Athena not showing up with keepsake

[maasinsomnia]

I just went through the entirety of Mount Olympus with no Death Defiances and the Gorgon Amulet equipped, and never saw Athena. This isn't the first time the keepsake has appeared to have no effect, though this is the first time I went through the entirety of Mount Olympus with it. I also had a situation in the last patch where Icarus appeared instead of Athena.

I'm pretty sure this is a bug, but it highlights a severe problem with how Athena is implemented in this game. Her appearance rate needs to either be dramatically increased or guaranteed in some way when you have the keepsake. Also, maybe make the amulet less dependent on being completely out of Death Defiances and instead have it take effect if you're missing one?

Frankly, this isn't fun and despite having played this game a ton and beaten the last boss of the summit, it's actually making me not want to play the game. At all. I want a chance to see Athena even without the amulet. And when I do have the amulet, I would like it to do what it's supposed to do.

[ArqaneGames]

I think I had heard about a bug recently with her not showing up on Olympus if you have the trinket on, but she'd show up everywhere else (probably some issue with her normally able to show up on Olympus without the trinket).

However, if you want her showing up more in general, there is one thing you can do, though you might not like it. She can't show up in rooms where the reward goes to a menu. So no boon rooms (including Selene), hammer rooms, or poms if I remember correctly. She only has a chance to show up in rooms with coins, hearts, mana, ash, bones or nectar. So if you're choosing lots of boons, etc, then you have a much lower chance of getting her. Maybe not the best way to implement her, but at least that knowledge should help if you really want her to spawn for now.