Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog

~ V1.036.000 (260.6 MB [install] --> 597.5 MB [after boot-up]) on disc

Download required. Although playable offline, an update is essential due to a game-breaking bug that halted progression. Utilized default settings.

-- Game-Breaking Bug: Later in the first playable day of security checks, during a power outage, the player character must use a set of keys found in the 'Captain's Quarters' to access her desk for pass codes to reboot the ship. Upon examining her desk with the 'Use' button after finding them, the game freezes up on the text saying "Alright, let's see, which one..." The 'Item' button is supposed to be highlighted on the in-game menu, but everything appears greyed out & none of the primary controller buttons work outside the 'Pause' menu. It's similar to a problem encountered in an earlier situation (noted below) regarding an optional quest / trophy. Reloading a previous save from the point where the player can help out Hansen in the elevator & selecting the 'Keys' in the sub-menu didn't fix the issue. The playthrough was abandoned as a result.

-- When reloading from the previous elevator save in an attempt to retry the desk key bug, after completing the emergency panel puzzle on the exterior of the ship, a strange dialogue loop occurred. As the player tried to manually rush through the game text in the subsequent 'Hanger' area, the animation of the puzzle handle replayed on screen & both dialogue outcomes to the choice of whenever the player character reveals the nature of his awareness for the secret panel code unfolded before eventually returning to normal gameplay.

-- Broken Side-Route / "Extra Credit" Trophy: On the first playable day of security checks across the ship, the player has the option to help out a cadet in the 'Hanger' area, Dalton, about a secondary activity. The player is soon tasked with replacing batteries in several suits stationed in the 'Airlock' area. However, interacting with them via the 'Use' button triggers the replacement dialogue, but the text freezes on "And now to put in the new batteries..." The in-game menu appears to lock-up while the gameplay still appears to be active similar to the aforementioned game-breaking bug. Reloading save data just right before the 'Hanger' exchange, manually trying to skip the bugged text & pulling up the batteries in the 'Item' sub-menu while in the 'Airlock' failed to avoid the issue. As a result, a previous save was loaded & the side-quest was ignored to progress further until the next fault.