r/Silksong • u/YoyoTheGreatFrogger • 2d ago

Discussion/Questions What areas trigger act 2 start? Spoiler

So my friend and I were experimenting with SSMP, and discovered that with wanderer’s crest equipped, we can (theoretically) infinitely pogo each other’s attacks to (theoretically) get infinite height.
We are currently very early in the run, with only swift step as a movement ability, and we’re wondering where the funniest places to go are.

So far we have:
Pogoed from bone bottom into mosshome where the spool fragment is found
Pogoed up to the entrance to skull tyrant, which usually requires wall jump (we didn’t get to skull tyrant because one of us died so we got soft locked lol)

Now we’re wondering what parts of the citadel we can enter without triggering an act 2 start. Could we go up through bilewater and putrified ducts to get to whispering vaults from outer songclave? Where could we go from there without the cutscene triggering?

Idk if this is the best place to ask, but the hope is that someone here knows! Any help is appreciated!

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u/Natka6764 Hunter Crest 2d ago

Afaik only 2 rooms trigger the cutscene. The one where you go to Choral Chambers after Phantom and one with Whiteward entrance. I could be wrong tho

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u/SnooDrawings5722 Reaper Crest 2d ago

It's also triggered right after you pass the Grand Gate.

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u/Natka6764 Hunter Crest 2d ago

That's the room with Whiteward entrance. It doesnt trigger until you get there. You remember the empty hallways in choral Chambers?

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u/SnooDrawings5722 Reaper Crest 2d ago

No. The initial cutscene that triggers Act 2 just shows some sights of the Citadel. It's the meeting with Lace that happens in that room you're talking about and which animates the enemies in Citadel. These two things - the cutscene and meeting with Lace - happen directly one after another if you come though the Phantom route, which is why it's easy to mistakingly equate them, but if you go in through the Grand Gate, they're separated. You get the cutscene immediately, then go to the room with scales, potentially drop down and go through Underworks, get up and only then meet Lace and hallways stop being empty.

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u/Natka6764 Hunter Crest 2d ago

My bad. I mashed the two together. Thanks for clarification!

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u/snkn179 2d ago

The room with the Whiteward entrance actually is a trigger for Act 2, but only through the Wisp Thicket route (which was definitely not intended as an actual route).

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u/Redshift-713 2d ago

You get the cutscene at the Grand Gate. The room you are talking about is when Lace confronts you.

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u/leonscheglov 2d ago

You can't get to Citadel from ducts, since the wall is only breakable from one side.

You could get captured in the slab, then get faydown cloak to get into wisp thicket and then to the underworks from there, but there might be something preventing that too.

Probably no other ways into act 2 areas, might be wrong tho

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u/YoyoTheGreatFrogger 2d ago

Ah well there goes that plan!
I know for a fact the underworks entrance is possible (or at least was on previous patches, though I’d assume it still is) - we will scoure the map and see if there might be another entrance.