How does the goblin barricade/gate at the end of Forest Stage 2 open?

[Heavouslicious]

Finally found a multiplayer run that wasn't people twinking and for some reason if was opened when the group got there. I asked how it opened, no one responded, and I left since I didn't want potential-spoilery nonsense since it led somewhere.

Is there a secret nearby to trigger it or some condition like a time limit? Or is it just something for general game progress?

[Army of Optimists]

It opens after you've beaten the Totem boss on that character and functions as a way to skip the caves.

[GrayGL]

You need to beat the first boss to unlock that in the next run. It is the first skip, so you can skip past the caves area on that specific character. There are multiple skips in the game and you have to re-do them per character. You will get a set amount of items when using the skips. IMO the 1st skip is the only one thats worth it as you seem to get more items by running through the areas.

[Heavouslicious]

Postat inițial de Army of Optimists:

It opens after you've beaten the Totem boss on that character and functions as a way to skip the caves.

Postat inițial de GrayGL:

You need to beat the first boss to unlock that in the next run. It is the first skip, so you can skip past the caves area on that specific character. There are multiple skips in the game and you have to re-do them per character. You will get a set amount of items when using the skips. IMO the 1st skip is the only one thats worth it as you seem to get more items by running through the areas.

It's funny I've already beaten totem on a few different classes each and have made it beyond the 3rd boss at best, yet I've never seen this on reruns. I've just been going through the Citadel's tower to skip it, and here I thought the pacing was terrible compared to HoH at first which I still kinda think of for the early parts. Thanks for the answers.

[Khadgar]

I noticed that you have to be in SINGLEPLAYER for the thing to open up. I played exclusively in co-op for maybe 20 runs, it never opened. Killed totem one single time in singleplayer, it was open on all future runs (with me as host in MP).

So, it's bugged for multiplayer, you have to do it in singleplayer in my experience.

[Heavouslicious]

Postat inițial de Khadgar:

I noticed that you have to be in SINGLEPLAYER for the thing to open up. I played exclusively in co-op for maybe 20 runs, it never opened. Killed totem one single time in singleplayer, it was open on all future runs (with me as host in MP).

So, it's bugged for multiplayer, you have to do it in singleplayer in my experience.

So I guess it's based on if the host ever killed Totem in SP only? That sounds like an actual bug if it even doesn't work for host in MP. Even then I said in my other reply I've done a ton of SP runs and never seen it open, but that mighta been from the timing of me switching classes often.

[Army of Optimists]

Multiplayer may be the culprit. I've only played solo.

It doesn't help that any character that can beat the Totems probably also beats the Shadow Face, which then opens the Dark Citadel shortcut. Since that comes significantly before the Goblin Camp, you're unlikely to even notice that skip. I sure didn't for several runs.

[Heavouslicious]

Postat inițial de Army of Optimists:

Multiplayer may be the culprit. I've only played solo.

It doesn't help that any character that can beat the Totems probably also beats the Shadow Face, which then opens the Dark Citadel shortcut. Since that comes significantly before the Goblin Camp, you're unlikely to even notice that skip. I sure didn't for several runs.

Yeah that's basically the sum of everything from what I can tell, the only classes I went past Totem on I either made it past Shadow Face in the same run or switched classes afterwards.