Mechthorian: I managed to trick the bouncer to not stop me, but when I run to the VIP area, McCoy just stands there and scratches his head. Same with the office. The bouncer no longer stops me, but McCoy won't take advantage of it. I've exhausted every other possibility to progress. I've already confronted Gorbo and Lucy and now I need to find Dektora.
Hi there,
If I'm not mistaken this behavior by McCoy occurs if
all of the following are true:
- McCoy has already tried to enter the VIP are more than 3 times before and Hanoi (the bouncer) stopped him, and then threw him out of the club
- Hanoi is not actually distracted.
So the first thing to look for is
whether Hanoi is indeed tricked.
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He needs to be standing in front of the place where the dancer is performing, and looking towards her. If he has started waking away or looking away then McCoy was too slow, and has to re-do the thing to distract him again.
I was looking into a related issue a few weeks ago and fixed an original game's bug.
So, as an alternative, maybe you could try with a recent ScummVM *development* build to see if it behaves better for you. If anything, in the new build, McCoy should not just be standing there scratching his head; Hanoi would actually talk to him again and let him know he is watching.
