Lemmings shifting?
I honestly don’t know what to call this one. (I would’ve called it ‘sliding’ but I didn’t want to get it confused with the real sliding glitch as it’s nothing like that)* And it’s very difficult to describe and test out because it doesn’t seem to happen in any specific pattern. Except that it often happens when any lemmings nearby are performing any skill. I believe ccexplore actually mentioned this glitch;
“Sometimes when you scroll around the level, you may cause a lemming to somehow pass through a blocker. Exact circumstances still unclear (only happened twice to me so far). I think for this to happen, the level can't be paused when you are scrolling, but I'm not sure. I've also encountered one time where this happens merely when I fast-forwarded the game for a bit, without any scrolling.”
I also believe this glitch only happens on Windows 7, but I have no way of testing this at the moment.
If a group of lemmings are milling about in a restricted area (that is: inside blockers, or enclosed space with terrain) a
nd a lemming is building, digging, bashing or mining nearby and you scroll; some lemmings will begin walking right through the terrain or blocker and they will also completely disregard whatever is really there and can even walk on the air. This happens for a short distance (for how long seems to vary every time) then they will resume acting normally. If they are inside terrain they will then be stuck. If they are in mid-air they will fall.
This happened to me on a few levels I don’t have screenshots for:
7-8 Build em Up then Bring em down.
When doing the no-damage challenge, I was building up toward the left near the balloon and when he hit the wall he turned around and started walking on air.
9-7 Battle of Lemmuckburn. I had the same situation ccexplore detailed. With blockers on the lower area near the entrance. Except it wasn’t just one or two; quite a bunch of lemmings escaped the blocker and fell to their death.
edit: when this happened, I wasn't doing anything nearby, so what I said above about lemmings using a skill nearby probably is meaningless. In fact, it happened twice; first time I was on the other side of the level and suddenly heard lemmings splatting and I only realized what happened a second time when it happened almost exactly the same.
I can also confirm that it never happens when the game is paused. I know for a fact this glitch never happened to me on older computers however, I have been playing the game a lot more often and doing more advanced things lately. In any case, I'm not saying I have figured out all the details yet. I really have no idea what's going on.
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*Has the sliding glitch been tested to work in Revolution? It’s much more difficult to test plus, I’m not sure lemmings even “jump” in this game at all. Considering they can’t get up steps as high as the first generation.