I've observed this in "normal space" and also warp, but condition of beating boss in both for completing sector still applies so e.g. killing all standard enemies lead to failed run.
I've experienced this some time ago already and in both cases resolved by restarting the game.
I'm not sure if it's exact STR, but it both cases, game run for 40+hrs straight, but this time, I've reinforced 21hrs ago, so I guess capital fight was available for ~17hrs.
#Capital ships not spawning
lusty aurora
charred oxide
killing all s. enemies lead to fail???🤔
lusty aurora
Yes, I have it recorded. Also failing "lower" warp leads into rerunning it when "autorun next" is enabled (but I guess that's different issue).
tulip nexus
can you clarify?
like in a warp you kill the small guys and it fails, is there no 2nd capital etc?
lusty aurora
There was no first as well .. basically I've came after night and boosted battle stats with overdrive, so started warp with 86,5 and auto next enabled and went afk for a moment. Returned to warping 86. So I've started recording and it just warps, no capital, just basic ships, flew to end, again no capital, exit warp which failed.
Question is what is success condition since I've got this .. which means final capital wasn't killed.
But as said above, weird stuff is that failing even low (previously finished) warp fires it again. I would expect not to.
tulip nexus
which warp?
lusty aurora
Keres, but since I've got no Capitals even in normal space, I would say that it doesn't matter
charred oxide
success condition is you kill both c and s
and s spawned by c too
lusty aurora
let me cut the video
lusty aurora
success condition is you kill both c and s
and s spawned by c too
well .. I would expect warp gets stuck since capital is not killed, so there is another condition for exiting warp
lusty aurora
lusty aurora
wait so you currently ahve no capitals ever?
not currently, I had capitals normally, game fucked itself somehow and gets fixed after restart
I guess I've killed all of them from enemy hangar and restarting game reffils it 😄
rocky imp
Secret ending of game, destroyed all aliens
lusty aurora
I'm now curious how will game behave with sector boss in such condition.
charred oxide
enemy capital forgot he had an appointment with you
lusty aurora
enemy capital forgot he had an appointment with you
I felt in love with it, so it left me too.
doesn't seem to be anything weird here .. except few errors on each game quit
tulip nexus
lota errors related to physics objects which capitls are one, kinda weird
rocky imp
I've seen that, sec. Will post in DM
lusty aurora
anyway, if you have any ideas what to do next .. right now, game runs for 16hrs already and no problems here, I'm leaving it running over night so maybe it will happen again
is there any verbose level logging I can run it next time that could help with this?
tulip nexus
there is
lusty aurora
I've seen that, sec. Will post in DM
NO! 😄 Post it here, I'm curious 😄
rocky imp
Wow, that's the code on my suitcase!
lusty aurora
https://discord.com/channels/1023372620705566740/1079998601528361000/11489897549...
sorry, I should have seen that while I was reading this thread like 2 minutes ago 😄
anyway .. set, so next time
also weird thing I've noticed now, in steam game looks like not running
lusty aurora
Well .. that's why I'm working as QA engineer 😄
call me Fuckup Magnet
hmm .. I have an idea
well .. let's sum facts:
- steam now doesn't detect game is running
- steam doesn't update game if it's running
- there was recent update .. not sure when it was exactly released
So .. summed all things up ..
Game/steam connection went broken
Steam updated game/data file .. and possibly fucked up something while game is still running and expecting something somewhere while it's somewhere else.
tulip nexus
if you do verify file integrity and then run overnight maybe go good?
lusty aurora
well .. I don't want to turn it off now if it will happen again to lost the progress, but will definitely do it in the morning to see. But not sure if steam actually submits any check log or just silently sync files.
erm .. I'm tired .. 😄 checking install dir and there are basically
exe file dated 2 months ago
pck file dated yesterday 3:44 CET time (so like 21hrs ago)
so, I guess it's what happened .. steam updated pck file while exe was running and there was no file lock
but basically root cause is broken link between steam and the game
anyway .. bed time for me, will inform you tomorrow
lusty aurora
So, morning is here, and same for capital ships.
Verified files .. all fine.
So, we are back on game/steam communication. And I think I've got something.
Basically as I described above, steam doesn't update game that is running.
Problem is that I'm not running the game via steam but taskbar .. after running it for the first time, I've just pinned it as on image and running via icon here.
But if I do, steam doesn't detect that it's running as seen on second image.
I guess this should be somehow fixed to avoid such issues in the future.
rocky imp
I think that's just how Steam works -- it requires a specific shortcut for it to register it.
I think maybe you can change the shortcut to a Web Document shortcut type instead. This is the shortcut you get when you do Steam -> right click -> Manage -> Add desktop shortcut
lusty aurora
but I don't want desktop shortcut
anyway .. I've tried same thing for 5 other different games now and all of them works as expected
rocky imp
You can move the desktop shortcut to taskbar, though? 🤔
lusty aurora
let me try
well, you can and it works .. BUT
it links to steam://rungameid/2471100
after running it, it still creates another icon/window
and which is biggest drawback, it autoassignes steam icon here which cannot be changed
so .. it's no from me
it more looks like game is missing some steam api call on game start
rocky imp
Not sure what's available to us there in the game engine. I can maybe have a look when I have a bit more time (if Sylv doesn't get to it first)
lusty aurora
I found another Godot game, let me check the same there.
lusty aurora
ok .. so .. I've tried
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2656990/Mycelium_Guardians/ demo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398980/Avenger_Sharks
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2755460/Chess_Opening_Repertoire_Builder
and all of them have the same problem
So, you should maybe rather report this to Godot support