Game-breaking glitches

[CaptBasil]

So I've just bought this game on sale and started playing it. During the first few minutes alone I encountered several game-breaking glitches that forced me to start over three times before I could even finish the first part of the prologue, i.e. the fight against Sauron.
I've stopped playing after the prologue and am wondering if this is gonna continue like this. Is this game even worth all the hassle and frustration when there's literally a game-breaking glitch around every corner? Has this game not been qc'ed at all, or do the developers simply not care?

[Road]

so what is the glitch? seriously could you change your post to "im just mad dont read this i suck at playing and need a nap" would of saved me alot of time.

[Timeraider]

So ive i havent seen a single bug/glitch at me... would help if you pointed stuff out

[GUY]

Nothing anybody else hasn't said but you didn't list any of you problems at all...

[Rondoudou du chaos]

Wow, we've hard ardent fan of the game who feel insulted ! Try to be constructive, not annoying
g. There is no reason to feel insulted, each LEGO game is buggy, that's a known fact. If you didn't realised it, you never tried to achieve 100% in the game !

The game is worth suffering some bugs if you run through the history mode, but when you'll try to find everything the pleasure might disappear.
TTgames never updates their games, they seem not to be able because of the many platform the game is on. Impossible for them to overview everything.

[Ziel]

I've experienced two bugs that forced me to restart the level:

1) The one mentioned above (I guess) during the prologue. What happens is that the path to Sauron won't be cleared and you're stuck in the arena where you fought the orcs.

2) Before entering the mines; the giant squid just sits there and doesn't initiate combat.

Calling these game-breaking is a bit harsh though, they normally don't happen three times in a row if at all.

[Qu1tsch1e]

When I started to fight Sauron the army rages back and there's something like a fighting circle. I ran in that circle and started to fight Sauron. When he smashed his weapon on the ground and the weapon got stuck in the ground the game told me to change the hero. The problem was, my two party members were stuck outside the circle behind a invisible wall and when I changed to be one of them, there was no way to get into the circle! And without that gread sword, you can't win that battle!!! So i'm stuck here. I restarted and got the same thing now. That's a stupid bug!

[ArwenUndómiel]

I experienced this glitch three times too.

[CaptBasil]

Originally posted by LenTrexler:

I've experienced two bugs that forced me to restart the level:

1) The one mentioned above (I guess) during the prologue. What happens is that the path to Sauron won't be cleared and you're stuck in the arena where you fought the orcs.

Originally posted by Qu1tsch1e:

The problem was, my two party members were stuck outside the circle behind a invisible wall and when I changed to be one of them, there was no way to get into the circle!

I'm surprised by how many different glitches there are just in the prologue. The worst glitch I've had so far was that the fight against Sauron just didn't start. I was able to walk up to him and run around him, but he just stood there laughing constantly without attacking me or anything. As far as I understood the problem (after restarting a few times), all three characters (Elrond, Elendil, Isildur) must be in the ring before the fight can start. But the problem was that the other two characters weren't moving at all and just stood still. As I found out only after the restarts, they're actually supposed to run after you and help you against the orcs. Even moving all three characters manually one after the other into the ring didn't work, since I wasn't able to select and control Elrond at all (judging from Qu1tsch1e's comment you should be able to control him, so I guess this was a seperate glitch). So I couldn't get all three characters into the ring since they didn't move, and without them I couldn't start the fight against Sauron.

Originally posted by Rondoudou du chaos:

The game is worth suffering some bugs if you run through the history mode, but when you'll try to find everything the pleasure might disappear.
TTgames never updates their games, they seem not to be able because of the many platform the game is on. Impossible for them to overview everything.

Thanks for the reply! This is exactly what I've been wondering and was hoping to get an answer to. I guess I'll try to continue playing a bit further then, and stay away from trying to get 100%.
Up to now I've only played one other Lego game, Lego City Undercover, which seemed to be rather glitch-free, so I wasn't expecting the other games from that developer to be this glitchy.

[ninezku]

Originally posted by Paul31286:

I'm surprised by how many different glitches there are just in the prologue. The worst glitch I've had so far was that the fight against Sauron just didn't start. I was able to walk up to him and run around him, but he just stood there laughing constantly without attacking me or anything. As far as I understood the problem (after restarting a few times), all three characters (Elrond, Elendil, Isildur) must be in the ring before the fight can start. But the problem was that the other two characters weren't moving at all and just stood still. As I found out only after the restarts, they're actually supposed to run after you and help you against the orcs. Even moving all three characters manually one after the other into the ring didn't work, since I wasn't able to select and control Elrond at all (judging from Qu1tsch1e's comment you should be able to control him, so I guess this was a seperate glitch). So I couldn't get all three characters into the ring since they didn't move, and without them I couldn't start the fight against Sauron.

I'm having the same problem, how did you resolve this? I've tried starting again and re-installing, and I'm still stuck. Frustrating.

[Toadman]

My sword wont swing withthe H key. I control one guy, and the arrow keys control the other guy

[CaptBasil]

Originally posted by ninezku:

I'm having the same problem, how did you resolve this? I've tried starting again and re-installing, and I'm still stuck. Frustrating.

I just kept restarting the level and at some point it just worked. I doubt there's a fix for this problem. Just keep restarting the level if the other characters don't follow you, and it should work out eventually.

[Monje]

Im having problems with the cinematic where Isildur is with Elrond and had to drop the ring, it just dont load the cinematic, the screen goes black, and there im stuck... Anyone know how can i solve this?

[Cleatus]

Sorry for necroing this but I had the same problem (could not start the fight with Sauron). After the opening cinematic, you start the game fighting the Orcs... and there's a message in the upper right corner that says 'Press F2 to start'. If you are playing solo, DO NOT PRESS F2! Instead of the other two characters following you, you will enter two player mode. If you have not unlocked Elrond as a playable character, you will not be able to switch to him and move him into the ring to fight Sauron, and thus not advance the game. Just start over, and whatever you do, DON'T PRESS F2. Good luck!

[Silly Grey Owl]

I've had one glitch that caused me to reload. The Urik at Amon Hen jumped down after his shield and then just sat there spinning in a circle. Had to reload the level. I also have a graphic glitch that keeps cropping up intermitently. I'm getting lines and flicker during cutscenes where the letterbox keeps disappearing so you can see graphics under the black bars, also sometimes I will get a superimposed upside down dome in the upper left corner. It looks like it's the texture for the sky turned inside out and upside down and shrunk. Yes my drivers are up to date and my rig has more than enough juice to run the game. :)