OneShot: Fading Memory

OneShot: Fading Memory

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infranscia 26 Aug, 2021 @ 3:20pm
Errors (or potential errors?) I've run into so far
Okay, first off, I'll note that I think that a lot of these errors are carried over from the original game. That said, it does seem like some new have been introduced.

I think I'll actually start by asking... Are the in-game differences besides the options menu, I think?) supposed to be pretty obvious? Because I've played through the normal storyline, and now I'm starting on the original Solstice content, and I haven't noticed any noteworthy changes in story. o.O Some stuff that seems like it might be a little different, but that might just be because I don't remember it clearly. I saw some stuff about added content in the readme, but I haven't seen any of the added content listed yet. (I even ended up looking up a walkthrough for the original, and noticed that the end puzzles were exactly the same - I thought they were different... harder. But nope.)

So... depending on whether or not that's intentional, that might be a pretty big issue right there. ^_^; (I'm guessing not, though, since an achievement I got says "Finish OneShot's normal run."

So... onto more details. (I highly doubt many of the players here will have NOT played the original, but just in case someone doesn't want to see story/puzzle-spoiler details, I'm using spoiler tags.)


Moving via the mouse is S-L-O-W! Also, I can't walk into the light of the window using the mouse.


I think that having the game installed on a drive besides C (or at least on a different drive than your OS is installed on) confuses it in some ways - this is one of the issues that I remember seeming to be an issue with the original.

The biggest issue that this seems to create is with the wallpaper-changing hint in the Glen. In the original it changed my wallpaper, but didn't change it back, leaving just a blank, black coloring. ...I don't know if that's standard. ^_^; On this version the desktop changed to the dark-red-purple color, but there was no picture. I've noticed that the picture is in the game files, but personally, I ended up doing it from memory.

Also, when I tried telling the Entity "Yes, I can see the desktop change," the game froze. The music still played, but I couldn't do anything else. I had to close the game via Task Manager, and then I had to start playing again from the beginning of the Glen. When I tried answering "No, I don't see it,", I was able to continue the game just fine.

...I don't know if the game tried to restore my wallpaper but failed... since it was stuck on the dark-red-purple color when I force-closed the game. I know it didn't restore it originally, though.

In case it makes a difference on this one, I'm currently using an unactivated copy of Windows 10 - I played the original on a properly-activated Windows 8.1. I know that Windows 10 isn't supposed to let you change your wallpaper if unactivated... but I found a workaround. By accident, even. Just right-click a picture, and select "Set as desktop background." It's possible that this gets in the way of OneShot - or at least the mod - though.


For one that REALLY struck me as interesting, the countdown timer is blank when you first walk into the room, but when you re-enter the room from the top/north (at the balcony where Niko asks if you live in a city), the countdown runs. I tried doing this more than once, and it's consistant: Enter from the bottom/south, nothing. Enter from the top/north, you get a countdown.

Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/ZB4pYPDL

If I've got the math right, it appears to be counting down to midnight (GMT -7), around January 25th? I might be off by a day.


Kind of a funny one... You know how When Niko first gets into the Tower, and thinks you're not there, Niko isn't holding the sun? Well, if you close and reopen the game in that room, Niko will have the sun again, and will even comment about not having the sun, despite holding it.

Screenshots:
https://postimg.cc/9rMSFZ6V
https://postimg.cc/NK2zRYGz


I think this carried over from the original, but I think the game is supposed to give you a wallpaper of a page saying "Look for my symbol [the clover] in your documents folder." But it didn't for me. Again, it didn't do it for me with the original, either. Again, this might be because I have the game installed on the D drive, instead of C.

...I really probably should have reported that to the original devs when I first played. ^_^; Whoops... hindsight. =D;

But anyway, I got a bit confused because I tried checking the game files for the page images. I've noticed that only two of them are there, while the original has several different languages. The thing that led to me being confused is that the only one in English only includes instructions for where to look in UNIX: "Documents/OneShot". The Windows version puts them in "Documents/My Games/OneShot", like it says on the other version of the wallpaper you have... which I'm reasonably confident is Chinese. (Pretty dang confident, but still not saying for an absolute certainty in the off-chance I'm wrong. ^_^;;;;; )

But yeah, along with the actual error, you might want to look into the different OS versions there.


Anyway, when the game is sitting on the screen of the empty bedroom at the normal end, trying to close the game results in an alert saying that "You can't do that during cutscenes," or something like that. I had to close the game using Task Manager. I don't remember this happening in the original.


And for the last one I've noticed so far, the clover program, "_______.exe", seems to linger in the background. I don't know if this happened with the original, but I noticed having three copies of it listed as background processes in Task Manager.


...And I think that's it. I hope this helps. =)