BURIED: No Research points awarded for examining Biochip - Files

[Thunderforge]

According to three different walkthroughs (​here, ​here, and ​here), you are supposed to be able to get 3 Research points for opening up "Biochip - Files" and examining each of the following

• The information on the Jumpsuit
• Agent 3's dossier
• Agent 3's profile

However, none of these are actually awarded.

Because of this bug, a perfect score of 15000 is impossible to achieve.

Reproduction steps

1. Load the attached save game, which is a fresh game with 0 points on it, with Gage positioned right next to a pit in the Da Vinci era
2. In your inventory, scroll to "Biochip - Files"
3. Click the icon to select the biochip
4. In the Biochip Display, click "Access"
5. Click "Jumpsuit Overview"
6. Click the down arrow three times (1 Research point is supposed to be awarded)
7. Click "Return"
8. Click "Agent Dossiers"
9. Click "Research Unit"
10. Click "Agent 3 - Visard, Michelle" (1 Research point is supposed to be awarded)
11. Click "Profile" (1 Research point is supposed to be awarded)
12. Click "Return"
13. Click "Missions" (1 Research point is supposed to be awarded)
14. Click "Return"
15. In the Biochip Display, click the "Exit" button
16. Walk forward one step, which will result in you falling to your death and the death screen being brought up, which shows among other things the "Research Bonus"

Expected: "Research Bonus: "3/15 x 100 = 300"
Actual: "Research Bonus: "0/15 x 100 = 0"

For good measure, I also exhaustively examined every single page in Biochip - Files, but still no points are awarded.

Versions

• ScummVM 2.3.0pre 2021-08-31
• Windows 10 Pro 20H2
• The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time v1.00 24BPP/Windows/English

[eriktorbjorn]

It looks to me like the bugs are in FilesBioChipViewWindow::onLButtonUp().

I don't have the time to submit a pull request just yet, but I have a work-in-progress branch at ​https://github.com/eriktorbjorn/scummvm/commits/buried-fix-12881

(Note that it seems to award points for just looking at the Agent 3 page, not for looking at the missions page. I don't know if that's correct behavior.)

[Thunderforge]

(Note that it seems to award points for just looking at the Agent 3 page, not for looking at the missions page. I don't know if that's correct behavior.)

Rereading the three walkthroughs, I think you are correct.

[Three research points are awarded for reading various files: 1) Jumpsuit, 2) Visard Dossier, 3) Visard Profile. 0/0/0/3]

2) And read Visard (aka Agent 3's) dossier in the Files Biochip.

Select your Files biochip and read the files on the Jumpsuit (100) and the all the TSA Agent Dossiers (100) and Profiles (100).

They all say "Dossier", not "Mission page", so that was my mistake. (The last one is incorrect, you don't have to look at all of them). I've updated the ticket description to reflect this.

FYI, there was an official strategy guide for the game that I believe was created by Presto, but I don't own it. If there's ever a debate about what is "correct" behavior for the game, that might be a good resource.

[eriktorbjorn]

I've cleaned up one of my commit messages (sorry about the force push) and submitted a pull request: ​https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/3337

[sev-]

The pull request now has been merged. The issue is fixed.