Girl in white camping

[ScarfAnon]

I've repeatedly encountered a problem where the Girl in the white dress enters the tent in the campsite, and no matter what I do I can't get her to come out of it long enough to lead me back to the path. she'll briefly exit, and then go right back in. The only solution I've found is to quit and reenter the forest, but I'm not sure if that affects the outcome of the level, as I still have all the items I've collected.

[Doc_Simulac]

I had something similar where she would crawl in the tent..come out...touch my face...crawl in the tent...come out...etc...

Makes me wonder if her logic in the camp is separate from her role in the forest.

[ScarfAnon]

that's exactly what kept happening. She would just keep crawling in and out of the tent and I couldn't get her to lead me out of the forest without exiting the level and reentering. it was kind of annoying. and the weird thing is, she would only do that with Carmen and Scarlet. didn't have that problem when playing as any of the other girls.

[Doc_Simulac]

For me it was with the girl with the brace on her leg.
This game is fairly old...I can see it having undiscovered bugs in modern O.S

[Vzzdak]

I haven't played for a bit, but it certainly seemed the case that the anmiation was meant to draw your attention to actions/memories of things you'd done at the camp.

However, if you're simply wanting to be led back to the path:
1- move away from the camp, such that the animation is no longer occuring
2- stand still, so that the girl leads you to the path

There's nothing stopping you from moving away from the campsite.

[ScarfAnon]

tried that, didn't work. even when moving to an entirely different part of the map for several minutes, she still turtled in that tent.

[Vzzdak]

Originally posted by Scarfanon:

tried that, didn't work. even when moving to an entirely different part of the map for several minutes, she still turtled in that tent.

The only other thing that I can think of is to ask whether you are always playing the same girl, or whether the animation gets sticky with different girls. If I recall correctly, then the animation only occurs with a specific girl, in order to prompt you to perform an action there.

Now, given that this involves a rather specific animation, it occurs to me that its mechanics are programmatically tied to the FPS at which your system runs the game. For example, there's an "escape through the closing door" sequence in SRIV that you will fail if your FPS is too high, dumb but true.

So when programming The Path, the coders (for example) might have designed (and tested) the animation sequence at (say) 30 fps, but not realize that a higher fps like 60, or more, breaks the animation rules.