Max Payne 3 - "Checkpoint 0" glitch in Chapter 6
7A.k.a. a very quiet day at the office.
0:00 - first, a fairly reliable setup I currently use for starting the Checkpoint 0 glitch.
At C2-C10, shoot the thug threatening Giovanna so that you press Pause a little before shooting. Choosing to Retry causes the regular retry glitch where the victory cutscene and previous checkpoint become overlapped. But... ignore that. Instead skip the glitchy cutscene and attempt to retry glitch the same way immediately afterwards. Buffer a Pause-menu while at it. This lets you retry without the retry activating, and from the re-opened menu you can quit. Now the glitch is active.
0:31 - so, let's go to Chapter 6 part 1 with our glitch. After loading, if you didn't press any buttons Max just falls down helplessly.
Not on the video, but upon respawning he can also get killed... maybe he lands on something hard? Just to note that death during this glitch results in a softlock since the Retry and Quit options never come up after the death scene, so do your best to avoid that.
0:50 - a better idea is to load this Chapter again with the glitch on and try to run forward during the loading time (I try to shootdodge too just for good measure). This makes Max fall in-bounds when the game starts instead of falling down, so you can now explore the Branco offices stress-free.
As mentioned in the previous video, any map you access during Checkpoint 0 is completely trigger-less, actor-less and music-less. There are no clues to be picked up either. It's like you're taken back to the time before the whole story of Max Payne 3 even started. Max is just doing his everyday work for the Brancos, possibly plastered out of his mind, and everyone is happy.
Today it's an extremely quiet day at the office, though, with no workers in sight. Max basically has the whole office complex for himself!
Most of the areas in the office are open to you. You can even waltz right outside the front door since nothing is blocking it. Entering the elevator from the lobby is a bad idea because it unloads everything, though.
3:19 - Branco's own office is locked, with seemingly no way to reach it. There's another glitched looking elevator nearby, but at least entering that doesn't unload everything. However, there is another spot where things unload and drop Max down if you go to the opposite corner from the secretary's desk (near the bridge you use at the end of the Chapter).
4:11 - Max doesn't even have a gun at the moment, but out of old habit he pretends he has one. Eventually his imagination gets the best of him and he tries to shoot some imaginary bad guys in the office space.
4:56 - Max came upon the disturbing revelation that he doesn't have a reflection in the mirror. What is this, the twilight zone?
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