RotTR: Blood Ties - prompt break outs + item duping
7So, Blood Ties has an interesting glitch that allows Lara to interrupt most prompts whenever she wants. As a result, you can cause various glitchy side effects around the Croft Manor plus also dupe journals and relics so that getting to (technically) 100% is very simple.
I guess this is a type of checkpoint glitch at its core. Play up to the part where Lara opens up the safe. Then retry during any point when Lara is standing in front of the safe reading the files. After retry, Lara is at an unique state where simply pressing circle (i.e. roll / cancel on PS4) causes her to immediately stop whatever prompt animation she is currently in. This state will last until you retry from last checkpoint or quit.
If there was a checkpoint or another situation that created this effect in the main game, I believe the results would be quite devastating. Besides potential super quick exp gaining through picking up same files multiple times, interrupting other prompts could lead to unforeseen effects around the game. Too bad Blood Ties is fairly "limited" in this sense, with no action, climbing, ropes, swimming or other mechanics that exist in the main game, so there isn't too much to play around with.
0:18 - here's for instance item duping. If you cancel out of examining something, the game registers you as having looked at the object but its prompt will remain on the field. So you can look at it again and again doing this. Eventually the statistic in the menu makes no sense since Lara has found more documents or relics than there even physically are in the level.
(Not on the vid: duping key items doesn't work. Their chests cannot be opened more than once even if you break out of the picking up animation.)
(Not on the vid: duping murals doesn't work.)
0:50 - other prompts work too. Here's for instance the secret door to Servants' Passage. (Activating it repeatedly too fast can shut it down and make it permanently inoperable, which can make getting around the Manor slightly more difficult.)
Besides the door, you can interrupt going through cramped spaces. This causes Lara to regain control in the middle of the cramped space, and most often the camera becomes glitched too.
1:13 - interrupting putting the crest in the floor. This causes the camera to glitch up indefinitely, so that only a retry will fix it. Lara also starts wielding the crest on her wrist, as if it was a fancy shield or something.
2:08 - interrupting master key animation.
2:16 - interrupting the lighter animation causes the lighter to get stuck on Lara's hand, causing a small light effect that follows her around.
2:44 - the opportunity presented itself, so I went exploring the dark Servants' Passage areas without a flashlight and only a lighter to illuminate the way. Unique lighting conditions!
3:02 - you can also interrupt a crowbar animation to cause the crowbar to get stuck on Lara's hand.
3:25 - also, as we all know from the reckless speedrunning antics of the present day Lara, these wise words by Winston were destined to fall on deaf ears.
(Not on the vid: can't interrupt a story cutscene, like the ending cutscene.)
(Not on the vid: interrupting the prompt leading to the ending doesn't seem to cause any side effects. You have time to use the prompt several times before the ending cutscene starts, but this does nothing. Also, the prompt vanishes in post-game, so no activating the ending more than once.)
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