All episodes are locked

[proYasya RTX 3080'd]

I've just bought the game, launched it and it shows me that all episodes are locked - even the very first one. I cannot start any of the episodes. What the hell?

[IDOLL Dev]

I have this issue as well, when I saw people playing this on YouTube it looked like the first episode is supposed to play automatically. This is so weird! Maybe it has something to do with the streaming?

Edit: So apparently you're supposed to play this game for free on the official website eko.com/wargames because the Steam version sometimes woks and sometimes doesn't. It's kind of weird that this game actually costs something on Steam, though.

[goldentiger1948]

Here is the same i purchased this game from stream and downloaded it. all mission is locked and i must watch chasing bryce before starting the first episode. im wondering how do to that? im trying to find answer. it seem play movie button is missing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOzO85JgzE

The green button is missing in the game main menu. any solution?

[IDOLL Dev]

The only solution I can offer you is getting a refund for the game and playing it for free on the official website eko.com/wargames, that's what I did.

[¸מטסﬣ]

oof that sux

[Frost]

Do you guys have it installed in more than one machine? I had them both installed on desktop and laptop. It's working on the laptop after I had uninstalled the one on the desktop.

[IDOLL Dev]

Originally posted by Frost:

Do you guys have it installed in more than one machine? I had them both installed on desktop and laptop. It's working on the laptop after I had uninstalled the one on the desktop.

Interesting... I can't give it a try now because I don't own the game anymore since the refund, but I don't have a PC I only tried it on my laptop (Windows 10, 64-Bit, intel integrated graphics). I do have a dual boot setup with Linux, although I didn't even try playing it on my Linux OS since it's not supported. I suspect it has something to do with the game being a cloud based service and the developers aren't doing any maintenance on the Steam version.

[100% Wolf Urine]

Nope. I had it only installed on one computer and all episodes are locked.

[IDOLL Dev]

Is there a way to keep people from buying this game when the Steam version is obviously not supported properly…? It should just link to the website or get removed tbh

[Beauty_in_Shadows]

Same problem here. +1

[godprobe]

Was able to bypass this by editing one of the SQL_Lite files by hand.

From the folder here...

[WIndows installation drive]/Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/wargames-steam/Local Storage

...open this file in a text editor that will preserve non-displayable characters (I used Notepad++, regular old Notepad will probably break something)...

file__0.localstorage

And in there, amongst a slew of "NUL" characters, is a long line with all your settings in it (fullscreen, subtitles, etc., as well as a debug mode that I didn't try turning on since it probably just dumps a bunch of log files).

One of the settings is "disableEpisodeLocking" (with a bunch of NUL characters in between each letter), and it is set to false (again, lots of NUL characters). I replaced "fNULaNULlNULsNULeNUL" with "tNULrNULuNULeNUL" and restarted the game. All the episodes are now unlocked.

...unfortunately, whether because of my inconsistent connection, or more likely due to the way the program is written, I now get the other issue people have spoken about on these forums where the episode will start to play, and then bail out to the menu with a sad excuse instead. So... at least in my case, still unplayable.

Please make a backup copy of the file before you edit it. Probably not really necessary (can probably delete it and have it auto-generated again, but I haven't tested that). Also, there's probably a better tool for editing SQL_Lite files but I didn't need to spend the time to do that, so... I haven't.

[ArronE2000]

this game is ♥♥♥♥ everything is locked and i got hacked myself so WTF

[Deadlyus1]

Ridiculous I bought this and finished once before. I decided to redownload and yes everything is locked. Why is this even locked? Game should be refunded to everyone who bought it.