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REBECCA

30 Oct, 2018 @ 7:28am

Bug Report - Unable to move after respawn

Hey, I've been playing quite a bit of the demo, and I really enjoy it! The tutorial was especially great, not intrusive or in your face, but aesthetically pleasing and easy to read and understand. Very nice balance!

A bit of an annoying bug that has happened twice now however is that whenever my Sipho dies and I wish to continue through my playthrough, for a decent period of time, I am simply unable to move. I can use every ability, rotate, zoom in and out, enter the Growth editor and return out, restart the game, and play with the options, everything works perfectly fine, except I simply can not move anywhere. It seems to suddenly get "unstuck" once I've shifted through the different movement options multiple times, I've not yet found the real trigger to fixing it.

I hope this is something that can be easily resolved quickly! I'd hate to see new players encounter this and just rage quit. Cheers, and keep up the great work!

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Originally posted by NinjaKyat:

Hi! I think I know what's going on and it's definitely a bug on our part! The movement type got reset when starting a new game, thus moving with the mouse no longer worked. We'll fix this asap. And thank you for the detailed report along with the video. We really, really appreciate it!

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Dominas [developer] 30 Oct, 2018 @ 10:33am

Hi, thank you for playing Sipho!

This bug is something we haven't seen of anyone encountering yet. If I understand correctly, your main zooid (head as we call it), the one you start with, dies but you are still able to enter and leave growth mode? And re-starting the game (not the game application itself) makes you stuck and unable to move?

In what level does it happen the most?

Thank you for you report. In the meantime we are going to try to reproduce it ourselves.

Edit: I just thought, does it happen when you get pulled into a whirlpool?

Last edited by Dominas; 30 Oct, 2018 @ 10:50am

REBECCA

31 Oct, 2018 @ 4:52am

I happened to be recording at the time, so I've cut it up to shorten it and added some annotations for what's happening. You'll see at the start that my main head dies, I'm pushed to main menu and continue my playthrough, and that's where I find I can't move at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvSQ_unZGlo
After looking back at the recordings, I've noticed in both instances that switching to "AutoTurn" is what fixes it, nothing else. That is my preferred movement option anyway, so perhaps after I selected that from the tutorial phase, the game sort of "locks" me to it? I've not tried any other movement options after fixing it with AutoTurn, so I'm not sure if I would be frozen again if I change them.

And no, no whirlpools. Aside from one single instance where the graphic of a whirlpool would disappear and reppear (but functionality remained), they otherwise seem to be working fine!

UPDATE: While waiting for the video to reupload, I was able to replicate it and see what would happen if I changed movement options. I was stuck, until I used my keyboard. Of course. Since I was mid-recording both times, I can't remember if I did use my keyboard to move or not as I was busy thinking about commentary, but it's quite likely I am just very stupid. If this happens again and it really is a bug, I will report it immediately! If not, apologies for using your time.

Last edited by REBECCA; 31 Oct, 2018 @ 5:08am