AKheon | God of War: Ragnarök (PS4) - skip last fight in Alfheim (wasted potential) @AKheon | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
A fight skip which unfortunately results in the game becoming seemingly unwinnable shortly afterwards.
Note: this is played on the unpatched PS4-version. Things might vary in unforeseen ways on other versions of the game.
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0:00 - Here's an alternative way to do a prompt glitch with Kratos. His sheathing animation (i.e. switching weapons to unarmed) has a strangely high priority and it can give Kratos a freedom to do some attack during an auto-walk / when settling into using some prompt.
Most actions done at this time will interrupt prompt usage, but Axe recall overlaps with it, creating a further opportunity to overlap things with a traversal prompt. Starting to aim and charging an Axe Throw, for instance, can allow you to retain more functionality inside a crevice, etc. than normally possible and you can f.e. suddenly evade or do a 180 Turn to break out of the prompt in the middle. This often gives you the power to go out of bounds, as seen on this video.
In other words, to do this trick...1, turn traversal assist on. 2, enter a prompt with L-stick at the same time as you sheathe your weapon with D-Pad. 3, recall Axe during/after sheathing. 4, start aiming and charge an Axe Throw (for example) to retain more control of Kratos inside the traversal prompt.
The walls of this particular crevice are solid, but simply exiting it while at an angle pushes Kratos through walls and leaves you out of bounds. This lets you avoid going all the way through the crevice, which would activate a cutscene where the bridge collapses and a fight begins.
(Not on the video: the fight can still be started after this point if you run back underneath the bridge.)
0:22 - Unfortunately, you get stuck at the next Mystic Gateway. Normally when using it, there would be a cutscene where Tyr leaves your party and the Alfheim-section is considered complete. For some reason, this cutscene will not begin after doing this skip, so realm travel will not become unlocked either.
In addition to this, the whole area seems to be locked down. There's an invisible wall behind you to the direction you just came from, and the crevice leading onward cannot be used either. You seem to become completely stuck after doing this...
1:23 - Now for some bonus glitches & observations.
The cutscene where the bridge collapses can be activated at an angle / when going out of bounds. It looks pretty strange, but it's not useful. After retry, Kratos re-appears in-bounds again at the start of the fight and the everything is back to normal.
1:45 - The bridge will not collapse if you break out of the crevice in the middle. This lets you go over it and explore some unplayable area. It looks a bit unfinished and wonky, but it's a completely enclosed space, so you can't fall out of bounds there. The walls and collision don't match very well, and there are also two grapple points leading to higher floors. Eventually, at the highest floor you enter an oddly shaped cave which leads nowhere and has some mysterious ambient lighting changes. Could this be the local elvish disco?
A fight skip which unfortunately results in the game becoming seemingly unwinnable shortly afterwards.
Note: this is played on the unpatched PS4-version. Things might vary in unforeseen ways on other versions of the game.
---
0:00 - Here's an alternative way to do a prompt glitch with Kratos. His sheathing animation (i.e. switching weapons to unarmed) has a strangely high priority and it can give Kratos a freedom to do some attack during an auto-walk / when settling into using some prompt.
Most actions done at this time will interrupt prompt usage, but Axe recall overlaps with it, creating a further opportunity to overlap things with a traversal prompt. Starting to aim and charging an Axe Throw, for instance, can allow you to retain more functionality inside a crevice, etc. than normally possible and you can f.e. suddenly evade or do a 180 Turn to break out of the prompt in the middle. This often gives you the power to go out of bounds, as seen on this video.
In other words, to do this trick...1, turn traversal assist on. 2, enter a prompt with L-stick at the same time as you sheathe your weapon with D-Pad. 3, recall Axe during/after sheathing. 4, start aiming and charge an Axe Throw (for example) to retain more control of Kratos inside the traversal prompt.
The walls of this particular crevice are solid, but simply exiting it while at an angle pushes Kratos through walls and leaves you out of bounds. This lets you avoid going all the way through the crevice, which would activate a cutscene where the bridge collapses and a fight begins.
(Not on the video: the fight can still be started after this point if you run back underneath the bridge.)
0:22 - Unfortunately, you get stuck at the next Mystic Gateway. Normally when using it, there would be a cutscene where Tyr leaves your party and the Alfheim-section is considered complete. For some reason, this cutscene will not begin after doing this skip, so realm travel will not become unlocked either.
In addition to this, the whole area seems to be locked down. There's an invisible wall behind you to the direction you just came from, and the crevice leading onward cannot be used either. You seem to become completely stuck after doing this...
1:23 - Now for some bonus glitches & observations.
The cutscene where the bridge collapses can be activated at an angle / when going out of bounds. It looks pretty strange, but it's not useful. After retry, Kratos re-appears in-bounds again at the start of the fight and the everything is back to normal.
1:45 - The bridge will not collapse if you break out of the crevice in the middle. This lets you go over it and explore some unplayable area. It looks a bit unfinished and wonky, but it's a completely enclosed space, so you can't fall out of bounds there. The walls and collision don't match very well, and there are also two grapple points leading to higher floors. Eventually, at the highest floor you enter an oddly shaped cave which leads nowhere and has some mysterious ambient lighting changes. Could this be the local elvish disco?
