This is not the first bug I've come across, it's just that by now I'm so annoyed with the bugs that I'm about to just give up and play something else. I'd like to finish the game, though!
First time through, I did a quick save before getting the "BIG GUN" (sorry, I'm a noob and don't have all the game objects and characters names memorized, yet) that would have allowed me to shoot down the helicopters in Surface Tension. Shortly thereafter, I died again, and hit Quick Load, but the previous level had already been "completed" - i.e. there was no gun to pick up. If it weren't for the YouTube walkthrough, I probably would have just tried to finish the game without the "cool" gun, but I decided to start ALL over again and try to get 'er done.
Wasn't gonna happen. Same kind of "bug", different situation.
When I entered the level that has that really big monster fighting the soldier near the Track Control booth, again...all of the monsters were dead, all of the items were gone, etc. And this was after I started a completely New Game. WTF? Now I can't even continue from either of the two threads of saved games I have.
So, just thinking out loud here...
I don't expect you to ever be able to find out why these bugs are happening. There are just too many, and they are too unrelated. Please, prove me wrong!
However, you might want to consider adding an option to the Load Game screen that allows us to Delete an old game...possibly the one that may be corrupting the current game's progress.
In Addition, you might want to consider publishing some saved games as a "package" that would allow anyone who encounters these shitty bugs to "work around" them. For example, just give me a saved game "out of the box" for each new level. Of course, I'm still going to play the game from the start to the finish (maybe!), but it would sure be nice to know that we don't have to reinvest(^^) all of those hard earned hours to get back to a point in the game where we were days ago...only to find out that we have to start all over again.
This is not the first bug I've come across, it's just that by now I'm so annoyed with the bugs that I'm about to just give up and play something else. I'd like to finish the game, though!
First time through, I did a quick save before getting the "BIG GUN" (sorry, I'm a noob and don't have all the game objects and characters names memorized, yet) that would have allowed me to shoot down the helicopters in Surface Tension. Shortly thereafter, I died again, and hit Quick Load, but the previous level had already been "completed" - i.e. there was no gun to pick up. If it weren't for the YouTube walkthrough, I probably would have just tried to finish the game without the "cool" gun, but I decided to start ALL over again and try to get 'er done.
Wasn't gonna happen. Same kind of "bug", different situation.
When I entered the level that has that really big monster fighting the soldier near the Track Control booth, again...all of the monsters were dead, all of the items were gone, etc. And this was after I started a completely New Game. WTF? Now I can't even continue from either of the two threads of saved games I have.
So, just thinking out loud here...
I don't expect you to ever be able to find out why these bugs are happening. There are just too many, and they are too unrelated. Please, prove me wrong!
However, you might want to consider adding an option to the Load Game screen that allows us to Delete an old game...possibly the one that may be corrupting the current game's progress.
In Addition, you might want to consider publishing some saved games as a "package" that would allow anyone who encounters these shitty bugs to "work around" them. For example, just give me a saved game "out of the box" for each new level. Of course, I'm still going to play the game from the start to the finish (maybe!), but it would sure be nice to know that we don't have to reinvest(^^) all of those hard earned hours to get back to a point in the game where we were days ago...only to find out that we have to start all over again.