NO orbs are glitched in this game, *please read*

[thedarkness91]

After reading various threads, having my own troubles on Chapter 5: Crash Site and reading fotznlecker's thread, I can safely say that NONE of the orbs are glitched in this game.

For all of you who have gone through specific levels that you're stuck on (98-99% orb completion) many times, all I can say is go through each orb location once again (I know, it sucks), KILL every enemy you see and collect any orbs they drop.

On Chapter 5, I assumed my missing orb was in the beginning area with the water as it's arguably quite easy to miss one, however, there was nothing I missed nor any orbs later in the level. After reaching the dog boss, I quit the chapter and got back into the menu to find I had achieved 100%. Like wtf?

Conclusion: None of the orbs are glitched BUT, perhaps do not register straight away. I used Savenger's awesome Orb Guide located here:
The Complete Tech Orb Location Guide

I went through each chapter slowly, frequently pausing the game after collecting an orb and with the guide, acquired all orbs.

Hope this helps anyone struggling.

[lordhong]

There are glitched orbs, or at least orbs that are very picky when you want to pick them up... Mine is in chapter 3, right before Trip hacks the security door after crawling the small hole. I drop down to the door, and there's an orb right there. I grab it - it disappears, but I get no raise in the tech total. My total stays at 99%. It's always there whenever I retry the level, which at this point I have done over 10 times.

[jsma516]

I am on my second playthrough right now and there was one level I was playing through (dont remember which one) but there were 4 or 5 orbs that were right out in the open. The only thing I can think of is that I died in the first playthrough and some of the orbs respawned from an earlier checkpoint. These orbs were on the main path, they would have been impossible to miss.

[Ether999]

Actually, I'm pretty sure it is. I've played through chapter 3 multiple times, even got that glitched disappearing orb through the wall, but my percentage stays at 99%.

[heavenssmile]

i had problems on chapter three as well, 6 times i dropped into that area and the orb dissappeared as i landed or as i collected it it didn't register.

i finally got it by jumping off the right side of the ledge and landing on top of the orb.

[lordhong]

Originally Posted by heavenssmile

i finally got it by jumping off the right side of the ledge and landing on top of the orb.

Yeah... I tried everything and finally, for some reason, on the 20th playthrough of chapter 3, I finally managed to grab that orb.... thank god it wasn't long to reach that point every time.

[kbiii]

The chapter in which you start out on water, a cloud scene, you must blow up the boat. I was stuck at 98% I think it was. Anyways, before you push over the container, making a walkway for trip, ride your cloud to the left of the huge suspension bridge. There is a small island that had tech orbs, and currently will have plasma ammo. Get off your cloud, aim for the huge tanker, with a hole in its hull. The tank you need to shoot is here.
When you blow it up, an island becomes visible underneath it, containing hopefully, your last orbs for the chapter. Run to the end of the area, wait for a save and exit to menu.

These are needed for 100% for sure.

[TyrantII]

This post is 100% right, there are no glitched orbs.

I think people are running into trouble because of the save system, not glitched orbs. If you collect an orb and quit out, the game isn't saving and it doesn't count. It'll then show up when you reload the chapter.

To ensure the game saves, you need to continue until you reach the next cutscene or obvious save.

NT really should have added an orb count into the select screen thou.

[Fractal]

Didn't have any trouble with orbs, I got 90-97% of orbs in each level without a guide and then didnan easy playthrough to ge the others with a guide taking it slow and checking every location, pausing and checking ever nook and cranny.

[McGarnigle]

Originally Posted by thedarkness91

After reading various threads, having my own troubles on Chapter 5: Crash Site and reading fotznlecker's thread, I can safely say that NONE of the orbs are glitched in this game.

For all of you who have gone through specific levels that you're stuck on (98-99% orb completion) many times, all I can say is go through each orb location once again (I know, it sucks), KILL every enemy you see and collect any orbs they drop.

On Chapter 5, I assumed my missing orb was in the beginning area with the water as it's arguably quite easy to miss one, however, there was nothing I missed nor any orbs later in the level. After reaching the dog boss, I quit the chapter and got back into the menu to find I had achieved 100%. Like wtf?

Conclusion: None of the orbs are glitched BUT, perhaps do not register straight away. I used Savenger's awesome Orb Guide located here:
The Complete Tech Orb Location Guide

I went through each chapter slowly, frequently pausing the game after collecting an orb and with the guide, acquired all orbs.

Hope this helps anyone struggling.

Guys please stop saying that there are no glitched orbs. I can 100% confirm that there are. I think the problem you have is that you don't really know what a glitch is. A glitch is something present in the game that the developers didn't intend to put there. Now these particular glitches don't show up every single time you play a level, hence the fact that the trophy is still attainable. So the fact that they didn't show up for you doesn't mean they're not actually there. On chapter 9 there's undoubtedly a glitched orb right out in the open at the bit after the boat section, that I couldn't possibly have missed in my 3 previous playthrough of the level. The fact that I've seen around 10 other people on this site that had the same problem proves this.