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Title: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: zyzzyvette on Sun 22/01/2012 23:57:37
I got through the BIOS puzzle...

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but when I put the "1" in the on/off switch, I was standing on the platform just to the left of the switch, not the one right under it. Now I'm standing in a purply cliff area, and I can talk to Arkady's support program, but I can't walk around. Talking to Arkady doesn't seem to yield anything useful and I don't see any other clickables.
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So I think I'm either missing something, or stuck in a 'wall'. Help?
Title: Re: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: Three-Headed Monkey on Mon 23/01/2012 11:08:16
I'm having the exact same problem.

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Another thing I've noticed is that when I first got to that new screen, the rightmost platform from the BIOS screen was still there. It vanished after the talk with Arkady, I think, but there's also still a "boolean" tag in the left half of the screen, somewhere in the chasm, even though there's no object anymore.
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I really hope this isn't a game-stopper that would require me to re-start and play through the whole thing again ...  :'(
(That's a huge drawback if you only get one savegame slot.)
Title: Re: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: kaputtnik on Mon 23/01/2012 12:02:45
Oh wow people, it seems like you have actually found a game-stopping bug! I will try and fix this as soon as possible and replace the bake sale version with an updated version, you are actually
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supposed to stand on the rightmost platform when putting the zero into the slot. Normally, talking to Arkady should yield a sort of fragment rain and get you back to the lab.
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I'll look into this!

edit: Okay, the bug has been fixed. I'll provide the bake sale team with an updated version of the game. Do you two want to have the link via private message? I don't have time right now, but I can also send you a savegame for the exact point where the game crashed later today.

Thanks for your reports!
Title: Re: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: zyzzyvette on Mon 23/01/2012 23:25:37
Quote from: kaputtnik on Mon 23/01/2012 12:02:45
I don't have time right now, but I can also send you a savegame for the exact point where the game crashed later today.

Yeah, that would be awesome, thanks! I also made the mistake of saving in the purply cliff area so my current savegame is borked.  :P
Title: Re: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: Three-Headed Monkey on Tue 24/01/2012 01:17:12
Quote from: zyzzyvette on Mon 23/01/2012 23:25:37
Quote from: kaputtnik on Mon 23/01/2012 12:02:45
I don't have time right now, but I can also send you a savegame for the exact point where the game crashed later today.

Yeah, that would be awesome, thanks! I also made the mistake of saving in the purply cliff area so my current savegame is borked.  :P

Ditto, thanks!  :)
Title: Re: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: kaputtnik on Tue 24/01/2012 06:33:00
Hello people - this should work: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16735116/bakesale/Fragment_agssave.zip

I just tested it with my updated version, I hope it still works with the one before (although the Bake Sale version should be updated by now). I didn't have to change any functions, it was only a small variable that was breaking the game, so it should work.

Thanks again for reporting, and have fun finishing the game!
Title: Re: Fragment -- am I stuck or just lost?
Post by: Three-Headed Monkey on Wed 25/01/2012 13:14:45
After some 'experimenting and research' I was able to correctly set up the updated Fragment with the savegame, continue to play and see both endings. Thanks a lot! And thanks for sharing, nice little game.  :)

Unrelated newbie question: How come that sometimes savegames are stored in the game folder and sometimes they're stored in a "Saved Games" directory in Windows' "User" folder? Is that depending on a setting defined by the designer, on the AGS version, on the operating system or something completely different?