can't save Shadowheart?

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

in the first section, this woman locked inside the pod. I found the rune and used the control station, but always rolls a critical fail 1 dice roll after I pick the "put the hand on heart" choice. If I choose ignore, nothing happens either.

Am I supposed to just leave her or something?

[Myth Alric]

Just bad luck with dice. Honestly, I would just reload a save. I don't promote save scumming but it is like a TN of 2, and rolling a critical fail on the first roll of the game is pretty lame.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

You can still get her even if you fail to pick her up there, just meet her in a different place (idk where though)

To be fair though, that wisdom roll is really low to keep getting critical failures I am sorry for your lack of RNGesus

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

Just bad luck with dice. Honestly, I would just reload a save. I don't promote save scumming but it is like a TN of 2, and rolling a critical fail on the first roll of the game is pretty lame.

Lol are you kidding me? I reloaded twice already and always rolled a 1 so I thought it had to be scripted and I couldn't save her

After reading your post I tried again and I rolled a 16...wtf is this odd lol...

[Martyrofsand]

She will be knocking on the ruins door when you crash on the beach. You can still get her before fighting the intellect devours on the crashed ship.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

You can still get her even if you fail to pick her up there, just meet her in a different place (idk where though)

To be fair though, that wisdom roll is really low to keep getting critical failures I am sorry for your lack of RNGesus

Yeah it is only 2, and I get a +1 wisdom due to my stat, yet I still could only roll 1 back to back. So I thought no way that was RNG and I must be missing something.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by Martyrofsand:

She will be knocking on the ruins door when you crash on the beach. You can still get her before fighting the intellect devours on the crashed ship.

Managed to save her after trying it again and rolled a 16. Can't believe how ♥♥♥♥ my luck was.

[ΛΞL™⚡]

You can have her later if you cant saver her from the ship the only difference is some dialogue which doesn't change anything anyway so don't worry about missing the rescue on the ship.

[Martyrofsand]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

Managed to save her after trying it again and rolled a 16. Can't believe how ♥♥♥♥ my luck was.

Yeah I had that happen to me during early access. I had already done a play through where I rejected, and killed her, so there are actually several places where you can add her to your party if you miss her.

[Braxis]

2 consecutive ones will happen 1 in 400 times on average, so unlucky but far from impossible. With 800,000 players, that happened to 2000 of you

[[Kartell]Captain Data]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

in the first section, this woman locked inside the pod. I found the rune and used the control station, but always rolls a critical fail 1 dice roll after I pick the "put the hand on heart" choice. If I choose ignore, nothing happens either.

Am I supposed to just leave her or something?

Do you really always have a critical failure dice roll?
What class do you play? I think either Intellect or Wisdom is required here and both shouldn't be too low (try to aim for 10, but I made successful rolls with an Int 8 / Wis 16 Cleric)

The game makes me somewhat savescumming in critical situations just so I can try out different solutions. Usually a single second try solves that issue and a better roll helps.

Maybe I got some help 'though by the "story mode" I picked. Simply want to enjoy the story now since I'm no veteran DnD player and don't have B5 ruleset at hand.

[Valerie]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

Just bad luck with dice. Honestly, I would just reload a save. I don't promote save scumming but it is like a TN of 2, and rolling a critical fail on the first roll of the game is pretty lame.

Lol are you kidding me? I reloaded twice already and always rolled a 1 so I thought it had to be scripted and I couldn't save her

After reading your post I tried again and I rolled a 16...wtf is this odd lol...

Thankfully it's not scripted like that. I rolled below the needed requirement, reloaded and then got past it after. So you can save scum things.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by KartellCaptain Data:

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

in the first section, this woman locked inside the pod. I found the rune and used the control station, but always rolls a critical fail 1 dice roll after I pick the "put the hand on heart" choice. If I choose ignore, nothing happens either.

Am I supposed to just leave her or something?

Do you really always have a critical failure dice roll?
What class do you play? I think either Intellect or Wisdom is required here and both shouldn't be too low (try to aim for 10, but I made successful rolls with an Int 8 / Wis 16 Cleric)

The game makes me somewhat savescumming in critical situations just so I can try out different solutions. Usually a single second try solves that issue and a better roll helps.

Maybe I got some help 'though by the "story mode" I picked. Simply want to enjoy the story now since I'm no veteran DnD player and don't have B5 ruleset at hand.

I picked a ranger with 12 wisdow, so I actually get a +1 wisdom on this roll. Does that mean I rolled a 0 thrice in a row to get a critical failure of 1 each time LMAO?

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by Braxis:

2 consecutive ones will happen 1 in 400 times on average, so unlucky but far from impossible. With 800,000 players, that happened to 2000 of you

I reloaded twice so that was actually 3 rolls with critical failure 1...I was stuck here for a good 40 mins because I thought I must be missing something and searched everywhere.

[[Kartell]Captain Data]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

I picked a ranger with 12 wisdow, so I actually get a +1 wisdom on this roll. Does that mean I rolled a 0 thrice in a row to get a critical failure of 1 each time LMAO?

That's bad luck. Maybe you shouldn't enter that "conversation" right after reloading your game. Wander a bit around, let some time pass and try it again. Maybe the RNG simply needs more time to give you a better roll.

As I said, usually I can solve any issues with exactly one reload. I save frequently - old habbit of playing computer games for decades.