Arrowgrab on 21/2/2021 at 19:43

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So, my replay brought me to another issue which looks like script problem, though unrelated to NVScript.

So, second mission, I've just opened the door to the Necropolis. There's a straight corridor where Garrett muses about traps, and sure enough, there is one. As you approach, you see this:

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lvN03Y8UbAj5mm0tQvpTxP_tTL2DW9hG/view?usp=sharing)
(Sorry, image embedding doesn't work for me on TTLG.)

Now, what normally happens is that you step on the octagonal tile, a crushing column drops down in front of you, then a few seconds later two rotating spiked horizontal skewers come out of the wall at ankle height, then a few second after that a second column drops right on top of you, directly above the octagon while the first one rises back into the ceilnig. As I recall, the solution is that you stop exactly on the octagon (which is a pressure plate), crouch, do not move (in order to avoid the skewers), and wait for the plate under your feet to sink deeper. This way, the second column will stop above your head, and then you can proceed forward. IIRC, that's what happened in previous playthroughs.

Not now, however. What happens is that the first column comes down, the skewers appear, but the octagon does not sink. Or rather, it sinks a couple of pixels then stops. The failure of the plate to sink means that when the second column comes down, it crushes you because you're too high up. Here's a second screenshot, showing the second column down and the octagon failing to sink:

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BiyBBxx3kBZOE17ioqocVKrKKlEe82t-/view?usp=sharing)

Now, the isn't the first I've encountered something like this. There's another T2 FM, Into the Odd, where I've encountered something similar. In that FM, you're supposed to step on a pressure plate (or drop a heavy object on it), it will sink, and once it's fully sunk it will trigger something. There, too, the plate only sinks a few pixels for me and then stops. I wrote about it (https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150417&page=9) here on July 4, 2020, but nobody there knew how to fix this.

I guess I might be wrong, but I can't help noticing how both FMs display the same behaviour: a pressure plate sinks a tiny bit then stops, instead of sinking all the way. Same computer, same T2 installation. I guess it might be script-related, but I don't know what script could be causing this. At this point, I'd be grateful for any pointers. I'm not even sure what non-FM-specific tech help thread to post in about this. Any ideas? This bug renders Broken Triad unfinishable, since you absolutely must pass the trap to proceed.

Brethren on 21/2/2021 at 20:23

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Yep, the button is directly above you on the ceiling.

baeuchlein on 22/2/2021 at 02:21

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When I played this mission a few days ago, nothing happened at this spot, as far as I remember. Most likely, I had the old scripts included with the mission installed, not newer versions of the scripts.

baeuchlein on 22/2/2021 at 13:09

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I played on Normal, so that explains that.