[PS3 Game Breaking Bug] - Rig gone, can't return to it.

[BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M!]

I encountered a game breaking bug in the PS3 version of the game. I'm posting here as a last ditch effort to avoid restarting the game since I can't find any information about what to do to solve this issue anywhere else.

I'll try to keep this spoiler free, but here's what happened...

I just reached the point in the story were Mira C4's a passage open for you to get your rid back to base. This is immediately after you get the upgraded magnetic grappling hook that can grab those X marked things you'd have passed by several times prior.

So after stepping through the now open passage the game shows a cutscene of your rig walking out with its lights on and you're given control of it. The location you're at is the left side of Shackleton Peak which was previously covered in a sheet of ice.

I figure... I have that magnetic grapple and I know there is a spot up on Shackleton Peak so I'll check that out quick while I'm here. I successfully brought the rig up the elevator to the top of the peak and backtracked down on foot from there to reach the now available grapple points. That all worked fine.

The problem was that I tried to continue further back down the mountain on foot looking for what I thought was an albino location. Unfortunately, a loading screen ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me. Normally you would be able to travel back on foot until you reach the one point where a catwalk falls on your way up. At which point you'd just turn around, go back up the peak, and take the rig evelator down.

This isn't what happened though. Going back down took me through a loading screen. Instead of it loading me to the correct place on the mountain it instead loaded me at the bottom of the Shackleton Peak again as if I just came out that C4'd passage.

This completely screwed me over since the rig is at the top of the peak on the elevator. I can't go back up the peak because the only way I know of is to take the elevator back up. Which I can't do because the door to reach the elevator is closed and you need the rig to use its claw and rotate it open.

Since, like too many other console games, this one stupidly has only a single save slot that automatically saves... I can't reload to a point prior to this occuring.

I tried reloading my save and exiting the game entirely and continuing. In both cases the game loads me back at the bottom of Shackleton Peak as if I had just exited that C4'd passage. To add insult to injury it also shows me the cutscene where your rig walks out of the passage with its lights on... and then proceeds to put me right there... on foot. No rig in sight and no way up the peak.


So... anyone ever encountered this and solved it?

And ways on the PS3 to glitch or cheat my way to the top of the peak? Any way put my guy in a rig, create a new rig, or teleport the old one to me?

Really not keen on restarting this entire game and trudging through all of that stuff again for something so stupid.

[cactuz9]

The very same can occur on PC, but there are 2 autosave slots, which saves a day.

[Sith Deceiver]

On PC I just lost my rig in the exact same way. Thankfully as cactuz9 pointed out the PC version has 2 save slots which meant I didn't lose my 12 hours of progress.

If this has happened to any future readers, do not attempt to go through any more loading screens or level transitions. Instead immediately back out to the Main Menu, then when you go to Load your game select Previous Autosave and not the latest save. It should load you on top of the Peak on the elevator. When I turned around and headed back down the elevator I got the C4 cutscene and was spit out without my rig again, but thankfully the elevator door was open with my rig waiting on it.

If you're already on the peak you're safe to grab the collectible in this area, just do not proceed down the footpath that leads to the next level, only leave this area via the elevator while your rig is parked on it.