Ashley got kidnapped with armor equipped.

[TheKingmario2]

I already hate the freakin professional S+ challange for various reasons, but i never.....never would have thinked that Ashley could have been kidnapped even with the Armor equipped.

For the ones that dosen't know: the Armor is a cosmetic outfit for Ashley that prevents ganados to kidnap or harm her. How it works? damage gets nullified, and if a Ganados tries to grab her, she fall from the Ganados shoulder and resume her run.

The thing that happened is: after something like 12 attempts, to get pass the fish farm to get the freakin gas tank, shooting medallions, grabbing vipers and GTFO here, then fighting that brainfart of a boss that is Del lago (on normal difficulty is already boring, on professional gets frustrating for how long it takes to take down), busting my nuts to get the rock heads for the church key, tackling El Gigante who tanks 2 magnum hits, and soak up resources like no one buissness, the only thing left to me to do was fleeing the church, an easy task with the armor....yes?......i get to the merchant "checkpoint" near the village church and SURPRISE!!!! ASHLEY GETS DRAGGED AWAY, MISSION FAILED!

I think i popped a vein or something on that thing, but yes.......somehow, you can still get a gameover because of ashley with the freakin armor equipped. That may be a bug, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥......now i have to do again the fish farm for the 42th time.

[BaLuX]

Did you leave Ashley far behind?

[B]

Weird. If she's grabbed in armour she will be dropped after a short while. You probably moved away or she was picked up right next to an exit point for the enemy ai. Bad luck.

[BaLuX]

Originally posted by RotFox:

Weird. If she's grabbed in armour she will be dropped after a short while. You probably moved away or she was picked up right next to an exit point for the enemy ai. Bad luck.

The enemies can't carry armored Ashley away but they do delay her and she stays frozen in place until you kill them, armor or not. So if you go far away it's game over because she stays too far behind.

[Elnidfse]

If you transition far enough while she's getting chain grabbed you can lose there. The two places this commonly happens is just after the church and inside the maze after you get the lever.

It aint foolproof but on the flipside two villagers can't daisy chain her towards a door anymore.

[TheKingmario2]

Of course i left her behind, its a speedrun to get S+ on professional, skipping enemies is part of the challange. The idea, of having failed for this reason makes my blood boil, because the armor should be a "complete cheat" to the whole Ashley problem, what is the point of leaving this fail condition with the armor? this is beyond IDIOTIC!

Cherry on top of the cake: this never happened ONCE, in the 5 NG+ i played, the novelty has presented itself for the very first time on an important challange OF COURSE!

I have to vent out or im gonna die on my keyboard.

[BaLuX]

Originally posted by TheKingmario2:

Of course i left her behind, its a speedrun to get S+ on professional, skipping enemies is part of the challange. The idea, of having failed for this reason makes my blood boil, because the armor should be a "complete cheat" to the whole Ashley problem, what is the point of leaving this fail condition with the armor? this is beyond IDIOTIC!

Cherry on top of the cake: this never happened ONCE, in the 5 NG+ i played, the novelty has presented itself for the very first time on an important challange OF COURSE!

The armor protects her from everything... except leaving her too far behind. Maybe this time she was grabbed too early, by the ganado right in front of the church most likely, and stayed there.

[Flan]

Boring, I was hoping pro mode spawned buff ganados.

[SkacikPL]

She cannot be carried away but she still gets picked up which triggers the "kidnapping" state.

If you're too far away, it's an instant loss either way.