"Can't get into the bucket in the marsh refinery!"


(This post started as a reply to the thread at https://www.gog.com/forum/call_of_cthulhu_dark_corners_of_the_earth/cant_get_into_the_bucket_in_the_marsh_refinery but I decided to start a new thread.)


I've have just had the same problem as this thread I've linked to, and I kinda weaseled my way out of it. I'm gonna post my ''solution" here because there are surely others who found the same bug.


What I did, out of sheer frustration and an absolute refusal to load a (much) earlier savegame, was: wander around the level, find a few Innsmouthers to kill, and then save *that* game, and reload that game.


And it worked.


I am no computer programmer at all but I guess that perhaps there are a specific combination of elements in a savegame that can cause the bug. And if so, then wandering around the level and killing some fishmen and then saving the game perhaps changed that bug-causing combination of elements into a new combination that didn't cause the bug.


Hope this helps someone stuck in the same situation!

I experienced the same issue. I think maybe only one of the buckets is accessible, so I just tried each one that came until one let me on. All I had to do was walk forward from the platform to get on. One time I had to wait for 3 buckets to pass by, another time 5 buckets.

Another solution is to use Morphine, sometimes the invisible wall will disappear if you run against it while on Morphine.

I was able to reliably get in by doing this:

Start sneaking, then constantly move diagonally towards the front right corner of the cart while wiggling your camera back and forth and jumping
As the cart starts to move away, there's a chance you'll get pushed past the gate that is stopping you
You have to react fairly quickly and stop yourself when this happens, or else you'll just walk off the cliff
The reason you're sneaking is to give yourself more time to react
But yea, just stay on the ledge past the invisible wall till the next cart comes around
It looks like it'll push you off but it shouldn't and you can just walk in