Stuck while meeting Phoney

[hayden_m]

Spoilers for a few hours into the game (around 2 I guess?). I found a key in the area below Rudy (after helping him get the metal) and was able to use it on the locked door on the left of the town (Phoney's house). It opened and I went inside, but now I am stuck. I cannot progress. My character is at the bottom of the screen (in the doorway) and Phoney is inside the room with an exclamation mark above their head. However, there is an empty text box at the bottom of the screen. No text at all. I cannot press space, enter, escape, etc.

I am not really sure what to do about this. I tried closing and opening the game as well as holding right shift + Home. For re-opening the game it was still stuck in the same spot with the empty text box. For the other option, it put me next to Dundee and when I tried to meet Phoney (the door was already unlocked, so it saved that part) it just did the same thing again.

I don't know if it is relevant, but just in case: I have not gone past the tree to fight the Snoodlewonker yet. I have completed all other quests in the town and Rudy will have a new weapon ready for me tomorrow.

At the very least, I can do the right shift + home and just never meet Phoney and the rest of the game should be fine/unaffected by this bug. Sucks that I can't interact with Phoney, but it is not the end of the world, so I'm sure I'll be okay, haha.

[Medium Spoon]

Hey hayden!! I'm so incredibly sorry about this. So was an empty dialogue box just popping up? That's so strange. I recommend closing the game and reopening it more than pressing Right Shift + Home if you can. Thank you for being so descript!

[hayden_m]

Автор сообщения: Medium-Well

Hey hayden!! I'm so incredibly sorry about this. So was an empty dialogue box just popping up? That's so strange. I recommend closing the game and reopening it more than pressing Right Shift + Home if you can. Thank you for being so descript!

Thank you for the response! And yeah, it was just popping up. There is just about a millisecond or something before it's up but I'm still in the room (so for that millisecond I thought it was fixed, haha), but then the text box opens as if my buddy is speaking to me or something like that, but no words show up.

Unfortunately, I've already tried to close the game and re-open it without the right shift and that didn't work either. No buttons work to make it go away, so I also can't exit out of the program normally (tab and escape do nothing) so I closed it through task manager and re-opened it. I tried several times, but the bug still persists.

[hayden_m]

So when Scary Game Squad (on Jesse Cox's channel on YouTube) plays the game, on part 3 at around 24 minutes in they get the key and enter Phoney's house. The dialogue box pops up like it does for me, but the text loads for them. It's the buddy saying "Hm, something about this place feels a bit shady." For some reason this text doesn't load for me.

Is it possible that I messed up the sequence of when that was supposed to happen so the game got confused? I solved a bunch of quests in the town and decided to go to the right towards the Snoodlewonker. So I actually broke down the white tree blocking the path (I had the sword already), but when I got to the river/water I stopped. I decided to go back to the town to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Is it possible that me breaking the tree and progressing the story before meeting Phoney is what made this happen?

[Medium Spoon]

Hey Hayden! Did you by any chance get the "Friend or Phone" achievement when you first entered? Please check your steam achievements and let me know!

[Medium Spoon]

Thanks for these potential solutions too! I'm working with our coder on it as we speak :)

[hayden_m]

Автор сообщения: Medium-Well

Hey Hayden! Did you by any chance get the "Friend or Phone" achievement when you first entered? Please check your steam achievements and let me know!

I just checked and no, I do not have that achievement listed on Steam!

[Medium Spoon]

Aha! I think we just figured it out! We're 90% sure it has to do with Steam's achievement not being rewarded and therefore skipping an important line of code. You're more than welcome to progress, but this evening we'll be pushing a new patch which should HOPEFULLY fix some bugs like this if you want to hold off!

Thanks again for the report Hayden! :)

-DeMarco

[hayden_m]

Автор сообщения: Medium-Well

Aha! I think we just figured it out! We're 90% sure it has to do with Steam's achievement not being rewarded and therefore skipping an important line of code. You're more than welcome to progress, but this evening we'll be pushing a new patch which should HOPEFULLY fix some bugs like this if you want to hold off!

Thanks again for the report Hayden! :)

-DeMarco

Ah, that's great! Thank you for letting me know and being so on top of things! I'm sure I can wait until the new patch is ready. Thank you again, and have a good rest of your day! :D

[hayden_m]

Автор сообщения: Medium-Well

Aha! I think we just figured it out! We're 90% sure it has to do with Steam's achievement not being rewarded and therefore skipping an important line of code. You're more than welcome to progress, but this evening we'll be pushing a new patch which should HOPEFULLY fix some bugs like this if you want to hold off!

Thanks again for the report Hayden! :)

-DeMarco

Just wanted to update you and let you know that it worked and is fixed! I just updated the game and tested it out real quick and the text loaded, so the bug is no longer an issue. Thank you for the help! :)

[Medium Spoon]

YESSSS that's fantastic news Hayden! Thanks for the update :)