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Super Meat Boy |OT|
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I was doing one of the stages on World 4 where I noticed a recurring bug which I had also previously noticed in some other stages. In some very narrow horizontal passages, sometimes Meat Boy randomly dies when approaching the passage. This can be totally random and annoying because there's no reason the passageway should kill you.
Has anyone else encountered this? The stage in question here is the one where there's a moving platform at the start, and it goes into a short narrow passage before coming out and dropping down a lava waterfall. You have to then avoid the missiles being fired and get back on the platform before it goes into another narrow horizontal passage. There are buzzsaws you have to climb and jump to avoid next, after which you go through another narrow passage before reaching Bandage Girl.
Played this stage a ton of times, and twice I encountered instant death as the moving platform approached the first narrow gateway. One other time I got all the way to the very end flawlessly only to randomly explode and die as the platform moved into the final narrow gateway right before Girl. It's really weird, and I'm wondering what could be causing this...
Has anyone else encountered this? The stage in question here is the one where there's a moving platform at the start, and it goes into a short narrow passage before coming out and dropping down a lava waterfall. You have to then avoid the missiles being fired and get back on the platform before it goes into another narrow horizontal passage. There are buzzsaws you have to climb and jump to avoid next, after which you go through another narrow passage before reaching Bandage Girl.
Played this stage a ton of times, and twice I encountered instant death as the moving platform approached the first narrow gateway. One other time I got all the way to the very end flawlessly only to randomly explode and die as the platform moved into the final narrow gateway right before Girl. It's really weird, and I'm wondering what could be causing this...
I'm not entirely sure what level you're talking about, and I don't have time to check, but maybe a buzzsaw or something isn't displaying? I remember a weird glitch happening after I alt-tabbed back into the game where one of those robotic eye thingy's lasers was invisible.duckroll said:
Edit: probably not the case judging from the above posts
TheExodu5 said:
Actually I'm pretty sure either the platform or the ceiling is somehow crushing me. Logically that would be what triggers the death. My issue is with how it seems to be a glitch as opposed to an intended pitfall.
Billychu said:
Well, it's good to know I'm not the only one who has experienced it. I wonder if it's something specific that's bugged which they can fix, or if it's some general problem which is harder to correct or pinpoint.
Hrm, upon further testing the TE stick doesn't feel like the greatest choice because of the distance between left and right on the joystick. Need really responsive motion between the two for air control in this game. Gonna order a couple different kinds of alternative usb gamepads to try out.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Why isn't Quote (Cave Story) in this? That would have been PERFECT. Regardless, I need to get this soon. What kind of joypad are GAFfers finding to be best for this game?
Air Zombie Meat
Member
I'm using this for the pc (and 360) version:
Comes with this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B19BIO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Works really well with this game.
Comes with this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B19BIO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Works really well with this game.
Hot Coldman
Banned
That thing looks huge in the picture :lol I'll keep it in mind though.
Air Zombie Meat
Member
Heh, if anything it's actually too small. 
It's about the size of an NES pad. It is great for this game though, I do prefer using it over an arcade stick. Comes in handy for other stuff too.
It's about the size of an NES pad. It is great for this game though, I do prefer using it over an arcade stick. Comes in handy for other stuff too.Visualante
Member
I don't think I can do the rapture. 17 levels to make it to the boss is just too much for me.
I don't have the time, until Christmas break. By then I think I'll be done with the game.
Shame I really wanted to play with Josef and Mr. Minecraft.
I don't have the time, until Christmas break. By then I think I'll be done with the game.
Shame I really wanted to play with Josef and Mr. Minecraft.
RadarScope1
Member
Air Zombie Meat said:I'm using this for the pc (and 360) version:
Comes with this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B19BIO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Works really well with this game.
That's what I used. Can't even fathom using a standard 360 controller with SMB.
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Deleted member 1235
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TheExodu5 said:
that actually wasn't my experience. I'm one of the low minority that had issues with 'why the fuck didn't he jump I pressed jump'
had some baaad problems with this level. The xbox ran for 2 days, Not sure how much actual playtime though.
What's the name of it? So i can search for it, in EU.Air Zombie Meat said:I'm using this for the pc (and 360) version:
Comes with this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B19BIO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Works really well with this game.
TheVisualizer
Banned
MNC said:
yeah that one had me stumped for awhile on 360, you got to hold run while you wall jump off one of the single blocks and pull back a little at the beginning of the wall jump to get that extra bit of height in your jump. It's a pain wall jumping those blocks tho as the wall detection is really stingy as I slipped down too many times when I thought I caught the block perfect for a wall jump.
The one in the 3rd level of the that warp zone is a lot easier...
Davey Cakes
Member
I feel that Super Meat Boy is probably one of the only 2D platformers I've played where controlling with a stick seems more appropriate than with a d-pad. Something about the physics and movement.
catfish said:
While I agree with him that the 3rd stage was easier than the first two, I also had quite a lot of problems with the game registering jumps on that one. I even saw the fucker jump DOWN instead of UP on a double jump which doesn't even make sense. I've seen plenty of other weirdness in this game, like dying on the second glitch stage when I touched a ceiling during a jump that had lava on the other side, and straight-up running through a stationary saw blade on the ground (after another instance of not recognizing the jump input) which didn't kill me.
wind_steaker
Member
duckroll said:
I was the one talking about this before, its so bad that I cant actually get past that point without dying, it happens with similar platforms in later Hell levels for me too. Supposedly standing in the middle helps, but it hasn't helped me.
Yeah, they mentioned that the latest patch broke The Rapture on their Twitter account. A new patch should be up tonight:Bebpo said:So apparently the latest pc patch broke the game for me. Whenever I click on rapture, which is the world I'm on, the game now crashes.
I also get the swirling windows icon hovering from the moment I run it.
Game was working great pre-patch!
Team Meat said:
Visualante
Member
Making the rest of us feel inadequate, Capndrake fucking rinsed this game.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/capndrake/stats/SuperMeatBoy
Has anyone had the game freeze, then your character appears half a screen or more away in the direction you're pressing?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/capndrake/stats/SuperMeatBoy
Has anyone had the game freeze, then your character appears half a screen or more away in the direction you're pressing?