Hello everyone,
We hope you all had a great Halloween! 🎃 Fitting the theme, we spent the past month dealing with a rather spooky bug 👻
Unity Bug
The problem 🐞
If this bug happened to you, it’s quite obvious to see: the game crashes 🎮💥
Unfortunately, the cause isn’t that obvious to find. We highly suspect it’s related to changes from a recent Unity update.
We know the crash occurs when the game tries to access a piece of memory that has already been freed (the application no longer “owns” that memory, so the operating system blocks access, resulting in a crash).
Rolling back is not an option, as the update was necessary to close a security vulnerability in the engine itself and Steam announced to take actions if games do not fix this.
As with every reported bug, we tried to reproduce it. Unfortunately, on our own computers with various hardware setups, we haven’t been able to reproduce the crash yet. So we're unable to narrow down what line of code (if it's only one) actually causes the crash 😕
Our Approach 🛠️
We keep a close eye on all your bug reports while researching if others encountered similar issues (and maybe have a solution).
We work together with some catastic community members (who sadly experience these crashes) to gather more information.
We might already be onto something! 😯 Once the fix is confirmed, a new version will be tested and rolled out on Steam. Sorry again for the trouble, we hope to fix the issue as soon as possible! 🤗
Since the Unity bug has taken up quite a lot of our time, the rest of our Monthly Update is a bit lighter:
Third Biome ❄️
Up to now, we’ve talked about the new setting, a new boss fight, and showed you the torches. What we haven’t mentioned yet: Steam Achievements 🏅 We’re currently working on new achievements you can unlock while fighting your way through the snowy mountains ⚔️⛰️
Stay wild and pawsome! 🐯🐆🦁🐼