Glitch: Last stage not progressing on sufferanfce

[QED]

This is an incredibly upsetting bug and one that I will legit flip my review score to negative over if it is not patched: on the sufferance difficulty, on the last layer, an angel enemy shows up surrounded by four spinning blades. If you shoot the angel w/ heavy ammo to stun it, then execute it, for some reason, its corpse will not leave the ground, and will still be counted as an active enemy despite it not being targetable or even alive.

The first time this happened I thought there was an enemy off-screen, but no, it happened again, and I confirmed it was the angel's corpse causing the problem because the wrath burst I fired at the time was homing and all the projectiles surrounded the angel's non-vanished corpse, like it was still somehow an active enemy.

Difficulty in this game is high enough as is without this artificial wall. Every bit of challenge I have encountered has felt fair, but I am not doing any more runs of this difficulty or finishing my playthrough of this game until this bug is fixed. It is agonizing to finally scrape through one of the toughest sections in the entire game (the moving laser grid) only to be soft-locked by a bug.

Please fix as soon as possible. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks.;

[AlexPlaySide]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, espcially going into such detail. The team is going to look into this immediately.

To help us most effectively identify the issue we'd greatly appreicate if you could provide more specifics and answer some questions:

1. What was the exact loadout used when this occurred?
2. Have you had it occur on different loadouts?
3. Has it always been the exact same Ghast III or has it occurred in other Layers/Phases?
4. When executing the Ghast III - are any other inputs being pressed/held?
5. Have you got a video/recording of the issue occurring?
6. Are there any other details that you think could be relevant to the issue occurring?

[QED]

Thanks for the quick reply. Here's the best I can do without recreating the glitch:

1. Slow-fire/spin pistols / 3-hit spin sword / sniper rifle / build wrath on health armor / unpredictable (can't remember wording) wrath gem
2. I've had it occur with only the above loadout so far
3. It's exactly the same one and only the one prior to the transition from the 2 to 4 part laser cage section
4. Nothing is being pressed or held--shoot heavy weapon once (sniper rifle) to stun, get close, press Y, go into execute animation, corpse stays
5. I do not have recording but will try to capture some today if I can recreate
6. It could be with how soon after stun I am killing the enemy, but I can't imagine that is the case because if it were a frame window there's no way I would have hit it three times without trying to do so. If anything it seems like it is something unique with that enemy specific to the execution action. In other play on the same difficulty I was able to execute the same enemy without issue.

It is also perhaps worth noting that this soft-lock can be circumvented by NOT executing the Ghast III (as it's apparently called)--if you take it down purely with heavy weapons fire or normal attacks its corpse dissipates properly.

Sorry I wasn't able to provide better information as the bug was one I encountered last night and just reaching it on the highest difficulty is something I could not do consistently. I will set aside some time tonight to attempt to recreate the bug.

[AlexPlaySide]

Thank you for answering all these questions, the team are currently looking into this diligently. Also thanks so much for providing that added context of when it doesn't occur.

If you are keen to keep helping the team, they have kindly requested if you could please send us through your game logs.

To do this:

1. Navigate to this folder on your PC: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\LocalLow\Playside Studios\KILL KNIGHT
2. Please copy the Player.log and Player-prev.log file to a seperate folder
3. Zip the folder
4. Upload to our Zendesk - https://playside.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=10810187909263

Also absolutely no need to apologise, we greatly appreciate all the time and effort you've been putting in to help us resolve this.

[QED]

Thanks for the additional steps to follow. I've sent the requested files zipped to the Zendesk in question. I wasn't able to spend time recreating the error yet but will post any updates here if I am able to do so.

[Squiz Milton]

This also happened to me, on the exact same enemy. I was using basic pistols/armor, judge cannon, heavensworn sword, wrath booster accessory. Same difficulty- sufferance.

I wrath bursted so he was purple. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥ part is I think I somehow managed to execute this enemy AS he was disappearing, like he started to go under,ground and he popped back out of the ground when I stabbed him. I immediately knew something slightly unusual had happened. (maybe he had inflictum still when this happened too?)

I had many attempts before this happened where he died just fine. Now, he will never disappear when I kill him on any subsequent attempt. The game then will not progress past the laser-box section (after killing the 2 pursuers). Verifying game files doesn't work. However, reinstalling the game cleared the bug it seems.

[glider7]

Same thing happens on the Switch version. Enemy gets stuck in the ground at the center and after at a certain point it's just you and the lasers with no way to proceed. Here's a screenshot if it helps, but before that point. Happened two times but on the third 'fixed itself' and ran normally.

Another bug on Switch version: After clearing the final level for the first time, the window that pops up showing the Sufferance difficulty is unlocked is frozen with no way so close it. Was playing it docked. After closing the game from Switch menu and restarting everything was fine. Screenshots below.

Screenshots of the above issues[imgur.com]

[Katana Puffin]

I've just kill the last angel (and steam achievements can confirm that) but in game it still a unmarked challenge.

[AlexPlaySide]

Originally posted by Katana Puffin:

I've just kill the last angel (and steam achievements can confirm that) but in game it still a unmarked challenge.

Firstly, congrats on beating the Last Angel, but that is interesting, thanks for letting us know. I've sent through to the devs to look at.

[Katana Puffin]

Thank you for making this awesome game. Maybe my favorite from last year 😁 Could this challenge be referring to the Fever level? Because I haven't finished that one yet 😅