AKheon | Deadly Premonition (PS3) - gas station break-out pt. 2 @AKheon | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 minutes ago.
Taking this break-out a step further, you can overlap the Gas Station-prompt with itself. This creates a variety of new effects since it allows you take the shop menu with you and use it to cause even more different overlaps.
However, I didn't test this glitch quite as extensively as I did Sigourney or binoculars break-outs because closing the Gas Station-menu after an overlap is very likely to softlock (or rarely crash) the game. That's the reason I don't foresee this trick being incredibly useful in any respect, but it can look pretty funny doing the "special service" in a number of odd places.
The main way you'd avoid a softlock afterwards would be if you did this overlap into f.e. a story cutscene which leads into a loading zone. A loading zone fixes this glitch and the overlapped menu in its entirety.
0:00 - Just the basic setup where I start the overlap. In this first clip I visit Gas Station twice in a row, causing both Gina and Jack to appear. It's completely random who you get: you can get two Ginas or two Jacks to appear as well, there's no logic to it. It's less impressive than it seems because the first of these two attendants will be invisible. I then activate Gina's cleaning dance while Jack is present for a fair amount of confusion.
When the attendant leaves, the cutscene showing the Gas Station entrance can easily bug out, becoming unskippable and stuck, therefore causing an inescapable softlock. I'm not sure what is the biggest factor in causing the softlock. York's distance to the store? Whether the attendant's model is loaded? In this specific clip, I think the cutscene became stuck but was not unskippable, and therefore the game could continue afterwards.
(Not on the vid: having one shop menu open as Gina finishes her cleaning dance will crash the game afterwards.)
1:29 - If you overlap the shop menu, then quickly close the first menu, the second menu will stay on the screen while York is free to move.
1:55 - Funnily enough, if the other attendant is leaving while a text box is on the screen, they'll continue walking indefinitely right through the wall of the Gas Station building.
2:19 - You can keep refilling your car's gas tank while on the move. The game recalculates the price on the fly after every purchase, which is pretty neat.
2:43 - Many comical looking overlaps can be done by activating the cutscenes from inside the shop menu at a wrong time. Well, in my save only Gina's "special service" was available. Unfortunately, I couldn't try glitching the "bribe" option since I'd already done that side quest earlier.
Anyway, here I get "special service" while inside a dumpster. Then the game softlocks.
3:56 - Fishing while getting "special service". Again, the cutscene with the attendant leaving will be both stuck and unskippable, causing a softlock. The only thing you can do after this point is to continue fishing indefinitely.
5:14 - The game even softlocks if you just pause the game while the shop menu is open. You lose control of both menus.
5:30 - To my surprise, overlapping Lysander's shop menu with the Gas Station menu works surprisingly well. Perhaps these menus are similar yet just different enough to work together. Only Lysander's shop menu is visible, and it varies if you can choose between 2 or 4 entries in it. Purchasing something causes York to purchase from both shops simultaneously. Exiting the store likewise closes both shop menus simultaneously. And I didn't even get a softlock afterwards.
(Not on the vid: you could surely use Lysander's shop and its unique cutscene regarding York's car to do some new overlaps all around the game as well, but I'm drawing the line here for now... Perhaps when I have more time again at some point in the future.)
Taking this break-out a step further, you can overlap the Gas Station-prompt with itself. This creates a variety of new effects since it allows you take the shop menu with you and use it to cause even more different overlaps.
However, I didn't test this glitch quite as extensively as I did Sigourney or binoculars break-outs because closing the Gas Station-menu after an overlap is very likely to softlock (or rarely crash) the game. That's the reason I don't foresee this trick being incredibly useful in any respect, but it can look pretty funny doing the "special service" in a number of odd places.
The main way you'd avoid a softlock afterwards would be if you did this overlap into f.e. a story cutscene which leads into a loading zone. A loading zone fixes this glitch and the overlapped menu in its entirety.
0:00 - Just the basic setup where I start the overlap. In this first clip I visit Gas Station twice in a row, causing both Gina and Jack to appear. It's completely random who you get: you can get two Ginas or two Jacks to appear as well, there's no logic to it. It's less impressive than it seems because the first of these two attendants will be invisible. I then activate Gina's cleaning dance while Jack is present for a fair amount of confusion.
When the attendant leaves, the cutscene showing the Gas Station entrance can easily bug out, becoming unskippable and stuck, therefore causing an inescapable softlock. I'm not sure what is the biggest factor in causing the softlock. York's distance to the store? Whether the attendant's model is loaded? In this specific clip, I think the cutscene became stuck but was not unskippable, and therefore the game could continue afterwards.
(Not on the vid: having one shop menu open as Gina finishes her cleaning dance will crash the game afterwards.)
1:29 - If you overlap the shop menu, then quickly close the first menu, the second menu will stay on the screen while York is free to move.
1:55 - Funnily enough, if the other attendant is leaving while a text box is on the screen, they'll continue walking indefinitely right through the wall of the Gas Station building.
2:19 - You can keep refilling your car's gas tank while on the move. The game recalculates the price on the fly after every purchase, which is pretty neat.
2:43 - Many comical looking overlaps can be done by activating the cutscenes from inside the shop menu at a wrong time. Well, in my save only Gina's "special service" was available. Unfortunately, I couldn't try glitching the "bribe" option since I'd already done that side quest earlier.
Anyway, here I get "special service" while inside a dumpster. Then the game softlocks.
3:56 - Fishing while getting "special service". Again, the cutscene with the attendant leaving will be both stuck and unskippable, causing a softlock. The only thing you can do after this point is to continue fishing indefinitely.
5:14 - The game even softlocks if you just pause the game while the shop menu is open. You lose control of both menus.
5:30 - To my surprise, overlapping Lysander's shop menu with the Gas Station menu works surprisingly well. Perhaps these menus are similar yet just different enough to work together. Only Lysander's shop menu is visible, and it varies if you can choose between 2 or 4 entries in it. Purchasing something causes York to purchase from both shops simultaneously. Exiting the store likewise closes both shop menus simultaneously. And I didn't even get a softlock afterwards.
(Not on the vid: you could surely use Lysander's shop and its unique cutscene regarding York's car to do some new overlaps all around the game as well, but I'm drawing the line here for now... Perhaps when I have more time again at some point in the future.)
