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    Panacea: Can't get back to Buckingham! Am I doing something wrong, OR game glitch?!

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    I retrieved the Panacea and was escaping Buckingham Palace when I was unfortunately killed by a zombie. :-( The sewer shortcut to Buckingham is now inaccessible, and I have *literally* spent HOURS trying to find an alternate route back to the palace to retrieve my belongings. No such luck.

    I have read several game ending glitch posts on this message board. Am I experiencing a glitch that is keeping me from completing the game, or is there a route to take to manually get back to Buckingham Palace for the finale?

    How do you get back to Buckingham Palace if you die after retrieving the Panacea?! If you know of a proven route, PLEASE POST IT HERE! :-)

    Thanks all,
    - Adam
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    ehh

    I believe if you take the door to the left (left from looking at the gun turret laeving the safe house) that's at the bottom of the stairs that will lead you in the right direction. Though I wouldn't put money on it because I had to restart my game twice from 2 different glitches.
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    Originally Posted by AdamMcChesney Go to original post
    ***SPOILERS***

    ***SPOILERS***

    ***SPOILERS***

    I retrieved the Panacea and was escaping Buckingham Palace when I was unfortunately killed by a zombie. :-( The sewer shortcut to Buckingham is now inaccessible, and I have *literally* spent HOURS trying to find an alternate route back to the palace to retrieve my belongings. No such luck.

    I have read several game ending glitch posts on this message board. Am I experiencing a glitch that is keeping me from completing the game, or is there a route to take to manually get back to Buckingham Palace for the finale?

    How do you get back to Buckingham Palace if you die after retrieving the Panacea?! If you know of a proven route, PLEASE POST IT HERE! :-)

    Thanks all,
    - Adam
    Same thing happened to me. I can't find a way back. I've tried everything. It's so frustrating.
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    I to am in the exact same position, I died after retrieving the USB from the palace, and I was in Victoria Memorial on my way back to the safe house. I am now unable to get back to my corpse. Since the shortcuts are disabled at this point I've tried going on foot, once directly to Victoria Memorial from the safe house only to be greeted by a barred gate at the exit of the sewers. I then went the long way around, via Brick Lane market and flats, and now I'm at the palace but there's no ladder to get me up into the palace.

    This game has been thoroughly enjoyable up until this point, is this just poor QA (ie, no-one really checked what happened when you died with the USB and in different areas) or is this actual a game crippling glitch?
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    Just wanted to say I'm stuck in the same spot. Died getting the Panacea out: all waypoints are shut down, Victoria Memorial is barred from the other side and the long way through Ron's flat leads to the palace but no ladder. I do hope this gets some attention soon.
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    Well, I got so frustrated that I deleted my game and started over... I love ZombiU, so I'd rather be playing it over from the beginning than running around for hours accomplishing nothing. After restarting the game, here's what I found:

    1.) As the person from the first reply stated, take the door to the left of the mounted turret gun as you're leaving the Safehouse. This will take you to the subway area (the one with the creepy door that slams over and over again.) This area leads to Victoria Memorial. In Victoria Memorial, find the door with the Safehouse icon that shows you where the manhole cover/shortcut is, but don't go inside. Instead, look to the right and keep following the stairs up until you exit.

    2.) This will bring you above ground to the area where you once used the mounted turret gun pretty early in the game to mow down a ton of zombies (on the far end of the map.) There's a burning helicopter on the ground near here. Look to the left of the helicopter (inside the fence where you first used your lockpick skill), and you'll find an open manhole. This is not a shortcut manhole, but rather the entrance into the Palace Undergound.

    The Palace Underground is where I died with the Panacea. I couldn't figure out how to get back to it. However, now that I've started over, I think this might be the way. I don't know if this was blocked off before or not.

    Could anyone who's in the same perdicament I was in give this path a try and let us know your results?

    Thank you,
    - Adam
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    Originally Posted by AdamMcChesney Go to original post
    Well, I got so frustrated that I deleted my game and started over... I love ZombiU, so I'd rather be playing it over from the beginning than running around for hours accomplishing nothing. After restarting the game, here's what I found:

    1.) As the person from the first reply stated, take the door to the left of the mounted turret gun as you're leaving the Safehouse. This will take you to the subway area (the one with the creepy door that slams over and over again.) This area leads to Victoria Memorial. In Victoria Memorial, find the door with the Safehouse icon that shows you where the manhole cover/shortcut is, but don't go inside. Instead, look to the right and keep following the stairs up until you exit.

    2.) This will bring you above ground to the area where you once used the mounted turret gun pretty early in the game to mow down a ton of zombies (on the far end of the map.) There's a burning helicopter on the ground near here. Look to the left of the helicopter (inside the fence where you first used your lockpick skill), and you'll find an open manhole. This is not a shortcut manhole, but rather the entrance into the Palace Undergound.

    The Palace Underground is where I died with the Panacea. I couldn't figure out how to get back to it. However, now that I've started over, I think this might be the way. I don't know if this was blocked off before or not.

    Could anyone who's in the same perdicament I was in give this path a try and let us know your results?

    Thank you,
    - Adam
    This worked perfectly... It's quite annoying that what seems like a bug is just a very obscure route that's required.
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    Soulblade64, I agree. I'm a little bummed that I restarted the game when I was so close to the finale, but I don't know that I ever would have figured this out without doing so.

    I too believe that Ubisoft could've done a better job making this more clear. If you die while trying to escape Buckingham with the Panacea, the green target on your map should direct you back to your body. I think it is unreasonable for the developers to think that a player could simply figure out how to get back there with no direction.

    Glad it worked. Hopefully I won't die during this run-through, and it won't matter. :-)

    Currently on Survivor #3, and I just got the Virucide shot from the Doc. At this point during my last run-through, I was on survivor #15. :-) Second time's the charm!

    - Adam
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    Originally Posted by AdamMcChesney Go to original post
    ***SPOILERS***

    ***SPOILERS***

    ***SPOILERS***

    I retrieved the Panacea and was escaping Buckingham Palace when I was unfortunately killed by a zombie. :-( The sewer shortcut to Buckingham is now inaccessible, and I have *literally* spent HOURS trying to find an alternate route back to the palace to retrieve my belongings. No such luck.

    I have read several game ending glitch posts on this message board. Am I experiencing a glitch that is keeping me from completing the game, or is there a route to take to manually get back to Buckingham Palace for the finale?

    How do you get back to Buckingham Palace if you die after retrieving the Panacea?! If you know of a proven route, PLEASE POST IT HERE! :-)

    Thanks all,
    - Adam
    I had the same problem until I discovered the manhole mentioned in this thread. I'm happy I found this thread because I was close to restarting the game all over again.
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    Originally Posted by AdamMcChesney Go to original post
    Well, I got so frustrated that I deleted my game and started over... I love ZombiU, so I'd rather be playing it over from the beginning than running around for hours accomplishing nothing. After restarting the game, here's what I found:

    1.) As the person from the first reply stated, take the door to the left of the mounted turret gun as you're leaving the Safehouse. This will take you to the subway area (the one with the creepy door that slams over and over again.) This area leads to Victoria Memorial. In Victoria Memorial, find the door with the Safehouse icon that shows you where the manhole cover/shortcut is, but don't go inside. Instead, look to the right and keep following the stairs up until you exit.

    2.) This will bring you above ground to the area where you once used the mounted turret gun pretty early in the game to mow down a ton of zombies (on the far end of the map.) There's a burning helicopter on the ground near here. Look to the left of the helicopter (inside the fence where you first used your lockpick skill), and you'll find an open manhole. This is not a shortcut manhole, but rather the entrance into the Palace Undergound.

    The Palace Underground is where I died with the Panacea. I couldn't figure out how to get back to it. However, now that I've started over, I think this might be the way. I don't know if this was blocked off before or not.

    Could anyone who's in the same perdicament I was in give this path a try and let us know your results?

    Thank you,
    - Adam
    that is the way, I died in there, and that's the way I went back to get my stuff.
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