Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Never got the Goblin bridge / Absolute cutscene

Hey all - I'm in a co-op campaign and we just got to the shadow cursed lands, but I just found out we never got the cutscene on the Goblin bridge with the Voice of the Absolute and the artifact, and as a result do not have the Shielded condition. I just discovered this when I did get the cutscene on an alternate solo save file. In the original co-op save we went back from the shadow cursed lands and wandered all around the bridge area with and without Shadowheart and nothing happened...

Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there any way to fix this? Could this cause issues (not having the Shielded Condition) later on in the game? (First play through here, I'm not familiar with the story after this point - only just recently got to Last Light Inn)

Yu actually get that Scene in Two Places
1 is in the Bridge of Goblin Camp..
2 is at the Bridge to Rosymon

if yu get 1 of those the other will not play out..
(if yu went to Rosymon First becouse of Anoying Laezel that loves make yu Shoot on your Foot.. yu will not get when go back to Goblin Camp..)
the same if yu get at the Goblin Bridge.. will not Play twice.. but if yu never get in one of those.. then its a Big and Strong Game Braking Bug..
Becouse yu need that Scenematic to roll out to actually make sense for your Story.

i Advice to quit this Game becouse shit will happen in the Future.
(just Start another One Solo.. this Game its not that good at the moment for Coop.)
They kinda overlooked a bunch of stuff to make the Coop work well in this game.. so i never advice trying playing this way.
go Solo Make your own Tale and Be Happy. lol

Interesting - that is the first I have heard of the possibility it plays at the Bridge to Rosymon - I shall have to try going back and seeing if that kicks it off there.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Hmm, I made it all the way to the Rosymorn Monastery and no cutscene either...

It also plays at the entry point from the goblin camp to the Mountain Pass, like in a spot northwest of the goblin camp proper… but it sounds like the scene probably won’t play for you at this point if it hasn’t already. Sounds like a bug… quite a mess of one.

It’s bad because you’ve missed valuable story content. Have you met your Dream Visitor? That camp cutscene (where you meet him/her) normally happens on the long rest directly after the scene you missed.

Not sure what the “shielded” condition is, but it is bad if you haven’t met your Dream Visitor by Act 2.

The shielded thing is, I think, something to do with disguising that you are not actually a True Soul.

Right, saw examples of that too - and yeah wandered all around there and didnt get it either...


Yes after seeing the cutscene on my alternate playthrough it is valuable information, that my co-op teammates have not heard yet

Luckily, we did meet our Dream Visitor at least yes. Had a few dream sequences with them so far so at least that isnt bugged?


Interesting, on my other playthrough it was immediately and forever on a Condition that shows up next to each character portrait that describes how the artifact protects us from the Voice of the Absolute - which is my primary concern - worried if we don't have that condition later in the game it could cause blocking issues on our save. You're saying you don't have that condition at all after getting that cutscene?

I'm in act 3 and no longer have the shielded condition, so it might just be a thing that the game forgets about after awhile. It sucks that your co-cop team didn't get to see that important info, but I don't think missing the shielded condition should affect you negatively going forward. I doubt the game even had any code to recognize missing that cutscene is possible.

(you can also get the cutscene going to the mountain path from the area near where Kithrak Voss was in act 1, but like others have said, Idk if you'll be able to trigger it after getting to the shadowlands).

Thanks! Will probably just pull up the cutscene on youtube and hope it doesn't impact actual future gameplay.

Another thing however I am noticing is I am missing a lot of dialog options with Shadowheart in the co-op campaign related to the artifact as well... man I hope this doesn't become a problem in another 50 hours or something =/