Post by thinmick in The Long Road and the Forest - Chapter 1 & 2 comments

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This is a fantastic game, and I'm loving it, so far. The premise is strange, and I'm definitely trying to keep track of the lore, as I go on.

But, I've hit a bit of difficulty. In the warehouse basement, there are crates stacked under the window. Looking at the crates suggests that one should be able to exit through the window. The window shows the exit cursor. Left clicking the window gives its description. Right clicking the window just says 'Placeholder'.

Is this a bug? Is this the end of the currently finished portion of the game? Was I not supposed to get to this point without doing something else along the way? I'm terribly confused, but very enthusiastic about discovering more of the story.

vanrijngames300 days ago

This sounds like a bug. You should indeed be able to escape out of the window. However, this has to be after you have 'completed' the room. Were you able to solve the room's puzzle, after which this bug occurred?

thinmick299 days ago

Okay, I can now confirm that clearing the leftmost of the two ... blocked objects in the room makes the window work correctly. It's only behaving bizarrely before that point -- which is to say, there's no in-game suggestion that you can't use the window yet. It tells you there's an exit there, acts like it should be an exit, and just doesn't work, before that puzzle is resolved.

benvanrijn300 days ago

Hi there, it's most likely a bug, thank you for letting us know!

If you are able, could you save your game - it can be found by pressing Esc then clicking save, and clicking the new save button.

If you could kindly zip the folder located here:
C:\Users\[your windows username]\AppData\LocalLow\RBgames\The Long Road And The Forest
and send it to benjaminvanrijn(at)googlemail.com I can have a look and see if I can correct the issue, or at least get you past the point where you're stuck so you can dive a little deeper.

Appreciate your kind words as well. :)

thinmick299 days ago

As noted above, it turns out the window wasn't usable because I wasn't finished with the room. That said, the window behaviour is still weird, before the solve. I'm sending the savefile from before I solved the room, so you can decide if that's what the window is supposed to be doing, at that point. The fact that 'Placeholder' is still in suggests it might not be.

benvanrijn299 days ago

Thank you! I've fixed the bug and it'll go into the next build.

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