Watchful Sentinels Bugged?

[Sedina]

I'm in the room with the four invisible statues that insta-kill anyone within their sight by creating a giant lava field.

I have tried:

* Invisibility skill (worked once, but unfortunately it no longer works; they see me each time. I do not know why it suddenly fails to work; hence me thinking this is likely a bug.)
* Jump, charge, escape, teleport, whatever into middle (insta death)
* Avoiding their "vision" (impossible; the two at the stairs keep 100% vigil on the starting point, and yes I know the green glow is supposed to represent their vision.)

What pixel am I missing to get past this? I'm assuming this is somehow bugged out and you're supposed to avoid the vision or use invisibility / stealth. None of those options work.

[jacko640]

did you also tried to place 1 teleport pyramid on the grate in the middle then jump to it with the other pyramid

[Sedina]

Originally posted by jacko640:

did you also tried to place 1 teleport pyramid on the grate in the middle then jump to it with the other pyramid

Yep - I get instantly melted by lava. Anything that teleports me to the middle is instant death.

Every other thread on this topic - and there aren't many, which tells me this is not supposed to be impossible - says to use invisibility. It's not functioning for me. Bug?

[jamesc70]

Invisibility worked fine for me. You aren't talking about stealth right?

Send 1 character through invisible, get the exploration bonus for the waypoint gate, and then fast travel to the gate with the rest of your party. Only need to get one person past them to activeate the gate.

Invisibility is a bit wonky on stairs though, and sometimes doesn't work. Cast it before getting on the stairs.

[jacko640]

also if you can disarm traps you can disarm the grate standing in middle, also sentinels cant see you standing in middle

[Basilard]

Originally posted by jamesc70:

Send 1 character through invisible, get the exploration bonus for the waypoint gate, and then fast travel to the gate with the rest of your party. Only need to get one person past them to activeate the gate.

[Porkie]

You can use the death knight spell on them to remove their invulnerability and destroy them.

[Sedina]

Originally posted by jamesc70:

Invisibility worked fine for me. You aren't talking about stealth right?

No. Invisibility. My main is a Scoundrel, and I basically never use Stealth because I have sweet sweet invisibility.

There's a magic spell that casts invis, and there's a Scoundrel skill that creates invis. Both of these skills do not work; my character poofs invisible, and the sentinels see me instantly.

Send 1 character through invisible, get the exploration bonus for the waypoint gate, and then fast travel to the gate with the rest of your party. Only need to get one person past them to activeate the gate.

Doesn't work for me. They see through both spell and scoundrel.

Again, my first visit to the room my Invisibility ability worked just fine - I just didn't know what to expect and so tried to attack one of them (and died obviously). Now, at this point, using my invisibility skill does not work.

Originally posted by jacko640:

also if you can disarm traps you can disarm the grate standing in middle, also sentinels cant see you standing in middle

This doesn't work for me. I cannot get to the middle using any abilities. I have tried:

* teleport spell
* man-at-arms charge
* scoundrel teleport
* marksman leap
* pyramid teleport

I get to the middle and instantly die.

What I'm reading is that, yes, somehow I'm bugged. It's supposed to be working and it just isn't.

I will go back to an earlier save and hope that fixes it. This is disappointing because this whole section has been really boring; I was absolutely in love with this game until I got to this snowy place. This is just icing :(

[Sedina]

SOLUTION:

Originally posted by jamesc70:

Invisibility is a bit wonky on stairs though, and sometimes doesn't work. Cast it before getting on the stairs.

Worked like a charm.

Casting my invis spells and abilities on the stairs was apparently bugged. THANK YOU!

[genequagmire]

Also, you can place an object on the lava spout to keep it from coming out.