TITANIC: Parrot Freeze

[dafioram]

Scummvm: 1.10.0git-4120-g720e146
Game: Titanic ver C.
OS: Win7-64

Have the parrot go left then move the chicken somewhere to the other side. You must drop the chicken into your inventory (by letting go of left click). He will be frozen and if you click away the hourglass will come up and you will be frozen. You can save/load until the hourglass shows then you can't.

I had observed this a while back (while he was still eating cold chickens), but wasn't sure how to reproduce it. I show it being done two ways.

The game does not crash.

Way 1: ​https://streamable.com/h2knf
Way 2: ​https://streamable.com/x9los

[dafioram]

parrot and myself frozen

[dafioram]

save with hot plain chicken

[dafioram]

This behavior is in the original engine.

[dafioram]

The hourglass freeze can be avoided if when the parrot is frozen, the user pickup the parrot and put him back. This will cause the parrot to reset and no longer be frozen.

[dafioram]

I am still able to reproduce this exactly as before.

1. Put chicken to one side, parrot goes to that side
2. Drop/put chicken into inventory
3. While parrot is returning to center pull chicken out to other side

The parrot will now be frozen.

1.10.0git-4325-g70a2ca8

[dafioram]

This works really great.

[dafioram]

After further testing I was able to produce another parrot freeze, but under slightly different conditions.

1. Put the chicken to the left and the parrot will start going to the left side.
2. Drop the chicken into your inventory and turn left
3. The parrot should now freeze.

Its important that the parrot still be going left when you click to turn left.

[dafioram]

Hopefully this is the last we see of the parrot.