Hey all,

Don't know whether anyone here can help, but I've discovered a glitch that I'd found only limited reference to in the past, and it's completely buggered up my current game - which was going extremely well, btw. I'm not sure where to turn for help, and this board is easy access, so...

Anyway, here it is: on the Leviathan, you get to confront Malak for the first time, in an improbable hallway composed of a grid of useless blast doors which do nothing but add tension between cutscenes. You know the place. Who'd design a hallway like that, I ask you?

Anyway, I digress.

So, true to the style of the game, if you whup Malak's ass during this first encounter, he'll Force Whirlwind you and run off - for plot purposes. You then have to track him through this ridiculous grid, opening perimeter doors to get around the locked center square. As it turns out, there's only one door that will allow you access to the center square - this is where the glitch occurs. You go around the perimeter, either left or right, until you get to this door, and, as you approach it, there's a hall juncture or open bulkhead just a few feet before it. Well, there's a programming error with this section of wall which causes you to die instantly as you pass through it. There's no way to avoid death there, and there's also no way to avoid having to pass through there, since it's impossible to pre-empt this absurd plot contrivance. Net result: 30 hours wasted game time. I've gone back to previous saves six hours younger, and still ended up getting the life sucked out of me at that same point once I'd reached it.

The odd thing is, I'm on my third playthrough, and this had never happened before.

If it could be a factor - though I'm not sure why it would make a difference - this time through I'm playing the "Uber-Jedi" character from March's issue of Official XBox Mag, and I've also taken advantage of the Level-Up Glitch, hoping to get a PC that isn't still a total weenie by the end. Now, nobody else seems to have complained about this problem while playing through with either the Uber-Jedi or the FLU, so I'm not sure whether those could be a factor in this.

I've only seen this glitch mentioned twice whilst searching online - most notably at Malak's own "Super Jedi Creation Page" where there is reference to an invisible line that'll kill you if you cross it, in this same section of the Leviathan. The difference there is that his mention of it refers to a very specific application of a very sepcific cheat, which doesn't apply here. My Security skill is high, but not high enough that I can open locked Blast Doors in this section, and anyway, I'm not using any security skill during this part of the game to get to where my problem occurs - my glitch impedes *normal* playthrough. The only other mention I found was on a message board - I can't remember which one - where some guy said that he'd had all the glitches in the game at one time or another, including the "death line" glitch. No explanation, no description, no follow-up.

Anyway, that's it. I'm still trying to find a way around it, if there is one, and I'm hoping that it won't happen again if I try over from the start; but that's a bummer - I still haven't seen the Dark Side ending, and I don't want to plug away for another 30 hours only to find out that I maybe never will. Glitches suck!

Well, the FLU Glitch is neat, but most glitches suck!



Cheers, mates!