Am I supposed to be able to take Shadowheart's Artifact?

[fox5s]

So I saw that D20 artifact was sitting in her inventory after she's been SUPER protective of it. Mouse over it and it says it's bound. Surely that means I can't move it between people.

Two clicks later it's in my inventory. Huh. And now I can't move it to anyone else's. Didn't even need to talk to her or make a Slight of Hand check.

I talk to her and ask about it and she's all, you don't need to know anything about MY artifact and don't ask again. Huh. Weird. So I go to interact with the artifact and she pipes in saying it's quite mysterious like she lent it to me for the evening. WTF!?

Is there an in-story reason for all this or is it bugged that I even got a hold of the thing? I'm not even really asking for spoilers. I'm just seeing a huge inconsistency that feels like a bugged inventory interaction.

[|--EasyPeasy--|]

You can play as Shadowheart from the start.

[fox5s]

Originally posted by |--EasyPeasy--|:

You can play as Shadowheart from the start.

I mean, I watched her intro thing. I assume you get at least that much out of all the Unique Origins when you first meet due to mind worm shenanigans. Are you saying I can learn more about it in the first hour of the game playing as her than I already have at three when not? Pretty sure she mind wiped herself so that she doesn't have more information to give even if she wanted to.

Even if she does have more, unless it answers my core question, it still feels like a broken/bugged inventory interaction.

[Nefi]

same thing happened to me now the artifact is the invetory of my custom main, i can use the artifact to inspecti it but its bound and can't tranfer it to shadowheart again, its a bug or is normal?

[Razorblade]

Yes, it's intended. Shadowheart even has a dialogue option about it.

[fox5s]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Yes, it's intended. Shadowheart even has a dialogue option about it.

She does? I went through all her dialog after and didn't see it. Maybe that's the bugged part.

[Vex]

this just happend to me to , also didnt see any dialogue i mean i dont think or atleast hope it wont fug anything up since usually in previous games u can transfer plot crucial items between ppl

[Terrapin]

Same here, I removed her from my party and now I have her most precious item in the world and can't give it back to her. That doesn't seem right.

I wish we could get a definitive answer to that since I'm not too far to reload.

[fox5s]

Originally posted by ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰:

she gives it to you if you kick her out of the party. invite her back and progress her story

I'm fine with this. But that's more that I get if I mess around in the inventory screens. I get NO feedback from inventory weirdness.

[Aru]

Also when you send her to the camp you are given(and stuck with) that artifact but she doesn't mention it at all. I suppose we should treat it as it's still in her possesion only and roll with that.

[fox5s]

Originally posted by Aru:

Also when you send her to the camp you are given(and stuck with) that artifact but she doesn't mention it at all. I suppose we should treat it as it's still in her possesion only and roll with that.

That's weird. That's not quite as egregious because I've seen that happen with cursed items. Moving it myself through the inventory system is an active action and having it pass with no comment or even being acknowledged feels wrong somehow.

And worse, Shadowheart pretends she still has it (which could be explained by her not knowing that it is gone) or that she has lovingly lent it to me depending on what screen I'm in with nothing in between. It breaks my immersion HARD.

All I'm really wanting is her react about it in some fashion even if the end result is the same. Without that, it feels like a totally broken/bugged interaction and takes me out of the experience.

[Aru]

Originally posted by fox5s:

Originally posted by Aru:

Also when you send her to the camp you are given(and stuck with) that artifact but she doesn't mention it at all. I suppose we should treat it as it's still in her possesion only and roll with that.

That's weird. That's not quite as egregious because I've seen that happen with cursed items. Moving it myself through the inventory system is an active action and having it pass with no comment or even being acknowledged feels wrong somehow.

And worse, Shadowheart pretends she still has it (which could be explained by her not knowing that it is gone) or that she has lovingly lent it to me depending on what screen I'm in with nothing in between. It breaks my immersion HARD.

All I'm really wanting is her react about it in some fashion even if the end result is the same. Without that, it feels like a totally broken/bugged interaction and takes me out of the experience.

I agree. The simplest option would be to patch it up so you don't end up with the item unless you steal it/take it from her corpse. I don't expect them to record new lines for something like "the artefact just went to me and don't wanna go!".

[sammy.k.jr]

Originally posted by fox5s:

So I saw that D20 artifact was sitting in her inventory after she's been SUPER protective of it. Mouse over it and it says it's bound. Surely that means I can't move it between people.

Two clicks later it's in my inventory. Huh. And now I can't move it to anyone else's. Didn't even need to talk to her or make a Slight of Hand check.

I talk to her and ask about it and she's all, you don't need to know anything about MY artifact and don't ask again. Huh. Weird. So I go to interact with the artifact and she pipes in saying it's quite mysterious like she lent it to me for the evening. WTF!?

Is there an in-story reason for all this or is it bugged that I even got a hold of the thing? I'm not even really asking for spoilers. I'm just seeing a huge inconsistency that feels like a bugged inventory interaction.

Same thing happened to me. It's when you dismiss her from the party. I was about to ask the same question. I don't think it's WIA. I'm going to bug report it. I did it 4 or 5 times to make sure.

[fox5s]

Originally posted by sammy.k.jr:

Same thing happened to me. It's when you dismiss her from the party. I was about to ask the same question. I don't think it's WIA. I'm going to bug report it. I did it 4 or 5 times to make sure.

Yeah, as you have probably read, others reported that as well. I could see a cursed item doing things like that. But, it's her non-reaction about it that breaks my immersion.

[Stubbieoz]

I followed a quest line and when my Tav was doing the dialogue choices I chose to hand over the artifact and the cutscene had me giving it, even though Shadowheart had it.
It was then returned to me by the npc and now I have it bound.

Thing is I would have expected her to kick up a stink during the cutscene, but nothing. She doesn't even give me an option to talk about it.
It's as though it never existed.

[MtvYoloSwag]

Idk, She was playing with it and I wanted it.
I took it from her corpse.