Rise of the Tomb Raider (PS4) - dying while camping (and more)

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Published on January 30, 2017 8:58:48 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R_2xh6iFDc

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Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015)

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Finally tried out Rise of the Tomb Raider... it's pretty good.

In this game you have a new tool called poison gas arrows that deal fast damage to anyone in the area of effect. The devs seemingly didn't realize you can use them to kill Lara while you're doing various things such as sitting at a campfire, and this in turn can cause some pretty weird side effects to occur...

Note: gas arrows stop harming Lara once you've acquired the item Rebreather.

Note: it seems Lara is invulnerable during important story scenes, limiting the craziness potential of this "trick".

0:00 - just the basic overview. Shoot a gas arrow, then sit down at the comforting fire and breathe your last.

The game will automatically retry after just a few seconds have passed, even though the campfire menu is open. Afterwards, a part of that menu's graphical overlay is a nearly permanent part of the game's visuals, and it won't disappear even during loading screens. (It only disappears if you use another campfire or quit the game.)

0:40 - while I was in the neighborhood, I tried getting a game over as Lara is perusing some on-site documents. The game remembers you pick up the document, even though Lara's reading of it is tragically cut short. (It's curious how the timed game over retry even interrupts the currently open menu screen.)

1:04 - changing costume while dying causes some pretty remarkable effects. First of all, the game over sequence is interrupted. You can hang out in the campfire menu while "dead" as long as you want. Second of all, Lara is now levitating mysteriously, and all her actions in the menu are displaced.

Unfortunately, any time you exit the campfire menu now, the game will crash in just a few seconds time. The menu graphics are also floating as a part of the level geometry for some reason. It looks pretty weird for sure...

1:57 - another take to show the floating menu graphics better.

(Note: after exiting campfire menu, you can't open up any regular menu. You can re-open the campfire menu if you want to prevent game from crashing. Quick travelling is now possible, and also diffuses the threat of game crashing; afterwards things should be pretty much normal again, despite Lara having "died" just a moment ago.)

2:31 - messing with the weapons menu in general while dying causes the game to crash AND it will also corrupt your save files. (Fortunately the game is smart with its backups, and you won't actually lose any progress from this. At least... I didn't.)

2:46 - returning to your save files menu afterwards, the slot 2 & 3 saves have a reset date and completion percentage on them. However, loading them works like normal, and after that the display is fixed too.

(Not on the vid: quick travelling after a game over seems to work surprisingly normal. Although you get a longer loading time than usual, and you can sometimes get combat music after gameplay resumes, even while in a peaceful area. This is a variation that could perhaps use some more testing, just to make sure it doesn't have any hidden potential in it.)

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