Game-breaking bug at end of Chapter 3

[Human Required]

So I accidentally collected the last of the blue bottle essence stuff before exploring the final optional area of the level (I wasn't sure which path would lead to the optional stuff). This triggered the cutscene that precedes you climbing the big tree.

Midway through climbing the big tree, I figure I'll hop off it and backtrack to the optional area I missed to collect the goodies. That goes smoothly enough, but now the first wallrunning section of the big tree is permanently invisible wall'd off, preventing me from completing the ascent and ending the chapter. In other words, because I interrupted the vaguely scripted/linear tree ascent, it's now stopping me from doing it again to completion.

There's no restart checkpoint option, and sadly, the game's last checkpoint is all the way back at the optional area I backtracked to. So I can't see a way to undo this soft lock or make any progress.

Am I completely locked/is the game over for me? I'm not starting this thing over from scratch, that's for sure. (Playing on Game Pass, btw, hence no mouse icon here)

[Clockeye]

you can't use an alternate save?
maybe even go into the game files and delete that check point?

[Human Required]

Originally posted by Clockeye:

you can't use an alternate save?
maybe even go into the game files and delete that check point?

Accessing game files for Game Pass games is near impossible.

Edit: And it's auto-checkpointed; there's no way to go back and manually select a different checkpoint or save point.

Guess my run is ruined?

[Caram]

I'm in the exact same boat. I also had to backtrack because, yes, the game seems to love giving you two paths and expects you to immediately know which one is supposed to be saved for last. The weird thing is, when I was playing the night before I was definitely able to get back out without an issue. But when I reloaded this afternoon, though, it respawned me back at that last optional area you mentioned except this time the last quilt wall always drops me in the water. Seems like this is a complete soft lock until it gets patched.

[Human Required]

Originally posted by Caram:

I'm in the exact same boat. I also had to backtrack because, yes, the game seems to love giving you two paths and expects you to immediately know which one is supposed to be saved for last. The weird thing is, when I was playing the night before I was definitely able to get back out without an issue. But when I reloaded this afternoon, though, it respawned me back at that last optional area you mentioned except this time the last quilt wall always drops me in the water. Seems like this is a complete soft lock until it gets patched.

Dude are we playing on the same account?!?!! LMAO I had the EXACT same experience when I booted up again today to try to keep tinkering; this time I can't even bypass the quilt wall (it's technically the first wall running section where they introduce the mechanic, iirc).

Please ping Compulsion Games' support page on their developer website! I did it already but if multiple of us flag this game-breaking bug at the end of chapter 3 maybe they'll get moving on a fix.

And in the meantime let's make more noise here!!

[tintingaroo]

An option is to restart the chapter:
Load > Replay Chapters

[Human Required]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

An option is to restart the chapter:
Load > Replay Chapters

Thanks--will consider this.

Though, tbh, I don't want to replay an entire chapter if this kind of bug is even in the game; god forbid I hit another invisible wall nightmare later on and this becomes a cycle...

[TheBigHumanIgloo]

Bumping this issue. How the devs haven't caught this is wild... reported the issue...

[Human Required]

Originally posted by Caram:

I'm in the exact same boat. I also had to backtrack because, yes, the game seems to love giving you two paths and expects you to immediately know which one is supposed to be saved for last. The weird thing is, when I was playing the night before I was definitely able to get back out without an issue. But when I reloaded this afternoon, though, it respawned me back at that last optional area you mentioned except this time the last quilt wall always drops me in the water. Seems like this is a complete soft lock until it gets patched.

Did the new patch fix the issue for you? For me, all it did was remove the invisible wall on the quilt wall and introduce a new invisible wall in front of the tree stump so I'm still soft-locked from climbing the tree and beating the chapter.

[Caram]

Originally posted by Human Required:

Originally posted by Caram:

I'm in the exact same boat. I also had to backtrack because, yes, the game seems to love giving you two paths and expects you to immediately know which one is supposed to be saved for last. The weird thing is, when I was playing the night before I was definitely able to get back out without an issue. But when I reloaded this afternoon, though, it respawned me back at that last optional area you mentioned except this time the last quilt wall always drops me in the water. Seems like this is a complete soft lock until it gets patched.

Did the new patch fix the issue for you? For me, all it did was remove the invisible wall on the quilt wall and introduce a new invisible wall in front of the tree stump so I'm still soft-locked from climbing the tree and beating the chapter.

Haven't tried yet, I was actually waiting to check here and see if it fixed it for you first, lol. I'll try tomorrow, but from what you've said it seems like I shouldn't get my hopes up.

[TheBeans017]

Hi,

If you encounter the issue again, pls send us a video link here or you can send us a video via this support email address: [e-mail]

Getting these videos are helpful to identify the issue more quickly and reproduce them on our side.

Thank you

[Caram]

Originally posted by Caram:

Originally posted by Human Required:

Did the new patch fix the issue for you? For me, all it did was remove the invisible wall on the quilt wall and introduce a new invisible wall in front of the tree stump so I'm still soft-locked from climbing the tree and beating the chapter.

Haven't tried yet, I was actually waiting to check here and see if it fixed it for you first, lol. I'll try tomorrow, but from what you've said it seems like I shouldn't get my hopes up.

So in a pleasant surprise the patch actually did fix this for me. Yesterday, I was finally able to get across the wall again without the invisible wall dunking me into the water. Sorry that it's not working for you, OP.

[Human Required]

Originally posted by Caram:

Originally posted by Caram:

Haven't tried yet, I was actually waiting to check here and see if it fixed it for you first, lol. I'll try tomorrow, but from what you've said it seems like I shouldn't get my hopes up.

So in a pleasant surprise the patch actually did fix this for me. Yesterday, I was finally able to get across the wall again without the invisible wall dunking me into the water. Sorry that it's not working for you, OP.

Yes, the patch did that for me as well--the issue is, it spawned a new invisible wall right at the tree. How far were you able to get after the patched area? Did you complete the chapter?