How to get through Meditation section?

[VampItUp]

Hello! I'm really enjoying this game so far! However, I'm having a bit of a hard time getting through the meditating minigame. I repeatedly do the 'breath in and out' prompt while avoiding the floating words for several minutes but nothing seems to happen. I then try reloading the game and doing the same thing only this time hovering over all of the thoughts, but still nothing happens. Is there something I'm missing? (Also I don't know if this matters but I did make a save in the dialogue box right before the minigame)

This is my first time posting in a discussion form, so I apologize if I'm putting this in the wrong place.

[LittleBatGames-Cyrus]

I'll add a more explicit tutorial soon! It's the opposite -- you are supposed to address your thoughts by hovering over them while breathing in and out. :)

[cloudmint]

I'm having the same exact problem, no matter what I do I can't get past this minigame! even when I somehow dissipated all the thoughts (I'm on steam deck and I had to use the touchpad and joystick at the same time which was awkward) the minigame still won't end. I have just been breathing in and out for the past 5 minutes.

[mejay365]

I'm also struggling with the meditation minigame. I cleared all the thoughts and now I'm just stuck in the box breathing and can't figure out how to progress. Tried reloading but I end up in the same spot.

[VampItUp]

Originally posted by LittleBatGames-Cyrus:

I'll add a more explicit tutorial soon! It's the opposite -- you are supposed to address your thoughts by hovering over them while breathing in and out. :)

Oh! I got it now right as they appeared, thank you so much!! :D

[SapphicSillyGoose]

Originally posted by mejay365:

I'm also struggling with the meditation minigame. I cleared all the thoughts and now I'm just stuck in the box breathing and can't figure out how to progress. Tried reloading but I end up in the same spot.

Same issue here. Feels as frustrating as real meditation XD

[TiredPanda]

Same troubles here, I hover over the thoughts until they go away but the session continues indefinitely.

[Roshambo1980]

Same issue. I hover over the thoughts until they go away but still stuck in the meditation screen with nothing to do but continue it indefinitely.

Edit: I figured it out. I managed to progress by hovering over the thoughts immediately when they appear while breathing either in or out. Before I was just doing the breathing and hovering over the thoughts when I felt like it. That made the game get stuck every time. I still think it is a bug that needs to be fixed but if you're stuck, this is how I managed to progress, hover over the thoughts as soon as they appear and you should be able to progress. I hope this helps!

[Esteri]

I was kinda expectin' a forest to phase in just from my breathing--also had absolutely zero idea I was supposed to hover over the thoughts and had to look this up. A more explicit tutorial will definitely help.

[BananaPrisoner]

I was stuck on it for an hour. Somehow I was still in the minigame when all thoughts were gone. Solution: restart the game, don't save in the minigame and reload from there, start from a save before the minigame, start breathing slowly and hover over the first thought until it's gone and immediately hover to the next one.... literally did it in 30 seconds lol

[BaroqueW]

for me on a steamdeck, the joystick did nothing. just click directly on the tactile display on the thoughts as they appear and they will disappear

[LittleBatGames-Cyrus]

Hey everyone, sorry it's taken me a while to replicate this. Something is wrong with the joystick center detection. I will fix it, but for now you can change your left trackpad setting to be "as mouse" and that will help you get through the scene as intended. The detection will be fixed in an upcoming patch.

[LittleBatGames-Cyrus]

Wanted to post an update here that I've got a fix for this in the next patch, releasing soon. :) Thank you for your patience... this was a tough one as the Steam Deck's gamepad is simultaneously a mouse AND a gamepad!

[tin of cockatrice meat]

It's still broken for me. If I play the minigame as intended, i.e. breathing in and hovering the thoughts while breathing out, the game continues even as all the thoughts disappeared. However, if I disregard breathing (since when vampires need to breathe anyway?) and acknowledge the thoughts, the minigame ends almost immediately.

[ChrisC]

I'm hovering the thoughts, breathing in and out as instructed, and nothing ever happens. There's an Acknowledge Thought over on the left but nothing about it ever changes, and all the thoughts fade in and out over and over. As far as I can tell, breathing in and slows them down, but hovering the mouse over them (I'm playing on PC with mouse+keyboard) does nothing.

There's also a crosshair in the middle of the screen which never moves. Not sure what's up with that.

Totally stuck in the game.

edit: I figured it out. If you have a gamepad plugged in at all, *even if you're not using it*, it breaks mouse hovering during this minigame.

[ahoymehearties]

Thank you, @chrisc -- I will see about fixing this however I can.