Author Topic: I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?  (Read 2230 times)

Offline Sonorus

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I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?
« on: January 28, 2011, 07:19:23 pm »
I recently downloaded the demo, and started playing the intermediate tutorial.  At this point, I noticed the game version was only at 4.0, so I upgraded to 5.0.  Now, however, my tutorial now has the trial time limit starting.  Now I have to rush to try to finish the tutorial in 1 and a half hours!

Is there a way I can fix this, or was this done on purpose?  Thanks for your help!

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Re: I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 07:20:45 pm »
There definitely shouldn't be a time limit -- and if there was, it would be 3 hours.  Can you post your savegame?  It might be a display error, where it's counting down but won't actually stop you when it hits the end in the tutorial.  Sorry about that!
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Re: I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2011, 08:07:58 pm »
Wow, quick response  :)  And it turned out that the timer was set at 3 hours, I was just being bad at math.

Here's my savefile: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18945689/Tutorial%20game.sav

EDIT: And, by sheer luck, beat the tutorial before 5 minutes before the timer went off!  Lovely game, I'm gonna have to get this now.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2011, 10:37:31 pm by Sonorus »

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Re: I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2011, 11:32:14 pm »
Would you happen to have a save (perhaps an autosave) of before you beat it, one with the timer almost over?
Edit: Never mind, tested it myself. See below.
« Last Edit: January 29, 2011, 02:18:27 am by c4sc4 »

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Re: I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2011, 02:15:42 am »
Sorry for the double post but I just tested the tutorial. Luckily, the timer is just a graphical bug and does not kick you out of the game when it ends. I've posted it on mantis here.

Also, during the testing, I stumbled upon a separate bug in the tutorial that causes the wave parts of the tutorial to reset. I posted it on mantis as well.

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Re: I thought the tutorials didn't have a time limit?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2011, 11:03:25 am »
Thanks for posting those to mantis!
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