Game-breaking Thief bug or April fools prank....?

[mottamort]

Hey there. I'm a MASSIVE fan of the game, but this is ridiculous. Here's MY story:
Start Hectors final client job, to steal automoton's heart. complete it. try to leave. (w00t 100% items lifted all secrets found). missions restarts, wipes my quicksave. This has now happened 3 times.

I've also now seen I'm not the only one: clicky.

There is an apparent fix for this, but I have yet to try it (setting clock to April 8).

Meh, and I was such a fan of this game, but there's no way to fanboy my way out of this one.



Anyone else run into this kind of bug where you just CANNOT progress?

 

[James]

Weird. I passed that mission first time with no issues. Wonder if they patched in a bug somehow...

 

[mottamort]

Take it you didnt click the link. Doesn't matter where you are in the game, it does not progress.

They even acknowledge it, but don't really have any help yet.

 

[mottamort]

Seems they've just released a patch for it (although by the looks of it only James and I actually play thief ). Hopefully its fixed now

Patch notes here

Summation:
Fixed an issue where when finishing a chapter, the user would be brought back to the start.
Fixed several audio issues, including:
- Issues with sound occlusion, being able to hear NPCs talking through walls.
- Issues with music being relatively loud in several chapters.
- Issue with credits music.
Fixed an issue with shadows that would occur on certain Nvidia and Intel GPUs.
Fixed issues where the quicksave would be overwritten.
Increased dedicated texture memory pool size for Intel GPUs.
Fixed an issue where several documents were missing.
Fixed an issue where the Spectral Aspect trinket had no effect.
Fixed an issue where player was unable to look around while using the handwheel.
Button prompts in the station screens now update automatically based on the user input method.
Several minor bug fixes.