Spoilers! Brenda Glitch

[ronedogg]

Originally Posted by SteelcityCanada

Wrong. In the scenario I was in I can press nothing at all and still get shot. I know how this scene works as I have been through it close to 30 times.

f*ed if i care if it fixed it for you or not. worked for me.

[tubaros]

Read through all of this thread, and there are some extremely unhelpful people around aren't there. Registered just to add my name to the list of people banging their head on the desk repeatedly. I've tried this around 30 or so times and it just won't do it. Whether glitch is the right word, not sure. I can get to the first conversation after the door, then move forward and *sometimes* do the 2nd one, but after that, there's just no way of knowing if that next step will kill you or save you.

The problem is that the animation is on rails, as opposed to free in other parts of the game. When you enter the house, if you hold down forward continuously Lees shoulder moves up and down 3 times, indicating 3 steps towards Brenda. If you do it the only workable way, i.e. bit by bit, if this animation is even slightly in the wrong place, he steps forward the animation continues - which you can see if you look at the doorway/light to the right (getting sick of seeing those now..) it keeps moving about 3 pixels (I suppose for the animation to find a resting spot) and she shoots. If the animation hasn't completed its step up or down, then he carries on. It's more a case that it was the wrong way to implement it in the game - it would have been better if it didn't require you to stop dead at the right point in a way that is really open to failure, when you can't see what your feet are doing.

I'll happily video this if, you know, six pages of people with exactly the same issue isn't proof enough. Would be great if there was a way of patching it as this series is one of the best adventure games I've played in an extremely long time. The emotive side, story, characters, choices, everything is just spot on and I cant fault it. Until I try to walk forwards in a house...

[Milosuperspesh]

tubaros have you ever paid attention to brenda and NOT lee ?

are you using a controller ?

yes video it then we know

but ultimately when brenda says stop you HAVE to stop and when the dialogue comes up always pick the top one.. and don't move till she points the gun at katjaa..

it really is fking simple IF your not using a worn out xbox pad...

[skepticalguy90]

Not sure if this still matters to anyone anymore, but I found that Brenda stares at Lee for a while, then glances down at Katjaa. I've done it at least twice, and if you only move forward when she is looking at Katjaa (timing it correctly with speech), you can beat it.

[Milosuperspesh]

Originally Posted by skepticalguy90

Not sure if this still matters to anyone anymore, but I found that Brenda stares at Lee for a while, then glances down at Katjaa. I've done it at least twice, and if you only move forward when she is looking at Katjaa (timing it correctly with speech), you can beat it.

it's all to do with brenda's gun...

[tubaros]

tubaros have you ever paid attention to brenda and NOT lee ?
Hi yes, I honestly have tried everything-Ive watched when she looks down, ive stopped in a complete mix - Ive even done it so much Ive tried when her expression changes, lol

are you using a controller ?
No, PC, so keyboard and mouse, which is where I think the issue stems

yes video it then we know
I'll capture it on Wegame later or tomorrow

but ultimately when brenda says stop you HAVE to stop and when the dialogue comes up always pick the top one.. and don't move till she points the gun at katjaa..
all the above already tried :-(

it really is fking simple IF your not using a worn out xbox pad...
I know it is, and that's what's so frustrating for me and other gamers that are also experiencing it - not everyone on this thread but enough for it to be a valid gripe. Honestly, I see how simple it is - just move forward, read the queues from Brenda and make sure you don't overstep a point, but the engine kicks in and makes Lee do another few frames of animation, if you haven't stopped at the right cycle and thats it, game over :-(

More frustrating than anything is its a game that has offered such an excellent experience. I'd hate to go into episode 3 having missed any choices or important story threads

[Milosuperspesh]

sorry if i was harsh matey

i use a mirco soft /razer keyboard

and lee never moves with out my pressing the w and thats with varying pressure and timing.. i'll try the arrow keys.

maybe try and turn you brightness up so you can see brenda if i could figure out how to get a brief vid up i'll do one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIFCH...ature=youtu.be

theres a link to my 'first vid' quality ain't bad and my voice does settle down lol don't be too hard on me !

[tubaros]

no worries - didnt think u were being harsh :-), thanks for the advice

wegames client download is down at the moment so i cant record but ill try when i can with an alternative. sods law itll work first time and itll be a video of me completing it, lol

[tubaros]

this video shows it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84TNo...e_gdata_player

at 0.27, if you see when this person stops, for about 2/3 frames it ever so slightly continues and its that which is the issue. im going to try one last thing, dropping all res and detail down to minimum, in case its just a rendering issue - my pc is fine, but i just wonder if its that..

[Milosuperspesh]

hey tub can you edit your posts to join them up double posting is 'annoying'

yeah i see what you mean it's does look like a glitch

it's like the game knows you ain't moving but the animation has to complete and the game is detecting movement instead of control so you die..

if you look at my vid i move incrementally so i'm on the edge of progressing the scene..

[tubaros]

soz about the double posts - I didnt have my login and was remoting in on my ipad to my pc that was logged in , didnt think about edit post. This is all very strange, so Ill just keep trying, groundhog day style!!

Looks very smooth on your pc, btw

[Milosuperspesh]

cam studio doesn't allow anything less than 1ms a frame lol

and fucked if i know why the sound from the game doesn't work, will try another prog and see what happens.

also i can up the quality but of course that makes the file bigger

how do i sound ? lol

[Halfstackcrazy]

Hopefully this helps; if not, I'm just adding to the chaos.

I play the PS3 version, killed both brothers, and told her I was Danny when entering. She capped me dead the first time.

The second time, I simply eased in there (starting back up after I'd made my announcement speech)-- hovering the cursor on both characters and opting to "talk" to whichever one would let me. As I noticed her take a step backwards my son noticed a walker at the top of the stairs. I repeated the "ease forward/talk" method until this crazy woman became dinner for a zombie.

Best advice: use that "talk" feature during this sequence and don't make hasty moves forward.

[Milosuperspesh]

you mean the 'talk feature' that is on katjaa and only turns up when brenda is pointing the gun at you...after you've moved close enough...

[darkstreet]

guys!
i find the way
if you moving the mouse after she told you to stop, she will shot you! every time she begin talking, dont touch the mouse and keyboard

[Milosuperspesh]

Originally Posted by darkstreet

guys!
i find the way
if you moving the mouse after she told you to stop, she will shot you! every time she begin talking, dont touch the mouse and keyboard

did you watch my vid? i am clearly moving the mouse while she points the gun at me....so you is wrong. your welcome

[SaveDoug]

I've never had a problem with her shooting me. If you move the mouse or on PS3 the reticle over her you have the option to talk to her. Once you speak to her she will back up the steps and warn you that she's going to shoot. Don't walk forward and talk to her again. Do that like three times and she gets munched on by the legless walker.

Like Save Doug

[Ted E. Bear]

I did experience the exact same glitch on Xbox360 after
- having killed Billy
- having identified as Lee

All went fine for the first two "don't move"+"question" sequences, but at the third time she shot me anyway. So I knew exactly how to do it, but for a dozen times I failed.

Solved with the youtube video hint: when she points the gun at me the third time, I immediately paused the game, then resumed, and I got the hotspot for the third and final dialogue.

[Milosuperspesh]

Originally Posted by Ted E. Bear

I did experience the exact same glitch on Xbox360 after
- having killed danny..
- having identified as Lee

.

fixed :P

[Flam3]

Alright, so after reading through all of the arrogant posts about this obvious GLITCH being user based and telling us that we need to stop, I thought i'd make an account to post.

I am playing on the PC and I too have encountered this exact same glitch, I choose to kill Danny and when going towards the house I told Brenda I left him in the barn. Once going through the door I started TAPPING the W key ever so slightly for TEN MINUTES and got to the point where Brenda points the gun towards me and yells "Stop"... I STOPPED DEAD, I DID NOT PRESS ANY OTHER KEY, and no dialogue popped up, I was NOT able to interact with Brenda in any way, including where the interaction option should be (her stomach) a there was not even a pause when I stopped to search for the interaction hotspot, I even turned on the help "buttons" that shows you the hotspots but none showed up. Just after a split second of stopping she immediately shoots me.

For those that have not experienced the obvious glitch and think it is due to the player, please wind your fucking neck in. We are more than capable of knowing what the word STOP means, we are NOT stupid, you are just ignorant due to the game working fine for you. I have beaten this episode before, along with the episode 3, but due to getting a new upgrade for my computer I had to start all over again and still encountered this glitch.

I got past this glitch by choosing NOT to kill Danny in the barn and choose to say directly that it was me coming up to the door and was able to get past this situation without any issue.

So in conclusion I feel that when you kill Danny and say you have either left him in the barn or pretend to be him, it glitches out on that part.