Did i ruin the slash quest?

[Mickio Tanerdum]

So i was at the point in the slash quest where he was behind laser bars and i tried hitting the lasers to see if that would work (its late at night so i was kinda dumb) And i accidentally killed him. So i killed myself on the lasers to try again however there was no green ! on the map. after looking a bit it seems the whole thing resets however ive restarted a game like 20 times now and not a single time did i see a green ! anywhere on the map!

WTF is this about? The slash sidequest was kinda the only short-term goal i had now im kinda too disgusted with myself to play it again. Especially considering that i'd need to beat him up again wich took me for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ever and the only reason i won was by cheesing it and repeatetly using the fire wave and running away to the other end of the arena.

And what kind of permadeath is this anyway? Its like a mix of doing everything once and dieing just resets the story but with that sidequest there's kinda continuity. its so confusing and frustrating!

[fri_freeman]

How quests in this game work is, once you do a quest, it's considered done. So you don't have to do the same quest again even if you die.

But yes, I how the game's randomized sometimes frustrates me as well. I had time when I can't find the next part of the quest in multiple runs because the randomized rooms just don't work in my favor.

On your problem, same thing happened with me as well. I accidentally killed slash. If you didn't kill him, if you die in that run, you'll find that room where slash is trapped in your future runs. But since you killed him, you'll have to fight him again once in a run before the trapped slash appear again /in a random room somewhere/

[Mickio Tanerdum]

yea but after restarting like 20 times he dosent appear again. or atleast there's no ! on the map. btw how am i supposed to save him anyway?

[fri_freeman]

20 times? Even I was not that unlucky. Or maybe it's a real bug? Dunno. He should be in the map somewhere, but it is random, so sometimes he's in a far corner somewhere. Also you're supposed to hit the nearby computer with an electric weapon, so what I did was restarting until I start with electric weapon, then when I start with one I completely explore the factory.

[Mickio Tanerdum]

I found him! turns out the ! just woulnt show up. thank god i had the rubber shield so i could beat him. BTW is there really like 5 characters? i dont see how you could get more other than slash.

[fri_freeman]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618793931

here's character unlock guide that I got when I was wondering about that myself.

[Mickio Tanerdum]

Looks like it wont be easy to do. Robnin looks cool though.

[fri_freeman]

Actually robnin is the first character I unlocked, without actually purposefully trying to get it. I just played the game for a while, and incidentally I realized I got all blade weapon and got Robnin.

[Elideb]

Originally posted by Mickio Tanerdum:

I found him! turns out the ! just woulnt show up. thank god i had the rubber shield so i could beat him. BTW is there really like 5 characters? i dont see how you could get more other than slash.

The fact that the ! mark is not present in Slash's room after it's been hurt is a bug, actually. I'll see what we can do about that, because it might not be easy to fix.

Thanks for bringing that to our attention!

[Flox]

I have that problem too now. I was at the point where Slash was in the sewers asking you to recycle a weapon for him. I accidentally hit him and the chain reset. When I started a new run there was no green ! mark but I found slash at the end of the level and had to fight him again.

I hope this gets fixed soon. Love the game overall.

[⎝⧹Quirken⧸⎠]

I seem to be having a similar problem :/ according to the above guide, I did all the part 1 sections with Slash. None of the part 2 ones have ever shown up, and after exploring every "room" I never see a ! or Slash. (If there are trees, he's not there. And I check all of them)

I didn't kill Slash or anything of the sort (did previously, but got past it, as above). Freed him from the laser, then had the talk before the boss.

Far as I can tell, the game is bugged and the quest won't resume :(

From my Unlocks.brw file... I imagine changing some of these values could get me back on track?
SLASH_ENDSPEECH 0 False
SLASH_HURT 0 False
SLASH_KILLED_PREVIOUSLY 0 True
SLASH_QUEST1_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST1_DONE 1 True
SLASH_QUEST2_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST2_DONE 1 True
SLASH_QUEST3_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST3_DONE 1 True
SLASH_QUEST4_ACTIVE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST4_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST4_DONE 1 True
SLASH_QUEST5_DOABLE 1 True
SLASH_QUEST5_DONE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_DONE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_STATION1_DESTROYED 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_STATION2_DESTROYED 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_STATION3_DESTROYED 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_STATION4_DESTROYED 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_STATION5_DESTROYED 0 True
SLASH_QUEST6_STATIONSDESTROYED 0 True
SLASH_QUEST7_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST7_DONE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST8_DOABLE 0 True
SLASH_QUEST8_DONE 0 False
SLASH_QUEST9_DONE 0 True

EDIT: well, somewhat intuitively I changed some 1s to 0s, and it reverted to the "free him from the cage" quest. Beat that, saw him in the hallway, beat boss, saw him at end of boss... then Slash is gone again.