Game Breaking Bug! The guardian guy has duplicated himself!

[egonone]

Well, i discovered a game breaking bug.
Very early in the game, when you have to make the guardian (Babbitt) to chase you to the roof, you have to reenter through the grid and lock him in the room with the pillar.

He chases me. I go to the roof. Re enter through the grid. Look at the door and Edna tells me, the guardian guy is in there, so better not enter. I push the pillar in front of the door to lock him. Go around the corner where the door to my jail is and boom there is the guy again!
So he is locked in the room and also guarding my jail at the same time...

Tried everything, restart, reboot, replay from an older save.. Every time its the same.
This is a real game breaking bug.
No way to proceed in the game now.. :(

Edit: This is for the Anniversity Edition. I will post it there too. Mixed it up , sry.

[cynix]

No need to post it here as your bug is related to the new Anniversary Edition. As far as I can tell there's no such issue with this old version. I just managed to play through said part without bugs.

[lemche]

You should put the encyclopedia on the pillar to block his way out.

[StrukiTru]

Same problem here

Ah, I see; Necroposting. Sorry not sorry.

[Schluppi Schnuffberger]

Actually I have the same issue, but do not play the anniversity edition. thanks lemche will try that...

[jkly]

It doesn't really make sense how he's in two places at once. They should have had the guy bust through the door to show that there was more that needed to be done instead of just having him randomIy back where he started. I thought it was a bug too. I wouldn't have looked the solution up if I had known it wasn't.

[RottenKotten]

I met the same bug. you are too fast. I tried to quickly run my way from the hallway to the office through the roof, every time I met shilcel in the lobby, and then I tried to wait about 5 minutes on the roof near the window and was able to lock him in the room.
full route - go to the hall, start the chase, go to the roof through the storage room, wait until some internal timer expires, go to the ventilation, to the office, move the tower, put down the encyclopedia and it will trigger another scene.

[Rei]

I don't think it is a bug but definitely is a developer oversight. I had the issue too and it took me a while to figure out what the game actually wanted me to do.

[melonbeton]

It´s not gamebreaking...before you go to the hallway where he sat initially just put the book on the podest - and he will realize he is trapped. When you now go to the hallway his duplicate won´t be there any more.

[EridanFresh]

Originally posted by jkly:

It doesn't really make sense how he's in two places at once. They should have had the guy bust through the door to show that there was more that needed to be done instead of just having him randomIy back where he started. I thought it was a bug too. I wouldn't have looked the solution up if I had known it wasn't.

Thank you. I had no idea and thought the game bugged. What an amateurish oversight.

[Mr. Ed]

I did that. Babbit is in the room, moved the column, put the encyclopedia. Boom! he's still there in his chair.

Edit:

Removed the encyclopedia, reseted the pillar position, triggered the scene again, then redid the puzzle. That triggered the solution

[Gliders]

aah thank you i had the bug too. It would have been better if the guy was getting out, pushing the pillar and catching us instead of being duplicated, when we try to go further

[SétantaLP]

Hello,
in the original version of the game, Babbit came from the left, when Edna tries to go down the stairs before locking him properly into the room, but in the Anniversary Edition (and the non Anniversary Unity version, which is the first launch option for this Steam app) Babbit unfortunately always appears in front of the cell unless Edna locks him properly into the room.

[Gliders]

It would make sense too ! Anyway, I've finished the game and it was cool