Potential locking out of a secret in utility area.

[[FRB] Monte]

In the utility area , after having taught you that you can use reagent 303 to blow up yellow tagged walls, there's an opportunity to lock yourself out of a secret.

You see two yellow tagged walls, and one barrel on an elevated surface.
What you're meant to do is "realize" that ou cannot blow up the nearby wall and therefore blow up the wall to the supply closet, get a data log and open up a couple of rooms to eventually lower a bridge.

What I did was just use a couple blue barrels to get the regeant 303 accross since I didnt know which was was forward and which was was a secret.

[EASY_E1_]

Lol, same happened to me. Thankfully I had a quicksave prior. At the very least its a good sequence break so it'll probably be good for speed runners or saving ammo.

[[FRB] Monte]

Originally posted by Explosive Zombie:

There's a room that gives you two more reagent barrels anyways

That is the room you need the barrel for.

[pilcrow]

i did this without realising there was like, a whole half of the map locked behind blowing up the other door, so now i'm just straight up locked out of an upgrade and datapad/ worse, i learn this only while secret-hunting a few sectors ahead, so i can't exactly load a save.
it's a little frustrating since i have no idea what that upgrade is or how important it is, but the fact that i've got 7/7 secrets on the map means it was probably something i was supposed to pick up

be nice if there was a vent or something you could follow to get back to that locked room if you did this
would've also been fine with it if there wasn't an upgrade there

[Zoom, Tilt and PAN]

I did the same on the first playthrough and it did not hinder the intended progression so no harm no foul. Only for those who want all the secrets on the first playthrough this may be a snafu.

[Nexxtic]

I was pretty sure we fixed this, but I fear something accidentally got rolled back in the process

[charity]

the icing on the cake for this whole situation is, the tagged door to the room with the locked barrels has broken collision. you can just crouch jump into it :P

edit: here's me doing it [streamable.com]

[[FRB] Monte]

🙃 lmao

[Nexxtic]

Originally posted by charity:

the icing on the cake for this whole situation is, the tagged door to the room with the locked barrels has broken collision. you can just crouch jump into it :P

edit: here's me doing it [streamable.com]

Yeah I'm 100% convinced a few things got rolled back in this level.

We fixed that embarrassing mistake months ago!

[IG-JF-CF]

oh ♥♥♥♥ i did the same thing!

[IG-JF-CF]

YUP, i softlocked myself, and the door can be crouch walked through! current version of the game

[IG-JF-CF]

I'm trying to get the extra barrels back through the bugged door but it is really tough.

OKay, it is fixable without the console. You have to gather all the blue barrels, loose bricks, and file boxes around the level, clip through the door, then build a staircase, then sit on the brick pile and lift up the reagent barrels through the clipped door.

You have to be very careful however that you don't double stack the two barrels on the snap-spot next to the clipped door. Move the 2nd one far away before you activate the first one for this reason