Syberia 3 (PS4) - glitches and observations pt. 2
4Some more bugs and glitches I noticed on the unpatched console version of Syberia 3.
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0:00 - there's a menu glitch in the main menu that lets you overlap starting a new game with other things. It is done by pressing 'accept' + 'cancel' when choosing difficulty-mode.
The video shows the effects from starting New Game and continuing at same time. This causes an "endless loading screen" behind which the game first plays the opening intro before loading the most recent save by the player. You can continue playing like this, but the visibility is obscured for good, it seems.
(Not on the video: overlapping other things with New Game caused either nothing interesting or something similar to this clip to occur.)
0:40 - outside the asylum, there are these big iron gates. Examining them, the main character makes the exasperated comment "Locked!" However, the gates actually have an impressive seam in the middle Kate can just run through. Unfortunately, her escape is cut short because there is nothing beyond the gates other than some invisible wall.
1:14 - if you are handling 3d-objects and then open inventory and 'observe' something, the coordinates of the 3d-object change to something else. The items fly somewhere off camera or start floating in air outside their original container.
2:05 - a strange glitch inside the market. I was watching a camera drive-by and started reading a file. For some reason something kept interrupting the file reading, eventually causing a minor menu break-out and creating a new auto-save for some reason. This happened to me twice in two separate zoom-ins in this area.
You can continue playing the game normally after this happens, but if you load an auto-save created through this glitch, the game will be softlocked. The level loads like normal, but Kate is unable to examine any prompts or open menus because the game probably thinks she IS currently in a menu due to the menu break-out.
3:00 - if you open inventory and 'observe' something while walking into a camera change fade-out (like on the Krystal), the camera does not become changed. It's instead stuck in the previous position and stays that way until you finally use a door or other prompt to change location.
3:58 - if your timing is different and Kate is fully observing something when the fade-out happens, you get a softlock instead. The 'observe' screen ostensibly glitches up somehow. After you close it, all prompts are disabled and you can't do anything in the game world any longer.
4:34 - normally this game only allows you to have a single auto-save and no manual saves. (Yeah, a pretty risky decision to limit player saves in a game as buggy as this...)
After messing around with glitches enough in the early part of the game, the game had generated a whole of 3 auto-saves for me instead! This was generally speaking a bad thing, though, because now the game absolutely refused to generate any new saves or overwrite the old ones at all. Had to manually go delete the extra saves to get the auto-save working again like it should.