[BUG] Stuck on "The Washington Institute", elevator won't move

[gr3y5had0w]

I push the button "Control Room", which should activate the elevator in the water. The blinds open and two enemies spawn, but the elevator doesn't go down.

Now I'm stuck, I tried reloading an old save point, but doesn't help.

[oasiz]

Hi,

Sorry for the trouble, this has been fixed in the next version!
In order to beat the map, some help is available below.

This took a while to hunt down but it seems that there is an issue where a sequence gets triggered two times if you go directly right (and only to the right side) when you first enter the interior of the area, this causes various sequences in the map to break, rendering this map unbeatable.

The way this happens shouldn't be possible but some weird race condition or similar in the scripting system (and combined with mapping) causes the trigger that should only happen once to trigger twice, as the area is surrounded with touchplates that trigger the sequence, this specific spot on the right has two sectors that are small and close enough to get "both" triggers.

Due to the "impossible" nature, it took a bit to hunt down the exact way this happens and why.
Because of the flaky nature, a lot of care during testing went in to making sure that this sequence triggers properly each time but it seems that some last minute fixes to help here allow a new corner case to manifest that was unknown to us.


FIX SUGGESTION:
I tested that it should be possible to bypass this bug by typing "setvar trigger 17808" in console.
This should trigger the sequence for a third time, which should fix the situation you are having and at least allow beating the level.

You can open console with SHIFT + ~ (consolebutton)

[gr3y5had0w]

Thanks. I just used noclip.

[Malkav0]

Confirm I had this bug too, thanks for the infos, I could progress to the next level by clipping in the basement

[dro]

Just got to this part was walking around for 20min not knowing what to do. Still broken.

FYI, I went directly left upon entering the building's interior.

[dpanter]

Thanks for the fix, this was bugging me out. (Mblackwell sent me here from the GamingOnLinux Discord)

For your information; I'm playing the Linux version in Debian, using Swedish keyboard and cannot open the console as our ~ (tilde) is on a different key.

Fix: Switched to US keyboard layout, (you can do that while in-game even) and the console then opens with LEFT SHIFT + ~

Notes: Tilde being the key between TAB and ESC on the US layout. Right Shift + ~ did not open the console.

[mblackwell]

It should work with KEY_ABOVE_ALT I think?

[chmbr]

Bug's still not fixed

[the.momaw]

Can also attest that I hit this issue and had to search for this thread to resolve. I'm greatly enjoying your game otherwise, but a hard progstop with known cause and known resolution that remains unpatched after 9 months does make me wonder when this might get a fix. :)

[dwtietz]

Originally posted by the.momaw:

Can also attest that I hit this issue and had to search for this thread to resolve. I'm greatly enjoying your game otherwise, but a hard progstop with known cause and known resolution that remains unpatched after 9 months does make me wonder when this might get a fix. :)

This has been fixed. While the version 1.1 patch hasn't been finalized yet, it is currently available as a public beta. Right click on Ion Fury in Steam and select 'Properties', click on the 'Betas' tab and you can opt into the public beta test from there.

[nonorust]

Same to me. Thx ! setvar trigger 17808 fixed it.

[fhtagnation]

same here, console helped

[StubbornEgg]

This bug still is not fixed. Happened to me this afternoon.

[dwtietz]

Originally posted by Maximum Evil77:

This bug still is not fixed. Happened to me this afternoon.

Are you running v1.02a or the v1.1 public beta?

[finalfrontier2048]

The bug also happened to me, and I doubt I'm on the public beta.

[dwtietz]

Originally posted by finalfrontier2048:

The bug also happened to me, and I doubt I'm on the public beta.

That would probably be why then. If you want to switch to the latest beta then right click on Ion Fury in your Steam game list and select 'Properties', next click on the 'Betas' tab and select the 'Testing' branch (there is no password) and apply this change.

The full v1.1 patch might be on the verge of being released any time, but you can opt into the public beta and get the latest build that's available now.