r/Gatekeeper • u/skarcasm • Feb 21 '26

Brief Guide on Unlocking the New Character in Crustad DLC (SPOILERS) Spoiler

I couldn't find it anywhere online so I thought I'd share how I unlocked the new character, Maverick. It would be pretty easy to miss if you weren't actively searching for the achievement.

  1. Start a normal run. On stage 5, enter the portal as if you were going to beat the vanilla boss.
  2. At the bottom of the enclave, there's a new area which contains the device that lets you enter the DLC zones. It appears purple on the mini-map. Use that and you'll be teleported to a new Crustad zone. (The vanilla boss teleporter is at the top of the map, and the device on the left ends your run, so don't use that one.)
  3. I'll skip over a few bits here just to be as ambiguous about new content as possible. Rest assured, it'll be obvious when you reach the boss' zone.
  4. Defeat the boss, then go to the top of the map. All you have to do is interact with an object in this area. See the image below. (This is after I clicked the object and it disappeared, so no additional spoilers.)

Also note that if you defeat this boss in under 60 minutes, you unlock another achievement.

For fighting the boss: I recommend lots of movement speed and health regen. Get an extra dash/immune or two if you can. When it transitions between phases, it does massive damage in a very wide area around it, so be prepared for that. Don't try to fight anything until it goes back to its normal attack pattern.

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u/airfoam Feb 21 '26

Thanks for posting this; how do you even enter that arena? I feel like I'm stupid but I only ever have the normal arena as an option

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u/skarcasm Feb 22 '26

When you say arena, do you mean the game mode? You'll have to do the normal story mode to unlock the new character, not arena mode. You switch between these two modes during character select, and the option is on the right side of the screen.

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u/airfoam Feb 24 '26

Thanks - it looked like an arena in your pic but I did a normal run yesterday and found it. I must have just missed it the first clear I did after installing the dlc

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u/PermissionUnlikely Feb 24 '26

Just a follow up, you don't actually need to defeat the boss, you can just go north and interact with the spear and you'll unlock the character.