Sacrament Sewer Soft Lock

[DookSnookem]

After grabbing the water channel key from the chest, I went straight back to sacrament via fast travel to repair weapons and armor. After repairing and selling some things I fast traveled back to sacrament sewer checkpoint but the key de-spawned from my inventory and now I can not open the water channel door. The chest is still there but it is open and empty. I can no longer interact with it. I’m not sure if the key actually de-spawned from my inventory or if it never entered my inventory in the first place.

[Chemile0n]

did you by any chance use an exploit to get to the area boss before picking up the key? if so, that is a known issue.

but please don’t ask me how the exploit/glitch works

see here for (maybe) more details and be aware of potential spoilers:

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