Grimrock

nianu wrote:i don't use swords so i probably saw it but didn't think twice about picking it up besides,

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there's fireballs pelting me repeatedly lol. i went in, saw the scroll, then reloaded my previous save

thank you

PiousHeathen wrote:I caved and looked up a solution on how to complete this section, but I'm having a problem:

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The platform that raises to carry the round key no longer raises as part of the switch sequence. I get trapped in the corner without a way out except down.

Does the trap/puzzle stop working normally if you have gone down a floor or activated something else in the level?

tdunaj wrote:

PiousHeathen wrote:I caved and looked up a solution on how to complete this section, but I'm having a problem:

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The platform that raises to carry the round key no longer raises as part of the switch sequence. I get trapped in the corner without a way out except down.

Does the trap/puzzle stop working normally if you have gone down a floor or activated something else in the level?

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Not sure if we are talking about the same thing but I had to pick up a torch from the wall to close one of the platforms. That allowed me to complete puzzle.

PSY wrote:
There's also a trick to open the door and active the teleporter without stepping forward, giving you a tactical advantage in the coming battle

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1) Go down stairs with Sword of Nex on you
2) Toss any item at door - door will open
3) Toss any item at demon face - teleporter will be activated
4) Throw bomb or shoot arrow through teleporter (look at experience bar to confirm hit)
5) Wait a bit so monsters can move and repeat step 4. Do this a few times. You can toss all your stuff through the teleporter if you want to (makes it hard to pick up the arrows, though )
6) You should have done some serious damage now. Run through teleporter, hit forward key and let those weapons swing until you hit the wall (don't forget to pick up arrows or whatever your favorite throwing/shooting weapon was)
7) Now you're at the wall, meaning monsters can only attack you from 3 directions. Plus, you've already killed some of the stuff
8) Fight your way to your corner of choice
9) Lay waste on the rest and knock yourself out looting

Phlimm wrote:

PSY wrote:
There's also a trick to open the door and active the teleporter without stepping forward, giving you a tactical advantage in the coming battle

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1) Go down stairs with Sword of Nex on you
2) Toss any item at door - door will open
3) Toss any item at demon face - teleporter will be activated
4) Throw bomb or shoot arrow through teleporter (look at experience bar to confirm hit)
5) Wait a bit so monsters can move and repeat step 4. Do this a few times. You can toss all your stuff through the teleporter if you want to (makes it hard to pick up the arrows, though )
6) You should have done some serious damage now. Run through teleporter, hit forward key and let those weapons swing until you hit the wall (don't forget to pick up arrows or whatever your favorite throwing/shooting weapon was)
7) Now you're at the wall, meaning monsters can only attack you from 3 directions. Plus, you've already killed some of the stuff
8) Fight your way to your corner of choice
9) Lay waste on the rest and knock yourself out looting

Does this work since the patch? I just now tried this and used up 27 arrows, 15 crossbow bolts, 9 shurikens, 11 throwing daggers, 3 fire bombs, 4 poison bombs and 2 each of electrical and frost bombs. Never saw the XP increase at all and when I popped through they were all there to greet me. Is it possible this was seen as an exploit and patched out?

Or maybe I was not waiting long enough...how long is long enough to wait between volleys?

PSY wrote:Still works, just checked it. I shot 14 quarrels and threw a bunch of bombs. Received 2k+ xp
I waited about 4-7 seconds after each volley.
And I know for sure it wasn't seen as an exploit.

It's really strange that you fired all the stuff and never got any xp...