Yeah same just happened to me. I spent multiple in-game days. I watched the structure events unfold of the days of the late teens and wandered all over the map. I even managed to fully steal the “chest” in my garage, temporarily, there in the middle. Can sleep in my bed or other locations. Can’t save. Eventually had to kill the game.
The whole disabling the in-game menu thing is not a good “feature” for so many reasons, but combined with bugs like this it is a game breaker.
while yes its inconvenient, that "disabling pause menu" thing is there to prevent save/quit-scumming, which is a consistent issue among games that have quick save, and especially horror games. wheres the tension if you can just quit out?
does it make bugs like this more prominent issues? yes. does it mean this is a bad feature? hell no! i love the idea that, at a moments notice, i have to see an event or entity encounter through or die trying. maybe disabling autosave during an event could circumvent this issue, much like how its disabled if youre on the atv?
I can force quit a game, menu shenanigans don’t slow me down. I’ve played plenty of scary or tension building games and I don’t remember it killing the vibe. On the other hand, a game soft locking partially because saving is disabled, that does kill the vibe. I understand that it seems to give some people a sense of accomplishment, but is self control not an accomplishment itself? :D
