stuck in room with switch

[Kameradoktorn]

I´m here:

https://youtu.be/9t45nVLVcgc?t=570

I pull the switch, get a message about solving a part of the puzzle, but the door doesn´t open. Have I encountered a bug or am i missing something??? There are two of those rooms, and in the first one the door opened after pulling the switch, but not the second one.

[inkus]

I can not remember already about this specific room (time to play this game once more) but some switches in Hexen requier to be pulled several times to have an actual effect.

[Zedonk]

I assume you are talking about the switches that say "1/3 of the puzzle has been solved." There's one switch in the Guardian of Fire that has to be pressed and there's one in the Guardian of Steel. (Technically there's 2 switches in the Guardian of Steel that say "1/3 of the puzzle of has been solved" but only one of the these switches actually do anything. It is safer to press both switches on the Guardian of Steel to ensure you have pressed the right one.)

Once you've operated the necessary switches, a gold door will swing open on the seven portals allowing you to access the 2nd part of the Guardian of Ice map where you can get the fire and steel keys. Only by grabbing the fire and steel keys can you open the remaining small gold doors.

Hope this helps even if it's 2 weeks late. : )

[Valce]

It's a bug. I experienced the same thing. In fact, later on, I fell into one of those rooms and the door that had opened earlier was now closed and couldn't be reopened.

[Kameradoktorn]

too bad :| sadly it kind of killed my flow and I gave up on the game.

[Emmanuelexe]

In case, you can use a cheat code to switch to the next map if you don't have the choice...
You can find those cheatcodes on the internet.
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Hexen_cheat_codes#Full_version

[FloatingPointException]

I encountered the same bug, got completely stuck in that small room (after crouching and dropping down there through the window). It's better to use the cheat code CASPER (just type it), walk through one of the walls, and type CASPER again to turn off the cheat.

[Zedonk]

Originally posted by FloatingPointException:

I encountered the same bug, got completely stuck in that small room (after crouching and dropping down there through the window). It's better to use the cheat code CASPER (just type it), walk through one of the walls, and type CASPER again to turn off the cheat.

The original vanilla hexen doesn't have crouching so the levels weren't designed with crouching in mind. The crouching mechanic is added via the port (like gzdoom and zandronum).

So if you don't use crouching to access areas you otherwise you wouldn't be able to, you'll probably avoid most of the bugs : D