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This happens to me a lot. It also happen in the elevator when it floods with water. I think it happens in these areas after I've looked at everything with the "eye" icon. Suddenly I can't walk, if I climb the ladder I get the same issue as you. The climbing animation kicks in, the camera pans up but I'm still at the bottom in the end.

Here's what I'm running into so far... 

Quality of Life issues:

-moving around is delayed when an animation is taking place, usually an idle animation of Ace or Rooter. We need the ability to interrupt the animations, otherwise it feels like we are waiting for nothing before taking action.

-Example, when picking up Rooters body parts after getting slapped by the tentacle monster. If you interrupt Aces dialog to pickup the next piece he sits and waits before moving forward to pick up.  Not sure if that’s the timing of the dialog, or the animation idle. 

-Facial animation is in “stepped” mode, popping between poses. Inbetweens are needed, or less big phonetic expressions for dialog, less may be more (and less distracting)

-UI icons for hand and walk etc animation is too big. When selecting the hand for example the icon bounces too far making it feel clumsy to click. Sharper/tighter animation would help solve this I think. Keep the icon in the same spot when the cursor is moving over it (feels like its slipping away from me)

Inventory is unituitive:

-I know what I need to do but understanding how to combine items in the inventory was impossible to understand without reading about it on the forum.

-I feel the need to deselect an inventory item, but I always have to have something selected

-I miss the “look” icon and “hand” icon from the older Sierra games, it was crystal clear how to use that system, I feel overall I’m stumbling through this one.

Pipe Puzzle:

-I’m not sure how to recreate this bug, but in one play through the squid in the pipe moved to another pipe only to not appear in the next one. This Left me with no way to finish solving the puzzle.

-After solving pipe puzzle Narrator voice gets cut short

Elevator flooded:

-looking at screw, image was too small 

-I couldn’t walk around within the elevator, when I tried to climb out the climb animation would play and I ended up back in the elevator.  I had to quit the game and start over and then it worked.

Vat of Sewage:

In the sewer when the tentacle monster has Ace. After Rooter uses his thruster to get to the ground, if you click his head icon you get a narration suggesting you’re still hanging from the pipe by his grappling tongue. 

Ladder below vat of green sewage.

-option to look at tentacle is available before it pops out of the tank, Ace responds as if tentacle is already visible.

-I got stuck in a weird loop where I can’t walk below the ladder, if I climb up the ladder Ace pops to the bottom after the climbing animation takes him up. I think I’m stuck here and need to reload. (same as elevator, not sure what exactly is causing this issue)

-This seems to happen after climbing down the ladder and looking at everything I can, suddenly I can’t move.

-There also appears to be things to look at that are unnamed. #lookscene_walkable_middle (something like that looked like an option)