Muzman on 4/9/2004 at 11:00
A sword slash on an unsuspecting foe can kill instantly.
My fave was the guy who runs up to a guard having seen trouble and being all worried. He yells for help and whatever else. The guard says "You're alright! I'm here!" and draws his sword, slashing the guy across the face in the process. The guy yelps, bleeds and runs away looking for better help.
Yos on 4/9/2004 at 16:17
One would think that a person would have a little more control over the drawing of their swords. Incidently, the first one I saw looked more like the guard jammed the hilt in the guy's face rather than slicing him.
Norman Druart on 5/9/2004 at 21:53
Maybe more of a helpful tip than strange or unusual but the most useful purpose I found for the broadhead arrows was for dislodging things in case you don't have or were too cheap to buy the climbing gloves, specifically the gas arrows in Stonemarket and the Docks. As far as I know, the only was to get the medallion in the museum is to shoot it with an arrow. I don't think you can use arrows to push buttons anymore.
John P. on 7/9/2004 at 20:12
I found something I don't think has been mentioned, although I guess it's more of a bug and developer oversight than "strange and unusual" - but then many of the other things mentioned here are bugs, so...
In the training mission, you're supposed to divert the attention of the guard outside Lord Julian's room, right?
I have always just shot a noisemaker, seen him run over to the other side, then I have went into the room and continued the mission.
Then suddenly the other day, it occured to me that I hadn't actually tried to go over there and see what was beyond the door at the end of that hallway(the hallway where the guard stands).
-So I fired a noisemaker over to the other side as usual, the guard went down the hall as usual, but this time I first went into Julian's room just to confirm that the training was successfull, then I followed the guard down the hall.
[spoiler]He was pretty much just pacing back and forth in a rather small room, it turned out.[/spoiler]
Then he turned toward me, walked a few steps, then turned away.
As he turned away, I followed, readied my blackjack, and hit him over the head.
*THUMP*
"Erm..... hey guy! Hey....aren't you supposed to keal over? Hello? Ermm..."
*THUMP*
*THUMP*
"OOookaayy...."
-What happens is that he just stands there, with his eyes wide open. He's actually unconcious - but he doesn't fall down. You can go infront of him, and stand fully lit - but he doesn't react. You can stand infront of him and keep hammering away at his face, and he doesn't react.
-I guess perhaps the devs never thought anyone would actually follow him into that room(?).
[spoiler]There is a piece of loot in a chest there btw - and a candle that is bright like a lit candle, even though it's not lit.[/spoiler]
Jabberwocky on 8/9/2004 at 01:53
Quote Posted by Muzman
The guy yelps, bleeds and runs away looking for better help.
and probably told the 'better help' that G did it.
Tch on 17/9/2004 at 04:16
Quote Posted by Norman Druart
As far as I know, the only was to get the medallion in the museum is to shoot it with an arrow.
Is
that how other people did it? I hit the statue with my blackjack. It tilted over a bit, and the medallion fell down to me. Definitely not the optimal solution, but I didn't think of an arrow.
Muzman on 17/9/2004 at 06:22
I threw an urn at it from the balcony once, and a guard went over to see what the noise was. He got there just in time for the statue to fall on him and kill him.
Mortal Monkey on 17/9/2004 at 07:14
It's possible to get inside the jail cell in Stonemarket Propper simply by frobbing the door through the window.
Jake on 21/9/2004 at 01:44
Another one- There's a ladder down from the pendulum swinging area in the clocktower mission to a hallway with a hamm pacing back and forth. Knock him out, then jump onto the ladder from the side. Much of the time Garrett will end up on the wrong side of the ladder, stuck in the level geometry. Just remember to save first!
Another one. I haven't tried to recreate this one, but it was pretty darn funny. There was a hammer in a pub in old quarter, and I was allied so he didn't attack me. A shiny goblet was on the table, so I took it, expecting the peasants not to notice. Well, they did. So did the hammer. They all ran screaming out of the pub. The hammer rounded up his comrades, and together they beat everyone except me in old quarter to death. The next batch of spawning city watch got them, though.
And another. If you get killed by the staff in the window sill at the end, but your body toples out of the window, the game will continue and you'll be at full health. Unfortunately, the game will consider you to be dead, so you can't save your game.
Right after the cradle, when you're sposed to be tailing Lauryl, if you go into Carmens shop just before she gets too far away, carmen will say hi, then you'll end up frozen where you were standing when you frobbed the door, and Garrett will say something about having lost her.
Another one, in the cradle. Taking the advice of another thread here, I pushed aroudn some of the chairs in the present, and went to the past. One of the guys that was supposed to be sitting in a chair i moved was almost completely submersed in the floor. Only his head was sticking up. A moment later his head fell through and the steam came back up like he died. Must have drowned in the solid stone floor.
Another cradle one. When I reached the top of the staff tower, I jumped onto the table and out onto the window sill. some of the staff got up, but two or three of them just fell out of their chairs and died. I sat in the window sill for a minute or so, laughing at them because they couldnt hit me, when suddenly one of them turned around and sprinted away, only to trip over a chair and die.
In the first pagan mission, once you get to past the loading zone, grab a body and go back through. It won't let you through with the body, the tunnel is too narrow to drop it, and you can't climb back up the ladder while holding it. You'll be permanently stuck. And I thought I was so clever hiding from that pagan down there...
Squeaky Yugi on 5/10/2004 at 19:30
Has anyone ever found "Upside Down World?" Sometimes when you climb through a window or something, you'll slip through a crack, and be in this place with the sky as a background. You can't get back to the real world, and you basically are on the outside of whatever scene you were on. Usually, you just fall, and land underneath the map, at which point you die.
