Pun intended
I'm stuck with the whack-a-mole bit because I can't get the roto head (or do anything else in that room). Has anyone else experienced this?
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That seems to be one of the places where it is the most difficult to get Rooter's head. I've been able to walk back and forth along the room and, as Rooter followed Ace and would stop in different positions, every once in a while, it'd be successful. The best positioning for me turned out to be to have Ace and Rooter close to each other, but their models not overlapping (as much as possible), with Rooter standing to the left and in front of Ace (so ↙ on the screen).
I'm at this part (no spoilers) and I had a hard time getting rooter's head, but also I noticed there is a loss of rooter control. If i go into cellphone controls and select rooter (thinking I'll get rooter to root the toilet and I whack with wrench) -- I can't seem to direct Rooter around the room. I've reloaded / exited+re-entered room.
I randomly got past the toilets, and I presumed it was more than just an extra click. I noticed a bug where some items light up (using the eye) yet no feedback comes up, or taking the wrench makes it glow and no feedback either.
I'm having the darndest time just trying to get the event triggered (for the alien to pop out of the toilet). I've tried multiple resolutions, going in and out of the room, saving and re-loading from multiple locations and re-entering the room.
From what I've seen here, seems most people have difficulty with grabbing Rooter's head after this even has been triggered. Am I the first/only one to have trouble getting the event triggered (again, alien head popping from toilet) at all...? I've tried walking Ace all around the "middle of the scene" until I fall asleep.
Very frustrating; getting stuck almost around each corner now on things that are seemingly due to bugs (or a lack of solid design)--and I say this as a compliment moreso than not b\c thus far it's been potentially very fun and I'd very much not like to get snagged via issues that don't have to do w\ genuine reasonable puzzle difficulty.
Okay, I've figured out the problem. I believe I've discovered a bug.
(hopefully this hasn't already been discovered by someone else)
I went through the walkthrough right up to the point where I was stuck (to ensure I hadn't missed anything coming before). Turns out I never used the tape on the elevator sensor. I just walked to the right and the game allowed me to exit the scene. This caused the game to be unbeatable as the sequence w\ the creature popping out of the toilet would never trigger.
I re-loaded the game the the elevator flooding scene and placed the tape over the elevator sensor this time, and what a difference (the bathroom actually looks flooded with water now too--which it hadn't before).