/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9067297
>Prevents all progress forwards, to the point where a player can't complete the game with the given party no matter how much they grind. What do you think it means?
That's the textbook definition of a softlock: being trapped in a box (the entire world can effectively be a box) with the game thinking everything is fine and playable, letting you pace back and forth and interact with everything in the box like normal, but you can't actually escape and progress.

A hardlock is when a game gets stuck via a crash or freeze, rendered completely unplayable.