Help Us Squish Bugs Here!

[Ben]

Hey friends!

We're closely monitoring any bug reports that come up. If you come across anything when playing the Times & Galaxy full release or demo version, please consider sharing that with us in this thread so we can squish it!

When making a report please include the following details whenever possible:
- System specs
- Monitor resolution
- Build version (found on the main menu)
- Reproduction steps (how can we try and recreate it?)
- What happened
- Player logs and/or Save Game (you should be able to find these under Users -> Your Username -> AppData -> LocalLow -> Copychaser Games)
- Expected behavior (what you think should have happened!)
- Any screenshots, video capture are helpful

Thanks and please keep this thread to bug reporting only. Your Puff Piece appreciation posts should go everywhere else. ❤️

[tatzelwesen]

Another error, kind of: I closed the game right as the announcement of the winners of the cat contest started. (I had wanted to talk to a character before starting the ruling). When I relaunched it and loaded my save, the game started after the announcement, Although I have not seen it yet.

[Ben]

Hey friends. Thank you for all your bug reports here. As we prepare to release the game June 21st, this thread will be all the more important. If you find a bug going forward, please specify if you were playing the demo or the full release, as the full release is now quite a bit more polished than the demo experience. I hope you love our weird game and that it isn't mean to you. We're a small team and we've done as much QA as we possibly can, but yeah, there are bound to be weird bugs you find that we missed, especially in these first crucial weeks of release. We will continue to work hard to update and polish the experience. Thanks for playing. You are... out of this world! Wow. I typed that and now I am hitting post... I'm awful

[SternOne]

I seem to have what appears to be a progression breaking bug just at the start of the cat competition. I get there, I speak to the first person, and I'm immediately presented with 2 images of the same character, and he's telling me not to leave yet, the judging will start. No matter what I pick, progression then becomes stuck. I can't talk to anyone, and the art image won't leave the right side of the screen.

- System specs
i9-11000k, Zotac GeForce 4090, 64gb ram, SSD, etc.
- Monitor resolution
21:9 3440x1440p
- Build version (found on the main menu)
whatever the new release is
- Reproduction steps (how can we try and recreate it?)
If I knew I'd tell you :) I can't get past this part of the game. I might just start over?

[crispy asbestos cheeseburger]

heya! been really enjoying the full game (after playing the demo)! encountered a few bugs (in the full release) though, not sure if i'd be able to give any pointers on how to replicate them however:

1) in the naming day ceremony episode, there's a glitch where WASD targetting the scan reticle in the yearbook infinitely loops the "honing in" sound while not honing in on anything, this happens in the center of the book

2) was told by arwen (and ursula and co.!) that i was doing a great job throughout my internship (and was praised by them both before the last ep!), thought i did well on the last episode (i picked the orphan funeral), but ultimately ended up with the poor readership and a bad reputation achievements. not sure if this was intentional but i have to admit, im pretty confused by this turn-out! i am unable to check if this is an achievements-exclusive bug or if this also is commented on in the end, because:

3) ive encountered a softlock on the final day (cycle 17) in which if i try to speak to the first NPC i see, copybot (whom i romanced, or at least flirted with... follow-up on that next), i am stuck with no UI, unable to press anything or proceed (concerningly, not even ESC). the music/animations continue so its not a freeze, but the game does not respond to inputs. i am not sure how to proceed - i havent gotten a chance to see what happens if i skip speaking with them (and i wont be able to follow up until monday, not at my pc atm), but i would love to see what their dialog is!

a side tangent (technically #4?) i am not sure if this was intentional or not, but i didnt get many opportunities to have proper conversations with copybot - there are a few of the overworld conversations, but in terms of sprite conversations there weren't many (especially compared to the other npcs)!
also i can only think of 2-3 times i was able to select flirt options with them, and was only able to get the locked-in date invitation dialog on the 15th cycle (which seems very late into the game!)
and after the 15th cycle/invitation, and their prompting "come find me next cycle!", on the 16th cycle i ended up getting what i assume is just their standard friendship conversation (which also unlocked the "to infinitive and beyond" achievement). no mention of the date, or anything resembling the like. is this intentional (this would make me sad!) or a result of a bug and/or sequence-breaking on my part? i figured it could be a bug, as somehow ive managed to get a few date invites from the other NPCs (and far earlier, too) despite never flirting with said NPCs, and likewise turned all of them down in anticipation of a copybot date (my beloved).
i did actively seek out copybot and try to speak to them as much as i could (love at first sight honestly, haha) but again, i dont feel like there were many options to speak one-on-one (the sprite dialogs, as opposed to the overworld dialogs) compared to the others, and likewise there were far fewer flirt dialog options with them (where many other npcs had many, ive noticed, namely martina, billy, and servicebot x, off the top of my head), wondering if this was intentional or not 😭 i was so excited to see what their date event is, so i am wondering if i messed anything up here or something?

[SeeHawkRun]

I just finished the game (build ID 14709558) and had several bugs/crashes.
Several times during conversations, the game would no longer give me any interaction options and I had to force quit and reload the game. At least once, I was able to reproduce the issue (robo swap day, talking to Arwin about who I am, third dialogue choice about how can we really know who anyone is.) Ultimately, I made a different dialogue choice and was able to continue the game.

I also had problems with characters talking to me as if I already knew things I hadn't been told yet or dialogue choices I had that I shouldn't know. For example, on the final day several of my dialogue options had me talking about my permanent job, even though no one told me I was hired on.

The game also crashed once, somewhere in the first half, after completing dialogue. I wish I had more specifics, but I hope this helps.

I also had the same issue as the previous poster with the Copybot romance path.

The reporting mechanics are fantastic and the characters are all adorable. I'm looking forward to replaying after the game is patched and recommending it to my friends.

[FluffyCloudGmr]

Hi, I just finished the game and I am very confused. When I finished my last assignment, after increasing my reputation and readership the entire time, the achievements popped for me getting poor reputation and poor readership. On top of that, can you confirm if there are good and bad endings? Because it feels like I got the bad ending even though I tried very hard to not do that lol. I really love this game otherwise.

[oddity]

I too received the 'poor readership' and \poor reputation' achievements and endings despite having both maxed out. I am unsure if this is a bug or a clever commentary on how focusing on information over more emotive reporting doesn't sell well.

Probably a bug though.

[Ben]

Reporterbots:

We are hard at work addressing the issues mentioned above as well as some others reported through other means. Thank you for bringing them to our attention.

We made such a monster of a little game here and there are a lot of moving parts with this kind of branching. I'm sorry you hit these walls and bumps. Thank you for your patience as we work as quickly as possible to address them.

The poor rep/readership vs. good rep/readership is one of our top priorities as we work on the first post-launch patch. Ditto the crashes/softlocks mentioned above.

Fixes won't stop there, but our initial patch is hyperfocused on any issues that throw a wrench in the experience.

In later patches I intend to keep polishing writing and some rough edges. <3

Thank you so much for playing our game. We put so much into this game and we hope despite any bugs at launch you got some similar joy out of it.

Ben

[oddity]

It's a brilliant game, by the way. One of my favourites of recent years.

One other small bug I found was Bailiffbot talks about the wrong case when you speak to him during the Xeel Popstar Split story, he talks as if it's the human protester on the stand.

[EefReef]

Possible Bug:
Hi! I'm on Cycle 10 and I was looking to see if Copybot was around, the Scanner says they should be in the Newsroom but they weren't around (similarly, the ship captain-- i forget his name- was also indicated to be in the Newsroom but he was in the Piloting Area instead)

[nian]

The text speed option (set to "fast" in my case) only seems to apply to dialogue text boxes but not environmental interaction text.

[Ben]

We are currently at work fixing the most serious bugs reported, generally anything that blocks player progress or messes with the game's balance or conditionals (including one that makes only those who don't like Copybot able to romance Copybot).

I need to stress how stressed I am that y'all are hitting these bugs. The scope of the game means we tried our best to find all the centipedes and spiders, but some slipped under the spaceship's wooden floorboards.

Rest assured, we will be pushing a patch as soon as possible to fumigate the worst of what you have uncovered, and every bug reported in this thread finds its way into our Jira bug tracker to be triaged and assigned.

I love you all and won't be happy until we've caught 'em all. Like awful Pokemon. I guess there are bug Pokemon. Hm...

Ben

[crispy asbestos cheeseburger]

wishing you all lots and lots of luck! i can't imagine how stressful it's been, if it's any comfort we appreciate you all and all the hard work you do! can't wait for the fixes and to hop back into the game. you've got this!

[Moral Wiz]

One more for the 'bad ending despite good play' bug. I was checking with Arwen consistently to make sure both reputation and readership were good. Even Ursula noted that I'd been performing well.

But wait! I got a COMPOUND BUG. Somehow I can't even get my bad buggy ending because the game keeps freezing on the last day. Leave the charging port, go talk to Billy, the conversation doesn't start. The game's just frozen.

[Great Charade]

UGH... I also got the bad ending. I had three star readership, three star reputation, and both icons were full. I had a solid balance between informational and alien interest, with a little bit of spice added in... I got the bad achievements too... and didn't get the achievement for completing the garden even though securitybot commented on it... extremely disappointing. Glad to hear it is being worked on though.