@CypherLucias Steam removed your link

I managed to recover your mod.
{LINK REMOVED}https://mega.nz/file/Z2cl2RAT#c_xE85Y-bD8lVsQvhhJMlR4ZohEKHjJY0GruQ6fc9Y8

I'm begging anyone if they had a backup of this level to reupload it, I remembered this level the other day and I wanna replay it.

looking at the file size it seems to be broken could you potentially fix?

This can't weight 0.001 mb. Please, reupload it.

This mod was great. It's a shame it can no longer be played.

Have you updated this recently? Because it seems to be broken :(

Wish I could play it, but it crashes every time I try to load it up.

This is one of those mods that I wish was in the base game!

@Jesse4060 Actually the boss drops health constantly. I am pretty sure it is about 26 scripted pons that the player is supposed to get. Though the boss has not been updated in quite some time and is very broken in some ways. I can only assume that the trigger is broken, causing the boss to be unrealistically hard. The pons you are seeing drop are not part of the fight, and are built into the enemies. The ones you are supposed to get I made apply automatically so they would not be missed.

Also, I really appreciate the like, and I am happy that you enjoyed so many parts of the mod. I really hope I can find the time to fix that boss.

This-

This is this annoying.

Don't get me wrong, this mod is amazing in quite a few areas; Level design, characters, story, but there's a major thing really dragging me down.

The boss. Now I know you put a lot of time into this, and again it shows with the dialog and custom models... but HOLY PECK, the fact that the boss barely drops any health makes this thing more of a frustrating attempt to survive rather than a cool battle! And even when it does drop health, the pons fall through the floor before you can even get them! A good way to fix this is, in my opinion, give one or two health pons to the players between each new phase? Each phase being when Subject S powers up, and then when it's trapped

I'm gonna give this mod a like because of how much work went into it, but there's definitely a few things that could use improving.

this is awsome! please make a death wish version for this!

HOW AND WHY IS THIS STILL NOT FEATURED, ITS LITERALLY THE BEST MOD LEVEL I HAVE EVER PLAYED

This mod is super amazing (though at this point in time I still need to replay it to beat the boss because I gave up because I was starting to get tired). Though I do have a question about it: when it comes to the Storybook Pages, is it possible to collect all of them and does it even do anything? I adore this mod and it was amazing the moment that my suspicions were right about Subject S being the Shapeshifter, though I wasn't expecting the twist of there being two assistants who got fused together to make Subject S . It's overall a pretty good map, if not a tad time consuming and tedious at times.

@toxicdarque That helps even more. You could get hired to play test games by going into details like that.

Looking back, both of these freezes happened on the sixth stage, the desert level with the dweller bell. Hopefully that's a bit more helpful.

@toxicdarque I am happy that you like it so much! I have no idea why that bug is happening for you considering I usually jump into the portal myself every time I test it. I will have to look into it but you have certainly given me a lot of information to work with.

This was a very fun mod! I really liked the effort put into all the stages, and had a lot of fun exploring them to find an absurd amount of pons (and painfully few storybook pages, haha). I unfortunately haven't beaten the boss yet but I spent so much time on this level that I was getting a bit burnt out, so I'll be coming back soon to finish it! I really liked the story that was revealed in all the stages and was quite engaged trying to figure things out. Plus all the inclusion of cut characters was really cool.

I will say I ran into a rather headache-inducing bug. When respawning on a level, it seems that if you jump into the portal instead of walking normally it completely freezes you. You can't move, attack, or change hats, so I ended up having to completely reset my progress twice before I realized what caused it (hence spending so long playing this).

All in all though, I've had a lot of fun with this mod, it's very impressive!

@JDWMGB: https://youtu.be/1on9rZUHycc It is my own custom music I made for this. I already have it on a YouTube channel. I am happy that you like it. I have both the normal and the more intense version in one video. (Should I split them?) The normal version is called "Shape Shift" and the more intense one is "Critical Shift".

Question, is the boss music (not the snatcher's boss music) custom made or is it from like a different game or something? If its custom made you should upload the song to youtube or something, if its from a different game you should also really put what its called and what game its from, as its actually a really good song

@Kolbo: Yes, the boss is terribly hard. Not only is it difficult to begin with, but the many hearts that drop during the fight may be broken. I am glad you liked everything else though! I have been too busy to revisit this past project, but I would like too do something about it in the future.

The only problem I have is the boss, and even then it's only because of the lack of checkpoints and heart drops. Seriously, you cannot expect people to beat that shit and stay sane with only 4 hearts. Other than the boss, this mod is actually really really good. I liked the atmosphere of a lot of parts, it was super creative, and I had a lot of fun with it. Just fix the boss and it's pretty much a 9/10 mod for me.

@HatCat124: There is nothing wrong with you or your game playing ability just because I ended up making the boss unreasonably hard so that it was challenging to me while developing it. Maybe I can look into a way to skip it entirely once I actually get the time to do so.

So do not feel bad about not being able to defeat it. It is just an old map featuring the first boss ever made for mods. (As far as I know at least.)

to be honest it made me feel like crap that I wasn't good enough to beat the boss, that's kind of why I wish that there was an option to not have the boss battle,

oh ok. here have some spices lol

@SYI Inkling: I need to cook the map again since DLC 2 came out. That would probably fix it.

the pipe wont appear

@Nappaccino: As this was originally made in just a month (and it was my first mod), I ran out of time to make a proper ending. The idea, is the shapeshifter split, and you all exited the time loop. However, I poorly explained that. Though I really appreciate your interest in the story, and it means the world to me that you liked it so much.

I am much better at making mods now, and have made multiple unreleased maps for other people. (Which I can not talk about since they are unreleased.) So when I finish my next standalone map, I may come back to revise the ending of this one.
(And maybe fix the boss which I have been told is broken?)
(As well as probably add in some sort of chapter select?)

Just finished the map, and its up there as one of the best mods I played. I liked the difficulty, and the creativeness of the levels and story. Unless I missed something, what happened at the end? Did everyone "survive" after you got the time piece, or is it up to the players interpretation? Also what came of the weird dweller/mask? Sorry if I missed the details in the mod if they were there.

@Shararamosh: That is because there is not supposed to be more than 9, and the game does not like it. You probably found one extra, since I hid one in a crate.
The game only detects how many there is spawned in the world when the first one is picked up.
(It does not register the 15th in the crate and so it thinks there is 14 across the whole map.)

In the end, you found all of them. Those 2 more at the end might have appeared after an update or something, and are not supposed to be there.

The map is awesome, but what is happening with book pages? The GUI says there are 14 of them, I found 15, but there are still 2 pages with blur.

@Pckables: I will be sure to better block players from softlocking themselves in my future maps.

When everything is broken apart, theres a Rift Orb near the top of the building with his room. While further exploring up there I saw a slanted panel next to Doctor Squid's room that I slid on top of, and from there jumped into the room. Unfortunately there are no exits or ways to fall out of the room.

@Pckables: How did you manage to get up there to begin with? I am pretty sure I put a invisible wall up there... I will block it off again I guess.

I am happy you enjoyed the map though!

Great map! Had a lot of fun!
One minor issue I found was that on the stage before the boss, it's possible to get into Doctor Squid's room from above, but it's not possible to get back out of it.

@Daroh: I am happy you liked it so much! The only reason this is a purple rift is because it was made for the 2018 Purple rift contest. It started as a simple purple rift but quickly got way more complicated. ( My next levels are not so lengthy and purple rift like. )

Also, there is no need to collect every rift pon and storybook page. If I could let the player keep them I would. However, they are hard coded to reset on death. I have been working on more little cheats to allow the player to jump between levels until I can get an act select working.
( Though for now my attention is focused on my Halloween map. )

Ok, Fantastic level, lots of interesting ideas and background lore, some of the environments are really beautiful and the platforming sections fun, I enjoyed your sense of humour and the end boss was pretty good too, however... As a rift level? not so much.

If the level was split into its own chapter with each gate being a separate act then it would be excellent, the story and levels would need reworking to accomodate the change but it would be an overall improvement as most of the frustrations people are having would be gone.

The compulsive need to collect every pon and page before finishing then losing them all due to dying on the boss being a major hurdle for myself... I just cant bring myself to go through the entire thing again to collect every gold pon and story page, I do appreciate the "cheat" you added to skip to the boss, but its just that, a cheat which leaves me feeling like I've not accomplished anything due to not having those precious precious gold pons and pages.

trust me; it can only do good to your ego.

@Bonicle: Happy to help. The main reason I am not on the discord is because I am a very shy person.

Thanks! you should really join the discord btw, i think you can help and get helped by a lot of people there.

@Bonicle: I made those using an actor factory. Create a new factory with it and set it to "ActorFactoryActor". Then in the class it is spawning find something like: "Hat_Hazard_SnatcherLaser".

alright then. how did you activate the snatcher lasers in the boss fight? (what node did you use in kismet)

@Bonicle: No, I am not currently in the official discord. But you can ask any questions you want.

hey, i wanna ask you some questions about modding and stuff im having trouble making. are you in the official discord?

@Remorium: The set piece I used was the "moon castle", which already had three thrones attached to it. I personally think it was probably meant for Vanessa, Snatcher, and the Moonjumper at some point.

However, I used it to hold ominous and forboding models that watch over you. Badge seller was one, Vanessa too, and a model I found hidden in the game called "comb".

The only thing I know about him is that his texture is called the "Mole Ghost" and that textures that are strikingly similar are things called "The Bell of Judgement", the "Founder", and the "Founder Damaged".

My first thought was that maybe a Hat in Time was going to be much more serious, and he was going to be the villain? But then I found that he is also related to a complex set of Youtube videos for people to decipher.

This is probably a very strange question, but for the three characters who appeared at the very end, I know you used Vanessa and Badge Seller's models... but who is that other person? They don't resemble any Hat in Time character I've seen.

@Prototype: No problem! I hate when my map does not work right.

and fixing the glitch

thx for updating it

@Prototype @Souper Marilogi: Alright, try it now. Remember to use the secret boss skip to get straight to the boss.

(I think multiple other bugs with the boss fight were fixed in the process too. So it should run smoother than ever before! Probably...)

Alright, so Seal the Deal might've broken the boss, because it dies in one hit. All I do is attack it and it dies. I'm softlocked afterwards, so I'm currently unable to beat this Purple Time Rift. I hope it gets fixed soon!