If Grimshaw knocks out his abductor, his dialogue is incorrect

[ZenithMDC]

grimshaw_helium.mp4

This is possibly an N64 bug, but I don't have the means to easily verify that. Tested 2a5c3a3 and 9c4aded (i686 and x86_64).

It doesn't appear that he has any other thanks-quip than to say it "was too close", and that he "almost had to take him out" himself. So then I guess he shouldn't say anything at all if he had to take matters into his own hands. Or, we could just consider it a feature and keep it like this since it's kind of funny and most likely a completely harmless oversight.

[RyanDwyer]

This happens on N64 too.

Each hostage is assigned a different "morale" value. The morale is used to select their thank you message. Grimshaw's morale is 2 which is the "that was too close" message. The holo room hostage's morale is 3 which is "quick, let's get to the hangar, and thanks."

However, morale serves a second purpose by the game engine. Every character's morale is incremented whenever they do a melee attack. This is because for certain characters, the game engine uses morale as a melee damage multiplier, so their melee attacks become stronger each time they do them.

In your video, Grimshaw did a melee attack on the guard which increased his morale to 3, so he said a different character's message.

The conflicting usage of morale was surely not intentional, but it's what N64 does and is harmless so I reckon it should be left as is.

[fgsfdsfgs]

I'll mark it as an N64 bug just to make note of its existence then.

[ZenithMDC]

Thanks for the thorough explanation, @RyanDwyer. And, yeah, I completely agree that it should be left as-is. Personally, I'm not interested in making alterations to the game if the bug is completely innocuous. I suppose this issue can be closed now, unless you feel that something should be done, @fgsfdsfgs. Up to you.