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Uuhm... Actually, I have another strange question. I really should ask something different I guess, but this keeps interesting me... not sure if it's gonna be cleared up later in the game, but I guess maybe not, so I'll just ask.

That star in the background (or sub-stellar object, if I'm right)... Is that a brown dwarf? If you are just a little bit into astronomy I guess you might have chosen it on purpose. Just wondering.

Or did you choose the color of the star purely for artistic purposes, like, to set the mood?

Maybe I'm overthinking this part, but I'd like to know nonetheless. ;)

PS.: The cuteness is still constantly killing me! ;)

Edit: Are you familiar with the "Ship of Theseus" problem? I wonder if you are. Some of the questions that I have been asked by Lilac so far imply that you do, and/or that you might be quite the philosopher yourself. ;)

LezLiz4 years ago

Hi!

It's a red dwarf star. They talk about it a little bit in some of the routes,
but not really in the one that people most commonly get on the first playthrough.

And, yep, I do know about the Ship of Theseus.

Thrawn4 years ago (1 edit)

Interesting, thanks for letting me know! :)

There is one thing bugging me currently though. Not sure if intentional, but it seems I somehow got stuck. My romance with Bryn doesn't progress anymore after the present I gave her and Lilac has completely disappeared (?!). My research is stuck too. Apparently I "need more time" before I can contine, because all the interesting parts have been analyzed, but something's "still bugging me".

All I can do is sleep, eat, collect holographic stars and read the "message of the day", of which I've seen all now, I believe.

I even started ignoring Bryn just to provoke a reaction out of her, but to no avail. ;)

There are no more dialog options with any of the remaining characters left, and I've inspected everything, even all the plants. The elevator door is still closed.

Maybe I broke the game with the dialog options I chose when we had that strange conversation with Lilac?

Also, the house next to ours appears to be inhabited now, but I can't get in, and nobody's coming out either.

Just sleeping, eating and reading old MotD's does get old after an hour or two of playing.

Did I encounter a bug, or is this an intentional gameplay mechanic to strain the player's patience?

Thanks!

LezLiz4 years ago

Hi,

This sounds like a bug. Could you e-mail your save file to me, support@lezliz.com, so that I could take a closer look and fix the issue? Save files can be found under the Users folder at "Saved Games/Rose Seed Replica/" in Windows or "~/.local/share/Rose Seed Replica/" in Linux. I'm really sorry for this!

Thrawn4 years ago

Ah, bugs happen. ;) I've loaded an earlier save game and I made a different dialog choice, which made the game work again. I'll try to find which exact save it was (I'm at ~100 saves by now), and attempt to re-create the exact situation.

As soon as that's done I'll send you a link to the saves and tell you which ones you may want to look at.

There were a few other (minor, non-blocking) issues, which I will then report too. :)

Unraveling the mysteries in this game is quite fun actually. By now, I managed to complete my research (fully, as far as I can tell, including detailed information provided by a certain someone). But I'm still too curious about what's behind that iris door.. ;)

Also, it's interesting that I could reach the same ending twice, but how I got there was wildly different, especially early on. That was a nice surprise!

I'll send you a message about the saves soon!

Thank you!

Thrawn4 years ago (1 edit)

Edit: Sorry, you said to email them, but I didn't read carefully.. uh. I can remove this post if you like, just say so If I should do that.

Alright, here it is, I've put the files on my home server. It's slow, but they're not big, so it should be ok.

*** SPOILER WARNING ***

The images are from later parts of the game, so people who haven't played yet might not want to look at them, despite there being no real text. They might also not wanna continue to read this post, as my bug descriptions most definitely contain spoilers!

Naturally, the savegames would enable people to take shortcuts, but people probably don't wanna do that. ;)

Files: [Savegames], [dialog bug 1], [dialog bug 2].

Bug report #1, "No more progress" / "Lilac disappearence":

To trigger the "no more progress" bug, please load saved game #20, and pick "Alien" as a response to Lilac's question. From there on out, you can still complete the present thing, but then, dialogs with Bryn, research and TV set will all be eventually exhausted of options. Lilac will be gone entirely.

Upon further examination, Lilac may have just retreated to her house (the one with the rose bush), never to leave it again. Because there's always "somebody inside" when trying to peek through the window.

You can also fast-forward to save game #29 or the newly created #104 to see the state where I couldn't make any progress anymore and where all dialog options are exhausted (should be the case for 104 at least).

Re-load #20 and pick "human" instead of "alien", and the game will continue on its merry way!

Bug report #2 (see image "dialog bug 2"):

I don't have a save game close to this, but this happened after Bryn asked me to explain some scientific theory to her. So while I was rambling about the big bang and how gravity might be negative energy, suddenly... this. ;) Made me giggle a little, because it was so totally out of place. ;)

This issue happened when I was still sitting in the "no more progress" situation as described in bug report #1.

Bug report #3 (see image "dialog bug 1"):

I still have a save game somewhat close to this one. Load #97. This happens during the "big reveal talk" after I had realized my big discovery and with Paradigm having offered me to explain all the rest.

Starting from save game #97, pick the following dialog options, in that order:

Continued researching it
How are you related to Intereon Intelligence?
Can you see into the future?
Have you two talked a lot about each other?
Are Bryn and Lilac related to Intereon Intelligence too?

Now follow the conversation for a short while and you should encounter it.

Maybe the exact order of answers doesn't matter, but that's how I did it.

There are also a few typos and grammar errors in the late game, mostly when talking to Paradigm, but I haven't made notes about those. They're not that big an issue, I'm thinking.

I hope my issues are reproducible for you. I have not tested the save games on a different installation / computer after all.

Thank you very much! :)

LezLiz4 years ago

Thank you for the thorough reports! I got the save files downloaded, so this works too. I might delete the post in a couple of days so that other players won't get spoiled, but I'm really thankful about you reporting all of these nevertheless! I'll hopefully have a fix ready in a day or two.

Thrawn4 years ago

Alright, deleting it is fine! Sorry for not emailing the stuff in the first place...

Thanks!

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