Grapple Hook room with no grapple hook = softlock

[SmashingBlue]

I was playing with a friend and we got to a room with grapple hook pillars that requires a grapple hook. Found a glass one in a chest in the room so we were good for now. Then we lost it later on that floor by dying and reviving by placing the skull in the little shrine. The problem is the boss door was in the grapple hook room but without one we were stuck in the room with no way to reach any door once we dropped down. We were forced to quit and lose everything we got on this run cause we were stuck in the room with no enemies to kill us and no way to exit the room.

Is there a suicide button or some way to not get stuck and lose everything?

[pengy]

What dungeon was this in? From what I can recall there are not many grappling hook spots in the first dungeon, but you can't get to others without the permanent one. If you have to die you can always kill yourself on traps or bombs if available. The most likely situation was that your room had a breakable wall, especially if there was a bomb spawner, but I can only speculate without seeing the room itself.

[SmashingBlue]

It was in the first dungeon. The room had 4 pillars in the center on an elevated platform with stairs to get there. There was 4 other elevated platforms (up, down, left and right) with a pillar each, some of them had a door. You could drop down from any of these elevated platforms but you could only get back up from the middle one, which was not connected to anything else. The only way to reach anything else was with a grapple hook, which they gave us a glass one in a chest. Oh yeah the room had 4 chests, in each corner on the bottom floor. There was no traps or enemies left and we couldn't reach any doors without a grapple hook. It was fine the first time since we got the grapple hook in the same room, but when we had to backtrack, there was no more grapple hook, and we realized we lost ours after we both jumped down.

[Team17_Assistance]

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[Skid]

I'm guessing this room here, me and my friend almost had the same issue, I had died prior to doubling back to check the room at the bottom right. My friend Zeek still had his, but proceeded to die in that room, which would of blocked us from proceeding (had I not then died as well).
Note you get a hook in that room, which is fine in single player but because glass tools break when you die, in multiplayer if all players die after getting it, no one will have one to then get past the room again if they need to.
www (dot) twitch (dot) tv/videos/925703073?t=04h28m58s

[SmashingBlue]

As Skid said, the problem is in multiplayer, if the ones holding the glass grapplehook die and get revived by other players, then it's impossible to get past this room.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406470566

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406470585

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406470614

[Team17_Assist]

Hi all,

Thank you for sharing the screenshots and information!

We've passed this across to the team for further investigation.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.

Regards,
Team17 Support.

[Oak]

This issue still persists, just encountered it. Killed a run for us.

[MoreDakka]

I'm playing the switch version and it's happened to us here. One hero has the hook and the other does not. So...not sure what to do here.

[NandaMeow]

Originally posted by SmashingBlue:

I was playing with a friend and we got to a room with grapple hook pillars that requires a grapple hook. Found a glass one in a chest in the room so we were good for now. Then we lost it later on that floor by dying and reviving by placing the skull in the little shrine. The problem is the boss door was in the grapple hook room but without one we were stuck in the room with no way to reach any door once we dropped down. We were forced to quit and lose everything we got on this run cause we were stuck in the room with no enemies to kill us and no way to exit the room.

Is there a suicide button or some way to not get stuck and lose everything?

I found a solution! The other player in ghost form can enter the trap holes on the walls (while you're in front of it) and press X to reactivate the traps until you die.
You'll lose the run but not everything you have ☺️