I am also experiencing this. The game is responsive, but movement input has no effect.

It's the same for me, it seems that a worm is suppose to come from the right but he dies instead.

i can confirm this, running fedora 15.

Note that you can bypass this if you start a new game and select the second option after the first level, which seemingly follows a different story.

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> Note that you can bypass this if you start a new game and select the second
> option after the first level, which seemingly follows a different story.

Can anyone clarify the difference in these choices?
Is it a temporary, or permanent storyline branch?

Also, I'm experiencing this bug as well.

same here,and in the second choice the same append in level 4.

me too.  running ubuntu.

It should follow on with "I Can't" and then Sayadi should arrive.

Looks exactly the same as this report on http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1721980.html so it is a latent bug from the original.

I'm also experiencing this one - Ubuntu 11.04 AMD64.

Same here, I have the 1.05 version from the indy bundle.
The level just wont start, but sometimes just offscreen an 'enemy pointer' seems to fall down, and sometimes I get coins.
Looks like a scripting error. Tried a new game, but same deal.

Using Linux Mint 11

Same here... Annoying bug, we just would like to play the story without problems.

I have the same issue with Ubuntu 10.10 and Hammerfight 1.005.

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Hammerfight Sunset path bug video

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> Created attachment 2893 [details]
> Hammerfight Sunset path bug video

Same problem for me under Fedora 15 64 bits, with Hammerfight 1.005 from the humble Indie bundle #3.
Here is a short video...

Thanks !

Another one, here. Gentoo x86, from Humble Bundle hf-linux-07172011-bin. Has anyone tried playing through wine/steam to see if it is fixed there?

System Info:

AMD64x2 AM2+, 2GB 800Mhz DIMM2 RAM
Nvidia 7300GS, 512 MB
Nvidia proprietary driver 260.19.44
kernel 2.6.39.r1
xorg-server 1.9.5
LXDE 0.5.5
compiz 0.8.6

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> Another one, here. Gentoo x86, from Humble Bundle hf-linux-07172011-bin. Has
> anyone tried playing through wine/steam to see if it is fixed there?
> 
> System Info:
> 

HF doesnt like wine. It wont progress beyond the first 'intro' splash.
It also doesnt like virtualbox. 
Really seems like it will only go for native linux or native w32, no inbetweens.

(ironic thing is, it does work on w32, I could finally play the mission and planned on coppying the save to my linux version. Then my hdd with my windows partition died while playing...)

Probably not adding anything, but I have the humble bundle hammerfight and it has this problem. Can't move, sunset keeps getting darker, nothing happens. Forever.

I've also seen this bug - I believe what happens is that the character you're supposed to defend in this mission somehow dies before it starts which is why sometimes you see coins flying, or one of those red arrow deals.

Once he's died the mission fails to restart/exit, leaving you to fly on forever. No control is given to the user at any time.

I've found no work around for this bug except to start a new profile and pick the alternative plot path.

This has been fixed in build #2 (for me at least).

I tried build 08122011 and at first it didn't work, but after clearing my settings and profile data it then did indeed fix the problem.

Awesome.

I can confirm that the latest build cleared this up for me.
The game also seems to run a lot smoother too.

Good that the above posters noticed, because I wasnt even aware of a new build. :)

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> I can confirm that the latest build cleared this up for me.
> The game also seems to run a lot smoother too.
> 
> Good that the above posters noticed, because I wasnt even aware of a new build.
> :)

Yep, same here. The problem is solved in newest Humble Bundle build. Very good job.

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> Good that the above posters noticed, because I wasnt even aware of a new build.
> :)

I didn't close this bug because I definitely didn't make a specific change to fix this problem (it never reproduced on my machine in the first place).

That being said, there were a few gnarly bugs that got fixed that, generically, could have fixed this too (memory corruption fixes, etc).

I'm going to go ahead and resolve this bug, then. I'm glad to hear the problem is fixed! Enjoy the game!

--ryan.

I'm reopening this.  Sorry if that's the wrong thing to do.  I still have this bug with the hf-linux-08122011-bin version from the Humble Bundle.

As the original report describes, the level begins, the characters talk a little and then nothing happens.  They just keep fly without responding to mouse input and without any attacker appearing until I hit ESC to quit.  

Since I am also experiencing bug 5143 that affects the other plot branch, I cannot make progress in this game.

eddward@gmail.com : Have you tried to delete game configuration and saves created by previous build? It is in your ~/.local/share/Hammerfight folder.

firencombomaster@gmail.com, deleting the old configuration directory appears to have fixed this.  I'll go ahead and re-close this.  Thanks!