Unintended solution a bug/oversight? Isle of the Blessed, Blue-5: 'The Intruder'

[kablahrz]

Issue: Unintended solution is design oversight ?
Puzzle: 'The Intruder' -- Isle of the Blessed, Blue-5

Originally posted by THE LAW:

If solution doesn't seem fair its most likely alternative one and not the intended solution.

Curious... my "alternate solution" from 'The Intruder' (Isle of the Blessed, Blue-5 puzzle) is simple enough, making it more a TP1-level puzzle, that it seems to be a design oversight/bug.

Compare:

• legit: gravity pad-mounted cube & connector, "intruder" technique required vs.
  
• bugged: alternate solution using just standard ground-based cube & connector relay

[MASTAN]

Both compare links are the same.

[kablahrz]

Originally posted by MASTAN:

Both compare links are the same.

Thanks. I caught that immediately on submission, but my ability to edit the post to correct the flub was blocked while the post remained under review. Hopefully it is now corrected ... or the correction enroute. (May require a 'F5' browser refresh.)

[kablahrz]

(To be fair, even the alternate solution *is* a TP2 puzzle, since the Gravishifter *is* required to assist in pulling the cube from the barrier-barricaded room, rather than just as a pressure plate activator. But just the one TP2 mechanic usage versus 3+. It's just not as interesting as the solution suggested by the puzzle name.)

[kablahrz]

Still possible after patch 2.1.0.

p.s. Disappointing patch 2.1.0 change here. Feel sad for the players coming post-2.1.0 who won't have the opportunity to exercise even a minimum of care when aiming a gravshifter. (My preference would have been to make the gravity pad as large as possible, to increase the variance in where the gravity tunnel could be formed -- perhaps even to the point where the falling cube and connector could miss the gravity beam's pull. Too far left and the tools could miss the beam's pull; too far right and the tools could miss the beam or the laser is blocked by the fence. Another gravity pad is waiting right there on the ground, to assist with tool retrieval and retries.)

[kablahrz]

Originally posted by kablahrz:

Still possible after patch 2.1.0.

... and also after patch 2.2.0. (sigh)

(And the elevated gravity pad remains tiny. Boo.)