The mysterious warping vent

[GFree]

So early on in the Black Plague demo, I'm crawling along one of the vents and to my left there's a grating where you can see one of the infected (who I'm assuming is Gray). Anyway, moving a little further suddenly I'm warped back to a position just before the grating. At first I thought this was a stutter on my laptop, which wouldn't have surprised me due to my less than spectacular graphics chip. But I've read other people have same "problem".

Is it a problem (bug)? Or is this deliberate and if so, why?

[WindexGlow]

Spoiler below!

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//START PLAYER DEJA VU SPOOK
void EnterPlayerDeja(string asParent, string asChild)
{
StartScreenShake(0.1, 0,0.12,0.05);

PlayGuiSound("09_pitch", 0.6f);

TeleportPlayerToArea("doflick");

RemoveEntityCollideCallback("Enter","Player","eventplayerdeja");
}
//START PLAYER DEJA VU SPOOK
////////////////////////////

That's the script that does that. I think it was meant to distort the player a little bit.

[renueax]

there was a note that talked about this

[Gyne]

The developers mentioned something about distorting the gamer's perception, so I'd bet this is definitely deliberate.

[Jeremy-Bailey]

I always thought there were two vents where you can see this infected person. it never dawned on me that it'd be deja vu.

[GFree]

Thanks for the script WindexGlow. I wonder what other kinds of distortions the player will suffer in the full game.

[Kedjane]

Why do people keep thinking it's a bug? Isn't it obvious its a scary-thing?

[Dark]

read one of the texts it will be clear then
or:

Spoiler below!

read the medical journal;
one of the symptoms of being infected is deja vu's

[MarcusStuhr]

Heh remember the first video chat?

One of the symptoms is deja vu

...

Oh yeah, and another symptom is deja vu

[WindexGlow]

Whoa, I swear I've read this topic before!