Clowns and Cars, all are stuck. [BUG]

[YourFriendHare]

So, I'm posting this with permission of a friend of mine.
I was watching her stream of her playing Chapter 3's Level 5. She went through the cutscene, everything is normal until we hit the actual stage.

She could move cars, and clowns weren't coming out of them. She sometimes sees them randomly all in one spot in the stage, and then they just disappear, but they can still hurt her if she touches them. They don't chase her, but rather just stand there. Another thing is that even when she does get killed, it restarts the cutscene and doesn't change her shards. It's not any other aspect of the game, and she seemed to be able to go on just fine though, the next area just working fine for her.

She's tried restarting from beginning, and her computer specs aren't a problem either, we haven't even done anything that could cause this. She closed out the game and reopened it (Restarting basically) and it still didn't work.

She has sent me pictures I can send, and I haven't played through the game at all, but I own it and plan to play through it soon, so sorry if I do get some things wrong.

[Migs]

This is a global problem. And have no fix yet, just wait until the update that will fix this and another bugs.

[BH_Transniper]

It append to me to

[Just a smol cat]

Its the same for all of us. This will definetely be fixed.

[natej0717]

I’m having the same exact problem it’s very annoying

[Quint]

i had the exact same.

[Filiup]

This is a bug that appears only in the latest version of the game.
I found a soulion how to fix it but it's not so easy.
You need to downgrade a game version.

1. You will need to download this 3rd party program: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/releases

2. Open terminal in the folder where the program is located and type this command:

dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 332950 -depot 332951 -manifest 7425995034817467030 -username [YourUsername] -password [YourPassword]

Note: Number after -manifest indicates version of the game.
You can see all versions on this site: https://steamdb.info/depot/332951/manifests/
If you want to use different version of the game than I have chosen, then just copy the "MANIFESTID" and replace it in the command.

If the program give you some error, try to download .NET Runtime from this site:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0/runtime?utm_source=getdotnetcore&utm_medium=referral

3. After the program sucessfully finished, navigate to newly created folder "depots\332951\7461450"

4. Shut down steam and copy the content of the folder to your game directory.
5. Now start the game and everything should work just fine.

Articles I have followed:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1086279994
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2823131412466237075/
https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

[Kyle]

I have the same problem