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jojoguy10 Nov 20, 2015 @ 8:42am
Bidiots and Quiplash XL - Freeze/Hangs
When we tried playingBidiots, we got through the introduction, the drawings, and when we got to the bidding, we were all bidding and bidding over each other. When the guy called Going Once, Twice, Sold, it hung and didn't do anything. I noticed the audio files were walking over each other when we were bidding. Do we need to wait for each audio file to finish before we bid again?

As for Quiplash, we get to the party room, we continue on, and when it's just about to play, it hangs on a black screen (with the Audience code still on the bottom right)
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Willium_Bob_Cole Dec 2, 2015 @ 11:32am 
I just tried on my pc and i did not get the issues i experienced on my friend's macbook. I will try again (and also try quiplash) and see if i can reproduce it the way you describe.
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Willium_Bob_Cole Dec 2, 2015 @ 12:03pm 
update: still no issues with quiplash on my pc, but managed to break bidiots again. This time, it didn't even get IN to the bidding stages, it was explaining the instructions which I went to skip, but apparently, my girlfriend also pressed skip at the same time, it played a couple of lines of dialogue at the same time, and wouldn't proceed into bidding at all. So could it be to do with receiving multiple inputs at the same time and not knowing what to do?
(further info: When I tested and said it worked, I was testing on my own with my phone and two browsers on pc. Since I was doing the inputs one at a time, it appeared to work. The hangs I have experienced have all been with other people which naturally means the inputs are a bit more chaotic and so if you haven't tested in this kind of situation, I suggest trying as such)

Regarding quiplash, I already said what I did before to make it work, I followed the directions here https://jackboxgames.zendesk.com/entries/69269160-Solution-for-black-screen-problem- but obviously with the app id of jackbox 2 instead, I just deleted the save off my freind's macbook (it wasn't 0kb, but whatevs). It seemed to work for the rest of the day, even after quitting and restarting later on. I enabled family sharing so my friend could play the game at work (he wanted to demonstrate fibbage etc as a pitch to hopefully make a similar game of their own), but I guess since he wasn't using MY steam account from which we deleted the save, he too ran into the black screen problem with quiplash again...

perhaps quiplash is a mac/savegame specific issue? It seems bidiots is an input/multiplayer syncing issue as far as i can tell.

Hope any of this helps!
Last edited by Willium_Bob_Cole; Dec 2, 2015 @ 12:06pm
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shaunie2fly Dec 4, 2015 @ 9:54am 
Im having the same issue with Quiplash XL in the Steam Jackbox party pack 2. It hangs after everyone has joined the game. Ive tried on 2 different PC's and 2 different internet connections.

I've got a bunch of mates over to play and ........... :((
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Jackbox Games  [developer] Dec 4, 2015 @ 10:12am 
Originally posted by shaun:
Im having the same issue with Quiplash XL in the Steam Jackbox party pack 2. It hangs after everyone has joined the game. Ive tried on 2 different PC's and 2 different internet connections.

I've got a bunch of mates over to play and ........... :((

Force quit the party pack and exit Steam, then try the game again after logging back in
Last edited by Jackbox Games; Dec 4, 2015 @ 10:13am
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Jackbox Games  [developer] Dec 4, 2015 @ 10:18am 
OK everyone, we are super bummed to hear about all these problems. We've enabled a build of the game with some changes to try and pin down these bugs

In you games library select TJPP2
Right click on game and select properties
Select the BETAS tab
Enter the password jackboxgames in the acces code field

This will enable a branch called "beta". After the update installs, try the games and let us know if the problems continue
Last edited by Jackbox Games; Dec 4, 2015 @ 10:23am
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Willium_Bob_Cole Dec 4, 2015 @ 11:19am 
Just tried the beta branch and it did nothing except crashed my steam. I force closed steam and opened it again, but apparently the game is still running, there are two "the jackbox party pack 2.exe" instances showing, at 128k memory usage each. I logged out of windows and then back in, but the executables are still showing (but only when showing processes from all users this time, even though under user it shows my username and not system). I guess the only way I can quit now is by restarting my PC which is a bit of a pain given how slow my computer is to boot lol.

I dont know if this is a problem with the beta branch or something else, but if it does it again then I dont think I'll be able to test the beta...
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MisterExodius Dec 4, 2015 @ 11:25am 
Originally posted by Jackbox Games:
OK everyone, we are super bummed to hear about all these problems. We've enabled a build of the game with some changes to try and pin down these bugs

In you games library select TJPP2
Right click on game and select properties
Select the BETAS tab
Enter the password jackboxgames in the acces code field

This will enable a branch called "beta". After the update installs, try the games and let us know if the problems continue

Seems to have fixed our Bidiots problem!
Will update if anything happens.
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Willium_Bob_Cole Dec 4, 2015 @ 12:51pm 
yep im gonna have to restart again, just leaves two instances of the exe in limbo which locks me out of playing any other games. I can't stop them with task manager or taskkill, so I guess I can't test the beta branch I'm afraid. No idea why it's doing this...
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alex Dec 4, 2015 @ 12:54pm 
Just opted into the beta and the game seems to keep trying to start itself from Steam again, in an infinite loop, forever. :/

In case you need a video for clarification...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuwSmVFKmn8
Last edited by alex; Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:02pm
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Willium_Bob_Cole Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:10pm 
Originally posted by alexandra.moe:
Just opted into the beta and the game seems to keep trying to start itself from Steam again, in an infinite loop, forever. :/

In case you need a video for clarification...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuwSmVFKmn8

at least it doesnt completely crash steam for you! :P

So I think this beta version is way more broken than the public version lol
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Jackbox Games  [developer] Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:15pm 
Originally posted by Willium_Bob_Cole:
Originally posted by alexandra.moe:
Just opted into the beta and the game seems to keep trying to start itself from Steam again, in an infinite loop, forever. :/

In case you need a video for clarification...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuwSmVFKmn8

at least it doesnt completely crash steam for you! :P

So I think this beta version is way more broken than the public version lol

Did you try a reboot of your PC? We're not sure what is happening there, beta branch running fine for us
Last edited by Jackbox Games; Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:16pm
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MisterExodius Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:23pm 
Originally posted by Jackbox Games:
Originally posted by Willium_Bob_Cole:

at least it doesnt completely crash steam for you! :P

So I think this beta version is way more broken than the public version lol

Did you try a reboot of your PC? We're not sure what is happening there, beta branch running fine for us

Yeah, this beta is suprisingly running great for us too.

No more freezes/crazy talk!
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alex Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:28pm 
Originally posted by Jackbox Games:
Did you try a reboot of your PC? We're not sure what is happening there, beta branch running fine for us

Oh wow, can't believe I didn't think of that, lol. It's working fine for me now, hadn't hit a snag in my test game. Thanks guys for taking the time to fix this!
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Willium_Bob_Cole Dec 4, 2015 @ 2:51pm 
Originally posted by Jackbox Games:
Originally posted by Willium_Bob_Cole:

at least it doesnt completely crash steam for you! :P

So I think this beta version is way more broken than the public version lol

Did you try a reboot of your PC? We're not sure what is happening there, beta branch running fine for us

yeah it crashed steam, i reloaded steam but was unable to try because it thought the game was still running, i was unable to close the process so had to reboot, tried again and same thing so yeah had to reboot a second time to end the process. Not sure what the problem is, I will try verifying files or something, but probably not until tomorrow now. Glad it's fixed for some people, guess you at least touched something that is related to the problem even if it broke my personal game ;P
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Jackbox Games  [developer] Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:29pm 
Originally posted by Willium_Bob_Cole:
Originally posted by Jackbox Games:

Did you try a reboot of your PC? We're not sure what is happening there, beta branch running fine for us

yeah it crashed steam, i reloaded steam but was unable to try because it thought the game was still running, i was unable to close the process so had to reboot, tried again and same thing so yeah had to reboot a second time to end the process. Not sure what the problem is, I will try verifying files or something, but probably not until tomorrow now. Glad it's fixed for some people, guess you at least touched something that is related to the problem even if it broke my personal game ;P

Go to Properties > BETAS and choose opt out and see if that gets things back to normal, you can then try opting in again
Last edited by Jackbox Games; Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:43pm
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