path).
- passing election, going up a bit futher in events.
- reloading my save at beginning of 4th week.

RESULTS
Wounded sailor still marked as wounded in UI but participating in voting as a healthy one.

EXPECTED
Wounded crews should not participate in voting.

UPD. Restarting the game & reloading the same save don't help - wounded crew still wounded and unable to be placed into med bay. Technically it's a soft-lock for my game =/

P.S. Seriously - there is no timers & durations of status effects in this game. How you could mess with basic function "add status id" "check status id" and "remove status id" for an object in a list?

[Endar]

ISSUE/TITLE
The game won't start after loading

OS
Windows 11
(general system info) / Gigabyte RTX 3070, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

Build Version
(from steam) ID: 10638410

STEPS
- Load the game at any point during Week 2
- Close the game via Task Manager (kill processes)
- Relaunch the game via Steam

RESULTS
The game launches but gets stuck at the "Loading Characters" state and will not proceed to the main menu. I have uninstalled the game and reinstalled it through Steam to try and address the issue. I've rebooted several times - it looks like something is cached and preventing me from continuing.

EXPECTED
The game should load. I've got a screenshot of the point at which the loading is hanging, although I appreciate it's not likely to give you too much information on its own: https://ibb.co/7zWNYjS . I was really excited to play but obviously this is a game-breaking issue. If I can't figure this one out I will sadly need to consider refunding.

[nice]

Originally posted by Commander Enix:

Steam deck OS Ver: 3.4.4

Game Ver: 1.2.2.00

Error when filling out the crew for a 2+ person task using people from multiple tabs.

Using D-pad/L-Joystick to navigate the current crew tab and bumpers to change tabs.

Expected: Highlight/Preview characters and navigate new tab with D-pad/L-Joystick

Bug/Issue: Only the crew in the tab you begin to populate the task from are navigable via D-pad/L-J. and when you change tabs during crew assignment no crew is selectable via D-pad/L-J.
Often even the original tab is no longer navigable upon returning to.

Scenario: 1 sailor 1 engi and 1 scientist are available to get assigned to gather coal. After applying the sailor to the task the only way to add the others is tapping them via touchscreen.

Same. I've also seen it happen on the sailor screen, where there are 2 groups, seperated by seaman who are already busy. You can select the ones on the right, but not on the left (or vice versa), once all on one side have been selected.

[Drunk]

On week three after sorting out the boiler after the disappearance of The Captain the game wont let me select and confirm the rations for the following week. I have had to do this section twice. I cannot leave the game either it effectively freezes ....

[Mallechai]

Originally posted by Templar184:

ISSUE/TITLE
Unable to put wounded crew in medbay

OS
Windows 11

Build Version
1.2.2.00

STEPS
- its as simple as it sounds I can't drag and drop the wounded sailor into the medbay, have tried double clicking as well and that doesn't work either

- additionally its only the crew member wounded in the steam blast when the boiler has the water hammer incident that can't be put into the medbay, I can still drag and drop crew that are frostbitten, freezing etc


RESULTS
Wounded crew stays on the left hand side of the UI

EXPECTED
Crew should be able to be put into the medbay

As an addendum this also happened to me, but it was in week 15 with a crew member that was just wounded. Which seems to be the problem, as a crew member that was wounded and freezing could be put in just fine. So it seems the system doesn't see pure wounded stat as a reason for medbay anymore.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Drunk:

On week three after sorting out the boiler after the disappearance of The Captain the game wont let me select and confirm the rations for the following week. I have had to do this section twice. I cannot leave the game either it effectively freezes ....

Are you having enough Fuel / Food? Because game don't allow you to confirm if you don't (reduce your spendings) and usually you're ending Week3 with almost zero fuel (crappy design against new players - you should reduce consumption on Week2 when nothing is looking bad).

[amitrafael]

Week 5+:
- Sometime black screen of death when loading.
- Sometimes map uploads with all icons missing, can't go back to ship, must reload.
- Adding fish to hoosh gives totally random numbers to dog numbers with each additional fish (sometimes up, sometimes down, don't even ask by how many).
- Pressing esc to cancel committing someone/something to a job sometimes leaves their portrait in mid screen, can't get rid of it.
- Is not being able to commit injured people to the doc a bug or feature? I got that too.
- In the lodger - sometimes missing portraits, sometimes missing people and portraits, no, not those that missing is part of the their story.

Build Version
1.2.2.00

Win 10, version 22H2
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

[Drunk]

Originally posted by corisai:

Originally posted by Drunk:

On week three after sorting out the boiler after the disappearance of The Captain the game wont let me select and confirm the rations for the following week. I have had to do this section twice. I cannot leave the game either it effectively freezes ....

Are you having enough Fuel / Food? Because game don't allow you to confirm if you don't (reduce your spendings) and usually you're ending Week3 with almost zero fuel (crappy design against new players - you should reduce consumption on Week2 when nothing is looking bad).

It doesn't seem to allow me to make any decision ... including exiting the game. I can move the sliders but cannot set and confirm anything. You start the expedition with 6 months of food so why would I conclude on week two that I would need to reduce the rations from 2 ...

[Strategigel]

In GOG version 1.0.0, week 5, in the food hold room, you're told you will get 4 ale kegs, but you get 3. If there's a more appropriate section to post this in, please point it out to me. I also collected a bunch of writing mistakes, but I'm unsure if they are all in the Steam version too. At least the 2 that I already reported in another thread were in the Steam version as well.

[james.todd.bruce]

If you say lock down the camp before you set your food and fuel rations, you can not use the back arrow to go back to the game. It just sticks without the user being able to advance. This is around Week 18. I can slide the sliders without an issue but i need to feed the hooch and the furnace to get the those built up prior to this screen. I have resources available but can not get back to the screen to go to the furnace or the hooch.

[Bellular Studios]

Heya! Michael here. Thank you for all the feedback, this is absolutely fantastic, and will help us hit the running tomorrow morning. Sorry these are occurring - we’re taking this lesson to heart.