Brickman
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I'm stumped. I have no ideas left to try. I first tried running straight through each row and column, then tried hitting almost every single square of tar that I passed, definitely enough to see that that's not the answer. The door remains shut. Note that I did this to every row and every column that you go through.

please post a pic with highlights where the trapdoor I'm missing is, or at least give me a hint.

agaricus5
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Be more curious. The tar hides the trapdoor in a place where you don't expect it to be.



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Brickman
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Is it just me, or is that a stupid room? It seems to have been designed specifically to annoy.

agaricus5
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Brickman wrote:
Is it just me, or is that a stupid room? It seems to have been designed specifically to annoy.

I don't think so. In the Webfoot version, the minimap didn't show tar, so you could see the walls under the tar and therefore (for this room) where the trapdoor was, located by a small gap in the minimap. In that case, locating it was relatively easy.

When we went to 1.5/1.6, this feature was lost. This probably was not noticed (most of the alpha testers had already finished DROD) and so I think the problem was caused accidentally and not realised.

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