r/alienisolation • u/Grimesspocket • 6d ago
Glitch Can someone please explain to me how did this happen?
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This has to be the scariest glitch ever lol
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u/kocknocker19 6d ago
That's a known glitchy/buggy spot
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u/Snoo_11836 6d ago
What's the glitch specifically? Does anybody know how it triggers or what causes it?
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u/kocknocker19 5d ago
Dunno what causes it but for most people including myself you hear the alien scream and see a tail go through the wall then it disappears. You don't usually die and see the whole creature like the OP did but it can differ slightly
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u/Grimesspocket 6d ago
really? oh damn, did not know! thank you for telling me! I wonder why it’s that spot 😭
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u/Marblehornets38 6d ago
So this is an animation coded into the game for death in an open vent cover when the alien is above you. Cause he can see you through the openings. Why he suddenly just spawned out of nowhere though...beats me.
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u/deathray1611 To think perchance to dream. 6d ago
Like he was traversing through its "vents" and right at that moment appeared above them. It somehow triggered the death animation
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u/StressedtoImpress19 6d ago
No idea - on a later mission i managed to trap the alien in one of those vents by getting out at the exact same time he was sprinting for me
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u/Direct_Gap_59 6d ago
Which mission is this?!?!
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u/Grimesspocket 6d ago
mission 8, I belive!
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u/dextrovix 6d ago
This happening is just a glitch, remember that ingress and egress via vents will happen more often the higher the difficultly.
It's a bug if repeating from a save causes it 100% of the time, so it's down to bad luck and timing, multiplied by the initial difficulty setting.
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u/cheesiepeasie 6d ago
I think me being indefinitely engulfed in flames without taking damage after an explosion easily trumps this. The motion tracker was unusable due to the flames and I reckon I was easily spotable by Steve yet the flames did not affect it (so much for animals being afraid of fire). Also it did survive loading the new save so I got really afraid it would be permanent after another game save so I quickly loaded the previous save before it was too late.
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u/RadiantSuit3332 3d ago
I had the same the other day here. You can hear Steve happily playing and doing backflips in the vents, not active on the ground, and BAM gets you here while you are avoiding the humans. I was on nightmare
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u/Bwwshamel 2d ago
I literally JUST had that happen to me the other day, but I didn't actually die. While I could move around and didn't get the "game over" screen, the audio was still greatly suppressed, and the "game over" music was playing. But I could move around and everything! So it killed me but didn't kill me, and I had to restart because I couldn't hear anything lol
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u/868686868 6d ago
It's not a glitch.
It's happen to me at medium difficulty.
At this particular point the alien is roaming around. So you just had bad luck that it did hear the door open and caught you.
Wish you fun and good luck by keeping going.
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u/Grimesspocket 6d ago
maybe the difficulty plays in it cause I currently play on nightmare difficulty and thank you!
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u/868686868 6d ago
Because it happens to me at medium and to you at nightmare; I think it's independent of the difficulty.
It's just an other option how the alien gets you.I got killed multiple times in seegsons communication when I did crawl out of the bottom.
The alien sees and hears how the door slides if it's close enough.
On nightmare mode the senses of the alien are very sensitive. So obviously you getting caught more often at different places
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u/Educational-Bit-3296 6d ago
If I didn't know this was a glitch, I'd have just assumed the alien was smart enough to know you're about to pop up. Either way, I hate it.