Oh? You have never heard of it?
Well, let me explain.

So, when you're cutscene editing your level NOT on the first floor, there is a chance the game will crash if you decide to move player character. It's not like a classic "HotlineMiami2.exe has stopped working" popup window. Instead, a different window will appear!


"an unusual way". Yeah, right.

And the worst thing about it is that you will have to press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to exit fullscreen mode! I feel sad for those who don't know about this...

Now since you know what this cutscene crash is, let's get to the main part of this guide.

Thankfully, it's easy to do! Now read carefully...




BAM! It works!

(New) Having Walk and Rotate action in the frame can also break cutscenes, so keep in mind that before you move the player you don't have these two actions in the frame, i would recommend adding empty frame and then do the steps from above (Thanks to Plank).

The reason why the game crashes is because you deleted actions or frames while editing! So you have to refresh the editor to fix this!

Yes, you WILL have to do this every time you need to move the player after deleting actions/frames. You don't have to do that if you don't need to move the player anymore, feel free to delete actions/frames again!

Let me know if you have found other ways to fix this bug!

This method requires Notepad++ editing, if you don't have it then how do you even live without it?!?

This workaround will guarantee you the fix, it may look complicated but it's quite easy if you can get used to it!

What we will be doing here is moving a different NPC as if it was Player character, and then renaming NPC to Player in cutscene script (.CSF) file!

1. Create a new NPC, give it a name, you can name it whatever you want because we won't keep it for long (for instance NPCTEMP).
2. Move the NPC as if you did for the Player character.
3. Save the level and quit.
4. Open up floor's .CSF file in Notepad++.
6. Scroll way down (because the last action you added is always at the end of cutscene script) and change NPC's name to Player.

When doing that, make sure you're changing the right thing! NPC's name is always under the action, and is followed by Frame's Character camera focus if there's no other actions followed by the said action.



It should look like this now!



7. Save the file and head to the editor!

It should work by now,



but we're not quite done here yet, we still have that NPC present on the floor, so let's get rid of it!

Simply deleting it will not work, because it still has a history of being used in the cutscene in .NPC file, so what we're going to do now is change NPC's properties to be able to delete the NPC.

8. Open up floor's .NPC file with Notepad++.
9. Find the NPC and set 6th setting (Cutscene presence setting, see image below) to 0.




10. Save the file and head to the editor!
11. Delete the NPC!

That's it! The cutscene should be working! If not, please add me or comment below for any help!

I left this section unfinished for an year now, sorry about that.

This is an universal solution for the cutscene crash, and it's much more simple than previous method, but i'll still keep previous one just incase.

What we're doing here is inserting crash-free cutscene player object on the floor
All you have to do is open up floor's .OBJ file, and copy-paste the following numbers at the end of the file:

2402
622
342
4283

Make sure you leave an empty line at the end of the file, this is how your .OBJ file should look:



Save .OBJ file and edit your level, go to next floor and go to cutscene editor, now you should have two player objects!



The crash-free player object should be in the middle of the floor, try moving the player and ta-da! It works!



Notes:

• If you switch floor and return to this floor, the crash-free player object will be gone, however you can just exit the editor and edit the level again, player object will be there again.
  
• Saving the level will erase this cutscene player object, so if you need to use it again, you will have to insert it in .OBJ file again.

This is it! If you still have any questions, please add me or comment below!

Thank you for reading this short guide! Don't think that i'm returning to HLM community, i just thought it would be nice to share this little secret to everyone, because mostly everyone know about all level editor issues on private HLM discord servers. That's it for now! I think about finishing my old russian guide about swapping player characters, i don't think i will finish it because i just really don't care about Hotline Miami anymore and i mostly play other games, my friends even have taunted me because of how much hours i spent playing HLM2. HLM2 is not good for your health, you should try out other games!





Have a nice day!