WARNING: Dont Skip Gortash Coronation

[[unassigned]]

to be fair its pretty obvious the game wants you to go up to it. the path is hard to miss and giant robot guards shout at you to go. but i thought "why would i go see this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ get praised by a bunch of snooty elites?"

so i walked on by killed orin, blew up his factory THEN went to the coronation.

the game was not ready for this.

the demon woman is still there saying "go on in to the fun party" but the second i step onto the bridge everyone starts trying to kill me. so i bottle neck them at the doors to the room all the elite's guards are waiting in and melt them with AoE, while Gortash slowly makes his way down. (though, weirdly, Wyll's dad Ravenguard doesnt come down the stairs and just waited at the upper floor).

Eventually i kill Gortash and immediately it plays a cutscene of his coronation like nothing happened. his is coronated,then it just returns me to him with 1HP, still hostile, but also dancing because of a spell i used that still had turns left. i can however loot him, but upon doing so played a cutscene for Karlach's quest conclusion (ending in her leaving the party and returning to camp).

tldr: game doesnt expect you to skip it, so dont probably

pic: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3025939366

EDIT: Wyll's dad died but there was no body and i never touched him and he was in a different room when i killed gortash. Also i killed gortash with Karlach in my party but she thinks i killed him without her and it annoyed her. Also it triggered some major point of no return event in the city...

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

It's just one of those 1700 endings I keep hearing about. Bizarro is a legit writing genre :)

PS: legit thanks for the head's up

[['w']]

Okay that's somehow awesome and sad ofc too, hope you reported it.

[[unassigned]]

Originally posted by |wilb|:

Okay that's somehow awesome and sad ofc too, hope you reported it.

i kinda like jank like this existing though. imperfection accentuates beauty

[zpc]

I hate that guy so much, I busted his coronation. (tough, but doable and very satisfying. Has some other consequences though)

Originally posted by unassigned:

tldr: game doesnt expect you to skip it, so dont probably

Yeah, they should not open that other door until meeting Gortash IMHO.

[[unassigned]]

Originally posted by zpc:

Yeah, they should not open that other door until meeting Gortash IMHO.

i dont know... hard barriers like that kinda mess with the immersive freedom. like my sorcerer has a million tools to get around anything, i shouldnt be stopped by a big door.

[Space Hamster Family]

right, you lose much of the content if you do this. Also, you break the game if you go up and kill him before the coronation

[zpc]

Originally posted by unassigned:

Originally posted by zpc:

Yeah, they should not open that other door until meeting Gortash IMHO.

i dont know... hard barriers like that kinda mess with the immersive freedom. like my sorcerer has a million tools to get around anything, i shouldnt be stopped by a big door.

Agreed. Closing that door would be a "quick fix" without rewriting characters. Just place two bots in front of the closed door repeating "go-to-elevator" and be done with it.

But of course, integrating it "proper" as an alternative way would be better =)

Originally posted by Space Hamster Family:

right, you lose much of the content if you do this. Also, you break the game if you go up and kill him before the coronation

Yikes! o__O

[PocketYoda]

Larion ChatGPT didn't understand what you did.. Congrats you broke the game..

Originally posted by unassigned:

Originally posted by zpc:

Yeah, they should not open that other door until meeting Gortash IMHO.

i dont know... hard barriers like that kinda mess with the immersive freedom. like my sorcerer has a million tools to get around anything, i shouldnt be stopped by a big door.

You are not wrong, its so scripted it hurts

[Ishinaia]

I guess I'm in trouble then I've just done the same as OP and arrived at the coronation to everyone wanting me dead ..

[Madlark]

Thank you for the heads-up. I am literally standing before the submersible, without having been to the coronation. I think I'm going to save and try it anyway, but without killing Orin if at all possible. My plan was basically to disable all the bots then go to the coronation with a smug face...

[Ranpo]

The Steel Watch going down is a crucial canon event, Gortash would have known it was you.

[CrossShade]

Originally posted by |wilb|:

Okay that's somehow awesome and sad ofc too, hope you reported it.

Tons of stuff like this btw, Larion didn't expect DND players to DND properly.

This is a linear RPG game with some choices they should have just forced instead of "freedom" that comes with bugs and the choices are forced anyway.

[[unassigned]]

Originally posted by Ranpo:

The Steel Watch going down is a crucial canon event, Gortash would have known it was you.

true, but literally killing him THEN getting a cutscene of you passively watching his coronation is in fact a broken narrative branch

[[unassigned]]

Originally posted by Madlark:

Thank you for the heads-up. I am literally standing before the submersible, without having been to the coronation. I think I'm going to save and try it anyway, but without killing Orin if at all possible. My plan was basically to disable all the bots then go to the coronation with a smug face...

that was my plan, better to just go to coronation first i think. like i understand your thinking but i dont think the devs did

[Emmet]

I've just done this. It's even worse for me, I escaped from the prison, but walked in a restricted area. If you do so the entire tower attacks. I had to kill everyone. Then I went up to the coronation, and same thing happened there. No dialogue, nothing, just straight fight, which took me 2 hours to complete, there were so many constructs... So I killed everyone, including the duke. I really feel like I've missed a huge part of the game. Oh well...