Game breaking stuck.

[Tiny Trees]

Hi Steam folks,

Please can I ask favour, can you tell me if my game is bugged. I am stuck in A:MR.

Youtube clip to show where I am stuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLzzlJ6DGAw

- At 1.35 there is a jump that takes me many times to get over.

- At 1.50 minutes in there is a tough bit that takes lots of getting past with hammer type things. First time took me a good fifty goes to get past those.

- Then at 2.07 when you pass those big hammer things you land on a platform. There's lots of enemies arrive and I keep dying. However I don't re-spawn on that platform like the player in the video does. You see a re-spawn of the player at 4.06.

Yet when I die I have to start the whole thing again. What compounds the issue is I die about maybe a hundred times getting to the platform. I re-spawn when I die at the hammers or the jumps where I died. Only when when I get to the platform and am defeated I have to restart everything.

I could cope with this level if I did come back to life on the platform, but I don't. What's strange is the monsters appear after I fall missing the jump to the platform. It's like they think I should be there, or have re-spawned there.

I have given up on it now. To be honest gutted. Loved it.

[COnightshade]

That has happened to me too but not every single time. I honestly don't have a clue why this is happening either.

[Tiny Trees]

Thanks for taking the time. I somehow managed to make a TL-DR almost of my explanation.

It happened to me in an earlier part of the game too.

I think if I go back to it I might eventually get past. I really ran out of enthusiasm last time though. Great game otherwise, so really gutted.

[Thiccshroom]

I've had it happen on and off as well.
I don't really know why it happens.
As mindblowingly amazing as this game is, it's also mindblowingy buggy v.v

Hope you get passed the part though :T
Gl.

[Phoebe]

When you say you're dying at this point, is it because you fall off the ledge or because you run out of health?

If it's the first, that sounds like a bug. If it's the second, then the game is working as intended. If you die by losing all your health, you're forced to restart from the beginning of that section.

If you're finding the game too frustrating because of this, I recommend looking up a way to enable the DLC content, which is a collection of dresses and weapons that make the game easier. One of the weapons cuts enemy damage in half, and two of the dresses let you rapidly regenerate your health or enter Hysteria mode at will.

[Tiny Trees]

Ah. The video does show a fall off the ledge and re-spawn. I am dying because I get defeated. There's just too much to get past in this section. I am wondering what happens if I do make it past.

If I died in the part after all this, and was sent right back to the start that would be game over. It's too difficult. I suppose I could alter the game difficulty.

[Phoebe]

Changing the difficulty would help too, yeah. Regardless, I hope the game gets more fun for you from that point on. A lot of the difficulty is really focused in the first level, and it frustrated me too.

[Tiny Trees]

Like other people have said there is another part earlier on that makes you go back and repeat lots. I was grumbling at the game then too. This part is exceptionally tough. During the hammer things the view becomes side scroll, and then the controls react differently. Jumping does not always mean making it up to the next step, so it's easy to get squashed. I have to do an Alice shrink to hope to survive the hammer.

After that if I don't fall during the long jump, there are too many enemies on the platform. The three faced one being the one that always gets me when it's the last one. One thing I need to try is the cover mode, (press caps lock) when faced alone by that enemy. Until now I am too panicked to take my eyes off the screen to find the caps key.

EDIT: I slightly edited the opeing post.
I tried again for half-an-hour. I died maybe a hundred times getting to the platform, then was defeated again.

[Tiny Trees]

I just had an idea I will try later. When I reach the platform and am low on health, maybe I should suicide of the platform. Maybe I will be re-spawned there with full health. Will try later, no time to start up game now and struggle to get there; long job.

[Tiny Trees]

I DID IT!
I GOT PAST!
I GOT TO THE PLATFORM AND DEFEATED THEM ALL!

I tried falling off the platform to see if I re-appeared full health. That doesn't work. I just re-appeared same health I had when I fell off.

It was just trial and error. However I picked up some tips that I can share.

1. I was struggling originally just getting to the platform. It was because many times I could not do the complex jumps needed to get there. I was falling off of getting squashed jumpin up through the hammers, so many times.

A. I found best way to jump long distances was the angle you face the jump at. If you are looking up at Alice (camera angle) you get no height from jumps. Best to be looking horizontally I think it was. Anyway try for yourselves, and maybe looking down a little.

2. Going into focus mode by pressing caps lock. This causes all sorts of problems but helps as well.

A. It's very hard to move around when you effectively feel like you are playing side-scroll 2D. Just practice makes perfect. Having E to use the umbrella helps against projectiles so it helped get me through. I had used focus mode before but found it very hard work here: just needed practice.


THANKYOU everyone for your encouragement. I had given up but your posts kept niggling at em to keep trying.