Stuck - Methods In Madness

[LockDown]

Hey folks, I need some help here.

I'm right at the end of the scenario with DeLear & The Persons. I'm at the point where you are going back to the laboratory to analyze the meteor, but nothing seems to activate when I go to the laboratory marker on the map. I haven't been able to do any research for a while but I dismissed it as part of the story. Now, I can't research, cannot continue the story, can't do anything at the laboratory.

I should mention that I need to be running the game as an administrator in order for it to even run. Anyone have any advice on how to fix this?

[76561198263690189]

Hello,

Sorry for the hard time with the game, we're working on a patch that aims to get that fixed, in the meantime, unfortunately, the only sure fire way to get through this issue is to complete the scenario in one sitting - few folks here already had this problem and they made it, so we'd like to ask you to try it out : )

In the meantime we'll get back to work, and will do our best to bring the fix to you guys asap

[LockDown]

Seriously? Ugh. I'd rather just wait for you guys to patch it.

As some feedback, can you patch in an additional save slot? Just so one can have at least one back up in a case that they make a mistake or attempt something they aren't ready for.

Thanks for the quick response.

[76561198263690189]

Hi,

We're working on the first issue pretty hard here, however the save system is a conscious design decision, as the whole point of the game being difficult is to render each decision as final.

Naturally, you can always restart the scenario and make a different choice, because hey, it's a game, but we made our best to make it difficult and immersive - lack of save option/backup save slot is one of the hard choices we had to make in order to get closer to that goal - hopefully you can accept that as an explanation.

Best regards,
CFG

[sanddorn]

So, it’s been 2 months… and a whole year?? Wow.
I really love it but now I’m right before the meteor scene. Of course I’m not that crazy to think I need to play a whole scenario in one go. Why should I?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/307670/discussions/0/485624149163482696/

[sanddorn]

At one point I literally 'hacked' (well, fiddled with text files) in Shadowrun Dragonfall.
Still, perhaps telling people about that issue in the game before they may run into it, could be nice ;)

[76561198263690189]

Originally posted by sanddorn:

At one point I literally 'hacked' (well, fiddled with text files) in Shadowrun Dragonfall.
Still, perhaps telling people about that issue in the game before they may run into it, could be nice ;)

Hi,

This issue is a pain for a pretty long time, and we recently figured out why it happens - now we're working on a patch that will address it, so please give us some time.

Also on a side note, we'd just like to mention that info about this issue has been in the sticky thread here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/307670/discussions/0/487876568241125919/

We get it that not everybody looks it up, but we've been doing our best to keep you guys informed about various bugs that you may come across.

We hope you give us some time to get that guy fixed, and if you manage to successfuly fiddle with txt files we'd also be curious to hear about the results!

[fawllen]

I was playing it through one sitting and the game locked up for me when I landed on the Giant Clock. I had just finished all my engineering and was heading over to there. I cannot move away from the Giant Clock location but can move the map world to see other loactions I can go into character screen. Stuck here. After exiting out of game steam claimed game was still running and I could not pull up task manager or any other program on the pc. I had to shut down the computer from the external power button.

[fawllen]

Please help

[76561198172714862]

Hi mazzy,

We've already responded to your e-mail - please see the answer there.

[LockDown]

Any chance of, you know, actually resolving the bug? I haven't touched the game since I made this post. I enjoyed playing it and would like to resume playing it and enjoying it, without having to do a marathon session just to avoid the game breaking. Please don't make me judge the game harshly and give it a negative review for such a silly reason. Just get it fixed.

[76561198172714862]

Originally posted by The Matlock:

Any chance of, you know, actually resolving the bug? I haven't touched the game since I made this post. I enjoyed playing it and would like to resume playing it and enjoying it, without having to do a marathon session just to avoid the game breaking. Please don't make me judge the game harshly and give it a negative review for such a silly reason. Just get it fixed.

We definitely understand how tiresome this bug is - at this point, though, we can assure that once patch with fix for this problem is greenlighted for shipping, it will reach everyone in need. By that time we need to stick to workarounds already mentioned in community, the best bet being a playthrough of the scenario with research branches not maxed out at the time of reaching Laboratory.

[Iapetus]

Glad to hear yall are still looking into this. Godspeed, gameplay is fantastic. I wanted to point out that I'm prety early in the scenario, only have 2 research done, one chemistry and one gunsmithing and I've already run into the bug. I am unsure how to take advantage of the workaround of not completing research completely since I'm nowhere close. I'm only pointing this out in hopes that it helps find a complete solution faster. I'll probably head back to the main campaign so I've got time to kill

[LockDown]

Yeah I may end up doing that myself. Only reason I was doing this campaign is that I made a mistake in the second part of the main campaign, and tried to go back to a previous save only to realize I couldn't, and ended up starting the whole damn thing over again. Still, it's something that should've been fixed long ago.

[fawllen]

I am having the same problem with the save system loading last checkpoint only shows in the main menu screen. I do not have an option of choosing which campaign is my last checkpoint.