Softlock

[Espeon]

So while messing around today, trying to finish all the challenges, I encountered a softlock that can occur fairly easily. For those who don't know, there is a way to transfer some gold with you to the next stage, it requires activating the teleporter then right before you get teleported away, get some gold. (Easiest way with Gnor's Tome). Once you're teleported away, you retain the gold you got from that last second of the previous stage. However if you do the same thing but go to the Bazaar Beyond Time, then try to exit though the blue portal, since you're never intended to go there with gold, the game doesn't know what to do, so it teleports you to the next stage, but you can't actually play the next stage. As it leaves you on a black screen.

[Authentic Mikutard]

Acrid players when they leave dozens of monsters at 1hp and attemp this, but miss the time window turning the cash into xp:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DistantScaryDodo-max-1mb.gif

[Espeon]

Actually, I was commando and I picked up gold thinking I could retain it for stage 22

[Jimmy Hunter]

Part of my gameplay involves keeping extra gold between levels, and I've never had a blackscreen from the Bazaar, either choosing the next level, leaving normally, or going through the Null Portal. I did this a few times yesterday and didn't have this happen at all.

There's another bug where loading into the next level gives you a black screen and just doesn't load, but I've never heard or experienced gold causing this.

[Espeon]

The thing that got me is that it only happened after I left the Bazaar with gold. I don't think the game knows what to do

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by EspeonLover320:

The thing that got me is that it only happened after I left the Bazaar with gold. I don't think the game knows what to do

I mean I did this 3 times in a run in random que Multiplayer yesterday, and then twice across 2 different runs working in single player.

Not looking to discredit the fact you've had run(s) ruined by this since bugs suck, just I'm not sure there's correlation due to being able to do exactly that and my runs weren't lost.

[Espeon]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Originally posted by EspeonLover320:

The thing that got me is that it only happened after I left the Bazaar with gold. I don't think the game knows what to do

I mean I did this 3 times in a run in random que Multiplayer yesterday, and then twice across 2 different runs working in single player.

Not looking to discredit the fact you've had run(s) ruined by this since bugs suck, just I'm not sure there's correlation due to being able to do exactly that and my runs weren't lost.

It's not that. I just thought that because you're never intended to have gold when you go to the Bazaar, the game doesn't know what to do, so it softlocks

[Ittrix]

I've gone into the bazaar with gold and left. It just turned the gold into experience and slapped me into the next level, no problems.
You running mods, perchance? Messed with the files for coins? Anything that might've made the game operate differently?

As jimmy said, there's a good chance something else made you black screen by coincidence.

[EyeOculus]

The bazaar is yet another level like any other.
Logically, there shouldn't be any issues.

[SuperSammyJammy]

Brittle Crown. Hit the Salamander guy. Get money in the bazaar. Leave like normal. Turns the money into EXP like usual. Unless you have a consistent reproduction rate, I'm going to chock it up to you having a one time thing happen to you.

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by EspeonLover320:

So while messing around today, trying to finish all the challenges, I encountered a softlock that can occur fairly easily. For those who don't know, there is a way to transfer some gold with you to the next stage, it requires activating the teleporter then right before you get teleported away, get some gold. (Easiest way with Gnor's Tome). Once you're teleported away, you retain the gold you got from that last second of the previous stage. However if you do the same thing but go to the Bazaar Beyond Time, then try to exit though the blue portal, since you're never intended to go there with gold, the game doesn't know what to do, so it teleports you to the next stage, but you can't actually play the next stage. As it leaves you on a black screen.

Hmmm what ? I've been in that situation multiple time and never had issue continuing with the game. Sounds like the long run messed it up more than anything else.

[Espeon]

I guess I just got really unlucky with a bug then

[Ser Pounce]

Probably but then again, the longer the game is going, the more you will encounter, just like in RoR 1.

[Bureizu]

Originally posted by Ser Pounce:

Probably but then again, the longer the game is going, the more you will encounter, just like in RoR 1.

i've never encountered a bug in either RoR 1 or 2

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by Galaxy Leviathan:

Originally posted by Ser Pounce:

Probably but then again, the longer the game is going, the more you will encounter, just like in RoR 1.

i've never encountered a bug in either RoR 1 or 2

I did, especially in RoR 1. If you play long enough, I can guarantee you that you're gonna end up stuck in a wall or a platform at some point.