Issues found after may patch

[Skree]

Not to ♥♥♥♥♥, i just want to put a list for the devs:

-Election stuff: unclear values. Moreover, Mick's involvment in it is sudden and relatively late, by the time he offered to become governor i already put all town favour towards the texan moron. Holden? You surely understood who i'm talking about.

-Priss/Empriss: already opened a topic, but just to put it here too. After all she does it doesn't make sense that you can't attack her directly.

-Koorda secret area: too obscure to find out. Far too obscure.

-Depose Brennan: how? i talked with everyone. He said that he can be found at night in his own room and i expected to be able to assassinate him once there. No. I can't talk to anyone about deposing him. Bug? Obscure way to reach the goal? Not enjoyable.

-"The revealed religion" quest: i have both objectives completed in the journal, can't do anything else, no other objectives are shown. Bug? Or something else that's unclear?

-"The great longing" quest: i have the objective to find an assistant for vacation. I think the ex-driver guy could be a candidate, but i already found him a job as an accountant (and he's bad at it). Can't find anyone else in merredin to do the job and i get the feeling that the ex driver guy should have been his assistant. What the heck am i supposed to do?

-"Concernig faith and things not seen": i have the objective to find jason, the bank guard. I found him. I had to bring him back. I couldn't no option to capture him, no option to initiate combat, no option to do anything. He talks about a treasure in the rock before him, but i cannot interact with the rock. Now the governor isn't even the governor anymore and i feel that even if i return with him to merredin the quest would be broken?

-"Eye and mind" quest. Patrol east side of lake deborah. East is "right", right? Nothing there, nothing to interact with. i went to the overland map maybe thinking there's a location in the east side i have to find and explore. No. Nothing to find.

-"Find the ripper" quest: i found him by chance. I decided to kill anyone who was attacking him. Killed them, left, returned later to find him and his lover dead. Why? how? Did i miss something?

-The kid who shot his father. After the texan moron won the election as new governor, i found him in town, alone. A line of dialogue says "sorry for your parentS", this makes me think his mother died as well. How? When? The games makes me think i should know it, but i don't.

Moreover: the new governor, the texan moron, said he would make people have chilren again (and this seems to happen) and to make servant resident and to open the borders? I still see people outside however waiting to be admitted in town?

Ok, end of what i found until now. I don't know if i will get a response, but in all honesty i just put this all here to the benefit of the devs, if this can help them even if only in a couple of these points, then i will be happy.

Of course i will also be happy if i get help to solve what i have written XD

[Skree]

Addendum:

-the radio at the scout hideout. I went there with radio parts expecting to be able to fix it, but it didn't work. I have to say that i didn't go there with a whole functioning radio... but i mean, if it was broken doesn't it make more sense to bring the parts?

[SomeOne]

Save issues:

-after quest in prologue with Possums, then complete quest (give 3 cages, and 3 tails from vendor) cant load game, even if starting with new Character new saves also not loading, just nothing happened after you press load button.

[themadpoet]

For "Eye and mind quest. Patrol east side of lake deborah", you have to talk to the guards at the entrance to the lake, they'll patrol and do the quest with you.

For "The great longing quest: I have the objective to find an assistant for vacation.", I got the kid who shot his dad to do it iirc (he was in the camp outside the town in my playthrough, the mom had lived). Not sure if you're stuck there or have other options.

For "I still see people outside however waiting to be admitted in town?," yeah, I don't think the game actually changes those people outside, it's more of a "this will happen after the game's over" thing.

[BadAstronaut]

Thanks - this is all useful and I do want to remind/point out that most of these were NOT addressed in the May patch as we are revisiting everything start to finish. So the May patch was about the origin stories and then a small number of mid-game things which were particularly problematic to do with:

1. Mentioning 'Gut Wound' in Merredin
2. Rescuiing Cole from Aldersyde
3. Talking to Mira after deposing Brennan
4. More mention of how to enter Koorda (but this clearly still needs work and we just need to open this up right away)

[BadAstronaut]

Originally posted by SomeOne:

Save issues:

-after quest in prologue with Possums, then complete quest (give 3 cages, and 3 tails from vendor) cant load game, even if starting with new Character new saves also not loading, just nothing happened after you press load button.

This sounds like a major bug we've not seen (and not heard from QA) so it's a 'hey, can you pleas email us your save files and possibly even your player log files) to team at dropbearbytes.com'?

Please can you send me a player log files (which you can usually find at C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\LocalLow\Drop Bear Bytes\Broken Roads

Save games help a lot:
the save file PNG and .SAV should be at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata[your userid]\1403440\remote

[Cl_Flushentityhero]

I am also having the issue where none of my saves will load.

[Cybersquirt]

Originally posted by Cl_Flushentityhero:

I am also having the issue where none of my saves will load.

That's relatively early in the game -- so many patches since, might benefit from a fresh start?

*OOps, still, alot of patching has happened since June, so..

eta: [fwiw, I'm able to load Dec 20 saves w/o issue]

[BadAstronaut]

Originally posted by Cl_Flushentityhero:

I am also having the issue where none of my saves will load.

When last did you play (before the latest patch) as I cannot reproduce an issue of old saves not working.

[riprjak]

Can confirm saves not loading/continue not working from main menu. Brand new game started today. Played through to Merredin in prologue, was about to leave town on main quests. Now cannot load saved games or select continue (greys out menu items but nothing works). Fully patched, validated install with no issues found.

[BadAstronaut]

Originally posted by riprjak:

Can confirm saves not loading/continue not working from main menu. Brand new game started today. Played through to Merredin in prologue, was about to leave town on main quests. Now cannot load saved games or select continue (greys out menu items but nothing works). Fully patched, validated install with no issues found.

Is this the first time you've EVER played the game, or did you previously play? It's going to still be more than a week or so before the team can properly look into it but it's concerning that a number of people are reporting it.

Have you previously installed it on another drive then changed drives?

What is your install folder at the moment?

[makan247]

Yup, I can also confirm that I can't load any of my saved games. Also, when I click on "Continue", all options gray out and the game just hangs in the main menu and I have to Alt+Tab to Steam to quit the game.

I bought the game on sale the day before yesterday so there's no issue of old saves or anything like that. I made it to the plane crash and had multiple save files.

[BadAstronaut]

Originally posted by makan247:

Yup, I can also confirm that I can't load any of my saved games. Also, when I click on "Continue", all options gray out and the game just hangs in the main menu and I have to Alt+Tab to Steam to quit the game.

I bought the game on sale the day before yesterday so there's no issue of old saves or anything like that. I made it to the plane crash and had multiple save files.

This is very odd. Can you please send me your save files and player log so I can look into this? [e-mail]

We've not been able to reproduce it ourselves so having your files so I can open them up in Unity will help a lot.

Your save files' .PNG and .SAV should be at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata[your userid]\1403440\remote

And the player log is at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Drop Bear Bytes\Broken Roads, then send across Player.log and Player-prev.log

[makan247]

Originally posted by BadAstronaut:

Originally posted by makan247:

Yup, I can also confirm that I can't load any of my saved games. Also, when I click on "Continue", all options gray out and the game just hangs in the main menu and I have to Alt+Tab to Steam to quit the game.

I bought the game on sale the day before yesterday so there's no issue of old saves or anything like that. I made it to the plane crash and had multiple save files.

This is very odd. Can you please send me your save files and player log so I can look into this? [e-mail]

We've not been able to reproduce it ourselves so having your files so I can open them up in Unity will help a lot.

Your save files' .PNG and .SAV should be at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata[your userid]\1403440\remote

And the player log is at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Drop Bear Bytes\Broken Roads, then send across Player.log and Player-prev.log

I deleted all my saved files, started a new game and thankfully, the issue hasn't recurred. I've gone on and completed the game, and noticed the same bugs which have been highlighted in other threads/posts primarily with Southern Cross (can't finish the "improve the device" action) & the Jasper/Numbat as well as Vacation/assistant quest.

[BadAstronaut]

Cool, thanks for giving it another go and also confirming those bugs. They're very high on the list to get sorted soon.

At the moment I'm finishing up a feature to show the name of a container and also add "(empty)" if the player has already looted it. Once done then the focus goes on to Merredin, Southern Cross and those reported bugs :)