Public Service Announcement concerning U4iA - Episode 3
Added 2024-11-12 22:51:37 +0000 UTCImportant - Please Read!
If you downloaded or played any previous U4iA - Episode 3 release, your current saves are not usable in the current (v3.1p) or future versions. Your current persistent file (seen dialogue blocks, gallery unlocks etc) is also corrupt, and will be deleted on your first time loading v3.1p.
I am truly sorry about this, but Ren'Py 8.3.2 which the first episode 3 releases was compiled on has a serious bug that corrupts your persistent file which will cause a lot of load game errors. The best course of action was to revert back to an earlier version, and Ren'Py does not have backwards compatibility.
TL;DR - any savegame you have from v3.01, v3.02, v3.03 or v3.04 will not work in this or future releases! If you want to prepare for episode 4, you have to create new savegames in v3.1!!
Click here to download the new version.
Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but this was an undocumented bug in Ren'Py, and there's no way I could have foreseen it.
And thanks to the people who has been hard at work alongside me these last days to find what was causing the weird behaviour and error messages.
// Drifty
Comments
A save from Chapter 2 should load just fine in 3.1. It's only saves from the 3.0x family that are broken in 3.1.
Xerus
2024-11-14 16:27:20 +0000 UTCExactly
Jacek Wiśniewski
2024-11-13 16:24:09 +0000 UTCI was thinking of starting over, there is so much I dont remember, and even more that I missed. I played Ep 3 and missed so many things and I have no idea how. I hope there will be a walkthrough after the finale so I can go back through and see what I missed.
JP
2024-11-13 15:04:46 +0000 UTCThat means playing from the start again, correct? As I usually play one path, where I just make my personal choice, first till the end and check the branches after I finished playthrough1 after the final, this kind of sucks for me.. There is no way to build a safegame migrator, isn’t it? Or a small gui to select choices quickly to start faster…. But well, it is how it is. I will be able to live with it. Shit happens…
Ychtosis
2024-11-13 14:05:32 +0000 UTCoff topic a bit but I will say I really love the drifty logo opening in u4ia. Hope you keep that going forward
Tom W
2024-11-13 13:55:25 +0000 UTCJust downloaded 3.1 and I was able to load my end of EP2 save game. haven't actually been able to play anything yet to know if there are any problems hiding. But the save loaded without error.
Vision1138
2024-11-13 09:42:46 +0000 UTCNo Problem with this. Every new run there is a dialog or scene which i missed before ;-D so let's go. Aaaaaand with your high quality content it is a pleasure to start again ^^. Thx for your hard work.
blubb
2024-11-13 06:16:56 +0000 UTCSo Drifty will we be on the old renpy version going forward so that this doesn’t happen again? Am I understanding the PSA correctly?
Michael Arias
2024-11-13 03:25:03 +0000 UTC^-- This, so much this 100%. I can't understand how anyone can play complex game like this with so many choices/freeroams *without* named saves, unless you only do one playthrough and don't care about any other branching. When I boot up the game X months later, I have no idea what I did on which save, no matter what LI picture is in the corner. Named saves help with that tremendously.
snip_cz
2024-11-13 02:51:09 +0000 UTCTo Valhalla!
Adam
2024-11-13 02:19:19 +0000 UTCI am aware of that. To me that's just not enough. Plus I don't do single Li playthrough more like combinations, combinations of everything if I'm being honest so that's why I think it's needed
Jacek Wiśniewski
2024-11-13 02:01:44 +0000 UTCUse the phone to favorite which girl’s path you’re on. That’s how you remember what save is what
Michael Arias
2024-11-13 01:50:43 +0000 UTCO... kay. For myself there is only one graphical glitch and it is only in the save/load screens and is of the type: one conversation somehow is leaving garbage in the memory.
Paltse
2024-11-13 01:24:59 +0000 UTCok that explains what happened .......ty
Michael LuPayne
2024-11-13 00:04:11 +0000 UTCWell I don't have access to the DL file so...
Sewer Rat
2024-11-12 23:45:17 +0000 UTCJust gonna take this opportunity and reiterate, is it possible to make so that we can name our saves? It'd much helpful with such a big game with so many variables and choices. If not for EP4, maybe for Season 2?
Jacek Wiśniewski
2024-11-12 23:44:52 +0000 UTCPersonally, I have no problem with this as I tend to start fresh pt's at every release. My memory isn't always reliable, so I guess Recaps would be a more appropriate term? REpt's?
Joshua Dershem
2024-11-12 23:38:29 +0000 UTCI have a little dev knowledge but zero ren'pay knowledge. Are you able to access the save game data structure directly? It might be possible to build an export function to rebuild the data in the new format? But that might also be a lot of work!
Vision1138
2024-11-12 23:21:20 +0000 UTCHunting for bugs I didn't introduce myself was very frustrating indeed. :)
Drifty
2024-11-12 23:14:39 +0000 UTCThanks for the info and all the work. Still.... damn considering all the choices PTs, all that.... I guess at one point I'll have to replay it all if I want to play EP4. The fact that it was a major bug that was not reported considering how big Ren'Pay is (how many games run on it) that's sucks from a developer stand point
Jacek Wiśniewski
2024-11-12 23:10:05 +0000 UTCOk just re live the journey!
Calvin R
2024-11-12 23:02:08 +0000 UTCI honestly can't answer that 100%, as I've done a lot of changes lately to try and combat this weird behaviour. But please let me know if your old ep2 saves worked.
Drifty
2024-11-12 22:59:58 +0000 UTCHi. Thanks for letting us know. I just started 3.04 today but didn't get far. So if I download 3.1, can I load my save from the end of my EP2 game and continue? Or do I have to play from the beginning?
Vision1138
2024-11-12 22:57:23 +0000 UTCYeah, I thought it was kind of weird that after failing to load my game from Episode 2, the game rembered all of my choices on a brand new playthrough. Had to purge it and restart because I couldn't pass an area that required me to do something I'd already done. Thanks for being on the lookout for bugs, Drifty.
Zeban
2024-11-12 22:57:23 +0000 UTCAll good just glad you figured it out
Tom W
2024-11-12 22:56:11 +0000 UTC
