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Ive been wandering the Black Cove zone for hours, have looted everything and destroyed everything that can be destroyed.

Eventually, I gave up and looked up a guide on where to go next.
It claims there is a secret passage in the main room (the one that leads to the docks and the headless ghost)
Ive been staring at the room and so far I cant see anything, Im starting to think this might a bug.

Take a closer look at the picture and the stuff left off the door that leads to the docks.

There isn't a picture anywhere in the room for me.
Ive also cleared and moved pretty much every object in the map.

Can you post a screen of how the room looks for you then?

There is a lever near the entrence to this room. Push it. A picture will move, revealing a button. Press it. Now, at the western corner, remove barrels and other objects, and you will see a hatch.

1 - Top of the room
2 - Bottom of the room
3 - Standard view

and when you are downstairs you have other levers

Alright guys, I appreciate the help but please do note the following.

- As the screenshots show, there is no picture in the room for me.
- I have already pulled the lever.

It looks like you have run into a bug here... Do you have a save right before you entered the Black Cove (I know, losing a few hours of progress is irksome!)? Try verifying your game local files via Steam client and load the save game before the Black Cove. Hopefully, the bug will be gone then! If it does not help, you should maybe reinstall the game completely (you can keep your save games).

If it really is a bug, then Im probably going to have to restart from scratch.
Cleared out the cove ages ago and since then killed Braccus and did most of Luculla, I was under the assumption that there wasn't any more to the Black Cove until I realised that my heroes were vastly underlevelled in Luculla Forest and decided to backtrack.

Well, you do not need to finish the Black Cove at all - it is completely optional! If you are having troubles in the Luculla Forest try quicksaving during combat (when you feel like you have an advantage). If you think you are on the verge of loosing the fight, then reload the previous quicksave. Yes, I know it is a little bit of a cheating but Black Cove probably won't give you enough XPs to level up anyway (Pontius Pirate is level 6 or 7).

Right now, we are also fighting level 15 immaculates with level 12 characters, it is a bit tough, but still doable...

Edit: I have just had a close look on your screenshots, you do not have the picture (maybe you took it away sometime earlier?) - but are you sure there is no small button on the wall (which was previously hidden by the picture, not the one lever in the corner) where the picture used to be? Your screenshots are a little bit dark, but I "think" that I can see the button on the wall where it should be...

If you already blew up the trapped room outside, "Billeh-gar!"the picture will have been destroyed by the explosion. Probably why the chair is also missing from that corner.

I can't remember from the beta whether you can still get the button to appear or not. I may have had to back up to before the explosion. It may just be a perception issue.

That may be the difference between what you're seeing and what people are telling you, though.

Pretty sure I see the button on your screens, it's on the wall where others show you the painting. Hard to see from above, you probably want to look sideways (it's far more obvious in screen 3 than the first 2).

Yep, I see it too.



Press the button and the trapdoor will appear. You don't have a picture on the wall anymore because you looted it BTW.

I probably did destroy it while ransacking the room, it was too long ago so I don't remember very well.
Anyhow, I managed to find the button(some camera rotating was required)
Thanks everyone!



Well, Ive been playing blind up until this point, so I didn't know that is was intended for the player to be underleveled in Luculla, hence I assumed I had missed something major.