Game crashing in condos

Bug Report
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While hosting a condo server with a friend, I glitched into the top of a doorway with the jetpack. The server (and game) crashed instantly, resulting in a black screen. I am now forced to type this on my second monitor, as the game is running in fullscreen and can’t be closed. I’ll try to re-create the bug when I get it fixed, but I currently can’t do anything. I cannot run the task manager, as it is hidden behind the black screen. I also can’t force quit or quit manually; both do nothing.

Edit: I managed to fix it by logging out, which closed all of my programs (aside from the ones that I needed, which is why I didn’t restart). I will now try to re-create the bug.

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next time you can fix it by pressing ctrl + alt + escape which will bring up the windows task manager, then go to processes and find tower64game or whatever it’s called and then closing it. This is a known bug that occurs when trapped in the ceiling, it is most easily recreated by stacking furniture all the way to a ceiling, crouching to get onto it and then uncrouching.

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I couldn’t see the task manager, as the black screen covered everything on my first monitor. Thanks anyway.

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oh i see, i didn’t consider that as i run it in windowed

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If the game covers the screen, you’ll need to do command prompt magic.
Start + R, Type cmd and press enter, then type taskkill /F /IM Tower.exe

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I could be wrong, but if I couldn’t see the task manager, I don’t think I would have been able to see the command prompt. I think I was also running a program that forced it into fullscreen, which made it worse.

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If it crashes like that you should be able to get the task bar to cover to screen, from there you don’t need to see anything, otherwise your screwed.

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We think we know what the problem is, it has to do with time substepping in the physics engine. We’ll most likely have it sorted out in the next alpha release.

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Thanks for your report! This has been forwarded straight to our Trello board. You can track its status there.

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Thanks for your report! This has been forwarded straight to our Trello board. You can track its status there (it takes a couple minutes to show up on Trello).

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