after beating the game, I worked my way up to ||death mountain|| again, however once I got there I noticed the dialogue of the islanders was not reset since my last playthrough and it was as if I just completed the ||"sludge"|| area, when I walked to the coast I was instantly given a cutscene and prompt to go to ||pandemonium|| by raft. trying to progress normally I exited death mountain after the crab machine fight and when trying to start the ritual with the islander I was instead just given flavor dialogue instead of the prompt.
#Cannot get back to the "sludge" area on repeat playthrough
pulsar nacelle
gritty sparrow
After beating the game.
Did you do the ending with fighting Riley?
pulsar nacelle
sorry for the late response, yes I did fight Riley and did most of the side content not required for the ending. not sure if this bug was caused from one of the updates, but the only NPC's I came across that didn't seem to reset after starting a new game were those islanders.
gritty sparrow
So this bug occured on a different save?
You have one save where you finished game.
And 2nd save where ypu started from beginning and when you came to death mountain they had built the raft for you?
pulsar nacelle
exactly right with the saves, the npc's were in their normal spots for first entering death mountain but their dialogue was as if I already completed the area, and if I walked too far to the right of the bonfire, the cutscene for returning from the "sludge" area would play and spawn the raft to pandomonium