Save Games Break The Game

[TheYak]

Hey there,

Sorry about this. Yesterday I was running around in the game and things were working properly. I could save, enter and leave the game, and load. Today I went into the game first thing on the screen is some sort of achievement that I had not gotten before, and then all save files do the same thing. I load into a room that I had not saved from, Amy is in front of me with her bra and T-Shirt melding into eachother, and then Madison and all the other girls in the party come running in fully clothes (But with underwear showing through), covering their naughty bits. The screen then comes up where madison is upset with Ashley and I doing something we never did. From there, ALL conversation options are available for each character, and you can't really do anything else from there. From there for the rest of the party, the girls walk around covering their naughty bits.

Okay so lets leave the game because obviously something is pooched badly in the system. Nope. The game then hangs Steam and you have to crash the Steam system to actually reload the game to continue testing. If this error occurs, starting a new game does the same thing. Reload does the same thing all over. Tried rebooting the comp and same thing. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and same thing. Now what is interesting is that if you crash steam and reload the game, you can access a new game (Where before accessing a new game did the above). Saving that game and then reloading that game actually allows the game to be played. Weird stuff. Tried looking around and a lot of save issues say that the game crashes, or that it does not work and hangs. Is it normal for saves to become suddenly corrupted with a patch or update? The game seems to work, just for some reason the saves are all screwed up. They are all saved in a save folder called 11.3. So I think that's good. There is no crash log. Anyway, figured I would throw this out here as this is weird and kind of broke things.

[erasmus]

Hi, did you ever use the testing branch or a branch that was named "0.11.3"? This would have been through the Properties -> Betas option in Steam. There should be no numbers, symbols, etc. next to House Party in your game library.

Save Games do indeed break between versions (for now, due to the scope of changes made every update), but they should not come up as being able to load via the load interface if they're that old. It sounds like you made new save games in this case, though.

Can you reproduce this problem and hit F5 when playing, then hit the save button to save a debug log. Then quit the game entirely, and go to to C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Eek\House Party and grab the output_log.txt. Then can you post those here via pastebin, etc.? Thanks.