Next Version To-Do List (v104) Thread - Uplink OS mod for Uplink - Trust is a Weakness

Hey guys!

First off, thanks a lot for the bug reports, they've been an immense help to get the mod to a stable version!
I know I should've created this thread earlier and figured people don't really care.

Alas, it got quieter around here after the latest version which is a good thing, since it means most people don't encounter so many bugs anymore.
Unfortunately, during the late stages of a project, the bugs that remain are generally the hardest to find and fix, and that's why I'm creating this list. If you see anything here that has happened to you, please give a reply with how it happened, or what were you doing at the time. Every detail counts!

Note: While these are marked for the respective version, it doesn't mean that everything will be fixed. What doesn't get fixed, gets pushed back to a later version.
Note2: They're in no particular order. It's just how I wrote them down. Being at the top, doesn't mean that it'll take priority.

v104 To-Do

• MAAAAYBE FIXED (098): Crash when trying to contact an employer of an inaccessible "trace the hacker mission" and then trying to accept another one?

Crashes

• Crash when game speed is fast and clicking (random?) buttons - also happened in vanilla
• After creating a new user, the game hanged when entering the Uplink Internal Services System Help page (happened once)
• Crash when opening the game - possible mistake when installing the game?
• After creating a new user, the game crashes when opening Uplink Internal Services System - "Invalid ScreenID error" in debuglog (happened once)
• Crash when interacting with the pop-ups when leaving the files/logs screen while apps are running?

Bugs

• The "Shiny Hammer" completion checks might fail if the user deleted all files through the UI
• LAN systems hotkeys sometimes don't work?
• When using bypassing apps, if you get kicked off a LAN system, they would have to be restarted in order to work again (happened once)
• After buying the Nuke and Motion Sensor, receive an e-mail with "Gateway nuked / you weren't caught" (happened once)
• You can arrest dead people - from vanilla
• Only 2 songs in music? (happened once)
• Minor positioning issues on ultra-wide displays

Features

• Some way to force update/render the game for low-end devices?
• Back buttons everywhere!
• Add some more visual effects when running Revelation on your gateway
• Save windows and apps positions between sessions

That's about it for now! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks again for the help! <3

Edited by: Cpt.McBacon

-nevermind, redundant-

Edited by: subenji99

I'm working my way through the main story, currently up to the counterattack mission. Is there a way to see which computers are affected with revelation? They flash on the map, but not then zoomed in. Also one tidbit I noticed was the Awards in the profile menu don't have a title or text associated with them, so there's no way of telling what they are awarded for.

@snibsnib: The fact that they don't appear when the map is full screen, is a bug. A bug that's fixed and will be in the next version.
You won't be able to click on them or view their actual name or IP if you don't already have them, though. That's the Revelation_Tracker's job.

As for the awards, I just forgot to put their tooltips in Will do.

Edited by: Cpt.McBacon

Random (?) hang/crash/bug during gameplay, which causes save files to become corrupt; Apps stop working at the time of the bug, which means the game gets into pause

I don't know if it's relevant but maybe it becomes corrupt when the game is saving and an app starts to run? i notice my corrupted saves log always ends in "saving-" around there, after saving the options.

I notice it happens to me a lot when i enter voice locks.

Also if that happens, i kill the game process in task manager to avoid my save from becoming corrupt.

Edited by: adohk

@adohk: I was wondering, does it happen random or after you played an X amount of time?

It's probably random, there are times i played a lot and nothing would happen.

Any ish ETA on 0.97?

Stuck on "SaveItForTheJury" due to the bug regarding bypasses of monitor/proxy/firewall in banks. Got handed a bank I already bypassed. F***!

@adohk: oh, ok. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to play the game for longer periods of time so I couldn't reproduce it yet. Hopefully I'll get it this coming weekend.

@wrc-: The thing is that I didn't fix as many issues as I would like to, because of some really tough work/life things >_< and that's why I haven't released it yet. But seeing as things look a bit crowded the coming days/weeks, I might release it before getting through everything on my checklist. So, probably in the coming days.

Totally understandable! We all have our lives and a million things to do. I'll just follow the thread and carry on when the update hits. Thanks for taking your time to answer.

Soooo... 097 is out, but there's a crappy bug that won't let you access transfer logs Will fix it as fast as I can.

@wrc-: If you don't need to access the transfer logs you can now continue the mission When connecting to it, you will have to run the bypass software again and the system will reset after closing the app or disconnecting from the server

Cheers!

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@adohk: Hey man! Do you happen to know if that random crash/hang you've been getting, still happens in the latest versions? Thanks!

I'm crashing when installing a lot of new hardware to my Gateway... Anything known about this? I've tried restarting like 3 times but it keeps crashing.

Alright I just got past it by keeping my email closed. Probably that same bug then.

@dishblecher: I can't seem to reproduce this crash anymore, so I've got a few questions, maybe I'm missing something:
Did you have any e-mails in the list or was it empty?
Did you have an e-mail opened?
Just checking: What version are you running (you can see it in the Main Menu, under the user photo)?
What tab was the E-Mail client on?

Thanks a lot and sorry for the inconvenience!

So it was v100, and I had it on the message tab. I had several emails in the list. It was on mass installing hardware (8x 200Ghz, 3x 32GQ & 1x 8GQ, 1x 8GQ/s, 1x Nuke & 1x Sensor), right after upgrading to TRINITY. I think it crashed both with emails open and with none open.

I also just did the RevolutionCore0.7 thing and I couldn't access either of the emails on his PC, they just didn't show up.

Thanks for letting me know! I did manage to fix it last night! Same goes for the dead agent's "eMailz" screen.

Also, I don't know if this is deliberate or not, but there's no way (that I can tell) to view the date in-game. Only the time and weekday. It'd be nice if you could see the date, especially once story missions roll around.

@dishblecher: I guess I should make it more visible(?) You can hold the mouse over and the tooltip will show you the date.

If you are fast forwarding a lot then it is easy to lose track of the day when waiting for a storyline event

This was a really weird bug I had once and I have no idea how to replicate it. I don't think I've seen anyone mention it before.

One time while playing through the storyline, I got an e-mail telling me my new Gateway would be ready in 24 hours despite not having bought one. After the 24 hours were up, I got another one to log back out and in. When I did, the game refused to let me log back in because of an authentication error. Luckily, and somewhat ashamedly, I kept a backup of my save some moments before the second e-mail arrives and managed to "fix" it by running Revelation v1 on my Gateway. That didn't trigger the "Your Gateway looks broke from our end, want to buy a new one" message and I didn't lose anything, weirdly enough.

Edited by: Vertette

@Vertette: Hmmm... that does seem weird. I don't know if it's vanilla related or the mod at fault. Will try to look into it, thanks! Great to hear you managed to bypass it.

Only 2 songs in music? (happened once)

I would like to confirm, that through all the versions I have played I have had this issue. Only realised when I was watching a video on the original uplink and heard one of the other tracks.

@Dude579 Hmmm... Really curious case. I dunno why it happens to some players and not to others. I'll try to look some more into it, hopefully it's an easy fix :/

It could be a factor of people not realising. I have put about 20 hours into Uplink OS and I only realised around 15 hours in.

With hid app manager every app can be pinned and set to 100% allowing to multiply efficiency through the roof.

ie. app1 50% + app2 50% = 100% -> pin app1 & app2 -> set app1 100% set app2 100% = 200%

In addition setting less processing power to any app should utilize it in other not pinned apps.

ie. app1 50% + app2 50% = 100% -> lower app1 10% -> app1 10% + app2 50% = 60%

There's no volume sliders, usually I fix this by using Windows Mixer, but that's not an option here because the borderless fullscreen hides all windows in front of it.