[Career mode] Barrier not being fixed

[MeowzieMidget]

So I'm in career mode and I've come to the part where you fix the first barrier. Every time I try to click for the barrier to be fixed it shows me a red barrier (not approved placement) no matter what I do, even if I place a door or a wall. No restart helped this, neither did it restarting the level and changing difficulty. Halp?!

[Razamanaz]

Not sure where you are exactly but a lot of people miss the glass barrier by the cave next to the path.

[swskydancer]

IIRC, with this task you are in the Madagascar zoo. I couldn't get the broken section to delete and replace either and tried a workaround I hoped would solve the problem. It did, thank goodness. I ended up clicking on the habitat gate and calling for a mechanic. One came and repaired the barrier, the game recognized it was repaired and I could move forward.

LOL, not sure that's what the tutorial intended to be done but it is what worked for me.

[MeowzieMidget]

Originally posted by swskydancer:

IIRC, with this task you are in the Madagascar zoo. I couldn't get the broken section to delete and replace either and tried a workaround I hoped would solve the problem. It did, thank goodness. I ended up clicking on the habitat gate and calling for a mechanic. One came and repaired the barrier, the game recognized it was repaired and I could move forward.

LOL, not sure that's what the tutorial intended to be done but it is what worked for me.

Heck I should have tried that too! But yes I am in Madagascar (double checked just now) and I just basically gave up afterwards since nothing worked! But I'll try that sneak version and see if it works :D

[grampers62]

One should be able to double click on the barrier to enter edit mode and then right click on the broken barrier to remove it. Then just place the new segment normally.

[MeowzieMidget]

Originally posted by grampers62:

One should be able to double click on the barrier to enter edit mode and then right click on the broken barrier to remove it. Then just place the new segment normally.

This didn't happen no matter how many times I did it :(
Hence why I asked for help here xD

[grampers62]

I'm curious if you are able to work on barriers in sandbox without issue...
Also note that the early career zoos seem to be set up as to force the player to do the objectives in the order and at the time they are introduced. Often one needs to click the objective in the objectives panel to begin the process.

[swskydancer]

grampers62, I have to say that what the OP encountered on this task happened to me as well. I was really confused when I couldn't get the section to delete and first thought I wasn't remembering correctly how to do it. I shut the game down and went to YouTube to watch for a second time a working with barriers tutorial to double check myself. I was taking the correct steps but the broken barrier section wouldn't delete, period, the end, lol.

I ultimately decided that, for whatever reason, the game had just hiccupped and wasn't recognizing the delete. I really didn't want to start over to see if it would work correctly on a second attempt and was really happy the workaround I tried did allow me to go on.

I can work with barriers in sandbox and to the best of my memory, this is the one and only time I wasn't able to get a barrier section to delete. Hope I haven't jinxed myself with that statement. :)

[MeowzieMidget]

Originally posted by grampers62:

I'm curious if you are able to work on barriers in sandbox without issue...
Also note that the early career zoos seem to be set up as to force the player to do the objectives in the order and at the time they are introduced. Often one needs to click the objective in the objectives panel to begin the process.

As the commentator above me wrote: Yes I can still work the barrier fine in sandbox mode, but I cannot for the love of what is holy do that one objective without having to do it another way (as they described earlier in this post)
And after trying it out myself, I can for sure say that it worked. I cannot do it like the object wants me to, I have to use a mechanic to repair the fence...

[grampers62]

So it does sound like the scenario has the issue. Way back this year when I played the career I had a lot of issues where in the game simply would only allow the player to do things after I clicked on the objective in the the objectives menu. (on the left with the info stuff) It seemed I had to invoke the actions by doing that or nothing would work.

[swskydancer]

grampers62, yes, in this case the issue did seem to be with the scenario. I'm certainly glad I didn't have to click on each objective to get anything to work when I played the tutorials like you encountered. How cumbersome.

IMHO, one area of testing by Frontier after preparing an update should be the tutorials. If customers are lost because refunds are quickly requested out of frustration, it certainly doesn't help their fan base grow. The two hour or under limit for playing in order to get a Steam refund isn't long enough for PZ. There is simply far too much to learn to reach a decision in that short amount of time.

I also found the tutorials more difficult than what should be the case for a brand new player. Having played for a couple of months now, it seems to me that Frontier felt like the majority of new players would have played Planet Coaster and have some familiarity with game mechanics. I didn't and the tutorials felt random and with not enough instruction to accomplish some objectives. They were more like a struggle than a tutorial. I can't think of any other game where I've had to watch YouTube videos to play a tutorial, lol. Anyway, at the very least they should, again my opinion, ensure they are working properly so more frustration isn't encountered like occurred with this broken barrier.

MeowzieMidget, I'm certainly glad the mechanic option worked for you, too. Yay!

[grampers62]

Unfortunately some of the recent updates seem to have affected the tutorial portion of the career mode. Kind of an under sight on frontier's part in my opinion.

[MeowzieMidget]

Yeah, cause last year when I bought it, I didn't have this problem when going through the tutorial in career mode. So it shocked me quite a bit for it to be this bad when I tried to restart everything ^.^''

But hopefully they'll drag this issue into the next update that the tutorial career is double checked for errors :D

[DingleBeez]

In this tutorial you cant fix the barrier yet. Click on enclosure.click on animal tab at the top of the submenu that appears on the right. Scroll all the way to the bottom and click on the box icon for "box all animals". This will advance the tutorial and you can fix the barrier a few steps later.
cheers

[Daisy]

it has been 4 years since your post and this game still has this issue, which is insane. you can't progress the tutorial if you can't delete the barrier. insane. i was so frustrated, i alt-f4'd and haven't played since :(