Problem (Bug?) on the Magnetic Field/Pidgeon Puzzle

[lucasdgc]

Hi,

I'm getting this problem on the first chapter of Deponia, I think its a bug. Is the same problem reported on this thread (http://forum.daedalic.de/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5998). When I open the magnetic field thing on the Post Office I can't click on anything, it doesn't rotate as said on the instructions. Also there are no pidgeons on the holes where they were supposed to be.

I tried loading an older savefile and playing again up to that point and got the same thing. Already verified the game cache integrity and even re-downloaded everything.

Any ideas on how to solve this, please? Is there any useful information I could provide to help?

Thanks a lot. :)

[lucasdgc]

This is exaclty what I think. This game should not be sold as it is now.
It's unplayable for so many people and the guys at Daedalic, despite seeming to know this, aren't doing a lot to support it.

They released another game on Deponia series, and the standalone releases apparently run well.

I stopped playing this game waiting for proper fixes, but it looks like I'm not going to play it anymore. Which is a shame, since I was really enjoying it...

I asked for a refund, but Steam reffused considering the time I spent "playing" the game, even if quite a lot of it was spent fiddling around with the game files trying to fix my issues.

[MohHeader]

I am so disappointed too !

[ITALIA 458]

what the hell, im stuck here too. I can't believe the only solution is to delete my progress and contiune off from someone elses!!! Can't even pass the first chapter becuase of this bug, what a waste of money!

[Segoaban_Daedalic]

As a general advice with this issue we recommend using a savegame from our support site to advance beyond this point. Please use savegame 11 from here[www.daedalicsupport.com]

[Zero]

@Segoaban_Daedalic, I saw this advice on a number of forums, and I am disappointed that this is the official stance that is being taken. Instead of fixing the bug, we are being asked to skip those puzzles that we never get a chance to resolve ourselves, and load a save game that may have more progression then we discovered.

Not only does this remove the player from the experience of the game but it also feels like cheating. Why stop there? Why not just load the last save game, watch the ending and be done with it? Why are the publishers not taking responsibility for these game-breaking bugs and fixing them? Why is the publisher still accepting money for this title release and not addressing it's issues?

Maybe give people who purchased "The Complete Journey" the ability to download the individual episodes as well? I hear that those work perfectly.

[lucasdgc]

"Maybe give people who purchased "The Complete Journey" the ability to download the individual episodes as well? I hear that those work perfectly."

I'd second that!

[ITALIA 458]

I'm going to have to agree with Zero. This approach of use our save game is not really acceptable. It put me into a different state of the game, my invetory changed, i was lost as i didnt know what you guys did or didnt do yet, i got a whole bunch of random achievements i didn't earn.

and this is the biggest downfall about this. I spend hours stuck in the game not knowing that it was a game breaking bug. So now everytime i get stuck on a puzzle for too long I need to google if its another game breaking bug or if i just didnt solve it? this ruins the expierence and thrill of solving puzzles.

I would like the ability to download the individual episodes as well, so i can play the way it was intended to be played without all the bugs. this seems like a pretty reasonable request.

[godprobe]

Just ran into this myself. This is very disappointing.
If the bug won't or can't be fixed, can we send you *our* save file, and have that be fixed instead?

[week-later-edit]
Following another post's suggestion, I simply restarted the game (technically this is now my third time around, although I never made it as far as the pigeons years ago on my first attempt), and some not terribly unreasonable amount of time later, the pigeon puzzle is working and I'm now well into the second game ("Chaos on Deponia").

For anyone else that runs into this bug, I'd recommend this as the "real" work-around. And many of my other annoyances from the first game (apart from Rufus's characteristic selfishness, of course) have been improved in the second game, making it a much more enjoyable experience so far.
[/week-later-edit]

[Zero]

Originally posted by godprobe:

Following another post's suggestion, I simply restarted the game (technically this is now my third time around, although I never made it as far as the pigeons years ago on my first attempt), and some not terribly unreasonable amount of time later, the pigeon puzzle is working and I'm now well into the second game ("Chaos on Deponia").

@godprobe, could you elaborate on my fix. When you say you "simply restarted the game" did you:
-Turn the game off and turn it back on
-Delete your save game and start a new game
-Uninstall the game and start over
-Something else?

Could you also link to the other suggestion post that worked for you?

Thanks ahead of time.

[godprobe]

Originally posted by Zero:

Originally posted by godprobe:

Following another post's suggestion, I simply restarted the game (technically this is now my third time around, although I never made it as far as the pigeons years ago on my first attempt), and some not terribly unreasonable amount of time later, the pigeon puzzle is working and I'm now well into the second game ("Chaos on Deponia").

@godprobe, could you elaborate on my fix. When you say you "simply restarted the game" did you:
-Turn the game off and turn it back on
-Delete your save game and start a new game
-Uninstall the game and start over
-Something else?

Could you also link to the other suggestion post that worked for you?

Thanks ahead of time.

Didn't delete the save, but started a new game. Afraid I'm not sure where the other post was that I found, but there was nothing more specific in it than just starting over.

When I first encountered the broken pigeon puzzle, the pigeons weren't even showing up in their coops.

The second time through to that point, they showed up, and the puzzle worked as intended.

Again, this isn't a real fix. This is just starting all over from the beginning of the game and not encountering the bug. It's definitely still a game-breaking bug that the developers need to fix.

[TheKing]

I just ran into this issue as well, I'm really surprised this hasn't been patched at all, will try my luck with the provided save game, but this really should have been fixed ages ago

[ITALIA 458]

the save works but its annoying because litterally messes up your progress and unclocks a bunch of achievements you didn't earn (not that i care, but some people like achievement hunting).

You're invitory wont match exactly and have to guess if the person who made the save did the task or not. Luckly I never encounter any other game breaking bugs after this.

[Hineko]

Game purchased and downloaded on October 2019. After being stuck for some hours in the first chapter, I decided to load a previous save only to discover that the magnets of the detonation puzzle could be moved again!!! Then I decided to Google a little bit and as I can see, Deponia seems to be quite a buggy game.

Of course I'll stop playing this game and won't purchase its sequels (I had the inention to do so, because in fact I was enjoying the game because it is actually a good game).

What irritates me the most is not the bug itself (bugs can be corrected). It's the shabby and non-professional offcial solution provided by the developers. Loading a saved game downloaded from the official web??? I need to point out that the pleasure of point and click adventures comes from the satisfaction of solving puzzles by yourself. Developers are taking away from their users the main enjoyment of the game.

I also see in the game summary that some bug fixes and some languages were added as of August 2019. However, this one remains uncorrected! As a worker of the software development industry, this makes me think that Daedalic is unable to reproduce this failure by themselves and thus have no idea about how to fix it, giving to me a poor professional image.

[Zazaky]

2021 and the bug stills there... that's not good.

[Parasamgate]

Well, it's 2021 december now and the bug persists.

I'll do as the other user did and restart the game from the beginning, as the last chance I'm giving the game because I had a lot of bugs before this, like vanishing npcs, muting sounds, glitches and inventory mouse clicking problems.

Well, I don't recommend the game at all.