How to Solve Gladivir's Puzzle in the Crypts of Arx Fatalis

hello everyone my name is LLY and I absolutely hate this part of Arc Fatalis this mandatory puzzle at the third level of the crypts is the gatekeeper for one of the key items that will make you progress with the main quest but the hints that we're getting are so wague that most players at this point just look up a solution in a guide and skip this part all together this frustrates me a lot because most puzzles in the game are similar ly punishing and these keep ruining the otherwise overall fun experience of the game in this video I'll try my best to explain the puzzle decipher the hints and gradually ease you all into the final solution and by the end of the video or hopefully even sooner you will be able to solve the puzzle on your own first of all let's take a look at the cut scene that you see when you get to this point well well I see I have visitor what are you traveler or Tomb Raider who goes there I am gladir guardian of the shield of the Ancients and that which common Mortals call a ghost behind this door is the pathway that leads to the shield do you think yourself worthy of it it is an object of great power and only a being of superior intelligence can take it from me why should I trust you traveler know this ghosts do not lie we can refuse to speak but with every word that passes our lips we speak the truth well I await your riddle you come from the Setting Sun and go towards the Rising Sun to go beyond the sun identify and honor the six elements of the six ancients first place the Turning slabs in the position of the six houses of the ancient and what if there were a link between these runes and the symbols I saw on the ground before I came in here and that was our cut scene with the instructions on how to solve the puzzle and we got a little memo down here highlighted conveniently during amar's speech with an irritating jingle so that we cannot focus on the thing that am shigar is speaking nonetheless if we look at the puzzle at First Sight it's a fairly simple combinational lock mechanism that we have we have six turning things here with six different pieces of symbols on them and each symbol should be familiar to you at least a few of them by the time you reach this point and if you want to Brute Force the solution to this puzzle then it will be a very large number so we have to go in a different way not just Brute Force our way through this puzzle if we look at the memo and the hints that we are getting for this puzzle I would say it is very frustrating because the text contains a couple of vague things and questionable parts for example you come from the Setting Sun and go towards the Rising Sun are those implying West and East in that case where are we facing to where is North is uh coming from the Setting Sun meaning that uh this entrance here is West and the gate other side is east in that case how would that help us Orient any of these circul laid out parts of the puzzle here so I guess that's a thing that we cannot work with and the other part is identify and honor the six elements of the six ancients like are these parts here that are the unfamiliar symbols this I this L this V symbols are those important to us the only thing that I can tell based on that is that we have this I here and we have the same in this circle over here and the same goes for every other six of these symbols over here so that is a noo for us the only thing we can do for now is turning these slabs and we have to find out what the symbols are what are their order and uh should we align the outer part of these symbols or the inner part amagar mentions that in the prior rooms here we have some symbols or at least he saw some symbols back then and let us go back to the prior rooms and that will be our first hint that we can work with the third level of the crypt is a fairly short segment compared to other levels of the crypt and to Ill this I'm no clipping over here and if I turn my back here you can see that we are already here in this main hole of the crypt my first tip would be to look through this hole here and look for the symbols somewhere here and a bit more specific of that tip is to go up stairs to these upper rooms with the windows and look for the symbol there and a bit more revealing tip for this segment is just to light a torch and look for carvings somewhere in the room and you can see that when you have a torch lit then everything becomes more visible one symbol that you can find immediately when you go up the stairs is this Russian B like symbol and every room will contain one uh symbol like this carved somewhere in the floor and if you go into each room then it might not be obvious first because here we have some cracks here and there and you might expect the symbol to be more visible but sometimes it is hidden in the shadows like here far away from the window so it's more prominent when you have the torch in your hand if you go all the way through all of these rooms then you will find all six symbols eventually on the floor and one way to note down these symbols is to use pen and paper of course or any anything similar to that or you can uh take these runes that you collect or rather stones with carved signs on them that you collect throughout the three levels of the crypt if you manage to find all six of them then you can use your inventory to arrange them for example the order of the symbols are corresponding to the position of these rooms for example I'm in the middle room here from the three rooms that are next to each other and the top left room contains the empty circle symbol the middle one contains the sun and the other one was the Russian P symbol if you are using your inventory like this then make sure to not organize your inventory by double clicking on the Belt icon because then your ordering obviously will disappear so we had the O symbol the sun and the Russian p and if you have all six symbols then you can arrange them in a way that corresponds to the rooms that you find over here this also indicates that you have to find altogether six of these purple stones and if you haven't found all six of these then you might need to go back and look for the remaining Stones I have managed to organize my carved Stone pieces in a way that I was coming from the entrance of the third levels of the crypt and facing this puzzle room and I have placed the stones in my inventory in the same orientation the question now is that how should we Face ourselves and how should we align stuff on each uh axis of this puzzle we have two symbols and the question is where should we align stuff and also how should we Orient ourselves in the puzzle should we look back to the entrance or should we look it from any of the angles the problematic part here that a crucial clue that we get is in one of the camera movements in the cut scene that we get when we first enter this room here and that part gets lost because we cannot rewatch that cuts scene and also that camera movement is not very prominent because it is surrounded in a lot of cinematic padding you can see a lot of of just camera moving around because that is more stylish than having a stationary camera pointing to the player anyways let me replay the critical part of the cutscene and see if you can spot anything useful there when gladir explains us the puzzle itself well I await your riddle you come from the Setting Sun and go towards the Rising Sun to go beyond the sun identify an armor the six elements of the six ancients first place the Turning slabs in the position of the six houses of the Ancients so gladir introduced the puzzle to us with the camera movement of going from this part into the middle of the room it doesn't go all the way through the room but instead it lands in the dead center of this sun symbol because the puzzle is symmetric I can give you guys the hint that we need to go from this outer part into the middle section which can be translated by moving everywhere to the outside of the puzzle inwards so if you stand here then you need to face the puzzle in this way and gladir also mentions that first turn the slabs into the correct position so this is a two-phase puzzle first you have to turn the slab and then we will have the second phase of the puzzle I will show the solution to the puzzle at the end of the video but for now let's go all the way back to the city and let's go from the beginning of the crypt level just to gather all of the six stones which will be used surprise surprise later in the second phase of this puzzle if you already have all six of these stones on you then feel free to skip to the end of the video to the relevant part time Stamps will be in the description but for everyone else let's go back to the city prepare ourselves for a bit of grave rubbing and let's gather all six of these Stones I'm starting my grave rubbing session all the way back at the city and first I'm going to stock up on some items in Maria's shop conveniently placed next to the entrance of the crypt and the only mandatory thing that you will need which you can also get for free is this pickaxe I'm recommending you guys to grab if you haven't already the key ring because you will get a lot of keys in the crypts and with the key ring you can store all keys in a single slot trust me they will take up a lot of place also if you want to like see stuff in the crypts then make sure to buy a couple of torches you will get some in the crypts themselves but better be safe than sorry just pack up a couple of them if you don't already have them I'm just going to use five because it looks better on the recorded footage you're getting the key from Carlo when you progress enough with the main quest but for now I'm going to be a cheating bastard and I'm going to use no clip to pass through here as far as I know you can lockpick this but I'm not sure I see people trying to lockpick this uh just progress with the main puzzle the main quest and you'll get the key here okay so our Quest here is to get those six symbols that are needed for phase two of the gladir puzzle my first tip when you are looking here is that the stones are evenly distributed the puzzle is on the third level this is the first level every level will contain two pieces of stones and if you enter any of the rooms for example here then hello got some company so if you enter any of the rooms and find the carved Stone then you will not find the second piece in the same room because they will be evenly distributed my second tip for finding those stones is that they are a bit hidden away from you you will never find it on the floor lying around it will be covered up just a tiny bit so you will find it either in an inventory of a corpse or or you will have to do some pickaxing to destroy uh gravestone but on the other hand it will never be locked away inside a chest that requires a key or where you are required to do lockpicking or any advanced things like that the room itself might require you to find the key and that key will be available somewhere in close proximity but you will not have to do lockpicking at all or have to keep a bunch of keys with you just to access some chest okay for now let's look at where the carved stones are on this first level first of all let me enable the mini map and let me reveal everything from the mini map with this SOS cheat one of them will be here on the left side if you go down on the stairs and the other one will be on the opposite side here you have to go down the stairs on these two sides the two symbols will not require any keys or anything difficult as I mentioned the first one is quite interestingly placed right in front of you you would expect that the carved stone is behind any of these Graves but indeed it is right next to the spider this exposed corpse will hold the first stone with the moon symbol the next one is in the other side the opposite side and it is right next to the wall in aanta achanta the vampires grave do a little bit of pickaxe work here and you'll get a lovely interesting sword some money and the second symbol or carved Stone will be here this concludes the first level of the crypt let's move to the second level and see where the carved stones are there the second level of the crypts contains two sections the first section coming from right to left on the mini map contains six different rooms and the second section contains four rooms one of the symbols will be in this first section and the second one will be obviously in the second section you will not need keys directly to access the carved Stones themselves but the rooms here will require keys so make sure to look for keys and open as much rooms as you can the first carved Stone will be on the right side in the first section in one of these rooms and specifically it will be in this room if you look through here then you will not find any other corpses here to look for for or anything else but this corpse and this will be the third carved stone that you can find the second one will be here around in this second section and to be more specific it will be on the left side and to be even more specific it will be in this room that is more ahead here in this exposed under construction location with these two lovely rats and if you find this corpse then you will get a complementary free pickaxe for your efforts I don't know if you can get to this point without having to use a pickaxe but maybe you can skip having to buy a pickaxe if you haven't picked up one from the trolls yet this concludes the second level of the crypt let's move on to the third level and find our last two pieces of carved Stones as I mentioned previously in this video this third level of the crypt contains this large Central hole with two stories and you have to search for two symbols here it will be placed somewhere here in this large area to be more specific this contains two stories one of the carved stones will be here somewhere on the first floor and the second symbol will be somewhere here on the upper levels the first one will be to be exact here inside one of the crypts and our last Stone piece will be somewhere here on the right side in one of the rooms to be more specific it will be here in the middle Central room on the right side and the solution is that you have to do some pickaxing and you will find the sixth piece here in the wall behind the left grave now that we have all the six symbols make sure to just go around and arrange your uh Stone pieces in the way that matches the carvings in the floor and let's jump back to the puzzle at the next room and see the solution we are coming from this part towards the inside so we are going from outside of the circle towards the inside so first we have to align the rotating slabs in a way that the outer part matches the symbols that we see and of course we are coming from the entrance towards the other part so the orientation should be the same that we have with these Stone symbols that we gathered from the prior rooms so we are aligning the outer faces first we have this Russian P letter next to it on the other side we have the K symbol or what I like to call the k then we have the moon with a DOT then we have a moon without the dot and an interesting thing is that the game punishes You by not telling you that you are on the right track the game is binary in this manner you either have the solution fully implemented the rotating slabs in the correct position all the way or not you are not getting any hints we have the O symbol here and also we have last but not least the sun symbol oh yes very good you're on the right track now put each on Corner Stone in place and correspond with its related house now I just have to find out where each Stone belongs at the base of the columns I love that base of the columns would indicate that you have to place something like this next to the base of the column but no Amar referring to the column as this whole structure one angle of this sple the second phase requires you to place something on top of this pillar and that often gets missed because as we saw previously in the first phase of the puzzle you don't get any indication that you are on the right track and while you had some interactions where you had to rotate this plate you have nothing here in this second phase because nothing is interactive here one would think that you have to place the symbol here or to complete a column you have to place it here but no what you have to do in this case is place an item on top of this column you don't have to align it to the center it will work all the way around here but you have to uh have the item touching the top of the column here so the question is how should we align our Stone pieces on these pillars and and my first tip is that it would be way too easy based on Arcane logic to just copy and paste the symbols that you see on the outside you can try it out but you will see that it will not work and this will probably discourage a lot of players to keep trying so if you put down the Russian P symbol matching this outer thing then it will not work the solution here is that you have to match the outer symbols so in this case I have to put the moon with the dot here because that will be corresponding with the symbol that we have aligned previously and if I place all the symbols that are corresponding so the other uh side of the symbol the in inside symbol then we will get through the puzzle itself and this is the solution to the [Applause] puzzle all right this concludes my guide on how to solve the Crypt puzzle if you manage to solve solve it before watching the end of the video then feel free to brag about it in the comment section especially if you have managed to solve it on your own without watching any of these guide so far or looking at any Guides Online also if you have some tips for other players on how to solve this puzzle efficiently or if you have another method on the solution then make sure to also drop that in the comment SE SE I would love to hear from you guys and I love the tips that you guys usually leave in other videos but for now I'm out and I will see you all in the next video Happy grave rubbing bye us Crypt and

Channel: Noden Gaming

Views: 167

Keywords: Arx Fatalis, Arx Libertatis, Arkane Studios, crypts, puzzle, Gladivir, ghost, guide

Id: REaS9HMXcyU

Length: 28min 28sec (1708 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 16 2024