A4 grenade vent puzzle soft-lock

[ImNotFine]

when you first reach A4 throught the elevator, theres a puzzle where you must through a grenade through a vent a zombie crawls out of on order to open one of the cracked walls. issue is that the angle you are meant to throw it in at is very specific and even then the grenade can bounce and roll the wrong way causing the wall to not break.

the game provides 1 grenade right next to the area and the rest are on the player to supply. ive f'd up all my grenade throws and now i cant get through. cant reload my save cause i was a moron and saved ontop the previous save where i had grenade like an idiot, assuming that it was an optional puzzle.

so yeah now i either reload to a much older save or im soft-locked. kinda sucks

[tonicmole]

I just went back to the vending machine and waited for a sticky landmine to show up. Honestly, I feel like throwing a grenade through that vent would be impossible. Also, the game never can soft lock you because they always have an alternate option. In this case the vending machine sells you all types of explosives. Not only that, but you should have already retrieved your back back. If not, do that first.

[ImNotFine]

Originally posted by tonicmole:

I just went back to the vending machine and waited for a sticky landmine to show up. Honestly, I feel like throwing a grenade through that vent would be impossible. Also, the game never can soft lock you because they always have an alternate option. In this case the vending machine sells you all types of explosives. Not only that, but you should have already retrieved your back back. If not, do that first.

ok then im definitely doing something wrong. ended up replaying 20 mins to get back where i was up to with grenades and explored all the area that the puzzle unlocks and couldnt find anything to progress me. ive been trying to get into the elavator room this whole time so i can go to the other floors. im guessing theres a different way to getting back to the backpack then what im doing

[ImNotFine]

nvm figured it out. couldnt work out the keypad to the locker that had the orange key in it cause i thought the clue to it was hidden behind a locked door. turns out that theres a note next to it with the clue that just really blends into the whiteboard. got my stuff and im all good now

[tonicmole]

Originally posted by ImNotFine:

nvm figured it out. couldnt work out the keypad to the locker that had the orange key in it cause i thought the clue to it was hidden behind a locked door. turns out that theres a note next to it with the clue that just really blends into the whiteboard. got my stuff and im all good now

Oh yes!!! Same thing happened to me my first play through That note is easy to miss!

[xMobilemux]

I never once got the idea that we were meant to throw a grenade through the vent as I got the game after watching Gman's review on it and in his footage he shot an explosive arrow at that wall crack, so I just sold all my crystals and bought the modern bow and explosive arrows from the vending machine and blew up the wall that way.

Though I did have to resort to a guide telling me that the note on the wall in that room could be examined as I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out the code based off the drawn code you could just barley see by moving the camera around.

The other time I resorted to a guide was due to the face palming realisation near the beginning of the game that I ended up missing out on finding the pistol cause I didn't put see the code on the wall and I ended up using the axe all the way till I got to the shotgun room and started to suspect I may have missed something.

That was when I realised I have really been spoiled by the massive amount of hand holding from modern games.

[ryu600RR]

u'r suppose to throw it in the vent?
i just lobb it at the wall lol
and then on release say kobe~

[ImNotFine]

Originally posted by xMobilemux:

I never once got the idea that we were meant to throw a grenade through the vent as I got the game after watching Gman's review on it and in his footage he shot an explosive arrow at that wall crack, so I just sold all my crystals and bought the modern bow and explosive arrows from the vending machine and blew up the wall that way.

Though I did have to resort to a guide telling me that the note on the wall in that room could be examined as I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out the code based off the drawn code you could just barley see by moving the camera around.

The other time I resorted to a guide was due to the face palming realisation near the beginning of the game that I ended up missing out on finding the pistol cause I didn't put see the code on the wall and I ended up using the axe all the way till I got to the shotgun room and started to suspect I may have missed something.

That was when I realised I have really been spoiled by the massive amount of hand holding from modern games.

i found this game through gman too lol. it took me a little bit til i realised i could shot the button through the chainlink window on the otherside of the door to get the shotgun lol. i still havent figured out some of the codes like that stange one in A2 or something with the heart sketch next to it. no clue. i love how not hand holdy this game is. unironically a great survival horror

[belangf]

Originally posted by ImNotFine:

Originally posted by tonicmole:

I just went back to the vending machine and waited for a sticky landmine to show up. Honestly, I feel like throwing a grenade through that vent would be impossible. Also, the game never can soft lock you because they always have an alternate option. In this case the vending machine sells you all types of explosives. Not only that, but you should have already retrieved your back back. If not, do that first.

ok then im definitely doing something wrong. ended up replaying 20 mins to get back where i was up to with grenades and explored all the area that the puzzle unlocks and couldnt find anything to progress me. ive been trying to get into the elavator room this whole time so i can go to the other floors. im guessing theres a different way to getting back to the backpack then what im doing

Me too, I did not find a way to get to the backpack aside from going through that wall. I`d be very interested to know if there is another way.

First time I threw a grenade through the hole it did not blow the wall so I spent more than an hour trying to find another way or solution. I finally got it by throwing a grenade in the hole at an angle from the left so it lands more behind the wall.

[x loser HeavenlyTacos]

i got the grenade in the vent and poped the wall first try, felt it was obvious that it would roll away if your too far to the right and throw to the left.