
BtB 2014 - The Devil and the Deep Dark Jungle


Story:
It was a nice, sunny day as Lara walked across the garden to her mail-box. In it, there were two magazines, a lot of junk-mail and something unusual: Lara found a letter. But there was no address on the envelope.
A few minutes later, when she was back at home, she opened the letter: who had used this old-fashioned way to get through to her? Even before reading the signature her question had an answer, as she recognized the handwriting: Walter!
They had attended Archaeology classes together at university, and Walter was more than a fellow student to Lara. They were a tight-knit couple. Walter was very fond of Bruce L. Cathie theories about the 'World energy grid' and he hoped to discover scientific evidence about these ley lines.
But, after he had graduated, Lara lost contact with him. Walter left his dreams behind, and without giving any explanation to Lara, he enlisted in the armed forces and eventually became an SAS colonel.

But now he was trying to contact her: "I left the army some years ago and I went to Cambodia to find evidence of the world energy grid in Angkor Wat (as you know, Angkor Wat is one of the most important "grid points"), but I discovered something much more thrilling: another temple complex that lies in the mountains north-west of Angkor Wat. There I found a great source of world energy."
Then Walter wrote the co-ordinates of the place. "I couldn't phone or send an e-mail to you, because they might be bugged, so I put this letter in an envelope, I gave it to a trustworthy friend, who put the letter, your address and the instructions in another envelope and gave it all to another trusted friend and so on, until the envelope reached London, where someone put this letter in your mail-box."
"Now Walter is paranoid too!" thought Lara. But the letter went on: "I'm living here like a hermit, worshipping Naga's regenerating power. I might become a super-man, maybe a god, but am I ready to pay the price for this? The devil and the deep dark jungle.
"The best way to reach the place where I am, is by going up the river. Ask for Benjamin Marlowe: he was working for Air America in the early seventies, then, after the Vietnam War was over, he remained in Cambodia, where he bought a boat and fixed it up. You can trust him: he'll take you up the river until it's navigable, then you'll have to carry on alone."
What was happening in Cambodia? Surely Walter was going mad. And now he was asking for help before it was too late.

Secrets:
6 or 7 - In the first part of the level you can choose two different routes: one on the right, behind the votive tower and under the waterfall, and one on the left of the river; the first one is easier, but you can find just 6 secrets; the second one is more difficult, but you can find 7 secrets.

Notes and Bug Reports:

*SAVE FREQYENTLY AND USE DIFFERENT SLOTS!
If you exit the game, then you try to reload a save a crash can occur. Load a previuos save then try all the others one by one (you could try even more than once if any crash could occour again) and finally you'll be able to load the save you need.
If this issue lasts, reboot your computer, disconnect the internet, override your antivirus software and try to load earlier saves and then all the other ones until you find a later save which doesn't crash. Perhaps any programs (e.g. Fraps) could affect the game when you try to reload a save.

* Pushable and rising blocks:
If you place a pushable object on a rising block and you rise or lower the block sometimes the pushable doesn't seem move (it looks like it's disappearing or laying on air), but, if you walk near this, you will find it in the correct position.
A pushable object on which Lara can stand won't be affected by rising blocks.
Don't overlap a standable pushable, another pushable object and a rising block or, when you'll lower the block, the second pushable will be lost.
If you place a pushable over a rised block don't save and exit the game or, when you'll launch the game again, you'll never find it!

* Sometimes Lara aims empty tiles, in particular those ones where some enemy was laying.

* Lara can break some sculptures: she can shoot them or, in any case, jump over them.

* A bug might occur in mirror room (it was observed once): Lara doesn't reflect in the mirror.

* Will Lara find her friend Walter at last? Yes she will, but he won't be quite his old self, he won't be killed and he will attack Lara with his machete. Anyway Walter can help Lara opening some doors blocked by ruins (but Lara must be careful).

* When Lara reaches the top of the Boss room she must find and trigger four switches. Save before starting this procedure and then never save until the door won't be open.