Poll of the Day > I think I just encountered a game breaking glitch in Red Faction.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm at the part where you need to lead a giant combot into an incinerator by shooting at it and running away, but the robot is just staying in one spot no matter how many times I shoot at it, I think it's stuck there. I wish I had made 2 save files, I only have this one save.

7+ hours into the game on the toughest difficulty and I think I may need to start over. ;_;
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Holy shit, this guy had the same problem.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/367196-red-faction/75325781

I AM screwed, goddammit!
I almost wanna just stop playing completely, maybe revisit it in a few years.
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always have multiple save files FML. though i have experienced a glitch in the game but not on a bigger scale of a massive screwup.

added a day and a half to my trophy run because i had to progress the story to nearly the end and complete one area in just cause 3.
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HOPE IS RENEWED!!

I just remembered I had a PS plus save backup uploaded. I uploaded it and it was RIGHT BEFORE the combot got stuck in the wall.

YEESSSS
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Is this your first playthrough? On the original red faction? I loved that game
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FrozenBananas posted...

Is this your first playthrough? On the original red faction? I loved that game

Yes.

Aaaand I've experienced another game-breaking bug. Going into the escape pod gives me a "you are dead"

What the fuck. Going back to a much earlier save when I wake up.
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damn i thought he got out of the fryer and he's getting screwed over again :(.

that's a whole new record it never goes 2 in a row.
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kingdrake2 posted...

damn i thought he got out of the fryer and he's getting screwed over again :(.

that's a whole new record it never goes 2 in a row.

Lol, indeed. Often when people mention game-breaking bugs in games, I never actually have the misfortune of experiencing them. This has been frustrating.
Saw another thread on the internet of a guy experiencing this escape pod glitch as well.
I have to start over from the level before which might take at least an hour. -_-
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I remember getting that game with my PS2 (along with Tony Hawk 3). Part of me loved the destructible environments, but I hated that 90% of the game never really used the mechanic for anything useful. Towards the end you are just in giant buildings that have metal walls that you can't bust through anyways. Then it ends up just being a traditional FPS game.

I also hated playing with a controller, it was the second FPS after Goldeneye that I played on a console and absolutely hated it.
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Dikitain posted...

I remember getting that game with my PS2 (along with Tony Hawk 3). Part of me loved the destructible environments, but I hated that 90% of the game never really used the mechanic for anything useful. Towards the end you are just in giant buildings that have metal walls that you can't bust through anyways. Then it ends up just being a traditional FPS game.

I also hated playing with a controller, it was the second FPS after Goldeneye that I played on a console and absolutely hated it.

I found that reading character bios, and the plot, in the instruction manual make the story interesting, although the game itself rarely has cutscenes. I think that's just how it was with 90s/early 2000s action games, so...the story is kind of a plus in my opinion. It has an interesting concept.
I'm also playing Painkiller on PC right now. The story seems really cool, but the gameplay is essentially running through bland hallways and killing waves of enemies. I'm enjoying Red Faction more than that one tbh, despite the infuriating glitches.
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Welp, I've finally beat the game, on impossible difficulty. It kinda sucks that the difficulty trophies don't stack, so if I want those I'll need to also beat easy, normal and hard. Still, I feel accomplished that I beat this glitchy AF game on the hardest difficulty while needing to do parts over again.
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