Sleight of Crate Trial

[castastrophe282]

Does anyone know if this Hunting Ground trial has been fixed in the remaster or will I have to suffer through it again....and again....and again?

[Befbo]

I did this trial today and had no issues. What was the bug that you are referring to?

[castastrophe282]

The PS4 version had some bug where sometimes it didn't spawn enough crates or they would break or something and you couldn't finish the challenge.

[the7thguest]

Did this in each one of my 6 playthroughs, had issues once or twice because I was too slow or didn't aim precisely enough to destroy the clamps.
It is tricky, but not bugged. Not everything that's not easy is automatically a bug.

I just ignored everything and rushed to loot, if one puts it on its back, throw a stone for them to turn and cut off the clamps, then loot.
And yeah, a lot of area damage can destroy them, then you might have to restart. Speed is the essence here tbh.

[marantana]

My tip for this trial (at least on hard, very hard or ultra hard): if you get to the first group of shellwakers and there's less than three crates, just 'restart from save' and try again. otherwise you'll never get the blazing sun. Also, wear a very sturdy armor and just ignore whatever tries to kill you. there's very little time and also, shell wakers will pick up the crates very quickly.

This way, you should get the blazing sun within 10 minutes or less.

[marantana]

Originally posted by the7thguest:

if one puts it on its back, throw a stone for them to turn and cut off the clamps, then loot.

That's a very good tip I haven't thought of in my 20+ playthroughs of the original complete version. thx!

[btw: great nickname, I used to be an adventure game specialist since the Sierra times.]

[ZemX]

I've never been able to really stealth this one either. I've tried it with max. stealth upgrades on the stealth armor and I can make it to the first group straight ahead from the left wire without being seen but at that point it's a crap-shoot whether there are one, two, or three crates. Often one or two have already been picked up. It seems to be random where the shell walkers spawn exactly and thus how quickly they can grab a crate.

Even if I can pick up all three unseen, I still need a fourth and by that time, they've all been picked up so far as I've ever seen. So you have to shoot one off and it's nearly impossible to stay hidden after that.

What they really should have done with all these stealth trials is increased the timers by a LOT and then made it failure to be seen. That would at least have made sense.