I am a little confused by the path suggestion here. I usually exit crowleys hideout first, before returning to DC, and run into the guards by the bridge that I am assuming is the twin falls bridge. The guard seems to suggest that i can go one direction or i can go through the under city which leads to smuggler pass if i am not mistaken. The guy in Devils Crossing says cross the bridge or go through the pass. Finally, the wiki says, “cross the bridge if it still stands…” or go through the pass.
I have always gone through the Undercity. I can’t find another way, and the bridge always seems to be down. So i am curious is it a random event that the bridge might still be up? The suggestion is that there is a branch here but I never see it. I thought it might be a “go this way for rover reputation or this way for DC reputation” sort of thing. I did see an onscreen message about the bridge being down as I approached it, only once though. Quite possible ive misread or that i am overlooking something but to save me from scouring the perimeter of the Old Ruins again, is it possible to take another route?
I recall Powbam(I think) saying something about this, that players might not realize there is an alternative to the undercity. I just have never found the alternative. Again, maybe i misunderstood.
That quest can only be done way and that is to go through arkovia
Imo a potential solution is to not let the player’s know about The Pass as an alternative route to the Bridge i.e it’s not Barnabas who tells you but rather the NPC at the bridge and the quest log should update appropriately
Also the expansion should have some sort of choice between paths as part of a quest. Taking the longer path can have slightly different effects than the shorter one.
If not the expansion, i’d like this in the sequel
It’s a relic of development as I recall. There was a time you could rebuild the bridge while the game was in development (heck, Cronley used to be optional as I understand it) but subsequent map changes made it so that was no longer possible (if I recall correctly, what the bridge used to connect to is no longer in a position to connect.)
Going through the Undercity is, as far as I’m aware, the only way to move forward.
The bridge was originally planned to be rebuilt, but before it ever reached that stage GD had grown to the point where the bridge would have given a quick exploit to reach the dungeon on the other side, so it remains an unrepaired and unrepairable bridge.
Cronely wan never intended to be optional, the problem was as there was more than one direction to go some people would forget about the other direction and then never find Cronley, hence the change of the map areas to prevent people being able to miss one of the story line dungeons.
