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Ok, I think I understand what’s happening now. I used your (Stella’s) save file at the beginning of the Cenote level, playing on Windows, and continued with that. Got to the point where I needed to talk to Estli (which would have committed me to finishing the game). Did several side missions along the way, and, while doing one of them (Path of Fear), I discovered that, when jumping, holding the space bar for a second or two causes Lara to jump further than if you just tap it. (Not sure whether a controller would do the same; I do have one, but I’m not organized enough to remember where I put it). That made me think of the Eye of the Serpent problem. So, I went back to it on Linux, and got through on the second try. Seems there are two jumps that you need to do, holding the space bar down for a second or so each time: - The initial jump off the rock, towards the grapples - Another jump when you’ve swung almost all the way to the other side. I think I’ll continue on from there. Thanks for your help.

Thanks. I’ll try that. I spent yesterday and today playing it on Windows, just in case it was a bug in the Linux version, and I’ve just got to the same point. Sadly, it does the same thing. I’ll let you know how it goes l

I'm trying to get to Eye of the Serpent, running on Linux. So I rappel down the wall, swing over to the next wall, edge over, then rappel down to the island. Easy enough. It's the next bit that I'm having trouble with. I run to the edge, jump, hurl the grapple, and one of two things happens, neither of which are good: - The grapple goes straight up, falls down again, and Lara goes into the water. OR - The grapple hits the correct loop, Lara swings under it, then, whether I hit 'space', 'c' or nothing, Lara falls into the water a couple of feet short of the landing. I can't seem to get her on the landing. I don't seem to be able to reliably get that second option, which I assume is mostly correct. Still, even that's not right. I'm clearly missing something, but I don't know what. Any ideas?

Thanks. By the time I wrote the first note, I was getting rather frustrated, and it was late at night, and I'd decided the developers were just being nasty. Later on I realised that it was probably a bug., and wondered if, when I went back to it, it would reload from a checkpoint, and it did. Thank you for maintaining this site. I didn't discover TR (even the first one) until a couple of months ago. I've done the first two (with your help) and now enjoying this one.

OK. So I gave up at that point, and did something else instead. Tried again today, and it had reset itself to the original start position. Followed Stella's instructions, and got through. Still weird, though. Not sure if it's a bug or intentional.

I’m literally stuck. I need to move the smaller pillar 90 degrees clockwise. So I hitch it up to the larger pillar using the rope, then go up to the larger pillar and push. That’s when I discover that I can’t move it in either direction. Lara gets half-way, then seems to run out of puff — either way, she can’t move any more. Anyone else seen this problem?