Post by garnet in Absolution: Way of the lost comments

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I can't believe it took me so long to discover this game. My timing seems to have been quite good as well with the recent updates. I'm really enjoying myself so far! The atmosphere, visuals, and writing tie together so well.

I've been trying out William's route, and I think I may have discovered a potential bug? In the third dream sequence, the newspaper and cloth will randomly disappear when I try to use them, which then puts me in an infinite loop of having to re-gather them, only for them to disappear again when selected. I've also noticed that the newspaper will sometimes be referred to as the cloth prior to just poofing out of existence.

This has prevented me from being able to proceed without breaking the window, which I think is the wrong choice that has been leading me to a bad end (where the game window automatically closes) even with a maxed meter.

Is there a way to proceed somehow without making the newspaper and cloth disappear from inventory? I just wanted to make sure that was supposed to happen, because if not, it might be a game-breaking bug.

Navypink125 days ago

Oh boy, hang on

Fixing this one rn, will update the game with the fix soon

(You can also go back to the patients' rooms hallway, go through the doors with the scary words written on them until you find an axe, pick it up, return to the room with the cupboard and the window and smash the window to skip the puzzle involving the cloth and newspaper, but it comes with a sanity penalty so be careful since it might be near-impossible to make it to the end of the build with that outcome)

Also, thank you for the kind word, I'm glad you're enjoying the game ~

Navypink124 days ago

The game is updated for PC right now so feel free to download the new version.

garnet124 days ago(+1)

That appears to have fixed the problem! No more disappearing inventory. Thank you so much!

Also, now that I've had time to explore another route, I'm so impressed at just the sheer volume of content in this game. I'm aware that the project was canceled, but it must have taken so much time and effort to put together. I think it will take me a long while to discover all the potential paths and possible secrets, and I've been having such an amazing time. I can't imagine all that you must have gone through up to this point, but I'm very grateful to have been able to stumble across this. This experience was well worth the price and more.

I wish you the best of luck in all that you decide to do!

Navypink124 days ago

No problem!

The game was in development for about 4.5 years before its cancellation, so there was a lot of time to implement branching paths, minigames, etc (sadly not enough to actually finish it). I'm currently finalizing another project, after which I might do another small update to Absolution similar to Patch C.1, but we'll see.

Thank you for your support and I hope you have fun exploring all the different paths.

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