residual/residual — Issue #417: GRIM: Blocker, Manny and Chepito Disappear After first walkaround
Author: Grimfan33
Created: 2011-11-08 21:10:10+00:00
State: open

Makes game unplayable if one doesn't have earlier backup saves and manages to find a way to get them to appear.

In the first section where you are underwater by the ship wreak, as you go walking around the ship with the Chepito only Glottis returns…Manny and Chepito disappear. Glottis looks up, and you hear the sound of Manny and Chepito walking, but they never show up.

Here is a video of what is supposed to happen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTHfH-3S1Y&feature=related
As you can see, after Manny asks Chepito if they can "tag along", they all walk around in a big circle, with all three of them returning to the ship wreck.

Unfortunately, in this save, you'll see that Manny and Chepito disappeared...and only Glottis is there:
http://www.smallfiles.org/download/93/grim05.gsv.html

This makes the game uncompletable, since you need to go around at least once with Chepito before you're given the option to "use" him for the light that takes you to the Pearl.

I also uploaded the save I had just prior to the glitch occurring, just before to Manny, Glottis and Chepito go around where Manny and Chepito disappear...it's here:
http://www.smallfiles.org/download/94/grim02.gsv.html

I was able to get to finally get Manny and Chepito to appear and get to the pearl after randomly messing with options and restarting Residual and loading the grim02.gsv above right before they go around and disappear...I don't know exactly what I did or if it was blind luck.

One thing I did notice when they finally did appear after going around is that in my options menu, 3D Acceleration was set to "Off" and it was set to something called "TinyGL". The Sound Effect volume was also all the way down (I've been having a glitch where whenever I restart residual, it starts up with the Sound Effects volume all the way down) and in that instance I didn't turn it up again until after they had appeared after the walk-around.

I saved when got to Pearl with the Octopus, quit out of Residual, restarted Residual, loaded an older save from right at beginning of Year 3 on the ship and 3D Acceleration was on in settings and I turned up the Sound Effect volume, then hit F1 to bring up load screen again…where loaded the save at Pearl I had done, and everything was ok with 3D Acceleration enabled and the Sound Effects on in that save.