Interface breaks down

[Clord]

This game has nasty bug during interaction sessions.

Parts of the interface can randomly stop working.

That means especially when Exit button's functionality gets wiped, you need to lose progress.

[Purgatoriant]

I've noticed the same. Tends to happen mainly during the contradiction selection screen thingie. If I replay a conversation clicking make the cancel option pop up and that doesn't work either. After the conversation is over, everything works again. And also after the case has been cracked, the interface goes all over the place, not that it would particularly matter at that point. It's just a minor dent to the overall production quality of the game.

[Clord]

That bug isn't exactly random though.

I can repeat the bug if I do exact same action from a certain saved state.

[EbonHawk]

Yep, happened way too frequently for me as well. But, because it was so repeatable, I could usually avoid it. It usually only happened when I tried to cancel a video like you mentioned, or when I had to watch a video to get the second part of a contradiction I was missing (the needed evidence was hidden behind a red-text "Jenks hasn't asked about this yet"). Then, I had to exit out of the menu and hope the Exit button worked. Opening the interview menu back up again usually fixed it; otherwise, I'd have to kill the game's .exe file in Task Manager and reload from a previous save (and hope I didn't have to repeat too much of the game). :-(

[shootingfire]

Originally posted by Clord:

This game has nasty bug during interaction sessions.

Parts of the interface can randomly stop working.

That means especially when Exit button's functionality gets wiped, you need to lose progress.

My exit button made me loose loads of progress and then still did not work upo attempting to re-pkay the lost progress where it re-started

[Ouka]

I'm glad to know that's a known bug although I'm disappointed... the game basically tells you to go see Simon first, right at the start. If you do you can't find any contradictions and the Exit button doesn't work... forcing you to restart the game...

[Goblin King]

Was this bug ever fixed? Losing progress is awful.

[Sir Rounded]

No, this bug still isn't fixed as of December 2019. I can't get past the beginning of the 9pm hour because the interface has crashed five times. I can't ask about anything without the exit button breaking, forcing me to close the game from the operating system and lose my progress.

[historicheroine]

i'm up to the 11th hour and this has started happening to me. It's beyond frustrating. What can I do to bypass this mess?

[TarjaS]

I also had this problem. Exit stopped working at 9pm, but fortunately at the first conversation, so not too much to replay as I had just saved the game at the start of 9pm. So I exited the game from the Taskbar in Windows, restarted from 9pm, and the exactly same happened. Then the third time. Finally, I decided to replay one of the answers, and that somehow fixed it. Exit worked again. After that, I've been saving the game very frequently to avoid too much replay, in case it happens again and takes several retries to fix.

[Aartform Games]

I found I could repair a broken exit button by replaying another conversation line. Also saved after each person I talked to!

[bec]

This still isn’t fixed. I have spent the entire day playing this game for me to be stuck at 89%. It wouldn’t let me do a contradiction. I was going insane. I even googled the walkthrough to make sure and I knew it was right. So I saved the game, exit. Load it up to find i’m back at 0%. Why don’t they fix this? I was near the end and it’s all gone!

[Pierre Manslapper]

Still not fixed. I lost hours of progress too.

[JJ]

Originally posted by beccafc:

This still isn’t fixed. I have spent the entire day playing this game for me to be stuck at 89%. It wouldn’t let me do a contradiction. I was going insane. I even googled the walkthrough to make sure and I knew it was right. So I saved the game, exit. Load it up to find i’m back at 0%. Why don’t they fix this? I was near the end and it’s all gone!

That 0% reload showing is a glitch, try to continue/resume the game and you should continue close to where you let off. Every time I load the game it shows 0% progress for me but I've continued 3 times at least.

I am having an issue where I cannot choose any two items to contradict in the dialogue screens. I'm ending 9 pm and it happens sort of predictably but it's also random. For example Simon's page I could not pick anything to add to contradictons but all the others worked. I went back to main menu, resumed the game and then Simon's worked but Paul's didn't.

[JJ]

Originally posted by TarjaS:

I also had this problem. Exit stopped working at 9pm, but fortunately at the first conversation, so not too much to replay as I had just saved the game at the start of 9pm. So I exited the game from the Taskbar in Windows, restarted from 9pm, and the exactly same happened. Then the third time. Finally, I decided to replay one of the answers, and that somehow fixed it. Exit worked again. After that, I've been saving the game very frequently to avoid too much replay, in case it happens again and takes several retries to fix.

I'm finding replaying answers is correcting some stuff for me too after newly loading the game. It's still a frustrating bug but something to remember thanks for the info! I've also had some luck going to main menu where you can replay other answers or chief clues.

[Coltaine]

This issue is still present and I just lost about 2 hours of progress. I really like the game but I don't think I'll try again.