Moving on Ice

[CrackSmokingWarlock]

Ended up losing all my lives on the mission involving blowing up a facility on an icy planet. I got right near the end, where you need to jump out of the maintenance shafts on to the icy cliffside and climb up.

Problem is, for some reason I am able to move only at an EXTREMELY slow pace when on the ice. We're talking "so slow I can't actually jump and move on to another platform" slow. I tried to use thermal dets to launch myself around but all that did is send me flying off to my doom.

How the hell are you supposed to move there?

[yjzep]

ice cleats? They are outside the facility near a ravine you jump..

[CrackSmokingWarlock]

Originally posted by yjzep:

ice cleats? They are outside the facility near a ravine you jump..

Thanks, totally missed them my first time.

Is there any downside to having them on? They don't seem to consume battery power.

[yjzep]

they slow you down a lil. I'm playing in the darkXL engine, and you don't need them! No slipping lol. Makes that level a bit easier! :) Been awhile since I played that level vanilla (like 15 years)

Originally posted by Howlin' Mad Murphy:

Originally posted by yjzep:

ice cleats? They are outside the facility near a ravine you jump..

Thanks, totally missed them my first time.

Is there any downside to having them on? They don't seem to consume battery power.

[Frungi]

Also, this bug seems to be a result of computers being too fast. Open up the game’s Dosbox.conf, and set

[cpu]
cycles=40000

or something and it should be playable even without ice cleats. (Why the hell he wouldn’t get those before going down to an ice planet is beyond me…)