Can't climb anymore?

[Astral]

I posted this in general discussion at first, then noticed there was a technical discussion, so I'm posting it here as well.

I'm in chapter 1, and I just finished up most of this Jeweler's place ... but I find that I can't climb out the window to leave. Well, that's weird. I go back to other places I had previously climbed with the claw, and it's just flat out not working. I can't climb on top of boxes anymore either. My keybindings haven't been changed, though I went and set them all to default anyway.

I can still swoop with the spacebar, but when I use it to attempt to climb something, as it previously worked, Garrett simply stands there staring. I've even tried verifying my game files at this point. Anyone else faced this, or have any general suggestions? The game is literally unplayable for me as of this point.

[Astral]

Well, I loaded to the start of the chapter, and it's working again. This is exceptionally disappointing, as it seems I was nearly done with the chapter. I seriously hate replaying due to bugs.

Definitely giving a poor review if this keeps up - which is disappointing since it's otherwise a rather fun game.

[Astral]

... and now my character can't finish climbing up stairs. He literally continues to climb past them until he hits a ceiling. Here's a fun little screenshot of it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232104859

[Wavespeaker]

I'm having a similar issue but mine is in reverse. I try to climb a grate that leads into a ladder, and the character plays the animation of clawing the grate then climbing the ladder.... All while my feet are planted on the ground. A little later on, I had to jump a small gap with the assistance of one of those little ramps... I run at it and jump, the animation plays of him jumping, but I'm still just standing on the ramp, so it's impossible to get across.

[Astral]

Originally posted by -MSC-Magical Trevor:

I'm having a similar issue but mine is in reverse. I try to climb a grate that leads into a ladder, and the character plays the animation of clawing the grate then climbing the ladder.... All while my feet are planted on the ground. A little later on, I had to jump a small gap with the assistance of one of those little ramps... I run at it and jump, the animation plays of him jumping, but I'm still just standing on the ramp, so it's impossible to get across.

My issue got fixed after I reinstalled the game. Since it was over the course of 7 hours, maybe they also deployed a patch... maybe that would help you as well? I'm just hoping it doesn't do it again.

[horsemedic]

Had an issue like this at the jewellers. After getting noticed and escaping, I couldn't climb, swoop, peek or do much of anything but walk. Tried to reload and the game crashed. FWIW I'm playing on master with all custom difficulty options except slow walk, ironman, checkpoints and no discovery. And I'm using a 360 controller.

[Astral]

Originally posted by horsemedic:

Had an issue like this at the jewellers. After getting noticed and escaping, I couldn't climb, swoop, peek or do much of anything but walk. Tried to reload and the game crashed. FWIW I'm playing on master with all custom difficulty options except slow walk, ironman, checkpoints and no discovery. And I'm using a 360 controller.

I only ended up having this corrected when I completely reinstalled the game. I then had an issue even after I did that where object highlighting was permanently enabled even after disabling it, but only for climbing surfaces. Uninstalling again and then deleting the Thief folder in my Steam has since fixed that.

I'm really not sure what caused either of them. I was disappointed at having to reinstall twice to get the issues corrected. Sorry I couldn't provide a better answer related to this.