I finally took the time to play this (after the original campaign), and I didn’t regret it. I’m totally the target demographic for this kind of “bonus hard challenges”. I had a blast playing those levels, especially level 2!

Good to hear, I was losing my mind trying to work out what was going wrong lol. While not an actual fix for the softlock, it should allow the scripting to ignore the softlock if it happens.

ok so whatever you did, you fixed the problem for me, now all levels end properly once i killed all the enemies. Thanks

I will try again and i will let you know what comes up on console

I've made an attempt to overcome the problem with a function that begins once all the enemies are done spawning and checks if there are any enemies with a foe (i.e. targeting a player) present in the world every 3 seconds after that point, triggering the ending if there are none.

This won't fix the underlying issue but MAY allow the level to be finished even if the issue occurs - I will need feedback on whether or not it has solved anything.

The problem is that all enemies use infinite sense and the "Hunt Foe" AI semantic - meaning it shouldn't be possible at all for them to lose you as a target, the game is not supposed to allow them to lose their target.

The music should still be playing even if they get stuck somewhere - the fact that the music stops means the enemies must logically have disappeared or been deleted without the game registering them as dying (because if they died the end event would trigger), and I have no idea what could cause this.

I'll keep working on trying to find out what's going wrong but at this point I am just guessing.

Is there anything visibly going wrong in the console or the logs? As said, I haven't been able to reproduce this issue and I really don't know what's going wrong.

The way the script is structured, it really shouldn't be able to go wrong - it can't be that an enemy has failed to spawn, because all the spawners are just on a timer, they're not based on conditions that have the potential to fail.

It must be that an enemy is stuck or has disappeared somewhere without dying, because the event that triggers the end of the level is a simple condition that just triggers when all enemies are dead (except the mummies, which are automatically despawned when everything else dies, because the mummies very frequently get stuck on terrain).

ok so i just checked yes the music stops and I'm stuck on the scouring the graveyard task

Did the music stop or is it still going when this happens? It's important because if the music is still going then an enemy simply got stuck, but if it stops then something more serious is going wrong.

I haven't been able to reproduce this issue and I don't know what could be causing it, but I have a few ideas and I have attempted to tackle those in an update I'll be publishing in a couple of minutes.

I killed everything at the beginning of the first level but nothing is happening after that

Its very hard and extremely difficult yes, but younger generations of casuals fail to realize that serious sam can be mastered, with a great deal of "patience."