No way to choose your starting point after returning to Sanctuary?

[Rochelle]

I'd made my way close to the end of the second chapter, and thought I'd return to Sanctuary to spend some gold on upgrades. But when I jump down the launch chute I only start in chapter 2's first mission: I recalled, from doing a Sanctuary return somewhere in chapter 1, that you'd continue in the campaign from where you were? I gotta replay the entire thing to get back to where I were, there's no way to choose a map you've already cleared?

[Eight♥Six]

I believe you can replay x-1 to x-4 by going to the orange windows in the citadel

[Byrdn]

I don't think you can take a break in the middle of 2-4, return to Sanctuary, and then resume from 2-4, no. You have to do all of Act 2 in one run.

Unless you activate cheats, which gives you full stage select.

[Rochelle]

Originally posted by Eight♥Six:

I believe you can replay x-1 to x-4 by going to the orange windows in the citadel

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's another basic interface function the game does its best to hide from you, lol

Originally posted by Byrdn:

I don't think you can take a break in the middle of 2-4, return to Sanctuary, and then resume from 2-4, no. You have to do all of Act 2 in one run.

That's the way it is apparently, Which makes it all the more important to get all collectibles from the later stages of a chapter, since you'll have to go through the entire chapter again to get those missing collectibles.

I did some testing at the start of chapter 3 though, and it seems collectibles are saved immediately though: I picked up both the gallery image and the virtue collectible from map 3-1, returned to Sanctuary before even finishing the level and checking the chapter 3 window lists me as "2/2" for map 3-1 (even though not even having a proper box for it, since I haven't cleared the map) while being at 0/2 for the rest of the chapter.

[Urist McDood]

Well, there is a way to pick the levels within a chapter and that involves activating the cheat menu. You can do this by exiting Sanctuary by activating the teleporter that you first arrive on when you return to Sanctuary. This takes you back to 0-0. Make your way back to the starting mausoleum, you'll find Esqa hanging beside a plinth with a "C" looking symbol. Activating that plinth turns on the cheat menu. When you return to Sanctuary interact with the artwork book in the main area with the chute. There'll be a new icon in the top left of the art select. Clicking on that gives you the full level select, even allowing you to back to previous instances of Sanctuary during that chapter alongside other cheat commands.