Hexen - Avoiding the Gibbet Glitch

There is an easy way to get through that last room in Gibbet without having to resort to noclip. For skills 1, 2, and 3, you just need to wait a few seconds after the 3 Chaos Serpents appear (don't kill any though) before the doors open.

For skills 4 (which is what I've used here) and 5, 4 Chaos Serpents appear instead of 3, so you'll need to kill one AND ONLY ONE if the doors are to open.

The culprit is script 13 in the map:

script 13 OPEN
{
until(thingcount(T_DEMON, 0) == 3)
{
delay(const:210);
}
Door_Open(const:28, 32);
tagwait(const:28);
Stairs_BuildDownSync(const:18, 8, 16, 0);
}

That means that the script will check every six seconds whether there are exactly 3 (no more, no less) Chaos Serpents. If, during that period of time, you kill them too quickly, the doors will never open and you will be stuck.

Of course, after the doors open, you can kill them however you like.

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Tags:

• Hexen
• Gibbet
• glitch

[pron600]

thanks, very useful dude

[TheRealNormanBates]

Actually, its easier that this; when you first open the final door, run up to grab the "Rook piece" in the chair and run backwards. The maulotars will try to get you, but you can get back through the doors before they close back up. Also, the effrits will try to shoot at you (as well as the wizards later) when you wait by the door, which will hit the maulotaurs, causing them to attack the effrits. You can then open the doors and kill them in groups as they try to come through.

[alxxz]

@alxxz

Luckily no-clip cheat worked for me then in Hexen 2! Does anybody remember this bug too?

Other than that both Hexen 1 & 2 were awesome games!

[alxxz]

Interestingly there was an exact same glitch in Hexen 2, in Egypt towards the end; the elevator gate leading to Pestilence Boss, would not open even though I had completed the puzzle I read at The Scarab of Time / the Chamber of the Sun about the Ra (the sun god) rising to his highest point on the sky, where I had to set the sundial Temple of Light (Afternoon 12:00) and placing the 2 crowns of Egypt at the pedestals in the Temple of Horus.

[alxxz]

Yes I remember playing Hexen back in the day 1995, in Titan difficulty mode (Skill 5) and getting stuck at this point! You can imagine my frustration not being able to use the no-clip cheat as cheats are disabled in the maximum difficulty! I had to replay the game in skill 4 almost form the beginning, as I had not made a more recent save up to that point! Ugh! :(

I never understood if this was actually a bug or a puzzle intended by the game makers...?

[MrPucy]

damn fucking glitch, it happens to me a lot and i didn't know this problem!

[acidglow]

Good tip.