Floating platform glitch?

[ropar]

In the overworld free play, there's a few mithril block puzzles where you need to push platforms through a maze sort of thing onto green squares (e.g. in the cave by the river in amon hen). Whenever I try to push them, one of the platforms ends up magically floating into the air where I can no longer push it. I have to leave and come back and try again, just to have it float up again randomly. Is anybody else having this problem?

[Skaery]

Yes, and it's very annoying. You just have to keep trying and eventually it won't happen.

[ropar]

I think I figured out a solution: once they're floating, shooting them with Gandalf's staff seems to work

[neko_nari]

Has anyone found a solution to this? It's keeping me from getting blocks in Amon Hen and at the Black Gate.

[WolFox]

I can confirm that shooting the blocks with Gandalf's staff worked.

[bulgarianBarbarian]

I can also confirm shooting the blocks with Gandalf's staff worked. Even any wizard, I believe. The ones in Amon Hen were giving me so much trouble.

[sdeleo]

How do you hit the platforms with Gandalf when they are in the air? His staff only fires straight along the ground for me.

[bulgarianBarbarian]

You might have to jump onto something as far as I'm aware. Make your other character a hobbit and stand on their head or something. I don't quite remember. It might be that if your missile comes close enough under them, they will lower. But I do recall I jumped onto platforms to get higher.

[Reggiez]

Glad I found this thread. That puzzle had glitched out on me twice already. But the wizard trick fixed it. Thanks for that information.

[Tholo-]

its 2020 and they still dont have this fixed ?? haha classic

[TzeikMalaka]

Can confirm this is very very annoying. Wizard trick worked until it leapt so high in the air i couldnt reach it at the black gate. game is ridiculously buggy. feels very rushed imo and this came out like 10 years ago

[ShinsoHatake]

On a random whim I tried changing it to night before trying the two puzzles that constantly glitched for me; Amon Hen and The Black Gate. Surprisingly they both worked without a problem on the night setting.
I am on pc, not sure if that makes a difference.

[Joker]

Wizard can help, I was even able to get the platform back on "track", after it got out.
Solution ( kinda ) for me was to use character with empty hands like Galadriel or Celeborn , I was pushing platforms with them for like 10mins and it almost always worked.
Funny thing is that when I played this game for the first time 10 years ago, I never had this problem ( Win XP, ATI gc ), but now ( Win 10, NVidia gc ) this bug and many more happen quite often...

[TrollForce]

I found a solution to this. Don't push the platforms all the way to the curbs. Keep the path as straight and centered as you can. I know this is a very frustrating bug but this will help. Keep the platforms centered on the track as you're moving them.

[Liz]

Thank you, everyone, for all the suggestions. The wizard trick helped with Amon Hen. Galadriel at night worked for The Black Gate.

[Bill]

i don't know if this is too late for everyone but i've just figured out that when the block floats in the air if you carry on holding w to push the object it will carry on the animation and push it untill it falls back down. Hope this helps!