Help function? What Help function

 
BillGale
2 posts
2 of Diamonds
We started playing this game today and at one point could not continue (couldn't find sodium nitrate for gunpowder). It shows as being locked - in other words, something else is needed to complete. However, when asking for a hint, it simply says no hint found. So, at this point we cannot go any further into the game. So - is there a bug or what? there is nothing that resembles the sodium nitrate container that we can find in the location the game says contains it.

Posted on Wed May 19 15:48:52 PDT 2010

pistachio
78 posts
5 of Spades
Check the PDA icon on the bottom left of your screen. Is it glowing green or red? If so, then you have another hotspot to find that will help unlock that object.

Also, check if you have several tabs on your object bar. Click on the tabs to switch between them, as there may be other items to find first before the locked object.

Posted on Wed May 19 16:10:24 PDT 2010

pnk96722
2 posts
2 of Diamonds
pistachio wrote: Check the PDA icon on the bottom left of your screen. Is it glowing green or red? If so, then you have another hotspot to find that will help unlock that object.

Also, check if you have several tabs on your object bar. Click on the tabs to switch between them, as there may be other items to find first before the locked object.


BillGale, pistachio means that if the PDA is glowing red then you need to go to a different location. I also noticed that when you're in the right location to find an object, the border around the object you can find there glows as well.

Posted on Wed May 19 16:30:11 PDT 2010

BillGale
2 posts
2 of Diamonds
Both of the replies stated things we already knew - and we are in the room where the PDA is green and we click back and forth between two different group of items. Problem is that both groups have one item that is locked (lock shows in the item) and nothing to indicate how to unlock them. We know that we unlock the gunpowder by making the sodium nitrate but the sodium nitrate is locked! THe help function just is not helpful here.

Posted on Fri May 21 06:22:20 PDT 2010

pistachio
78 posts
5 of Spades
If the PDA is green, then click it again. Sometimes you'll be given 5 or 6 objectives one after the other, all in the same room, and you end up with so many tabs on your taskbar!

Posted on Sun May 23 22:23:33 PDT 2010

Mossy
11 posts
3 of Clubs
I have the similar problem. I have found all the required items (level with poisoned food and black spots). However, I cannot get back into the room where I need to place the items. The help button says "not hint found" This happened in another area. I started the game over with a different profile and was able to get pass the are where the freeze occurred. This seems to happen when I exit the game and return. Using a MAC.

Posted on Sun May 30 11:32:12 PDT 2010

kissyface
1 posts
2 of Diamonds
The issue is timing. I started over. The sodium nitrate is the white rocks you had to address in the cave with the rock slide. Unfortunately, if you did not have the gunpowder search open when you completed the sodium nitrate, it had nowhere to go, an obvious glitch in the code. Just make sure to wait for all of the PDA suggestions and get the gun powder search going before you complete the white rocks (sodium nitrate).

Posted on Fri Jun 25 09:08:36 PDT 2010

sparkle
1 posts
2 of Diamonds
kissyface wrote: The issue is timing. I started over. The sodium nitrate is the white rocks you had to address in the cave with the rock slide. Unfortunately, if you did not have the gunpowder search open when you completed the sodium nitrate, it had nowhere to go, an obvious glitch in the code. Just make sure to wait for all of the PDA suggestions and get the gun powder search going before you complete the white rocks (sodium nitrate).

Posted on Sat Dec 04 17:22:41 PST 2010

Poppa
1162 posts
9 of Spades
Having the same problem with the sodium nitrate and the gunpowder. All other aspects of this game segment have been completed. Both of these items are locked and there is no availability of a hint not is the PDA available. It's not a game I would buy, got it as a GH freebie of the day. Will try again with an alternate profile. Hope the admin people here are reading these glitch messages and they can patch the problem for us. Went to both the pond and to Gamezebo for a walkthru and neither site has one for Lilly Wu. I'm surprised that no walkthru is available.

Posted on Mon Dec 06 09:56:47 PST 2010

spowers
2 posts
2 of Diamonds
I also got the free game of the day and can't get past the poison. When I go back to other rooms to get what I need, the 'door' closes and I can't get back in even though I found all the items. No hint available, no green PDA, no extra tabs! Second problem with free version, during game, it 'pauses' like it's looking for the ad, but then just shuts down...back to the desktop!

Posted on Tue Dec 07 08:35:54 PST 2010