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Slasher U: An 18+ Horror Movie Dating Sim! Act 1

A 90's-esque, open-world RPG dating sim w/ unique NPC feelings systems! · By SuitedDevil

Bugfinder General (post yer bugs here -OP) Sticky

A topic by SuitedDevil created Apr 15, 2023 Views: 1,655 Replies: 74
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Developer (40 edits)

**I check this thread every Friday to add the bugs to my triage/confirm fixes!**

Did you encounter a bug in this alpha version of Act 1? Of course you did, please tell me about it, I'm ever so excited!!

Seriously though this helps a lot. If you wanna include the Version Number (top left of the Start screen) & what you were doing leading up to the bug, I'd be eternally grateful. :V


KNOWN BUGS: will be listed here! [V6.0009] - Last updated 10/23/23

  • Saving next to an NPC will cause your load to glitch out with a permanent textbox

I love the game, noticed a few things though.

Sometimes people will stay on the screen after im done talking to them and it stays for a while. Anytime i ask Tate to prom, he says yes, then right after i have no were to click but the option that says "Sorry, i'm already going with Tate" and he's all sad.  Also, in one where he and i are dating he asks about hearing i asked "blank" to go to the prom even though i never asked anyone and there's no name. Also, when he walked me home on prom night...he was just sort of fallowed me even after and was stuck. Also, my saved are gone after closing the game.

Developer

hey! :D thank you  & thanks so much for catching those bugs, each of them should be fixed in the upcoming build! For the last one with the save files, are you running the game straight from the zipped folder, or from the unzipped version?

Unzipped.

Developer

Gotcha, try this: Leave the Slasher U folder open while running the game, save a game, and see if a new folder shows up named Save; lmk if it doesn't show up or if it disappears when you close the game, and I can track down the bug!

Alrighty, it shows while the game is still open but as soon as i exit the game and come back on to check the saves its gone. Also, ive played some of Hex's route, and he keeps getting stuck on the screen when i go to that gaspy party after going upstairs to do "stuff" with him.

Developer

Awesome, I'll work on fixing the save bug for the next build! In the meantime you can copy+paste the Save file somewhere else & paste it back in to keep saves (should work!) And thanks, I'll get that screen fixed too (:

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I was talking to Hex again after becoming official and he got upset about me asking "     " to prom and broke up with me.  Never asked anyone to prom and it's not prom season yet even 🤣

Developer

Lol thanks for this bug too! Fix will be in the next build (:

Ok so i was talking to Sawyer, i can choose the locked actions and he'll seem to respond to two the first two of them but thats it.

This isn't really a bug, but how do you switch over to the prom season? I'm trying to get laid with Hex, but I can never get over to the next season so i can. I'm just stuck wondering around, waiting for something to happen. I'm basically trying to get the scene where he meets you at your house, but i can't do it.

Developer

Gotcha! So Prom Season triggers when you get enough cutscenes+affinity with someone to have them meet you outside your dorm - try visiting the forest, movie set, and library, that should trigger the scene outside the dorm, if not lmk (cuz it might be a bug!)

I went and played the game for a long time after work and found more stuff.

During the hook up mini game I can just endlessly take off someone's clothes even after they're supposedly naked. Tate mentions how we look under the basement lights no matter the location where we mini game smooch him and the moves you pull while smooching them will mention the editing lab depending on what you're doing regardless of where you guys are. Randomly one of the times after having sex with Hex, daytime, long after the party, he'll ask if I want to go back to the party. With that class where we chase students, when I'm chasing the other students that have portraits, they bug out and the portrait glitch back in and out or just stay gone. Nothing happens after I ask if I can buy shrooms from Tate. I asked Tate to walk me to my dorm, its way after prom is over and he asks me about making it a prom night to remember. Any time I try to Boink Tate the thing with the monster starts to happen and he'll disappear right as it starts to happen. Also, his prom clothes randomly show up behind his sprite after prom. Hes's head will sometimes disappear when he transforms, and the bar thing went weird when doing the hook up game again and shows up on the other side of the screen and stay there after the encounter.

Developer

Awesome, thank you for catching those! I'll be rolling fixes for these into the next build (:

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This is best game. With that said, there are some issues with the UI.

  • As said before, the TAB menu background appears after loading a save (workaround is to open and close the TAB menu).
  • After engaging in a "fight" (with someone else as backup, because apparently you have 1 HP and 0 AP), combat cards will remain in the screen and NEVER go away. Sometimes this includes your party members, sometimes it's just your card remaining on screen.
  • The ESC menu is a ball of weird. Possibly it shouldn't even be possible to open (the TAB menu does everything the ESC menu does, and more), but you can work around this in a few ways:
    • Pressing ESC while in the Inventory/Save/Load screens will briefly open, then close the ESC menu.
    • Pressing ESC while in the Relationships screen will open the ESC menu but not close it immediately after. However, the ESC menu text and backgrounds will not be visible, only the screen selection highlight (the red rectangle overlay over one of Open Phone/Relationships/Notes/etc.).
    • Pressing ESC right as the Inventory/Save/Load screens come up will open the ESC menu but not close it immediately after, allowing you to use the ESC menu at the same time as whatever else is open. If you leave the Inventory/Save/Load screen, the ESC menu will close as normal.
    • Saving while the ESC menu is open (you'll have to work around having multiple menus active) will permanently enable the ESC menu, allowing you to open and close it at will by pressing ESC, even outside the Inventory/Save/Load screens, any other screens, and the TAB menu.
    • If the ESC menu is enabled (i.e., you can open it at will by using ESC), going to the Inventory/Save/Load screens and pressing ESC will reset the behavior.
    • The Inventory menu can also be active without showing any text or background, and while other menus are open. Press TAB to open the TAB menu, then open the Relationships screen, then press ESC to enable the graphics-less ESC menu, then go up x1 and press space to close the TAB menu, select [Keep Playing], go down x4 and press space to open the Inventory screen, press TAB to open the TAB menu, go down x1 to open the Phone screen, and then close it.
  • Speaking of the Inventory screen, when you press up and down it selects the appropriate item AND also moves the player character up and down, and space has an effect both in the Inventory screen and in the world. This can have weird consequences when you press space to use an item, but the player character is also in range, or got in range, of an interact-able object that also gets activated.

In this screenshot you can see:

  • The TAB menu (off-center)
  • The ESC menu (shouldn't be there)
  • Laila's Hookup meter (shouldn't be there)
  • Player's combat card (shouldn't be there, also off-center)



I also got a weird bug with Laila's Hookup minigame - I haven't been able to reproduce it, but basically an error popped up about 1 action away from completing the minigame (cooom!). It kept coming up constantly, the only workaround was to keep clicking the mouse to advance frame-by-frame and open the TAB menu and the Load screen to load a previous save. It also completely prevented me from completing Laila's first Hookup minigame, as any further attempt (even after loading the last save and trying again) lead to the same result.


Developer

Awesome, this was super helpful (and thank you for providing all the details and screenshots)!! You're right, the Esc menu should be permanently unable to open, I'll be checking out those cases to make sure that's the case. I'll be working on fixes for these for the next build!

The last few times i tried boinking Tate these happens and i cant do anything and have to close the game.

Developer

Got it, fixes will be in the next build!

Huh, i was playing the latest ver and the thing were i "bring Tate to my place after prom but he just fallows me around" thing happened again.

Developer

(Posting on my roomie's laptop but:) I think I found the issue! Should be fixed in the next build (: I accidentally straight up deleted a line of script between builds, lmao D:

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This has been a really fun game! It's been fun figuring out how everything works.

Post-prom, I've started getting this error anytime it goes into a minigame with Tate. Was not a problem before prom, and other characters do not generate this error, seems to be specific to him-

Developer

Thank you so much!! :D Does it happen when you take him back to DIK or just back to your dorm room? (I'll hopefully have a fix in for the next build!)

I haven't seen the option to take him back to DIK, but it's happened both in the editing dungeon and in the dorm.

Developer

Sweet, I'll check it out and get it fixed!!

My current finds: Loop of Sawyer yanking hands behind back for mini game, I'm dating Sawyer but if i ask red lady about Hex she asks talks me and Hex dating even though we aren't,  If i ask if we can get busy Sawyer and i end up doing it in the kitchen (which i wouldn't mind but its set up like if were doing it in his bedroom and he's holding onto some kind of chain.),  Asks Sawyer to make out at the usual party they have at DIK  but then it turns into a thing about how you're twisted around and can't see the face of your attacker like when you're being pursued.  If you ask to make out with Sawyer at the Gaspy party the game will crash.

Developer

Awesome, thank you!! Fixes will be rolled into the next build :D

I forgot to add this, this repeats itself sometimes.

Developer

Sweet, added to the bugfix list!

Chose the jump out the window option when getting yelled at by the dean and now my charter can't move. Music is working and other characters can move around but I'm stuck.

Precious locket disappears if you decide to no use it.

Tates clothes show behind his sprite during hook up game.

The meter for the hook up game shows up for Tate for the make out game and it stars at already full, then part of it stays stuck on the screen.

Tbh it seems a few of the bugs for Tate that were fixed before came back after the Sawyer update. 

Oh also when taking Tate to the prom a weird thing happens were when i click the table to talk to Tate Sawyer pops up asking if he can get me anything then disappears. 

Developer

Gotcha, all these are logged for the next build! For the Tate bugs, was this in a playthrough where you're romancing both him and someone else/Sawyer, or just Tate? (I swear he's like haunted, lol, every time I fix something on him he bugs out again. I blame his possession haha)

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I was just dating Tate. I can't date more than one person in a save without feeling bad.

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I'm not sure if I've done something wrong, but the blue order book  in the coffee shop has disappeared. I was able to take an order an deliver it to Juno, who then said they had to go to class.  I noticed the book was gone when I returned to the coffee shop so found them at DIK , where it let me deliver the drink again. However no matter what I do the book doesn't appear, and now I have no way to earn money ;-; When I go back to an earlier save file I can make it reappear, but I'm hoping my current save file can be fixed since I've already had to restart due to another glitch: If I try to save near someone/something with a text box the text box will be permanently up, it won't disappear even when I'm walking on the map.

Developer (1 edit)

Got it - I'll check up on the book bug and should have it fixed by the next build! If you copy-paste your current save files somewhere safe, & then paste it back INTO the Saves folder on the upcoming build, you SHOULD be able to use the same save this time around on the new build!

And thanks for the heads-up on the text box bug too! Does it stay permanently onscreen if you talk to someone & then exit out? (edit: tested this myself and found the answer, lol. On it!)

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Thank you very much for the fix! I'll try the copy/paste save method you described. Sorry for the delay in response, I know you already found this but yes the text box stays up no matter what. I'm glad at least it's able to be replicated by someone else and not just a me thing, I hadn't seen anyone else mention it but it happened to me multiple times. Thank you for looking into it!

Hi! The save trick worked, and I was able to get the blue book back with the most recent version of the game. Unfortunately, it looks like I've encountered another bug. After my PC hooked up with Sawyer at the BDSM party, the hook up action remains locked. I think he should like the PC enough (I was able to get his promposal, and I double checked with the guide to make sure I'd already done everything that increased how much he liked the PC) but when I  try talking to him and look at actions I only get Locked, Make-Out, Locked. If I click the first locked it will open up a conversation about changing the safeword, if I choose the second locked it just ends the conversation. I don't know if this is a bug as well, but figured I'd mention: If I select the branding iron in the inventory, I get a message that the PC doesn't know  anyone well enough to give it to them and then the item disappears from my inventory completely.

Developer

Aha, gotcha! Yup, that's definitely a bug & should be unlocked (funnily enough the branding iron bug is linked to the first bug you described!); adding all of the above to my list for the next build! :D

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Hi! I was playing the new version, and was still finding the same bug with Sawyer's actions not unlocking. I decided to try a few different actions to see if I might be able to find out what specifically was causing it, and I think I found it! At the party, if I choose to have Sawyer and MC hook up upstairs then Sawyer's actions all unlock properly. If I choose for them to hook up right at the party, then the options didn't unlock.

Developer

Aha, thank you so much for this!! I'll check it out for the next build!

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I noticed a few visual bugs, for example, the "love filter" (is when the screen has like glitter and slight pink color filter) can get bugged on the left part of the screen even if you transition into another part of the map (It can also cover the whole map. Not even leaving the game will make it dissapear).  Another one, when you gift Hex the choker it will not disseapear from the screen and follow around, even appearing over other people sprites.

For gameplay bugs, i recieved a message from Juno on the first part of the game when roaming the campus about the part where she wanted to get back on the prankster, when i got into my room, a blue box appeared and said that there was some kind of overload and i got stuck so i had to restart the game. The bug appears when you go into the introduction where you get into part 1/2 where you see Hex.

Developer(+1)

Sweet, thank you for the reports! I'll be adding these fixes to the next build (should be out in the next couple days!)

Hi! I had a quick look and couldn't see anyone else saying they had this issue
I'm dating Hex, but started doing things with Sawyer
Hex gets really upset, says he's breaking up with me, then the diaglogue goes to Hi! babe and everything is peachy?

Developer

Gotcha, I'll hunt the bug down! After Hex does his breakup dialogue, does it still say you're dating him if you bring up the Tab menu/Character Info screen?

So I somehow accidentally triggered both the DIK party with Hex AND him suddenly asking me to prom and now I've got... two Hex's... Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but I don't think the game is ready for parallel universe based threesomes. I'll try to load an earlier save before the prom was asked about to see if I can get past this lol

Developer

Gotcha, adding this to the fix list for next build! (If only the universe could handle infinite Hexes :') )

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206 days later I remember to come back and say going out with each one in chronological order seemed to let me get through the story with no issues!👍

Hello, I dont know if anyone has the same problem has me but when I download the game, unzip it and then tried to play it, it says that the game is damaged and that I can't run it.

Developer(+1)

Heya! Just double checked and (I think) you found a bug on the Mac Complete version! I just reuploaded the ZIP & it should be working now!

I just downloaded the most recent updated zip file for Mac and it still says the game is damaged. 

Developer

Gotcha, which version of Mac OS are you running? I've uploaded the previous Mac Complete build in the meantime (6.0006) until I fix the file on v6.0009 - let me know if that one doesn't work, and I'll try a different fix!

I'm running Sonoma 14.0. And v6.0006 also has the same problem.  Thanks!

Developer

Got it, I'll check it out & update as soon as I have a fix!

Developer(+1)

Update: I uploaded another version of v6.0009 Complete that should (hopefully) work! I think it's got to do with Sonoma not working with the Mac wrapper I use, so I updated it to a Windows 10 base (which worked on my Catalina Mac OS machine) - lmk if it's still broken, and I can try something different! (Also thank you so much for your patience!)

Still says it's damaged. I appreciate all your hard work on this, and I understand it takes time to figure these things out!

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Unable to open the Mac version of the game after download, shows up with the following error message: 

“SLASHER U Act 1 Complete Edition for Mac v6 0009 Redux” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

Thought it was because my laptop just didn't trust Internet download files and tried to bypass it, but when I looked into it further it seemed like there might actually be an issue with the code. Looked into it through Mac user tools and Apple said: 

The app has been modified, and its code does not match the original signed code. The app may be broken or corrupted, or it may have been tampered with. If you think that an app has been damaged or tampered with, you should delete it by dragging it to the Trash.

Wanted to let you know in case others have similar issues accessing the game!


EDIT: Just noticed someone else on here already posted about this, saw your reply working through the issues, thanks for all your work!

when i press tab to go to the pause menu it doesnt stop me from doing actions, so i will be moving when im in the menu.

another bug (i think): the event where you help sawyer and veronika(?) clean up the bodies in the theater, after i was given the prompt to help clean up i moved a bit and suddenly it acted like i just entered the room and nothing happened

Developer(+1)

Got it, adding both the above to the bug list!

so i replicated this bug dating sawyer only because i thought it might be related to something in the way the poly works (hence the section of text in the screenshot), but after the date and the start of sawyer's personal questline, it repeats the sequence where he asks me out? and i assume that's not supposed to happen if i'm already dating him before we go on the date. also if you've given tate your dorm room key and invite him in via the "walk me back to my dorm" action, both events can trigger at the same time. not complaining about the multiple tates, but i assume that's not intended behavior. there's actually a third tate under the text box, but it's the prom trigger one, so i assume that one is supposed to stay there until you start the "hide a body" sequence because it happens whenever i have the prom trigger active and i've given someone my dorm room key.


Developer

Gotcha, added all the above to the buglist! Alas, you're right, this universe can only contain one Tate at a time :')

Hi! Love the game so far! Noticed a few things on my play-through. Sorry for the wall of text but I played it all the way and just made mental note of things as ii went ;-;

One was the floating bodies / heads / characters stuck on screen thing. Noticed this mostly with Tate after [SPOILER] and at prom.

I used tab to try to open the menu during a dialogue and it did open, but then that messed up the dialogue and the inputs were taken for both, flipping between the menu and the dialogue on each key press and generally being weird. Probably my bad for trying to do that, but I wasn't warned against it and the menu does open (with the only way to then close it being a few inputs that mess with the dialogue).

In some of the make-out and sex minigames, the responses didn't seem to match the input I had selected. I can't remember if there were more, but the ones I noticed were in Juno's strip poker game, my character would win most hands and Juno would say she won, and/or not remove clothes (not sure if this is a bug or feature but she starts in underwear rather than dressed and removing clothes when she loses?). In Sawyer and Tate's sex minigame  a couple of times I think an option didn't seem to lead to the correct path (as in, the response matched an option I hadn't picked.).

Hexecutioner accepted my dating offer, but afterwards I had no 'dating' dialogue options unlocked, or any actions. I also couldn't break up with him or define if the relationship was exclusive. 

For the classes minigames, they never seemed to update or show my progress in the 'academic progress' dialogue (which went away after the freshers fair did) but not sure if this is a bug or just something not implemented.

And lastly, more of a suggestion I think? I tried dating everyone at once and the dialogue options for 'aren't you dating x' become very repetitive.  Is there a way to have an option with whoever you're dating to establish the relationship type, and for other people to know this if they know you're dating? Or for people to remember if you have told them once?

Again, I love the game so far and look forward to more !

Developer

Thank you so much! + thank you for the bug list!! Added all these to the fix list for next build!

Definitely agree on the suggestion, as well - gonna take another look at efficiently balance the dialogue for poly relationships next build!

Love the game! Found a bug with the bartending minigame, specifically Level 3: the Shirley Temple, Dirty Shirley, and Moscow Mule always fail even when I make them correctly. Might be tied to the ginger ale, since they all include that? 

Developer (1 edit)

Gotcha, adding it to the bug list! (Almost definitely tied to the ginger ale thing too, good catch!) and thank you! :D

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not but after I meet all the characters in the forest scene Hex, Ashleigh, and Conington, I’m just trapped in an infinite loop of the forest with infinite characters(the ones mentioned before).

Developer

You can get out of the forest by picking the "Wanna go back to campus?" option when you talk to Hex!

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thank you sm, I was getting a bit frustrated walking aimlessly in the forest lol.  

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v7.0017 complete Win version: Tata's darkside timer seems bugged. After being with him the first time, it stayed on screen. Then the next time we got busy it vanished then refused to come back. 

Developer

Got it, I'll take a look at it!

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Hey hey! I tried out the demo and ran immediately into a bug -- my game's music skips. Whatever track it's trying to play, it plays like two measures of it and then just starts over again, repeats continuously; happens both on the initial load screen and in-game and the bug persists between zones on all music. I'm on Win10. I've fiddled with all the config options, tried win 7/win 8 compatibility mode, admin mode. Even made a new login account for Windows to see if it was anything wonky with my own main Windows account but no dice. My roomie has the full game and it doesn't do the same thing on her machine (she still runs Win7) -- she totally gets the full tracks playing. Any clues or solution to toss my way? I couldn't find this issue mentioned anywhere so I guess I get to be the very lucky special unicorn with this one.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Oh that's interesting, you're the first to report this one! Have you tried running it through the 32 bit sound drivers? I'll mess around with it on my roommate's Win10 machine to see if I can figure it out!

edit: Just realized that first sentence might've sounded sarcastic, so I wanted to clarify I do in fact find rare bugs legitimately interesting 😅

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Thanks! If there's anything else I can provide to you (like a dxdiag or whatever), just lmk. I'm not sure how to use 32 bit sound drivers though -- I'll poke around here and see if I can find out how.

Update: tried to install the 32 bit drivers for my system but it wouldn't let me (I guess since Win 10 is a 64 bit OS), so I'm clueless otherwise. Sorry. :( That said, I'll continue to play the demo and just have the music off -- alas!

Developer(+1)

Hey again! So I *think* I might have a potential fix - if you pop open the Slasher U folder and open Game.cfg (which should open as a text file), change where it says "SEandBGM=3" to "SEandBGM=2". Fingers crossed!!

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Well THAT worked! I thought I had tried all those permutations but it looks like either I didn't...or the moons aligned. The music is now playing fully, with no skipping. Amazing! Thank you!

Developer(+1)

Yesss I'm so glad!!! Enjoy :D