Cant follow Aunt Ethel through fireplace

[Mersh 🐎]

Doesnt let me follow her, not sure if im doing something wrong or if its bugged

[BeautifulFlowerField]

it's just janky, try moving the camera past the wall if possible and clicking there. just spam clicks on the passage while you zoom the camera in at it. it's really janky in the same way moving past invisible walls and doors too sometimes.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Mersh 🐎:

Cant follow Aunt Ethel through fireplace
Doesnt let me follow her, not sure if im doing something wrong or if its bugged

You do not need to follow her. You can just go pass through.

[WeirdWizardDave]

If you click and hold on the floor your character will walk in that direction and you can move the mouse around to change the direction the character is walking. This is a different mode of movement to the normal click to path move. It makes it much easier to walk through the fireplace.

[Mersh 🐎]

https://i.imgur.com/WuxtAve.jpeg

pretty janky indeed

[BeautifulFlowerField]

Originally posted by Mersh 🐎:

https://i.imgur.com/WuxtAve.jpeg

pretty janky indeed

whenever you get "can't move here" try jumping

[EricHVela]

I was confused because I never had a problem, but I play with controller which, while out of turn based, is like a 3rd person game, making that fireplace just another passageway.

I can see why that'd be an issue with mouse/keyboard, though. WeirdWizardDave has the right answer.

[Nick]

For me it looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/chWagal (I don't know why it says the content is mature, I didn't check that box)
Is it bugged?

[EricHVela]

Originally posted by Nick:

For me it looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/chWagal (I don't know why it says the content is mature, I didn't check that box)
Is it bugged?

It is intended to be hidden from view until you cross the threshold, but I, personally, think it's part of a bug caused by BG3's feature to mask areas you're not supposed to see, yet.

There is an unopenable(?) hidden door/wall before she leaves you with her pets (if they're still around at that time). That goes away, but instead of exposing the area behind the fireplace, it keeps it masked until your characters enter that area. I think that's not intended but a side-effect of the hide-until-you're-supposed-to-see-it closed-door mechanic.

Also, turn off the fireplace before stepping on it. You don't have to walk through the fire.

[Nick]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Originally posted by Nick:

For me it looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/chWagal (I don't know why it says the content is mature, I didn't check that box)
Is it bugged?

It is intended to be hidden from view until you cross the threshold, but I, personally, think it's part of a bug caused by BG3's feature to mask areas you're not supposed to see, yet.

So I'm supposed to click past the fireplace without seeing what's there?

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Also, turn off the fireplace before stepping on it. You don't have to walk through the fire.

I did, just turned it back on to check if that did anything. Lae'zel keeps insisting on stepping on it, at least it's not damaging her.

[EricHVela]

Originally posted by Nick:

So I'm supposed to click past the fireplace without seeing what's there?

That's why I think it's an unexpected thing caused by a game mechanic used everywhere else... a bug.

It works fine for 3rd person controls with a console controller where the player doesn't click anything for going somewhere out of turn based. Players just use the two sticks to do standard movement controls as for the vast majority of console games. Not being able to see where one is going isn't an issue, but it's a necessity for click-moving.

I wonder how this got missed in testing of EA. There was no controller in EA. I'm trying to remember if that area was blanked during EA. Part of my memory says it was never masked along with many other areas that wouldn't normally be known to the players, which means this mechanic never received the same scrutiny as the other EA features.

[Nick]

I just tried to click and hold into the area, it didn't work and it's still blacked out. If there's supposed to be a skill check it also didn't trigger.

Edit:
Ok, I had to use the turn based mode to be able to walk through.

[Jason_c_o]

Originally posted by BeautifulFlowerField:

Originally posted by Mersh 🐎:

https://i.imgur.com/WuxtAve.jpeg

pretty janky indeed

whenever you get "can't move here" try jumping

This was the solution for me, thank you.

[PlasteredDragon]

I had to misty step into the fireplace... something is definitely borked in the new patch. i didn't have to do that last time.

[DeadlyEmbrace]

Originally posted by PlasteredDragon:

I had to misty step into the fireplace... something is definitely borked in the new patch. i didn't have to do that last time.

Yeah, had no issue passing through yesterday, but after the patch I seem to be unable to easily pass through. I have a save on the other side and managed to "glitch" through once, but it's definitely borked.

[ijk613]

Standing by the fireplace and using jump seems to work