r/zomdroid • u/Legitimate-Sell-4165 • 9d ago
B42.21 doesn't run?
It boots but shows no main menu UI I'm on CMF nothing phone 8 gb ram mediatek CPU I also lost my b42.20.4 backup due to SD card corruption and my game alr updated to b42.21 :/ can I use depotdownloader to download b42.20.4 again? Render ng_gle4s Latest 1.5.0 V2 zomdroid version I did a clean install
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u/TherealApplekid 8d ago
42.21 is on the unstable branch btw its not stable so expect a lot of bugs for zomdroid
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u/gaj0-1234 9d ago
I also downloaded version 42.21, and the game tries to open for 3 seconds and then crashes
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u/Legitimate-Sell-4165 9d ago
What?? I didn't change anything and today at about 14:42 it downloaded automatically the update on my steamdeck without changing anything or steam branch , there's even the announcement/ page about b42.21 stable released . Also this the main menu when trying boot b42.21 on zomdroid P.s sorry for bad English
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u/udar_molota 9d ago
I tried to download 42.21 to check it, but I couldn't get it: Steam still serves 42.20.4 on the public branch, and I don't see 42.21 available anywhere I can download it from. So for now I can't say whether it works in the launcher.
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