The Grand Library bug has been in the game for over a year at this point with me chasing my tail and applying small fixes to chip away at the problem. Today, a user with a save at that location helped me run through it and figure out what was broken. This goes back to to the June 17th, 2023 build #148 update w here the Grand Library quest had new events to show (!) bubbles to indicate the next step. It appears that the (!) controlled by a separate event when paired with a (!) controlled by an interaction text event which used the "wait to finish" would cause it to wait forever for the other event even if it was no longer playing. This caused the game to freeze in place forever.
A fix to this was deployed along the "testa" branch. The same fix will be deployed to the public branch either tomorrow or Monday. In the meantime, if you are affected by this, follow these steps to circumvent it for the duration of the GL quest before swapping back to the default branch:
To opt into a beta, right click Cross of Auria from the games list
Click Properties
Click the Betas tab
Enter, without the quotations: "coatest001glib"
Press "Opt in"
Let the update download.
EDIT
- Very shortly after posting this, a new bug was found that required me to disable the testa and devtest beta builds, leaving only the default branch.
- This puts us in a very weird situation where half the quest log has been gutted and progress won't be adequately tracked. I'll be attacking this in the coming days and attempting to apply fixes to the global update controller based on already completed quests. At some point, there will be an announcement that this is finished and we'll swap to bug squashing mode.