How are you supposed to realise what beating Radahn opens up? (spoilers)

[gungadin22000]

After beating Radahn, a meteor opens a giant hole in the southern part of the map, which you can use to go to the Eternal City and several major bosses.

How in the world are you supposed to even realise this happens? I saw the meteor and thought "Hey, cool cinematic with no in-game importance" and only realised that it had opened a super important pathway when I was completely done with the game and had beaten the Elden Beast, and even then I only realised it from reading a forum post hinting at it.

The site of impact is in a low-level area - how did the devs ever visualise you going back there and finding this super important hole in the ground? Is this ever hinted at anywhere or is this another case of ER's supremely obtuse storytelling?

[Tiniturtle]

these is a quest relate to this ll and npc ll tell u to go there

[Juno Brier]

You see the general direction the meteor went and investigate in that direction?

Also the connections with Ranni's sidequest.

[gungadin22000]

Whose quest? I deliberately did not side with Ranni and never bothered to look for Blaidd, considering the trigger for the quest pissed me off to no end.

[gungadin22000]

Juno Brier님이 먼저 게시:

You see the general direction the meteor went and investigate in that direction?

Also the connections with Ranni's sidequest.

It's a non-interactive cinematic, direction is hard to judge and there is no indication that it has any in-game importance.

[Codester]

gungadin22000님이 먼저 게시:

Whose quest? I deliberately did not side with Ranni and never bothered to look for Blaidd, considering the trigger for the quest pissed me off to no end.

What is wrong with you?
Why would you intentionally skip out on content. There is no story altering decisions you are making. Do every single thing you come across. The only exception is getting the flame in the sewers, which can also be removed.

[Tiniturtle]

u can trigger ranni quest by talk to her in her tower even u didnt talk with blaidd before
very simple :)

[Juno Brier]

gungadin22000님이 먼저 게시:

Juno Brier님이 먼저 게시:

You see the general direction the meteor went and investigate in that direction?

Also the connections with Ranni's sidequest.

It's a non-interactive cinematic, direction is hard to judge and there is no indication that it has any in-game importance.

They wouldn't bother making the cutscene if it had no importance. Almost no other boss in the game has a cutscene after beating them.

[Crossaber]

Nokron is totally optional, if you never sign up for ranni quest nor bothered to check the crash site, you will skip that part of content as a result. And it is intentional

[Tungsten666]

I imagine there's probably a lot of other things you missed

[vamirez]

So you didn't interact with the quest/NPCs on purpose, decided that the cutscene is irrelevant and then complain that noone told you.

Okay.

[alstl]

Rinse and repeat that with most of the game. Standard advice is to watch a bunch of guides on the internet. I'm returning the game for store credit. leveled up to 100. Enough for me.

[Smaugi]

"game does not hold my hand and I ignore everything that it tries to tell me so its bad."
A literal star fell down on the map with a big boom.
Im not sure how you came to a conclusion its just a cool custscene.

[D. Flame]

If you are following the Ranni Quest Line, it basically tells you that it opened up a hole. It just doesn't tell you where, which is dumb.

[MULTIPASS]

One way you could tell is that the underground areas are layered under the surface areas in specific locations. In the world map you can swap between surface and underground, and your point of entry (elevator) will be in the same position in both maps.

If you do Ranni's quest, Blaidd will point out where Nokron is when you visit him at the Siofra River. It's clearly near the same part of East Limgrave where you entered Siofra.

[Nerevar]

there is actually not a single MAJOR boss down in nokrom. only minor ones.
and you can reach deeproot deeps from the capital underground aswell in case you didnt know. there is a hidden path that leads there from the room where you can meet the fingers.

you only need to go to nokrom if you wanna do rannis quest for her ending. and in that case the npc literally tells you that the meteor hit limgrave. and if you then just go to ANY grace in limgrave and look at the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SKY you can see the debris floating in the damn air even from miles away.

you need to learn to pay attention. classic case of modern gamer who is used to the game telling him where to go next and what to do aka handholding.