I kept getting error text before that, saying failure to load angel face or failure to load cat face. Then, the total crash and memory screw up. Restarted whole game, binge played the crap out of it. Made two saves when I got to that point, went through and beat it. But, had an issue with total power because it got nerfed. Decided to erase that save and load up the second one and went back to mansion. Now waiting for next update on game.
Ok that makes sense then, you got a glitch that happened to most player (usually after 4-6 hours of gameplay), where the game will start to have difficulty loading certain NPC's faces, resulting in the error message "Failed to load 'whatevercharacter_face.png' RETRY?"
once you see it, your save file is basically gone, because it'll only keep worsening from there.
the only thing you can is just start a new game, as everything that I tried didn't work ( like deleting then redownloading the game but keeping the save file). The problem seems to come from the saving system itself. As you save more, the game will have increasing difficulty in fetching ressources which will block the game alltogether.
PreggoPixel has already been made aware of this and said that they will look into it, but with the lack of info on the origine of the glitch, it will probably take a lot of time.
Sorry for the long reply and lack of solutions, but until somebody figures this bug out, we won't be able to do much about it beside restarting a new game.
On that note, have a nice day.
didn't know that it was a part of the save system. I usually turned the game off and turned it back on, and that usually worked. Everything from those ruins pretty much killed my save and had to start a whole new one. Was told by pixel that although it is reccomended to start a new save, I can transfer my old save to the new installment without issue.
I tried that as well, but the problem remained.
It had to do with the save file, simply because it is the only variable that didn't change when I was testing.
Picking an old save file or starting a new one doesn't raise any issue.
Lastly, I don't think the glitch is linked to the ruins, but to the otherall mecanics of the game. The glitch occured in the Royal city for me and for some it was in diama's floating temple.
I think it is about the save counts.
I tested a few things, the bug seems to occur so far after a certain number of saves.
So far I tried :
- Completing the game 100% with no saving require (with and without the help of the debug room). The glitch didn't occur
- Doing a normal run (30~50 saves) the glitch didn't occur
- Doing the game with as many saves possible, the glitch happened and past 150 saves, I couldn't talk to any NPC anymore
- Booting a new game and saving repeatedly a the start, I got the same results as previously
I have noticed a few glitchs with the birth mecanics as well, but they are unrelated and you really have to screw with it to get them.
Whoops. My fault. I Didn't mean to go that high on saves. Just got tired of getting that "failure to render angel face" error. I was going through the game like butter with a hot knife, completed the entire thing in 11 or so hours I think? I noticed that when I started to slow down a bit, a lot of the errors had stopped.
