the direct route through the steel
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why do you guys have to be so cryptic about glitches all the time? I mean it's not like I'm going to be able to find them on my own – I prefer a more "traditional" style of gameplay anyway...
It is pretty much exactly how you read it. Glitches by nature tend to require very specific moves to execute, so providing more details likely only serve further to confuse, except in case of a video, or a replay (and hey, you don't use Lemmix
). Also, some glitches can be version-specific for obvious reasons. In this case I really don't know at this point whether the glitch solution to Mayhem 12 works on any other versions besides PC (I guess it won't be too hard to test it out though).
Basically imagine a glitch that allows you to use diggers in a very specific way in that level to slightly eat into the steel wall, then thanks to another glitch with the placement of the exit object, you can simply bash through the rest, creating a direct path from entrance to exit. Or you can search for the relevant posts in one of the challenge threads or glitch threads. Honestly, it's hardly a secret.
Finally, I'd like to emphasize that there are tons of challenge solutions that have nothing to do with glitches.
I mean it's not like I'm going to be able to find them on my own
Note that the glitches related to the direct-route Mayhem 12 solution was actually first discovered by ClamSpammer without any help from me. Just because I know every line of code for the mechanics of Lemming doesn't necessarily translate to me being able to spot every unusual combination of moves and circumstances that result in glitch behavior. After all, if it's obviously wrong and easily executable, they would've fixed it already before the game was out!
Thus while it's true that maybe
you won't be able to find them on your own, it's not because you can't disassemble the game's programming.
Disassembling the game's programming does help explain after-the-fact the details of a glitch and work out all the necessary conditions to trigger it, but when it comes to discovery of one in the first place, often they are discovered by people as far removed from computer programming as someone like
DragonsLover for example.
I prefer a more "traditional" style of gameplay anyway...
Despite all appearances to the contrary, I think we all appreciate styles of gameplay that emphasize logic over "specialty knowledge" like glitches. On the other hand, you have to admit when a glitch works out, you do get some logic-defying results that can be kind of hard to look away.