The Lost Crown Auf Deutsch-2: Getting by the Bugs

Well I thought I'd had it. 

So I've been getting by the bugs by quitting and reloading. Yesterday I had to quit Steam and reload, and that solved my problem.

The bugs are that I'll get to a point in the game where I have to click on a hot spot, but nothing happens. That's where I was all day yesterday. (Also, just occasionally I have to click way, way on the outside edge of the hotspot to get a response. The teensy pixel can be really difficult to find.)

I'm on the second night in the Museum. I'm downstairs. I've loaded the fuse, I've met Verity (well, Nigel doesn't know who she is yet). I've looked around at objects in other areas downstairs. Time to get on the elevator and go to the first floor

Bug: I can't click on the "1" in the elevator--the same problem I had on my first, daytime visit to the museum. I can click on the "2," which brings Verity into the elevator to take me back downstairs. I can click on the "0." I can even click on the phone button.

But there is no click on the "1." Therefore, I can't get to the first floor and the game is over.

So I uninstalled the game and reinstalled. Steam kept my achievements and my saved games--hooray! 

But it still didn't work. 

I thought I was done. Just to try it, I went back to the English version. Took ten minutes to download, but when I got into it I still had the saved games from the German version! I tried to get the elevator to move and voila! It worked right away!

So now I'm on the 1st floor where I'm supposed to be! I got by it! 

I'm now in the process of switching back to the German version, which takes another ten minutes to download--again.

But it seems from this experience that the problems in the game are in the German version, not the English. So if I keep running into problems, I've got this rather extreme solution to get by it.

I'm determined to finish this game! I'm having lots of fun despite the frustrations, and I continue to be massively impressed with the translation. And plus, even though my German is far from fluent, I haven't had to consult the English YouTube videos for a long time. I know the game well enough and can read the German just barely well enough to get through it quite nicely!

Onward! Vorwärts!

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