Ok, this one is very embarassing but bear with me:
...Turns out the bug I talked about in the previous post with the flashes and stuff was not fixed.
I've done pretty much everything I could to solve it and nothing worked, so I'm straight up just gonna remove the mechanic from the game, fuck it lmaoooooo
The weird thing is that, despite the first release of the game having absolutely horrendous code compared to this one, it worked fine there??? I used an incredibly similar method for the recode version, so I'm not sure why it just... doesn't work anymore.
It was just pure filler anyway I'm kinda glad it's gone lol
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