Freezing while interacting with objects

[Kane]

Greetings,
Since the update I encountered a frustrating bug where after clicking on an interactable, the game freezes onto that interaction and refuses to take other interactive inputs. First I encountered it at the Elevator level, and from that point all subsequent levels, but a at the Taxi level it is really hampering progress. Whenever I click on the teapot for example, the teapot becomes active (as if being used) but freezes in its place, and the only way to get out of this is to restart the level. Sadly I cant seem to progress or work around it in this level, could someone help?

Edit: Seems a certain order of actions allows progress, but they are arbitrary and the level often locks down itself, needing a restart.

[psychedelia]

Hi, sorry to hear that! Would you please share your operating system version?

[Kane]

Sure thing. I used Windows 10 Home, version 2004, build 19041.572.

[oldes.huhuman]

Hi @Kane.. sorry to hear that you have such an issue, but I'm not able to reproduce it. Could you please try to reproduce it on freshly started game and let us know exact steps what you do? It's very important where you click a where you release and when.

Also... just curious... isn't possible that you have some HW issues with your mouse? At least I suppose you are playing with mouse. Because I don't think that the game may lock down itself without any user interaction.

[Kane]

Thank you for your time. I played through the game from the start again after the finish, and I havent encountered the issue. Then I deleted the save files in the Appdata folder and reinstalled the game. I played through it roughly the same way as before and I managed to reproduce it, but only at the teapot in the lighthouse level. (It was more prevalent the first time, as detailed in my previous comment)

I dont think its a mouse problem, but I can imagine it might (?) be related to a bit of overheating of my PC perhaps (I use a laptop). Still, its hard to say for sure and I can only guess.

P.S.
Since when I first encountered the issue I was streaming it on discord, I did that on both tries.

I recorded a few minutes of gameplay with the bug here:

YouTube™ Video: Samorost 2 Bug 

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[oldes.huhuman]

@Kane interesting... so it looks that you are not able to drag items while you can still use normal click actions. We never noticed this issue during our local tests. I will investigate it a little bit, but I'm quite not sure if I can do anything without being able to reproduce it.

Btw.. once you have such an issue or issue with the red banner, you may be sure you want to restart the game, because it is not in a stable state anymore.

[oldes.huhuman]

@Kane could you please try it with the new beta version which is live on Steam now? Thanks.

[Kane]

I deleted the save files and played through the game on the beta version. I havent encountered this issue. Then I deleted the save files again and played through the game again and I still havent encountered the issue this time.

Even if I cant say for sure its fixed for good, I couldnt reproduce it now.

[와치]

same bug here... I ll try the beta.

[와치]

Beta worked! I didnt erase save files. I just erased the game on my library, and changed version to beta, re-install the game, and then everything was fine. thanks!

[NowThenGoodBad]

I ran into the same coffee kettle bug. @oldes.huhuman have you had any luck figuring it out?

I'm on macOS Mojave

[TheLimeyDragon]

Originally posted by NowThenGoodBad:

I ran into the same coffee kettle bug. @oldes.huhuman have you had any luck figuring it out?

I'm on macOS Mojave

I'm not on Mac, I use Linux with Proton. I had an issue with the kettle too. My problem went away after I went to the mountain first.

[NowThenGoodBad]

I ended up replaying the game up to that point and I didn't experience it. It's a wonderful game, so that wasn't too bad, but a bit frustrating since I sat there for a while and tried to figure out if I was doing something wrong.

Originally, I had gone to the mountain first since that seemed like the place to go (maybe I think backwards of what others do though...) but I still experienced the bug.

I'm glad it worked for you!

[N8-00ZH11]

I encountered this bug too, there's no beta for now, so I restarted the game and it seems to be okay now. Restarting the level though didn't help much. And I also couldn't reproduce it, thought that was due to alt-tabbing and using steam overlay, but I tried this a few times and it's still working fine for now. Well, hope some day you'll catch this bug.

[kajisan]

i have same bug....i restart game a lot time . need fix

[Skuggen]

Had the same problem, game freezes when trying to interact with the kettle. Frustrating.