[BUG] Elevator to Cell Block A won't activate

[Zerias]

Okay, to get the obvious question aside first, yes I did actually go ahead and buy this game through Steam despite the TAGES malicious rootkit. So I tossed it on an older Core 2 Duo system with an NT6 install I really don't care about.

As of right now I have found a problem that is best described as game-breaking.

I am in the Escape from Butcher Bay campaign, currently in the first section of the mines completing the escape from the Infirmary after obtaining first weapon access.

I am in the section of the tunnels where Riddick encounters the first Heavy he can... "fight"... against. In this fight the Heavy comes down an elevator, which Riddick must use to return to the surface.

In the original Release of EFBB the solution was fairly simple. Draw the heavy into one of the tunnels, and while it was tromping along out of site, run to the elevator and activate the elevator with the Use Function.

In the AoDA version of EFBB, that isn't happening.

Lured the Heavy into the side tunnels, ran to the elevator, hit the E key when indicated...

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Nothing.

Backing up off of the platform and re-approaching brings up the E-key prompt again. So I hit E again.

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Nothing.

Heavy comes back into LoS... dead. Try again... and again. Same thing. Nothing.

Go into user-options and change use-key.

Try again.... nothing.

Lower difficulty to Medium and try again...

Nothing.

At this point I decided to try something stupid, so I dropped to Easy mode, and pumped every single round of ammo I had into the heavy to see if somebody had made the brain-dead decision to make the elevator accessible only if the heavy was dropped.

After exhausting all available shotgun, rifle, and pistol (one of the guards in this room drops a pistol), the Heavy was still standing, and riddick still couldn't activate the elevator.

Ergo, at this point I am forced to conclude that this copy of the game I have installed is bugged.

[Calosin]

I bought this recently as well, but have yet to play it (still downloading). But if I remember right, one of the changes they made to the game was in this section you're talking about. You HAVE to kill the riot guard to gain access to the lift. Easiest way to kill them is to shoot the panel on their back, so try to get around them and it'll go down pretty quick. :D

[Bloefield]

Yes You have to kill the "heavy".
I jumped up on the crates and shot him in the head from above.
I couldn't get past this point for a while either

[nekrosoft13]

also was stuck in the same place, and yes you have to kill the heavy

[MPGeorge]

That's where I am stuck.. I just found a screw driver and still have ammo, but I am trying to use the screw driver on the back of the heavy robot dude! Thought I could break open some cover on his back.

[Sweetz]

Funny, I had the original game and I never knew you could just lure it away and get on the lift. I had always killed him so nothing struck me as odd when I played the Dark Athena version of EFBB.

In any case, it always pretty obvious to me that you kill him by shooting him in the back. Typical video game mechanics, whenever there's something that seems invincible, you just need to look for the weak point (to inflict massive damage ;)) The vents on the back of the suit seemed pretty obvious to me. Just circle strafe and unload a couple shotgun shells into the the back.

Always best to ask before making conclusions. It looks a little embarrasing when you get all indignant about something that other people have no have no trouble figuring out.