Suddenly... Bridge!

[Ysthrall]

Just running through the Hallowed Marsh, and suddenly there's a ruddy great iron gantry bridge!

I'd opened up the ziggurat passage the night before (including the green lich statue), and then today there's this thing!

Is this normal? Or has it just been patched in?

It crosses the same bit of marsh water as the ziggurat passage, which makes that pretty redundant....

(can't work out how to post screenshot, it's on my profile)

[Nomnom Victory]

The bridge is your reward for clearing Ziggurat passage (the jade idol part caused it).
So because you went to the trouble of clearing Ziggurat passage your future trips are now easier.

[Ysthrall]

I evidently haven't been through the area having cleared that passage before.....

....actually last time, I think I just opened all the portcullises and killed all the beasts, and thought that had opened it.... first time I used the Jade Lich statue....

[Midas]

Yeah, it's pretty dumb and janky. I would have thought you'd just open up a shortcut to go from the entrance on one side to the other, not for a whole big bridge to just suddenly materialize out of nowhere.

I think it's something they added at the last minute, because cell resets mean most normal shortcut/back entrances would be useless anyways, and that spot is one of the absolute worst pathway-enabling areas of the entire game, so they probably just dropped the bridge in to be something more permanent.

[Evangelion]

Well the bride IS there before you do Ziggurat Pass, it is just lifted up.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

Well the bride IS there before you do Ziggurat Pass, it is just lifted up.

No, I'm pretty sure I've looked at that exact spot on another save before the bridge appears, because it seemed so out of place, and there was nothing. No bridge, no infrastructure, nothing. I even was able to note the exact spot it should appear based on the rich iron node right beside it, and there's just nothing there at all. Then you pull that switch and suddenly bridge.

[Ysthrall]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

Well the bride IS there before you do Ziggurat Pass, it is just lifted up.

(goes and checks on another character, who has the Jade Idol in inventory).

No, it is not.

There is no bridge visible, either lifted or sunk into the water, or retracted, or incomplete, or anything.....

There ARE a couple of glowing pillars, looking like pylons or something.

But no bridge.

[Evangelion]

I was sure that I saw bridge there lol, guess I imagined it then.