[ scummvm-Bugs-1497280 ] FOTAQ stuck behind waterfall bug

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Bugs item #1497280, was opened at 2006-05-30 03:24
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Category: None
Group: Flight of the Amazon Queen
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Clifford (cc2006)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: FOTAQ stuck behind waterfall bug

Initial Comment:
Flight of the Amazon Queen

Tested with ScummVM versions 0.8.2 and 0.9.0svn

Bug: Going through a flowing waterfall to a room, 
seeing a video sequence, then when trying to leave 
the waterfall traps you in place unable to move.

How to reproduce the bug:
Load queen.s01 which is the second save labelled as 
Can-Enter-Left-Waterfall then walk through the left 
waterfall and then try to leave again after the video 
sequence.

Here it is in more detail:
You move left into a cavern containing two waterfalls 
(which can be turned off later in the game using a 
statue device between the waterfalls), and hear a 
crunching sound with various text displayed across 
the waterfall on the left which shows that's where 
the sounds are coming from, encouraging you to 
investigate. Unfortunately if you then click the left 
waterfall you move through it as if it wasn't there 
and into the upper level of a dual-level crushing-
room where you see a little video sequence and on 
trying to leave you reappear behind the water unable 
to move.

If you trigger the event but avoid going through the 
waterfall and instead walk all the way to a lower 
entrance of that dual-level crushing-room (the lower 
door entrance is a long way from the cavern with the 
waterfalls) then you can complete that bit of the 
puzzle. Strangely when you go back to the waterfalls 
both of the waterfalls are now barriers until you 
figure out how to shut the water off.

Language: English
Version: The CDrom Talkie MP3 version from your site
Platform: Win32

Saved games attached, details follow:

queen.s00 - You can see and hear the crunching 
sequence and how it encourages you to click the 
waterfall. Walk left to start the sequence.

queen.s01 - Click the left waterfall to go through. 
The waterfall on the right stops you going through it 
so isn't a problem. You will hear a sequence about 
someone being crushed.

queen.s02 - Try to leave the room with a crusher and 
you will get stuck exactly like this.

queen.s03 - This is the proper way to enter the room 
through the left white door. You'll hear various 
things about someone being crushed the same as if 
you'd gone through the left waterfall, but it has a 
different exit as you're on the lower level so no 
problem.

queen.s04 - If you did it the proper way as shown by 
the previous save .s03 you'd find both of the 
waterfalls now block you from going through them 
which is fine, as the next part of the puzzle is to 
turn them off and you can do that as you're not stuck 
behind them.

I don't remember how this is dealt with under the 
original game engine, but if the left waterfall 
always lets you through or doesn't consistantly there 
wouldn't be a problem. Either solution should work as 
there's a barrier that you can't pass even before the 
crusher drops to kill that person. It makes slightly 
more sense that the left waterfall is less of an 
obstacle and would let you go through as the man that 
was crushed left blood on the upper level yet hadn't 
stopped the waterfalls flowing. It also lets you see 
where to go to find the body that's now crushed down 
onto the lower level without having to blindly search 
for a room that isn't obviously associated with a 
waterfall and you still need to make that journey to 
get to the body. Either way is good though.

Other than that one problem I found the game to run 
flawlessly all the way from beginning to end.

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