Water glitch reason and solution; until the devs fix it.

[FrozenStar]

Hi there. This is for those who search across the internet for the Water Glitch solution.
Unfortunately I found no way to fix it in your current save file.
However, I'd like to tell you the reason this glitch occurs, so you can start a new game if you want, and pay attention to not break it again.

The reason this glitch occurs is saving your game while crouching. Yup, that's right.
So, DO NOT USE SOUL LINK OR SAVE BY OTHER MEANS WHILE CROUCHING.

Here is my short story how this glitch broke my 1st playthrough.
The glitch occured when I cleansed the Ginsu Tree. After falling down, Ori wakes up on a small isle. To get out of this location, you have to swim around to find 2 key pieces. The problem is obvious; althought you can get out on surface by luring fish closer and using Dash on it, you can't get out of water to pick the key pieces. Thus, I was completely stuck in my very first playthrough.

Then I found that water glitch occurs when you save your game while crouched. I used another save slot, and this time I paid close attention to not save my game while crouching.
And, as you might have guessed, everything was fine for me, no glitch occured yet, I'm enjoying the game further.

Of course I can give you no guarantee, but this worked for me, so I decided to tell others about it. You can give it a try at least. Besides, the game is quite enjoyable to play it one more time. =)

I hope that this thread will actually help someone. Good duck...uh... luck!

[icanfly342]

Yea this happens because Oris coordinates get screwed up when you save while crouched.
You also get issues when trying to push/pull objects.