chess game in act 3 bug?

[lordfadooboo]

so im kinda getting annoyed with this chess test to find the dragon or whatever.

it says you must beat the king in 2 moves. so that means a setup and a kill right?

every time i move a single piece it immediately resets and tells me i failed... WHERES MY SECOND MOVE??? it provides no possible way to do it in 1 move but it wont let me take 2. im hesitant to say sucky game design when 99% of the game has been great but damn. it kinds seems like a 6 year old would understand why that makes it a bad puzzle. call me dumb or whatever but if theyre going to say i have 2 moves, give me 2 moves.

[Grumpy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUh3u97vN0

I think you're not doing the right moves.

[LArc7thHeaven]

Bring gale there ezpz

[Moonbane]

You are overthinking it, blast the black king with lightning damage and you win. Thats it.

[Sleeper Usagi]

I got the same thing in my game. I was playing with the Xbox Series X controller, every time I did a move, instantly It counts as a mistake.So I went looking for a solution, and I saw a guy playing with mouse and keyboard. The puzzle gameplay simply worked differently for him, so I took the controller away, go with the keyboard, and......it worked. It's really a bug. (Note: the arrangement of the pieces changes in each save. the arrangement of the pieces in the video I saw was different from the one I had in my save)

[Stealthydragon]

I also got this bug. Immediately reset even though the black king is in check. It's a very simple solution, but the game just won't let me do it.

[Fiddlewidget]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

You are overthinking it, blast the black king with lightning damage and you win. Thats it.

It's not necessarily that easy. You have to do more than 50 points of lightning damage in a single stroke or it just resets its health to 50. I can't even do it with a Critical Hit Shocking Grasp with the piece wet. Unless your Tav is a Sorcerer or Mage with Chain Lighting or something, Gale is required. Which means game over if you never saved Gale from the portal in act 1. You'll pretty much have to go hire a mage or sorcerer from Withers and level them up or go shopping for a chain lightning scroll.
Even if you do have Gale, you have to have him with you when you first encounter the board. After that, no amount of going to camp to get him will cause him to be able to play the game.

[chaosek]

Originally posted by Fiddlewidget:

Originally posted by Moonbane:

You are overthinking it, blast the black king with lightning damage and you win. Thats it.

That's not it. You have to do more than 50 points of lightning damage in a single stroke or it just resets its health to 50. I can't even do it with a Critical Hit Shocking Grasp with the piece wet. Unless your Tav is a Sorcerer or Mage with Chain Lighting or something, Gale is required. Which means game over if you never saved Gale from the portal in act 1. You'll pretty much have to go hire a mage or sorcerer from Withers and level them up or go shopping for a chain lightning scroll.

A tempest priest/druid, call lighting works as well.

[TwitchySilicate]

Ohhh..

[Spiral_Architect]

Throw water over the King prior to using lightning method.

[Darth Cannabis]

Or just up cast the spell.

There are options. Since anyone can use a scroll, a chain lightning scroll is the option anyone can use, and is the one spell that has a high enough potential damage without any upcasting.

Other options, which may require upcasting or water thrown on it to succeed include Lightning Arrow (ranger), Call lightning (druid/cleric but bard and warlock also have certain ways they can get it, and pretty sure storm sorcerer has their own special version), or lightning bolt (wizards/sorcerers/or any other arcane caster), or even potentially chromatic orb (although that even with upcasting is cutting it super close to where it probably needs wet as well), I don't think shocking touch or the four elements monk equivalent to it is going to be enough.

That is all the major lightning possibilities I can think of. Overall the upcasting possibilities thru learned spells, actually covers as much as half of the classes. However even if you manage to avoid every single one of them, the chain lighting via scroll (bought or found) is always an option.

[emreyigit1967]

Not a bug. You moved your piece wrong in the first move, thereby removing the possibility of checkmate in two moves, which is the requirement for this test.

Try a different move.

[DragonMaster]

Where is this chessboard located?

[emreyigit1967]

Originally posted by DragonMaster:

Where is this chessboard located?

You'll encounter it during the quest for Ansur. Access through Wyrm's Rock prison.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by lordfadooboo:

so im kinda getting annoyed with this chess test to find the dragon or whatever.

it says you must beat the king in 2 moves. so that means a setup and a kill right?

every time i move a single piece it immediately resets and tells me i failed... WHERES MY SECOND MOVE??? it provides no possible way to do it in 1 move but it wont let me take 2. im hesitant to say sucky game design when 99% of the game has been great but damn. it kinds seems like a 6 year old would understand why that makes it a bad puzzle. call me dumb or whatever but if theyre going to say i have 2 moves, give me 2 moves.

Bring Gale along, and he'll tell you exactly how to win. It will even ping where on the board you're supposed to move your pieces.

Step 1 - Move the Rook 1 space over to the left.

Step 2 - Move your queen directly in front of the king.