soft locked at rold medallion

[brad42069]

so i defeated morgott and did not get the rold medallion from melina so im soft locked from using the lift. any ideas?

[Enderspoons]

If you like, there is a glitch you can use to skip the Mountaintops of the Giants (where the Grand Lift of Rold takes you), jumping directly to the next area. Here's how if you're interested:

1. Go to The Four Belfries in Liurnia
   
2. Take the sending gate labelled "Crumbling Lands" — you may have been here already to pick up the Pearldrake Talisman +0.
   
3. Once there, warp to a different map (typically somewhere very far away like Roundtable Hold).
   
4. This is the most important step: Force-quit the game (such as by using Alt+F4) right at the very instant before the game finishes loading the new area. The window for this glitch is quite tight, only a couple of frames at most. You can use the loading bar in the lower right corner to help you time it, but you will still need practice and intuition to get it right.
   
5. Boot the game back up and load your savefile again. If you quit too early, you will have gone nowhere. If you quit too late, you will end up warping to your intended destination. If you hit the sweetspot window, you will get teleported straight to Crumbling Farum Azula, skipping the entire Mountaintops of the Giants region.

This glitch is called a Wrong Warp. If you're the casual nerdy type and want to know how it works: Basically, force-quitting in that sweetspot makes the game abort after it forgot your character's position but before it wrote in the new destination, causing it to default to the local area's default spawnpoint. For example, if you try this in Siofra River, the default spawnpoint is located up in Nokron in front of the Mimic Tear boss, so you can use this glitch to skip killing Radahn to gain access.

If you do this, you will be able to complete the game as usual, but you will not be able to traverse backward to the Mountaintops for any of the bosses, dungeons, or treasure located there, or in Consecrated Snowfield or the Haligtree since there's no way to reach those places except through the Mountaintops without crazy-precise speedrunning tech.
Hope this helps!

[Dusk of Oolacile]

You need to interact with the tree entrance, and then rest at the bonfire.

[Gob]

Originally posted by brad42069:

so i defeated morgott and did not get the rold medallion from melina so im soft locked from using the lift. any ideas?

Personally, I'd use a savegame editor to put the medallion(s) into your pack.

[brad42069]

the wrong warp worked and did progress my game. i will give an update on if im able to make it to a new NG and or if my game is broken. some bosses are randomly dead and items arent dropping but its 50/50 when i know i should be getting a certain drop.

[Sc0rpiTr0n]

Originally posted by brad42069:

the wrong warp worked and did progress my game. i will give an update on if im able to make it to a new NG and or if my game is broken. some bosses are randomly dead and items arent dropping but its 50/50 when i know i should be getting a certain drop.

Unfortunately your save was damaged by malicious player, most likely invader.

This is why you should always manually backup your save.
Especially if you have interactions with other players.

Edit:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1245620/discussions/0/727997490786209035/

[brad42069]

Okay so I made it to my ng+ by defeating elden beast. I have a fresh start but will the bosses still be dead? ill update when i know. and is the malicious player damage going to affect my new game? please give your thoughts

[brad42069]

So I started my NG after the thread of issues. so far everything looks good. I was invaded once and got a "?Network error?" message, it was becuase a modder joined and can soft lock your game by deleting enemies and items like the medallion and thus keeps you from being able to complete the main game. YOU NEED TO MAKE A BACKUP FOR YOUR SAVE!!! THIS IS WHAT COMBATS THE MALICIOUS PLAYERS. thanks all for help feel free to message me with questions.

PS. when a modder does that to your game, it will normally crash your game and when you reload- if you are unsure, check your map and the volcano quest markers will all exist even if you have yet to discover the location, this means your playthrough is slugged. keep an eye out for the "?Network Error?" message. thanks again all who helped.