🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:15:26 -0600, "rms"
<rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote:

>>if this one goes on sale for $10 again, grab it!
>
>    I did, thanks!  Haven't gotten to it though, The Division has 
>surprisingly really grabbed my attention the last couple weeks.
>
>rms 

Here is a tip that might help you greatly once you start playing, you
might make a mental note to come back to it when you do:

If you encounter an opening where your movement is restricted and it
doesn't feel like it should be, try hacking at the opening thoroughly
as if it had invisible obstacles blocking it, because unfortunately
there may be.  I'm noticing some visual bugs, that are seemingly
minor, but they can be extremely confusing until you realize what's
going on. 

For example there was a window I needed to go into in order to take
over an abandoned apartment.  I cleared away the boards blocking it,
and tried to enter the window opening.  I wasn't able to, and there
was no VISIBLE (operative term) reason why, so I somehow convinced
myself that this particular window must be too narrow, I need to find
another way in.

This is a very minor spoiler, but if you just skip to about 1:08 you
can see him enter that same window.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eHaBEj-PK4

Notice breaking the lower boards wasn't enough, he tried to jump in
and was rejected because the top boards.  Luckily, he could see them,
they weren't showing for me.  I didn't think about the "invisible
object" bug, so I spent probably 20 minutes exploring for
alternatives,  randomly killing KPA etc before I watched the above and
realized what had happened.

The other tip:  If you're like me, you sometimes mark waypoints that
are not directly on the location you need to go to, just because it
prevents the game from guiding the player too much.  I sometimes like
to land within a few yards of the target, but without guiding icons
showing me specifically where to go or which door to open, just more
immersive without them.

However, in that case I should have set the waypoint exactly on the
target the moment things stopped making sense.  It would have shown me
that this was indeed the window I needed, and the only way in.  It was
only when I set the waypoint ron the target destination that I saw the
guides and realized I was dealing with a game bug.