ATTENTION DEVS! Bug report in Year 4! *possible spoilers*

[Sparrowhawk]

So I'm in Year 4 and just arrived in Rubacaba. I've gotten the ship in the bottle and filled it with gelatin and went to the tattoo parlor and got the liquid nitrogen. Well, I went to speak to Glottis while holding the ship bottle with gel in it, and Glottis goes into his walking animation but never moves. I've done this multiple times and each time, you're forced to Alt+F4 since the menu won't open and Glottis' animation never ends. Thank you!

[EPCRS]

Jumbobreakfast lähetti viestin:

I found a solution. Just hand the bottle to Glottis while you are in the room that he is looking at.

If you hand the bottle to him from outside the room, he will glitch out.

Perfect!

[Chucklehead]

I literally lost hours of gameplay due to this bug. The game was frozen, I couldn't access the menu, so I quit without having saved in 2 hours. Thanks a lot, Double Fine.

[Aldaron]

I had the same bug and can confirm, that it works just fine, when you use the bottle on him, while you're inside the garage. When you're on the docks, it just glitches out. Thank's for that tip!

[NebulousIdiot]

So if you do it from inside it jump cuts to outside with the interaction

[the2-Dennis]

i also had it, but when i went inside the building with the car, and used the bottle on glottis from there, it went fine.

a bit later, when talking to the woman at the resistance, she got stuck too.
i was half standing in the doorway
the next try, i stood more to the south of her, and that fixed it.

[SoulSteppe]

Nearly 10 years later, I thought I put my thoughts here.

The bug here is still present. Although my experience is this;
After seeing all the messages here, I decided to left the game running while Glottis started to a move a bit. That 1 second animation of him moving a bit, made him turn to maybe 1 degree Slowly but surely, he actually turned left, very slowly. After a while, he managed to turn 90 degrees counterclockwise.
I left the game running while I watched a YouTube video, and I noticed it took roughly 7 minutes.
Then he was able to talk to Manny (the main character) and therefore, the game was able to continue.

Long story short, 7 minutes for the bug to self-fix. And, it was never fully fixed/patched. Still, it is present after a decade of this post existing so it is safe to assume it will never actually get fixed.

[Sparrowhawk]

It’s crazy to me that this thread is still getting replies, but I left my game running in 2015 and came back to Glottis repositioning himself in the same way you described, so it does eventually work lol. Glad to see people are still playing Grim Fandango.

[SoulSteppe]

Sparrowhawk lähetti viestin:

It’s crazy to me that this thread is still getting replies, but I left my game running in 2015 and came back to Glottis repositioning himself in the same way you described, so it does eventually work lol. Glad to see people are still playing Grim Fandango.

Thanks to everyone on this decade old thread, thank you all and it def is crazy.
and yeah I can understand the thought that people still play this game.
However, I did enjoy the game.