User blog comment:Skaraks/Lost Alpha Directors Cut/@comment-10507735-20170801163707/@comment-10507735-20170802002118

Okay, I'll try that later on by first restoring the gamedata folder from its current hiding place and making the relevant addition.

Point of information:

Several games that got to this point exhibited this behaviour for the "Victory" Oso ending, while the "Defeat" Oso ending was unaffected.

As noted above "hiding" the gamedata folder allowed the Victory sequence to play through - FB weapon still did not appear, but actor animation performed as expected, which was weird - so the relevant objects were pulled from the db archives precisely once, which is also weird.