Uploaded August 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
If the cutscene before Rudra plays on a different map, the battle will never start, but the story will still advance. To set this up, I enter the loading zone with the cursor on "Stop Reading", open the quest magnus menu as a cue, and dash into the loading zone just before the game finishes loading the cutscene. If you leave the room too late, the character models used in the cutscene won't show up, which causes a crash at the first textbox.
There is a way to make this boss skip significantly easier, which I found after making this video. As the cutscene loads, dash into the loading zone immediately and pause the game. Then wait for the cutscene to finish loading (it is easy to tell by the loading sounds of your console) and unpause.
If the cutscene before Rudra plays on a different map, the battle will never start, but the story will still advance. To set this up, I enter the loading zone with the cursor on "Stop Reading", open the quest magnus menu as a cue, and dash into the loading zone just before the game finishes loading the cutscene. If you leave the room too late, the character models used in the cutscene won't show up, which causes a crash at the first textbox.
There is a way to make this boss skip significantly easier, which I found after making this video. As the cutscene loads, dash into the loading zone immediately and pause the game. Then wait for the cutscene to finish loading (it is easy to tell by the loading sounds of your console) and unpause.
