How do you find Alucard's Sword?

[WillSP]

I found Alucard's Shield during the first encounter with him but I must have missed the Sword. is there any way to go back? what do I do?

[Shirakani]

Alucard Sword is not in that beginning location. It's much harder to obtain so don't worry, you didn't miss it.

[Malus]

the sword is found by entering the richter mode, when you get to the draculas castle final stage (accessed via the clock tower) you can find richter in a cage in a room, when on a normal run you can enter the cage to play richter mode which is based on symphony of the night. in there one of the walls you can walk through to find alucard who will drop alucards sword, and upon finishing the mode you get the sword dropped as a rare blueprint

[Malus]

Originally posted by Malus:

the sword is found by entering the richter mode, when you get to the draculas castle final stage (accessed via the clock tower) you can find richter in a cage in a room, when on a normal run you can enter the cage to play richter mode which is based on symphony of the night. in there one of the walls you can walk through to find alucard who will drop alucards sword, and upon finishing the mode you get the sword dropped as a rare blueprint

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[WillSP]

Originally posted by Malus:

the sword is found by entering the richter mode, when you get to the draculas castle final stage (accessed via the clock tower) you can find richter in a cage in a room, when on a normal run you can enter the cage to play richter mode which is based on symphony of the night. in there one of the walls you can walk through to find alucard who will drop alucards sword, and upon finishing the mode you get the sword dropped as a rare blueprint

I ran into Richter mode by accedent once but accidentally sold the dash ability and soft-locked myself lol. is Richter Mode also linked to how you unlock the Morning Star?

[Yarott]

Originally posted by WillSP:

Originally posted by Malus:

the sword is found by entering the richter mode, when you get to the draculas castle final stage (accessed via the clock tower) you can find richter in a cage in a room, when on a normal run you can enter the cage to play richter mode which is based on symphony of the night. in there one of the walls you can walk through to find alucard who will drop alucards sword, and upon finishing the mode you get the sword dropped as a rare blueprint

I ran into Richter mode by accedent once but accidentally sold the dash ability and soft-locked myself lol. is Richter Mode also linked to how you unlock the Morning Star?

Konami Code with a Belmont outfit on. Works only once per run.

[Guidsmaster]

My bad to necro, but was wondering: I dont have the castlevania DLC (or any dlc for that matter), and yet I got the sword pretty early on in my run (which also automatically dropped the shield immediately after). Issue is I was offline (which led to a bunch of progress not being recorded in the book), and I'm not seeing it in my list of unlocked weapons even though I killed hotc with it. Everywhere I look online mentions richter mode and castlevania dlc.

Just wondering, should this weapon have been permanently unlocked if I found it? I've never seen a repeated "special biome" that unlocks a specific item, and so now im worried that I'll never be able to find it again and permanently unlock it.

*edit: going thru the list, i see leghugger is missing as well. same thing tho, wiki says this is DLC only, yet somehow I got this. Hoping the case is just that the permanent unlock is only via the DLC and the methods mentioned on the wiki. Curious though: Can whatever "shrines" that gave me alucard///leghugger be encountered again, or is it only once per save file? Should they have been permanently unlocked?

[WillSP]

Originally posted by Guidsmaster:

My bad to necro, but was wondering: I dont have the castlevania DLC (or any dlc for that matter), and yet I got the sword pretty early on in my run (which also automatically dropped the shield immediately after). Issue is I was offline (which led to a bunch of progress not being recorded in the book), and I'm not seeing it in my list of unlocked weapons even though I killed hotc with it. Everywhere I look online mentions richter mode and castlevania dlc.

Just wondering, should this weapon have been permanently unlocked if I found it? I've never seen a repeated "special biome" that unlocks a specific item, and so now im worried that I'll never be able to find it again and permanently unlock it.

*edit: going thru the list, i see leghugger is missing as well. same thing tho, wiki says this is DLC only, yet somehow I got this. Hoping the case is just that the permanent unlock is only via the DLC and the methods mentioned on the wiki. Curious though: Can whatever "shrines" that gave me alucard///leghugger be encountered again, or is it only once per save file? Should they have been permanently unlocked?

So what happened there is that legendary pedestals can rarely contain items you haven't unlocked yet and if i'm not mistaken can even contain DLC weapons that you haven't purchased. You didn't unlock anything permanently you just got the weapon as a one off out of sheer luck.

If you want to try out more DLC weapons try out the daily run as you can frequently find weapons from any DLC inside those levels as well.

[Guidsmaster]

Originally posted by WillSP:

So what happened there is that legendary pedestals can rarely contain items you haven't unlocked yet and if i'm not mistaken can even contain DLC weapons that you haven't purchased. You didn't unlock anything permanently you just got the weapon as a one off out of sheer luck.

If you want to try out more DLC weapons try out the daily run as you can frequently find weapons from any DLC inside those levels as well.

Thank you very much for the explanation!! Because of lost achievement progress and this, I was considering starting a new save file. Glad to know that wont be necessary!