Castle Gate Progression Lock Work Around!

[ContinuumX]

Posted this on reddit but hopefully helps here

So with the help of user LaserVolcano who said it happened to him, I tested some stuff and found a work around for all of you stuck with the castle gate bug who can't even get the umbral ending to work. You have to re-do the umbral ending, but at least you can restart the game and this time, don't defeat the lightreaper until the last time and keep iron wayfarer alive until he takes the rune and hopefully that will do inferno ending. At the very least, you can complete quests and whatnot you need to still.

This only works if you cleansed ZERO beacons, sorry those who cleansed any.

Update: Confirmed by a PS5 user this works AND confirmed subsequent playthroughs did not suffer the bug. This is good news! I was told that the gate bug is tied to the Pieta Upper Calrath shortcut opening automatically too early. So I'd open it yourself as soon as you can and hopefully thats the end of it.

OK, here's what you do.

Any time you do a stop REST at the vestige. I don't care if you rested 5 second before, any time you are in area REST before leaving and after arriving.

First, go to the Molhu guy and buy the 50 umbral thing to get into Mother's Lull

Rest at the vestige after (not gonna keep saying this but you get it, rest after every step)

Go to mother's lull, and get the first seedpod for Damarose. *IMPORTANT do NOT teleport out of mother's lull, make sure to exit it regular first

GO to Damarose and kill her. Rest at vestige then transport to Mother's lull. Rest etc and get the next seedpod for Gerlinde. Rest and go to skyrest and kill her. Rest.

Now, here is the part we get stuck on - you can't put the umbral parasite into the column, no matter what you do. SO at this point exit out of your game. I mean CLOSE IT FULLY to WINDOWS DESKTOP. I guess on console the equivalent would be full shutdown or close app fully. /Then, restart and go back in. When you do that, you will see that you can now put the umbral parasite into the column. DO this, talk to Molhu, and then rest.

GO back to Mother's Lull, get the Meolchoir Seedpod and the Withered Rune of Adyr. Exit Mother's Lull, Rest, and go to the castle Bramis gates. Use the withered rune on the gate. It opens. Bam

Look I know it's not ideal to have to do this ending again, but at least you can do NG+0 and try it all again to see if you can get the inferno ending to work. I know this worked on PC, tested with three people so far. If someone gets it to work on console, please post. I hope this at least lets you keep going to get quests etc finished and redone, and hopefully if you kill the lightreaper last spot and keep iron wayfarer alive and get him to steal the rune, it will work with inferno ending! Good luck!

[Spectorswim]

Do you know what to do for those who cleared 4 pillars and the door to the castle does not open in them? I'm stuck and I don't know what to do next.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by Spectorswim:

Do you know what to do for those who cleared 4 pillars and the door to the castle does not open in them? I'm stuck and I don't know what to do next.

Have you fought the Huntress boss in Abbey and Iron Wayfarer took the rune? If not, go back and trigger the fight.

[Spectorswim]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Originally posted by Spectorswim:

Do you know what to do for those who cleared 4 pillars and the door to the castle does not open in them? I'm stuck and I don't know what to do next.

Have you fought the Huntress boss in Abbey and Iron Wayfarer took the rune? If not, go back and trigger the fight.

Yes, I killed the Huntress boss in Abbey first, where I got the Rune of Adyr (Iron Wayfarer didn't take it), and then I killed Iron Wayfarer. Now I have Rune of Adyr in my inventory and nothing happens. And I went back to both arenas where the bosses were killed and nothing happened.

[Savager]

Originally posted by Spectorswim:

Originally posted by Baron01:

Have you fought the Huntress boss in Abbey and Iron Wayfarer took the rune? If not, go back and trigger the fight.

Yes, I killed the Huntress boss in Abbey first, where I got the Rune of Adyr (Iron Wayfarer didn't take it), and then I killed Iron Wayfarer. Now I have Rune of Adyr in my inventory and nothing happens. And I went back to both arenas where the bosses were killed and nothing happened.

When this happened to me i had to go back in Calrath to the arena were Ruiner and dogs were. There it triggered the Lightreaper boss fight in which you can use summons. Only after i killed him i was able to use the rune to open the door. You will notice that if you try to warp to Upper Calrath vestige the door will be blocked by Umbral entity and you have to go around through Skyrest.