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I encountered a bug in the game after week 1 (when Dr. Sharpe reviews my professionalism) literally every single session I click the screen turns black and it just says

```

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "game/script/engine.rpy", line 578, in script

    label breaknav:

Exception: Possible infinite loop.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "game/script/engine.rpy", line 578, in script

    label breaknav:

  File "/private/var/folders/p1/1zrh80t501n5xs6zjg9_y13r0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/348930D5-2E7A-45A7-95C6-88A74C2D841F/d/Absolution.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/execution.py", line 59, in check_infinite_loop

    raise Exception("Possible infinite loop.")

Exception: Possible infinite loop.

Darwin-21.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

Ren'Py 7.3.5.606

ABSOLUTION 

Mon Jan  1 17:50:33 2024

``

That is extremely strange, will investigate and update the game once it's fixed

Following some investigation, this issue seems to be exclusive to Dr. Sharpe's route. I'm not sure what's causing it yet since it's quite a baffling one, but while I'm fixing it, feel free to try the other routes - they work just fine as far as I can tell.

I fixed it, but it will probably take another ~1-1.5 hour for the new build to compile and upload.

Yeah you fixed it, but SPOILERS (kinda?) 

I'm struggling to get onto Dr. Sharpe's route, when I do get onto his route the game says 'You haven't bonded with one patient enough' and tbh so far the only way I could get onto his route is by giving everyone the same amount of attention.  So if you could give me some pointers that would really help.

Because the game prioritizes patient routes when determining your route, it first checks if you've spent at least two session with each of them (or you get fired), and if there's any one you've spent five sessions with (because that's the one whose route you're getting). If you still haven't gotten fired and don't have a route, the game checks the conditions for Dr. Sharpe's route, which is an equal amount of sessions spent with each patient during week 1 (3 each, including their introduction on Monday) and getting a good "score" during the job interview (so if he says "It has been a pleasure" at the end before dismissing you). You know you're on his route if he asks to follow you outside after the Friday event - then all you have to say is "I don't mind" and you're good. Hopefully that helped, I might put together a "How to get on each route" walkthrough to spare people the frustration of getting stuck on week 1 (instead of getting stuck later on, when the stakes are higher >:) ).

it's my fault I haven't worded it properly. Treating everyone equally results in the game closing since I haven't connected with anyone, but that's the only way to get onto Sharpe's route.  After the walk, we have the game end and say 'you failed to reach enough affection with a patient', and the game ends. 

But it doesn't cut off of where 'the content for Sharpe's route ends here'. So how do I maintain being on Sharpe's route without it being a game-end? 

Or is there no content for Sharpe after week 3

Could you contact me on Discord (.vviktor369) or in Twitter DMs (@navypink_dev)? I  would love to answer all your questions, but don't want to crowd the comment section too much.