The Last of Us - glitches and observations
14Glitches from my first playthrough and light testing around the game. I'm probably done with this game now...
I: a clicker became stuck in some loop against a wall. He could never reach Joel even though he obviously wanted to. But this became fixed after Ellie knocks him down with the brick.
II: the camera is pretty prone to shaking glitches in this game. Here's a pretty simple one - do a 180 degree turn and do a melee attack almost at the end of the turn. The camera will start shaking for some seconds.
III: I apparently missed some loading trigger at the Hotel, because t-pose replaced Joel's normal running animation and no enemies loaded inside the map. After waiting long enough, Joel and Ellie spoke a little of dialogue much later than it normally occurs. I went to the highest floor, where there's the ladder inside the elevator, but you can't get through because the ceiling is still sealed.
I'm not sure what may've caused this to happen, but my personal theory is that is has something to do with how I handled the ladder at the entrance. I set the ladder down in the pool of water before picking it up again and setting it up against the wall. Then, Ellie and Joel exchanged no dialogue when Joel climbed the ladder up, and Ellie didn't follow Joel at all. And when you got to the 2nd floor, Joel went into t-pose...
IV: just some tests with a horse and tight spaces. The game normally prevents you from getting too close to walls with your horse, but the dumpster is an exception. You can actually land inside it, but the game pushes you away eventually. Couldn't find any interesting things to do with it, but I didn't test for too long either.
V: tested some "high jump" possibilities by using the horse's and Ellie's collision for aid. Rarely the graphics unloaded momentarily at the apex of the jump.
VI: managed to land on some semi-out of bounds floor with a tricky horse collision jump. Nothing useful. And to my shame, I never tested if it wasn't possible to just normally jump there from on top of the dumpster... oh well. At least the clip serves as a proof of potential, very weak long jumping applications using your horse as aid.
VII: after falling down long enough against the horse, I land on something mysterious in air and get a game over.