Flathead Bug/Issues Report Thread

[DreadXP Crew]

Hello All!

Feel free to post any issues that you're currently experiencing in Flathead in this thread. This'll help keep a lot of the reports from players together and easier to parse through for us!

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-DXP Crew

[Badstormer]

Originally posted by timoxton:

Originally posted by Badstormer:

I actually have listened to all of them individually, unless you're implying there's more to it than that.

hmmmmmm. are all of the lights on the door thing lit up? (aside from the last one)

It seems two lights are off. I'm guessing the last tape isn't intended to show up until all but one remain?

[timoxton]

Originally posted by Badstormer:

Originally posted by timoxton:

hmmmmmm. are all of the lights on the door thing lit up? (aside from the last one)

It seems two lights are off. I'm guessing the last tape isn't intended to show up until all but one remain?

which ones are off? and if you can match it up, try listening to that tape (even if youve already listened to it) and see if the last tape is usable afterwards.

[Badstormer]

Originally posted by timoxton:

Originally posted by Badstormer:

It seems two lights are off. I'm guessing the last tape isn't intended to show up until all but one remain?

which ones are off? and if you can match it up, try listening to that tape (even if youve already listened to it) and see if the last tape is usable afterwards.

The two lights on the top are off. I've already tried inserting and ejecting every tape available and it didn't seem to have any effect, unless I'm supposed to listen to each of them all the way through. I also gave the second to last tape a full listen since the later tapes seem to correspond to the lights toward the top, also to no effect.

I'd be happy to provide a save file to diagnose if that would help.

[Badstormer]

Winning one more round seems to have made the last tape playable. I'm guessing something got triggered earlier than intended.

[detriex]

Originally posted by cyanidestars:

Just bought and installed Flathead today but the game crashes every time I hit 'start' :(
An error message pops up that says this:

The UE-flathead_02 Game has crashed and will close

LowLevelFatalError
[File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Windows\D3D11RHI\Private\D3D11Util.cpp] [Line: 180]
Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006- 'HUNG')

Any ideas?

I'm also having this exact issue. I'd love to know if there's a solution.

[timoxton]

Originally posted by detriex:

Originally posted by cyanidestars:

Just bought and installed Flathead today but the game crashes every time I hit 'start' :(
An error message pops up that says this:

The UE-flathead_02 Game has crashed and will close

LowLevelFatalError
[File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Windows\D3D11RHI\Private\D3D11Util.cpp] [Line: 180]
Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006- 'HUNG')

Any ideas?

I'm also having this exact issue. I'd love to know if there's a solution.

Im fairly certain its a GPU issue - the nuances are lost on me but I think its either running out of RAM or requiring more power than it has access to? Ha dont quote me on that but you either need a firmware upgrade or, unfortunately, a GPU upgrade. Sometimes I get that error when working in unreal and when I update my firmware, it goes away until I need another update.

But It could also very likely be your GPU is just not a huge fan of unreal 5, which is obviously a less easily solvable issue.

If its the latter, obviously no hard feelings if you refund it! And either way, sorry its causing ya trouble.

[Tenno]

I've gotten all the tapes, but after listening to the last one, the game goes to a black screen and I get softlocked. Playing new rounds and beating them doesn't seem to solve the issue for me either.

Edit: the issue seems to have fixed itself

[Master of the Sun]

I turned the music completely off, and now whenever I win a round, it sits at the round count screen but won't let me progress to the next round.

[nRB]

Originally posted by timoxton:

Originally posted by orcmamma:

I can’t seem to go to the next level on easy. I will pay what I owe, and the room will be dark but not change to level 2. I can continue playing but when I try to see the exit, it says 0 and will not let me go to the next level. Not sure if it is my doing or the game

very odd. i havent seen this before! its a lot to ask, but is there way to record it? crushin bugs is a complex beast and its tough when i cant see exactly whats happening.

Very late and possibly anecdotal at best, but I get this bug frequently on steam deck but *only* when offline. Was traveling on two seperate occasions and this bug kept occuring but the two times I've tried to recreate it at home the game runs just fine. Maybe this is sheer chance though cause I assumed the game was fully offline

[Cygnus]

Hi, I may be the only person on the planet playing this nowadays, but I keep getting stuck on the transition into round 2 or 3. The game does the black hole animation, and then nothing else happens. I sit there only to get harassed by it over and over again, without returning to the slot machine. I have tried this on all 4 of the difficulties, and haven't found what can cause or fix this issue. Thanks.

[ElusiveOne]

Two minor issues.

Incorrect tape name
Whenever I complete a session and earn a new tape, the name shown is pretty much always not the one that's been added to the tape player. Typically it'll say I unlocked a tape I already have, and then present a new one instead.

OVER button renders machine out of sync after creature grab
After a third time being picked up by the creature and winning, I pressed the OVER button hoping to resume the ongoing spin that was interrupted. The machine produced a new spin instead and the display became corrupted: instead of showing the cycling numbers it showed the yellow cloud, same as before you start spinning, but while actually spinning.

Pulling down the lever on the next spin resumed normal operation.

[ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ]

Originally posted by timoxton:

It could also very likely be your GPU is just not a huge fan of unreal 5, which is obviously a less easily solvable issue.

If its the latter, obviously no hard feelings if you refund it! And either way, sorry its causing ya trouble.

This game is an Unreal Engine 5 game? usually, when a game is an Unreal Engine 5 one, I would see the specs wanting (16gbs of ram) while this game is only asking for 8gbs.

You should definitely mention the game being an Unreal Engine 5 game on the game's store info.

I wish I would have known it was an Unreal Engine 5 game because yeah, UE5 games suck for me. Some games are okay (Don't Scream) and I even played the demo of your unreleased game "Silkbulb Test" which worked.

So, I guess I was able to play your other game because it's asking for 4gbs of Ram? can't refund this game now (passed the 14-day after purchase thing and I didn't refund it because I thought I'd be able to find a fix/workaround to play the game)

I was really looking forward to this one :/ and I guess I won't be able to play "Future Racer 2000" either because that one as well is asking for 8GBs of ram. I guess the "Silkbulb Test" game is the only one I can run... great.

Can you like, undo the UE5 and use another engine... no? had to ask lol.