sterlingware

It’s true sadly… It was quite the fringe case, but here’s the scenario as described by the reviewer who found the bug:

I was playing in trial mode and the screen faded to white to display the Trial Over screen, I left the screen open for a bit while I was typing up some notes. While I was doing that the 8 minute Microsoft prompt opened up telling me the trial was over. I decided to “purchase” the game by pressing X. Doing that dismissed the Microsoft trial box and the games own Trial screen, returning me to the game, however, when I was returned to the game the game was in some kind of paused state, I could move my turrets but they wouldn’t fire and none of the enemies were moving. I could still press start to pause the game, resuming wouldn’t start the enemy and turret fire though. I could pause then quit out of the game, but that would ruin the game in progress. Normal purchase through games Trial Over screen was OK.

Now, the game doesn’t hang (since you can still pause and return to the main menu), but everything in the current session stays frozen (except your turrets, which don’t shoot). Kinda shitty, but still unacceptable.

I’m quite into coding our next game, so I’ll probably take a couple of days before I get to working on the bug. Might take this opportunity to take a stab at a few nagging flaws currently in the game, but I’ve been hesitant about that for fear of introducing new issues :(