Tomb Raider 2013 - glitches and observations pt. 2
16I: an interesting little mechanics oddity with dirty tricks. If you very softly and quickly flick on aim mode when doing dirty tricks, Lara takes a weapon in her hands without dirty tricks becoming interrupted. Now your hands are glitched, and will continue to hold the weapon while doing basic moves like another dirty trick or jumping... looks a little irrational, that's all. The glitch ends if you switch weapons, aim, climb or activate some other events.
Aside from that, you can turn your weapons invisible with this trick. While your hands are glitched, jump on a rope or enter a cave where Lara automatically lights up her torch. Her hands will retain the gun pose, except the gun is not there. The shotgun variation looks extra glitchy because Lara's left arm twists abnormally to touch the shotgun that is now on her back... if you ever wondered what Lara's armpit looks like, here's your answer.
II: when returning to Mountain Village, this is a spot where you can get to lower level a little sooner than intended. Normally the fall kills you, but falling from here (and attempting to scramble?) you catch the edge of the roof and survive.
III: a bizarre small glitch involving fire striker. Basically, have pistol equipped. Then use fire striker, but just as Lara starts lighting the torch up, do a melee attack... it has to be the basic shove, not the upgraded axe attack. Lara does two shoves back-to-back instead of just one. With different timing, you can make the first shove a really short one, so that the second shove interrupts it almost instantly.
If you do this towards a ledge, at the start of the 2nd shove Lara often stops and starts pointing with her gun. Yes, this is not the same as normal aim mode, as you can't shoot, move or control Lara in any way. It lasts about a second and is completely pointless. Wonder what causes it? Same effect happens if you do this glitched double-shove against enemies. Finally, Lara's pose sometimes freezes during the 2nd shove, again when near ledges. I don't know the reason behind this glitch, but so far it doesn't seem too useful.
IV: switching directions during a certain point of your normal attack causes Lara to start sliding eerily. Apparently this is really easy to do using pause buffering, and so far not useful.
V: a small improvement over the crooked hut clip of the last glitch package. Now Lara actually gets on top of the hut. But I couldn't do anything useful there.
VI: spamming weapon switch while letting go of a climbing wall causes Lara to have the bow out simultaneously with another weapon. It's only a graphical effect, and not necessarily a too interesting one: basically, Lara has the bow on her back while she can target and shoot with another weapon.
VII: switching weapons while lighting something up makes the torch turn invisible.
VIII: I found this alternative route idea for when you have to go rescue the pilot... that unfortunately doesn't work. You can go to an alternative rope pole to the left and use it to attach a rope to where you have to go. The required shot is pretty precise. Unfortunately there's an invisible wall blocking the way if you try to go through from here. Had this route worked, you could've avoided the whole falling rope fiasco that normally happens.
IX: some fun with the water slide after returning from Monastery. There's some strange collision on the left path that can throw Lara high up in the air.
Oddly enough, in some circumstances Lara smashes through the instant-killing shotgun-barriers without dying. Here's a clip of it happening with the barrier on the left, but I managed to do it with the final barrier as well... which means that it's possible (but not recommended) to get through the water slide without shotgun. At least in segmented conditions. Afterwards there's some messing with bad collision on left (which leads to getting killed).
One clip shows Lara getting thrown in air right before the final barrier... unfortunately she doesn't fly over it, but dies to it like usual.
Finally, a botched fatality to the left barrier. ...Friendship?
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